Every time "electrosensitivity" comes up, I feel obliged to post this story...<p><a href="http://mybroadband.co.za/news/wireless/11099-massive-revelation-in-iburst-tower-battle.html" rel="nofollow">http://mybroadband.co.za/news/wireless/11099-massive-revelat...</a><p>...and this related wiki article:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo</a>
So the proof is she accurately guessed someone, at a skeptics meeting, had a phone on? Do people have no concept of evidence? How about a series of tests, every 2 hours, over a week, double blind?
In the 1970's there was a woman 'allergic to the 20th century'. With her it was the same story but her allergies were to do with credible things like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons:<p><a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19810223&id=0PpLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QfkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2674,1618261&hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19810223&id=...</a><p>This woman was a regular feature in the news and, if she was alive today, she almost certainly would be allergic to bluetooth/wifi etc.<p>Reading between the lines of her story it seems she had a doctor who was seeing her as 'allergic to the 20th century' when really she was suffering from just the normal things that affect humans from time to time, e.g. depression. So rather than being depressed everything could be blamed on 'the 20th century'.<p>There must be others from earlier times that have decided to 'play the dead canary' to devote their lives to distilling our fears of the new into some terrifying allergy condition of a syndrome, providing endless story for journalists to cover.
I'm kind of electrosensitive though only from strong sources of electromagnetic radiation. I'm not affected by WiFi, Bluetooth or fluorescent lights. If travelling under a high voltage electric cable I can feel tingling in my head. If using a mobile phone for more than a few minutes, my head becomes hot and I get a headache. Using data is worse. If I'm tethering my phone I have to connect it to my laptop via Bluetooth and have it on the other side of the room to reduce the chance of getting a headache. Does anybody else experience this?
I used to live in a town that I'm now aware is about 25 miles from the edge of that zone marked in the article. I'd be interested to know what the restrictions were in town, because I certainly never noticed them.
This page looks great without running any javascript. I cant remember the last time I visited a news/magazine site that looked so nice without one line of javascript allowed.<p>On an unrelated note the article is from 2015. They never updated the impressum so the site copyright still says 2014.
Lots of the comments here are attacking the idea that "electrosensitivity" is even a real thing.<p>I think it's not relevant, and actually counterproductive to argue if it's real or not. Instead, let's give these people a place they can live "free" of those things, which makes them happy, and we'll continue to live in a place with electo-stuff, which makes us happy.<p>Win, win, everyone is happy.<p>After all, I can choose to purchase renewable energy or not, I can choose to purchase GMO-free foods or not, I can choose to purchase hormone-free meat or not, etc. etc., so why not let these people choose to live "electro free" if they so choose? Their choice in the matter does not impact me in any way.