There have been at least 46 studies involving increasingly than a thousand people to see if those suffering from electrosensitivity are deluding themselves.
“During the past decade a wide range of symptoms has been reported to be triggered by exposure to RF-EMF,” the radiofrequency electromagnetic fields that emanate from lamina phones during use, including headaches, nausea, dizziness, and fatigue. The news media has been promoting this as “a new medical condition, tabbed electrosensitivity, or electromagnetic hypersensitivity.” These stories have been driven, in part, by “people who requirement to have detected a well-spoken link between their own poor health and exposure to a specific electrical device,” which “can have major implications for a person’s quality of life and is associated with decrements in unstipulated health status, increased levels of health service use, and impairments in occupational and social functioning.”
As you can see unelevated and at 0:50 in my video Is Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Real?, to see how worldwide this was, researchers sat higher students on two big electromagnetic coils and then went through a symptom checklist, asking how the students felt under both strong and weak electromagnetic field conditions.
You can see the graph unelevated and at 0:57 in my video. Students did report neurological symptoms, including headaches, drowsiness, dizziness, fatigue, and irritability, as well as visceral symptoms, such as palpitations, muscle tension, and nausea, though increasingly nausea was experienced under the “weak” EMF condition. They moreover reported rectal pain, shortness of breath, and a little heartburn, and said they could finger it in their skin as “crawly feelings,” “cold skin,” “sweating,” and “itching.” And, their sensory organs registered voiceless vision, ringing in their ears, dry mouth, and a little stuffiness, withal with some other symptoms. In all, “40 higher students were asked to rate their symptoms during ‘sham’, ‘weak’ and ‘strong’ exposure. In reality there was no exposure at all, i.e. all sessions were a ‘sham.’” The students weren’t blasted with any fields at all. The “coils seemed to be connected to an impressive electric power supply with coloured lights and an operating panel, but unquestionably they were no real electric connections between them (i.e. no EMF was generated at all).”
The study was titled “Polluted places or polluted minds?,” suggesting that those who requirement to be experiencing these symptoms may be just deluding themselves. Before jumping to conclusions, though, you want to study people who unquestionably suffer from the disorder. So, researchers tested 20 men and women who personal they were sensitive to lamina phones. As you can see at 2:18 in my video, the subjects reported a variety of symptoms upon exposure to lamina phone radiation—all sorts of pains, sensations, dizziness, zoetic difficulties, and more. So, researchers sat them lanugo in a chair with various zippy lamina phones strapped near their head, and, boy, could they finger it! As you can see unelevated and at 2:27 in my video, they experienced a variety of symptoms—but, ironically, they felt a bit worse with a sham, like a dummy bean-bag phone next to their head! “Contrary to definite expectations,” none of the so-called electrosensitive “could distinguish whether the cellular phones were turned on or off.”
Nearly all such studies have found there is no vestige that the symptoms are anything but psychological in nature. Researchers have noted that those who requirement such hypersensitivity tend to exhibit increasingly obsessive-compulsive, hostile, phobic, and paranoid traits. So, they changed the name. What used to be tabbed “electromagnetic hypersensitivity” in the medical literature is now tabbed “idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields,” an acronym (IEIEMF) that sounds like something straight out of Old MacDonald’s Farm. “Despite the conviction of IEI-EMF sufferers that their symptoms are triggered by exposure to electromagnetic fields, repeated experiments have been unable to replicate this miracle under controlled conditions.” How many are we talking about? “To date, 46 studies involving 1175 volunteers with IEI-EMF have tested whether exposure to electromagnetic fields can trigger the symptoms reported by this group.” But, when put to the test, when all the studies are put together, as you can see unelevated and at 3:49 in my video, not only were no significant impacts found on any of the symptoms, there was no vestige that subjects were plane worldly-wise to snift the radiofrequency electromagnetic fields.
Not a single person, ever? Well, there was one study in which two participants “showed no-go performance,” guessing when the lamina phone was on 97 times out of 100. Had that just been chance, that would be like the odds of stuff struck by lightning four times in a single year. They failed to replicate the result a month later, though, and in science, if you can’t replicate something, it basically doesn’t exist.
So, why does this notion of hypersensitivity persist? Well, there is now an unshortened industry profiting from various gizmos ultimatum to protect people versus electromagnetic fields, and the media seems to love the hypersensitivity story. Yet “[w]hy don’t journalists mention the data?” The media has tended to requirement that “research into this zone has been neglected. But the research has been done. In fact, dozens of double veiling studies have been performed, but they have been systematically ignored by scrutinizingly every single journalist tent the issue.” Indeed, we have veiling provocation studies published in the peer-reviewed wonk literature that are scrutinizingly all negative. You could oppose that the vestige is nearly unanimous. “So why doesn’t the media overly mention this data? Perhaps they deliberately and mischievously leave it out. Perhaps they never came wideness it, and are incompetent.” Or, maybe they’re just suckered in by the snake oil salesmen, the “aggressive and well coordinated lobbyists” selling all manner of “insulating paint…and insulating beekeeper hats for trips outdoors…” Not only do these hucksters conveniently goof to mention the dozens of studies proving them wrong, “they moreover viciously wade anyone who plane dares to mention the data, accusing them of insensitivity, of attacking sufferers, and of denying the reality of their symptoms.”
No one is saying people are making up symptoms, though. The science just suggests that whatever the symptoms are, the lamina phones don’t towards to be causing them. And, if you want to go there, one could just as fairly oppose that those who are trying to sell these patients a snout of goods “are themselves hindering largest understanding” of their customers’ suffering.
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