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Old 12-17-2018, 08:50 AM   #37
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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader View Post
It absolutely doesn't. Totally investigated. RF sensitivity doesn't exist. Also your phone beside head is about 3,000 times the power on almost the same band.
Inverse Square law.
There's no doubt that the symptoms are real for some people but, as you say, dozens of "double blind" medical studies have shown no evidence that anyone is actually sensitive to WiFi, which is why the medical term for the condition has been changed from "electromagetic hypersensitivity disorder" (EHD) to "Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields" (IEI-EMF) ("Idiopathic" means "of unknown cause"). There's a summary of the medical studies here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19681059

The most likely explanation, as the above link suggests, is a "nocebo effect" - ie exposure to something that you think will make you feel ill really does make you feel ill. The symptoms are real, even if the cause is purely psychological.

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