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Originally Posted by Yourcat
Thanks for this nice lecture. One will discuss these things for years.
Mixing EM and allergies is pseudoscience. As we all know the digestive system is protected very good from EM and usually the source for allergies. Getting an allergy is just the result of the self-fulfilling prophecy told the people before the study. The EM effects are not that easy to spot.
Wifi with 0.1W vs 1kW microwave is indeed a big difference while some people wear their smartphone 12h a day.
Besides, what happens if a drop of water hits the floor? Can you see the stalagmite already?
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Agreed that it could be a cumulative effect, if the exposure rate is too high. Your body is pretty good at removing damaged pieces at the cellular level (even cancer) until it isn't. Autoimmune diseases are not a joke, and we do not know what triggers many of them (such as Meniere's Disease, which causes intermittent deafness, thought to be an autoimmune problem, like most other inflammations).
I use earphones for long conversations (especially in weak signal areas where the phone uses a higher transmit power). Not so much for "allergies", but because it is so close to my eyeball (where heating cooks them causing cataracts). But wifi? It is absorbed by water and causes mostly heating effects (yeah, in eyeballs too). I worry more about potential resonant hormone stimulation from high-power ELF, not about WiFi (much weaker than cellphones), and of course, such hormone-stim is very frequency-selective (if even a problem, though some claim children should not use electric blankets to keep warm), due to that "hormone stim" thing perhaps affecting growth rates in children. But adults? Probably no worries, until proven otherwise (as double-blind experiments show). The nocebo effect BELIEF SYSTEM is as damaging as the placebo belief system is helpful, but only for those who believe. Science and knowledge tend to damage such false but effective (just like witchdoctor medicine) belief systems.