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W Virginia town of Green Bank has become a refuge for 'electrosensitive' people

13 points by howard941 2y ago

toomuchtodo 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bank_Telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bank_Telescope ("Wikipedia: Green Bank Telescope") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Quiet_Zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Q... ("Wikipedia: United States National Radio Quiet Zone")
- kemotep 2y ago
  Kind of makes the whole “electro sensitivity” thing seem foolish then huh?
  - deleted 2y ago
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  - itishappy 2y ago
    Not at all. Radio telescopes are electrosensitive by definition, and that's exactly why they chose this site. No comment on whether people are electrosensitive, but if you felt you were, this is the spot to be.
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mmmlinux 2y ago
I have a feeling a lot of these people needed to evaluate what was going on in their life, beyond the cellphone tower they think is shooting 5g death beams at them. A therapist would never be lacking of work in that town.
- Suppafly 2y ago
  >A therapist would never be lacking of work in that town. If a therapist could fix them, they wouldn't need to move to this town in the first place. These aren't serious people operating in the realm of reality.
  - science4sail 2y ago
    As long as they think that they're getting fixed, then that's recurring revenue! You can blame any regressions on the EM emissions of the outside world.
  - tolerance 2y ago
    > These aren't serious people operating in the realm of reality. Does anyone have a whitelist for what groups of people we're allowed to say this about?
    - K0balt 2y ago
      Well, you can borrow mine.
    - wtallis 2y ago
      Trying to use a whitelist approach for that problem would be indulging in the kind of lack of critical thinking that allows people to believe they're allergic to WiFi, or to take such people seriously.
    - dingnuts 2y ago
      I get what you're saying but the GP is saying they are literally suffering from psychosis. We should definitely be able to say psychosis sufferers are not operating in the realm of reality; it's tautological
    - drewcoo 2y ago
      I don't think we can say "whitelist" anymore.
- nixosbestos 2y ago
throwup238 2y ago
https://archive.ph/hXwpw https://archive.ph/hXwpw I wonder how many people were inspired to search this place out after watching Better Call Saul. Edit: > And, no, they don’t like the caricature of electrosensitivity depicted on the TV show “Better Caul Saul”: a frantic, paranoid man wrapping himself in a foil blanket and avoiding even sunlight. Heh. So they're sensitive to gigahertz but not terahertz radiation? What about mains and the landlines they use?
se4u 2y ago
A few months ago I read about a lady who can smell Alzheimer's and at first she too was not taken seriously. I can't think of how RF can affect human body but I wouldn't dismiss their reports completely.

13 points by howard941 2y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bank_Telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bank_Telescope ("Wikipedia: Green Bank Telescope") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Quiet_Zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Radio_Q... ("Wikipedia: United States National Radio Quiet Zone")

kemotep 2y ago
Kind of makes the whole “electro sensitivity” thing seem foolish then huh?
- deleted 2y ago
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- itishappy 2y ago
  Not at all. Radio telescopes are electrosensitive by definition, and that's exactly why they chose this site. No comment on whether people are electrosensitive, but if you felt you were, this is the spot to be.

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mmmlinux 2y ago

I have a feeling a lot of these people needed to evaluate what was going on in their life, beyond the cellphone tower they think is shooting 5g death beams at them. A therapist would never be lacking of work in that town.

Suppafly 2y ago
>A therapist would never be lacking of work in that town. If a therapist could fix them, they wouldn't need to move to this town in the first place. These aren't serious people operating in the realm of reality.
- science4sail 2y ago
  As long as they think that they're getting fixed, then that's recurring revenue! You can blame any regressions on the EM emissions of the outside world.
- tolerance 2y ago
  > These aren't serious people operating in the realm of reality. Does anyone have a whitelist for what groups of people we're allowed to say this about?
  - K0balt 2y ago
    Well, you can borrow mine.
  - wtallis 2y ago
    Trying to use a whitelist approach for that problem would be indulging in the kind of lack of critical thinking that allows people to believe they're allergic to WiFi, or to take such people seriously.
  - dingnuts 2y ago
    I get what you're saying but the GP is saying they are literally suffering from psychosis. We should definitely be able to say psychosis sufferers are not operating in the realm of reality; it's tautological
  - drewcoo 2y ago
    I don't think we can say "whitelist" anymore.
nixosbestos 2y ago

throwup238 2y ago

https://archive.ph/hXwpw https://archive.ph/hXwpw I wonder how many people were inspired to search this place out after watching Better Call Saul. Edit: > And, no, they don’t like the caricature of electrosensitivity depicted on the TV show “Better Caul Saul”: a frantic, paranoid man wrapping himself in a foil blanket and avoiding even sunlight. Heh. So they're sensitive to gigahertz but not terahertz radiation? What about mains and the landlines they use?

se4u 2y ago

A few months ago I read about a lady who can smell Alzheimer's and at first she too was not taken seriously. I can't think of how RF can affect human body but I wouldn't dismiss their reports completely.