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posted by mrpg on Wednesday July 18 2018, @11:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the and-the-cell-phones? dept.

CBC News reports that the BC Human Rights Tribunal has ruled against parents who insisted that their child needed special protection against radio waves. The parents believed that their son had a condition called electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS), a bundle of non-specific symptoms that they attribute to EMF exposure, and that "...Wi-Fi, cellphones and other electronics ... caused the boy's migraines, nausea, insomnia and night terrors. "

Claims that Wi-Fi causes health problems are not unusual on the West Coast of Canada, but these parents added new twists to the story. His mother believes that the condition was caused by living near a cell phone tower during pregnancy, and that severe headaches and episodes of vomiting were caused by the amplification system his teachers used to help students with hearing impairments.

T's family complained he developed a headache one day after staying inside for recess. In an appeal to the school board, his family said it happened because, "as you know, the RF [radio frequency] does penetrate the room he is in when the children are moving around the school with their cellphones on at recess and lunch."

The student has since moved to a private school specializing in, among other things, working with autistic children. He is now able to develop social skills by joining other students on regular field trips to a local (presumably Wi-Fi and cell free) farm.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @06:35AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @06:35AM (#709250)

    Stupid religious peoples! I offer you total absolution, if you only take basic courses in physics, chemistry, biology, and epistemology! You can be saved, you idiots!

    Ah! If it were only that simple...
    The primary problem with that approach is that you normally then end up with a relidge spouting a mangled version of whatever they've allowed through their filters and managed to pick up of these subjects as a new pseudoscience.

  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday July 19 2018, @02:11PM (1 child)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Thursday July 19 2018, @02:11PM (#709393)

    Exactly, that's why we have people following crap like Chiropractic, new age crystals, etc.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @05:54PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @05:54PM (#709540)

      Don't get me started on new age crystals...

      At one point, as well as being in charge of most of the computers in a University Electronics & Electrical Engineering department, being primarily an electronics guy I was also in charge of the project labs, so imagine my delight when I was presented one night with a fucking crystal headset thing for testing, think: standard single earphone telephony style headset where the earpiece had been replaced with some sort of crystal 'device' where one of the tips of the crystal was strategically placed to make contact with the skin at the approximate location where you'd find the Tilak mark on a Hindu (that alone, should set off the 'Danger Will Robinson!' signal).

      This thing had a standard 50Ω co-ax and BNC plug attached, the remit? see what sort of signals it would pick up from various people suffering different ailments and try provide them with a series of 'spectra' (their word) for each of these ailments...

      What can I say? we knew it wouldn't do anything, but as someone further up the greasy pole was getting paid, we had to test it, big surprise, no fscking signal from it, no results...oh, forgot, they hoped eventually that by analysing these spectra then figuring out an appropriate 'anti-signal' and sending it back up the co-ax, they could cure the ailments.

      Fraggles, fraggles everywhere..thankfully I got a better paid job elsewhere away from that sort of nonsense.