Jason Levine
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join:2001-07-13
Albany, NY
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Re: Well why are they only worried about Wi-Fi ?
said by Jason Levine  :This woman is probably so completely convinced that she is allergic to WiFi symptoms that her body is manifesting symptoms. I'm not usually one to reply to my own posts, but I just coincidentally came across a Wall Street Journal article that read:
said by »www.postgazette.com/pg/07033/758973-115.stm :The power of the mind also shows up in conditions that involve the immune system. Exposing people to what they thought was poison ivy caused them to develop a real rash, a 1998 study found, and giving people what they thought was a caffeinated drink (but was decaf) raised their heart rates just as real caffeine does. Now replace the fake Poison Ivy with the suspected presence of WiFi signals and the normal expected reaction one gets from Poison Ivy with an expectation of a similar reaction to WiFi signals and you could easily explain away this woman's reaction.
Of course, the best way to test this would be to have the woman enter a series of rooms. Each room would be contained within its own Faraday cage (to prevent outside radiation sources from spoiling the experiment). Some rooms would have WiFi enabled (via a normal WiFi router hidden from view) and some wouldn't. Neither the woman, nor any researchers she interacted with would know which rooms had WiFi and which wouldn't. She would be tracked through these rooms and would be both physically observed, would have vital signs (Blood pressure, heart rate, etc) taken while in the rooms, and would fill out a short survey about how she felt in each of the rooms as she was in it. When she was done, the data could be compiled. If any link between WiFi rooms and her physical reactions existed, it would show up in the data. Otherwise, other things cause her reactions. |
