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A French woman has been awarded disability payments for a condition which is not recognized by medical science:
Despite dispute over the very existence of the syndrome, it has emerged that a French court has recognised a 39-year-old woman's disability claim for "hypersensitivity to electromagnetic waves".
In the first case of its kind in France, the Toulouse court awarded Martine Richard €800 ($900) a month for three years - according to Robin des Toits, an organisation that campaigns on behalf of sufferers. Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS or électrosensibilité in French) is purportedly caused by exposure to electromagnetic fields such as those generated by WiFi and mobile phones.
In a statement on Wednesday, Étienne Cendrier, Robin des Toits spokesman, hailed the news as a victory, saying: "We can no longer say that it is a psychiatric illness." Victims of EHS say it causes headaches, joint pain, sleep disruption and dozens of other varying symptoms. Nonetheless the World Health Organisation has no clear diagnostic criteria for the condition.
Richard, a former playwright and radio documentary director from Marseille, says she is now forced to live in a remote part of the Pyrenees, without electricity, to escape from electromagnetic fields.
The French National Agency for Health Safety of Food, Environment and Labour (ANSES) accepts that those claiming électrosensibilité have real symptoms, but note the absence of "an experimentally reproducible causal link" to electromagnetic waves. A report is due in early 2016.
[Editors note: If you want to see an extreme case of this portrayed, check out Chuck in the first season of Better Call Saul}.
(Score: 2) by VortexCortex on Sunday August 30 2015, @02:29AM
800 Euros a month? That must be one hell of a tinfoil hat! [emfclothing.com]
Sadly, most of the EMF shielding clothing sold today isn't very effective (they lack grounding) so when going out on the town it's still best to wrap oneself in foil. In all seriousness, the most useful thing on such sites is the EMF detector. They're easy to build, but for the unskilled masses a detector can help determine if what they're experiencing is all in their heads or actually related to EMF pollution or EMF weaponry. [youtube.com] In a pinch one can try a battery powered AM radio tuned to the static between stations. To gather accurate data one should record the EM field strengths & frequencies silently and invisibly: Attach your detector to your belt / carry it in your purse. Then use a notepad or phone app to record the time as one is experiencing symptoms. After having collected both data sets compare them; This helps confirm whether the symptoms are real or psychosomatic. However, EM detection devices do nothing to detect the ELF (extreme low frequency) sonic energy pollution / weaponry. [slavery.org.uk]
Once detected one can even triangulate the source or in extreme cases follow the beam back to its generator (which can be humorously embarrassing for those who thought they were attacking in secret -- hint: Using such a device broadcasts strong radio waves and reveals your location). What's even more fun is reflecting the signal, or creating your own: Strong EM beams can stop cars in their tracks [technologyreview.com], or prevent them from starting. Pumping a car full of EMF is sometimes harmless but can fry the alternator, fuel injectors, and other electrical components. Beware: Payback can be a real bitch.
Until we start using less wasteful transmission technologies or designing meta material homes: Shields Up! [lessemf.com] To the insanely skeptical: Start your journey into reality by accepting that transcranial magnetic stimulation has real documented effects [google.com], everything else follows naturally from there. [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by VortexCortex on Sunday August 30 2015, @02:33AM
In other words: Maybe it's a payoff to keep her quiet because she, like so many others, have evidence of governments attacking civilians with EMF weaponry.