I wasn't going to post on this thread anymore because it's so silly, but I saw this link on boingboing, and thought I'd share. Some crazy guys actually did a study on this:
http://www.badscience.net/?p=470
Shocking conclusion:
Quote:
Short-term exposure to a typical GSM base station-like signal did not
affect well-being or physiological functions in sensitive or control individuals.
Sensitive individuals reported elevated levels of arousal when exposed to a UMTS signal. Further analysis, however, indicated that this difference was likely to be due to
the effect of order of exposure rather than the exposure itself.
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I wondered what 'order of exposure' meant...
Quote:
Elevated levels of arousal were found under double-blind conditions for the
sensitive participants during the UMTS compared to sham exposure, similar to the
findings of Zwamborn et al. (2003). Further analysis revealed that this increased
arousal was most likely due to a higher proportion of sensitive individuals receiving
the UMTS signal first. It is not surprising that sensitive individuals would be more
anxious in the first of the double-blind sessions, given the degree of uncertainty they
may have felt in not knowing how the signal would affect them.
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In addition, the elevated level of arousal was not reflected in either the number or severity of symptoms reported, or the intensity of physiological measurements.
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I didn't bother reading the entire study. So it sounds like "Nothing to see here, except maybe the fairly surprising suggestion that some people are affected by some kinds of E-M radiation, maybe." The caveat is interesting enough to warrant further study, IMHO, but the rest is as expected.
Ooh, look. Research. Pretty.