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Hell hath no fury like a radar engineer scorned

Muscleguy

Re: Can this inform the 5G debate?

I read a story on stuff.co.nz about two women living on Waiheke island near Auckland who are convinced they are affected by EMF's one is a neuroscientist who doesn't sound very scientific to me. Her thumb hurt while pressing her car keyring button, so it must have been the EMF's, can't have been tendinitis or arthritis. She just jumped to one conclusion.

Careful, blinded experiments with people who claim to be electrosensitive have found they cannot tell if equipment is on or not.

My wife also helped administer the big epidemiology study here in the UK which looked at EMF's and cancer and found no detectable risks.

Cancer rates may be rising but that is because we are living longer and many are unhealthy in various ways. Being obese for eg raises your risk because it causes an increase in IGF-1 production which produces chronic inflammation which is a risk factor.

People looking for environmental bogeythings need to remember there are many more prosaic things to rule out first.

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