Comments on: Even Gordon Brown has Better Things to do Than That http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/2008/08/02/even-gordon-brown-has-better-things-to-do-than-that/ Floccinaucinihilipilificating antidisestablishmentarianism since 2001. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:03:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Andrew http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/2008/08/02/even-gordon-brown-has-better-things-to-do-than-that/#comment-5089 Andrew Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:10:12 +0000 http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/?p=894#comment-5089 Exactly. Even epileptics are in no danger from a strobe light if they cover their eyes. Maybe people who think they have EHS can start wearing blindfolds around mobiles and wifi. Exactly. Even epileptics are in no danger from a strobe light if they cover their eyes. Maybe people who think they have EHS can start wearing blindfolds around mobiles and wifi.

]]> By: Danny http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/2008/08/02/even-gordon-brown-has-better-things-to-do-than-that/#comment-5087 Danny Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:40:50 +0000 http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/?p=894#comment-5087 <blockquote>“Pulsed” microwave radiation is just regular microwave radiation that turns on and off quickly. That doesn’t make it somehow more dangerous any more than turning a light on and off a lot makes it dangerous (assuming you don’t have epillepsy, anyway).</blockquote> But you can <i>see</i> light - that's why when it's pulsed at certain frequencies it can mess with people's heads. You don't have any way of detecting microwave radiation, until there's enough of it that it heats up you. Pulsed microwaves are still microwaves. Anyway, here's another reference for electrosensitivity not being real: Eltiti et al, <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.10286" rel="nofollow"><i>Does Short-Term Exposure to Mobile Phone Base Station Signals Increase Symptoms in Individuals who Report Sensitivity to Electromagnetic Fields? A Double-Blind Randomised Provocation Study</i></a>. Environ. Health Persp. 115(11):1603-8 (2007)

“Pulsed” microwave radiation is just regular microwave radiation that turns on and off quickly. That doesn’t make it somehow more dangerous any more than turning a light on and off a lot makes it dangerous (assuming you don’t have epillepsy, anyway).

But you can see light - that’s why when it’s pulsed at certain frequencies it can mess with people’s heads. You don’t have any way of detecting microwave radiation, until there’s enough of it that it heats up you. Pulsed microwaves are still microwaves.

Anyway, here’s another reference for electrosensitivity not being real: Eltiti et al, Does Short-Term Exposure to Mobile Phone Base Station Signals Increase Symptoms in Individuals who Report Sensitivity to Electromagnetic Fields? A Double-Blind Randomised Provocation Study. Environ. Health Persp. 115(11):1603-8 (2007)

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