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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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Electrosensitivity</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;
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alt="caduceus symbol" align="left" height="90"
width="105">After last week's <em>4cast</em>
about jamming mobile Wi-Fi hotspots, it was
interesting to read some recent articles about
Green Bank, West Virginia, where the federal
government does not allow Wi-Fi - or cell phone
towers, or radio, or electromagnetic transmissions
of any kind - because the transmissions interfere
with the operation of a number of radio telescopes
located there. The side effect of this ban has
been an influx of people who suffer from
electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS), and while
the medical community disputes the existence of
this "Wi-Fi allergy," such people do have health
problems that they sincerely believe are caused by
modern technologies.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/the-town-without-wi-fi/index.php">The
town without Wi-Fi</a> (Washingtonian |
Michael J. Gaynor) "A few years ago, one
disturbed electrosensitive flew into a rage at
the local library, decrying the "dumb
hillbillies" who surrounded her, as the story
goes. She rampaged from the post office to the
bank to the auto shop, belligerently screaming
before police finally ticketed her and banned
her from a couple of public places around town."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/01/electrosensitives-seek-haven-in-wi-fi-quiet-zone-as-teens-set-up-hotspots/">"Electrosensitives"
flock to Wi-Fi quiet zone as teens set up
rogue hotspots</a> (Ars Technica | Jon
Brodkin) "A number of studies have looked at the
existence of electrosensitivty. A <a
href="http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/07/new-study-suggests-that-cell-phone-sensitives-dont-exist/">survey
of their results</a> found that people who
claim to have this disorder can't recognize the
presence of electromagnetic fields, and studies
that showed health effects were either flawed or
could not be reproduced. The World Health
Organization <a
href="http://www.who.int/peh-emf/publications/facts/fs296/en/">says
that</a> 'well controlled and conducted
double-blind studies have shown that symptoms
were not correlated with EMF exposure.'"</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/04/green_bank_w_v_where_the_electrosensitive_can_escape_the_modern_world.html">Refugees
of the modern world</a> (Slate | Joseph
Stromberg) "As such, the best predictor for
whether a hypersensitive person will experience
symptoms isn't the presence of radio
frequency-it's the belief that a device is
turned on nearby. An elegant demonstration of
this on a much larger scale took place in 2010,
when residents of the town of Fourways, South
Africa, <a
href="http://www.techcentral.co.za/iburst-takes-down-controversial-tower/20012/">successfully
petitioned for a cell signal tower to be taken
down</a> because of the sickness caused by its
radiation-even though it was later revealed that
it <a
href="http://www.techcentral.co.za/new-twist-in-iburst-tower-battle/12192/">hadn't
been switched on</a> during the time of their
complaints."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/10/08/218976699/enter-the-quiet-zone-where-cell-service-wi-fi-are-banned">Enter
the Quiet Zone: Where cell service, Wi-Fi are
banned</a> (NPR All Tech Considered | Elise
Hu) "But keeping the noise down around here is
getting harder these days. 'If you think back to
1956 when this site was first built, there were
issues with radio noise, but most of those
issues came about through cars and spark plugs
and power lines. And now we're living in a
society where everything is wireless,'
[telescope overseer Karen] O'Neil says."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Articles
from <a href="http://ohioweblibrary.org">Ohio
Web Library</a>:</em></strong></small><br>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/chc/detail?sid=92a33f71-a2f7-4b51-b3af-2e880cdccae2%40sessionmgr111&vid=0&hid=115&bdata=JnNpdGU9Y2hjLWxpdmU%3d#db=cmh&AN=100010302">Excessive
exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic
fields may cause the development of
electrohypersensitivity.</a> (<em>Alternative
Therapies in Health & Medicine</em>,
Nov./Dec. 2014, p40-42 | David O. Carpenter)</li>
<li><a
href="http://web.a.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/ehost/detail/detail?sid=73cf4904-a34d-47f0-bda4-02012b185338%40sessionmgr4003&vid=0&hid=4101&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=buh&AN=91898000">Risks
perception of electromagnetic fields in
Taiwan: The influence of psychopathology and
the degree of sensitivity to electromagnetic
fields.</a> (<em>Risk Analysis: An
International Journal</em>, Nov. 2013,
p2002-2012 | Mei-Chih Meg Tseng, Yi-Ping Lin,
Fu-Chang Hu, and Tsun-Jen Cheng)</li>
<li><a
href="http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/chc/detail?sid=78a98303-61fa-4f63-97bf-fee7d89ed625%40sessionmgr115&vid=0&hid=115&bdata=JnNpdGU9Y2hjLWxpdmU%3d#db=cmh&AN=85283816">Effects
of long-term electromagnetic field exposure
on spatial learning and memory in rats.</a>
(<em>Neurological Sciences</em>, Feb. 2013,
p157-164 | Dongmei Hao, Lei Yang, Su Chen, Jun
Tong, Yonghao Tian, Benhang Su, Shuicai Wu,
and Yanjun Zeng)</li>
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