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It sounds to me like a psychogenic illness similar to the Tanganyika laughter epidemic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_laughter_epidemic http://en.wik
by NathanKP 16y ago
It sounds to me like a psychogenic illness similar to the Tanganyika laughter epidemic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_laughter_epidemic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_laughter_epidemic
It is extremely unlikely that wifi would make kids sick. These same kids probably get wifi exposure at home too, even if it is just spill over wifi signals from their neighbor's homes. The parents clearly don't know enough about psychology or electronics.
Chances are the parents are inadvertently encouraging psychosomatic symptoms in their impressionable children.
- electromagnetic 16y agoFrom what I've read the main behavioral changes are dropping a grade point, falling out with friends, misbehaving in school or increased truancy. During my day (I'm 22) this was called "falling in with a bad crowd". For the actual medical symptoms, these are so average run-of-the-mill symptoms that it shouldn't be randomly attributed to wifi. I know in my school my greatest cause of nausea was fresh paint, a stink bomb going off or bad food in the caf. IMO these parents are ignoring the simplest and most obvious answer: their kids are being kids and their illnesses are them trying to skip school. I had my fair share of nausea when new games came out; I even had a bout of 'nausea' during college when I picked up the Firefly box set (I'm from the UK, never saw it on TV but had a mega-huge recommendation from someone I trusted), I watched 1/4 of the first episode before I called in sick.