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Originally Posted by Zeya
I've found using a laptop with wifi for extended periods the worst experience for me. I get heart palpitations, skin burning, headaches, memory impairment, and insomnia. So it's not really so much about the eyes, although I do get eye strain as well. The reason I'm looking at ereaders and not tablets is because of this hypersensitivity to electronics.
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Despite the fact that France officially recognizes "electromagnetic hypersensitivity / wifi allergy" as a real disease, scientific studies suggest otherwise:
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“There are over 50 studies conducted by different research teams around the world,” says Rubin, who has written in-depth reviews on the topic, “and in these experiments, people do get the symptoms they experience in real life. But the important thing is they get them just as much in the sham condition.” So, he goes on, “it seems to be less to do with exposure to electrical fields, and more to do with believing you’ve been exposed.”
It’s a phenomenon scientists refer to as the nocebo effect — the very real experience of harm from something due solely to the perception that it is harmful. Studies have shown, for example, that watching a media report warning about the dangers of EMF can induce symptoms in people who believe they’re in the presence of Wi-Fi (even if they’re not).
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But legal legislators sometimes have trouble with science, like
when they tried to change Pi to 3.2.
And by the way, most eReaders (such as kindles) have wifi and/or 3G (i.e. "electromagnetic radiation"), though you can turn that off with airplane mode.
And that study linking cellphones to brain cancer, which as become the foundation of a ton of fear-mongering news stories (and legislation) over past decades (including so-called "wifi and EMI allergies"), it has been proven as fact that the research data used in that study was faked (just like the fake "research" linking immunizations and autism). That does not mean such links do not exist -- just that the "proof" was faked, and many more REAL research studies failed to find such missing links.
Sunlight hitting your body contains WAY MORE ENERGY at any frequency of study than wifi or cellphones. Point any directional receiver antenna at the sun (no matter what frequency it uses) and it will be swamped with noise. Solar electromagnetic radiation can even BURN YOUR SKIN (i.e. sunburn). Anybody who suffers EMI (or wifi) allergies should avoid sunlight at all costs... But beware of toasters and stoves and electric heaters too, for they also emit electromagnetic radiation (and so does a campfire for that matter).