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I can not find the study right now, I am on my phone, but I do remember that there was a double blind study conducted where they had people who self diagnosed t
by x0054 11y ago
I can not find the study right now, I am on my phone, but I do remember that there was a double blind study conducted where they had people who self diagnosed them selves with EM sensitivity tested. If I remember correctly, group 1 was placed in a room with no EM emissions, but s router in the corner that would be on and blinking. It was a dummy router, just a box with LEDs. Group 2 was placed in a claimed "isolation" room that was supposed to be EM free, but in fact had several wifi routers hidden and active throughout the room. I think they had a few more controls.
The point is, people in the dummy router room, the LED box room, would immediately develop a migraine headache. People in the room with multiple hidden wifi routers actually emitting radio waves were just fine. But here is the kicker, the symptoms of people in the dummy router room were 100% real. As in, physiologically they did in fact experience a lot of pain.
I think the purpose of the study was about the power of placebo effect, not necessarily to torment and make fun of people with claimed EM sensitivity.
Point is, these people are probably in very real pain, it's just that their pain isn't really caused by EM emissions. The fellow on HealthCare Triage talked about it in his episode on Placebo Effect.
- userbinator 11y agoI wonder if people who claim to be EM sensitive are also highly susceptible to placebo effect in other situations, and how it correlates with other things like religiosity.