Hippies revolt over wireless network voodoo
HIPPIES LIVING in the tiny town of Glastonbury claim that a new wi-fi network is responsible for a spate of health problems.
Glastonbury, which used to be a mecca for Christian pilgrims looking for King Arthur, has now been largely taken over by New Age hippies who think that it is a place of great healing energies.
That was, until the town set up a £34,000 project wi-fi network on an experimental basis. Apparently wi-fi jiggers about with your chakras and breaks ley lines, which makes you sick.
To counter the bad karma they have surrounded the masts with orgone generators to clean the energy up, but despite claims that the generators can fix the bad energy of a nuclear powerplant they seem to be unable to deal with the terrors of wi-fi.
At a public meeting to discuss alleged health problems in the Somerset town, residents complained of numerous symptoms including headaches, dizziness, rashes and even pneumonia.
One theory they came out with is that wi-fi suppresses the production of melatonin, a hormone which helps to control sleep patterns, regulates the body's metabolic rate and boosts the immune system.
So basically the town is full of fake science and psychosomatic illness which probably would not be there if no one knew the wi-fi was there.
Dr Eric de Silva, a physicist at Imperial College, London said that no studies have found evidence of a connection between exposure to wi-fi and ill health.
A Somerset County Council spokesman said the project designed to support the local economy and encourage tourist and business visitors to stay longer and use local services.
Funny how other towns which have installed wi-fi don't report the same mass outbreaks of illness. Glastonbury has also been served by a mobile phone network and the local broadband ISPs all have cable modems and no one cares about them causing illnesses.
Almost all the complaints are from the New Age movement who spend most of their time finding reasons to be sick so that they can draw disability benefit and experiment with new cures for themselves. µ
L'Inq
Telegraph
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..So they wanted to invade Glastonbury and burn it to the ground?
hmmm, microwave pain/heat weapons (usa), mobile ray guns (us),
well cooked hippies wrapped in tin foil (UK)!
no one cares or would notice a rise in Londoners dying of cancer...
but some other cities have scrapped thier public funded networks, due to the health complaints and lack of use and ropey reception.
yeh, yeh, yeh, how would they know when theyre feelin off colour with all the magic mushrooms, fly agaric tea and 'big black mama's jamaicy herbal smokin remedy' inside um lol O_o
I sure hope they're wrong, since my wireless router is placed underneath my bed at the pillow end.
I was picking up some electronic engineering in school recently and the physics teacher was totally paranoid about high frequency wireless, including mobile phones, wifi, the lot.
He said things like: If you keep the mobile in your pants you'll go sterile.
He never explained why this was happening. Personally I keep the laptop on the nightstand and the mobile in my pants. I think he used to be a hippie, but he did have a university degree in quantum physics so what do I know. What I know is: I don't care, I drink alcohol, drive too fast, eat junk food, smoke. And some other stuff.
A bit of radio don't scare me. :-)
while new age babble may deserve a grin, or even ridicule at times, it is interesting how the "intellectuals" know that microwaves, as long as they are publicly distributed pose no harm; in the same way we are told that industrial waste in the form of fluoride is good for teeth, and dental amalgam, of which 50% is mercury, poses no neurological threat... i laugh in your face...
I love pseudoscience! It has enormous entertainment value. Just so long as it does not actually interfere with the running of the world.
Not strictly related to the article, but a good example of pseudoscience with enormous relevance to our world is the irrational belief that nuclear power is dangerous. I mean, this particular myth has been so well advertised that if you ask the average person the street what would happen if there was an accident at a nuclear plant you are almost guaranteed visions of doom and gloom and estimated death-tolls in the hundreds of thousands.
In reality, the final death-toll attributed to the worst nuclear disaster on the planet, Chernobyl, is 51. This from a 2005 CE study conducted by the IAEA. So a study conducted by people who know about these things at a time well after all the supposedly-radioactive dust has settled and all the death certificates have been properly filed.
BTW, the Chernobyl power plant actually continued operation until December 15th, 2000 CE, a far cry from the wasteland depicted in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. And not nearly enough doom and gloom to sustain public interest.
Contrast, if you will, with the science of fossil fuel use.
I mean, nevermind the long term forecasts of the polar ice caps melting (the north pole is expected to be ice-free in the summer as early as 2013 CE, btw, so it's not such a long term forecast after all) and radical climate change. Please meet the Great Smog of London, caused by the use of high-sulphur coal for heating:
"The smoke-laden fog that shrouded the capital from Friday 5 December to Tuesday 9 December 1952 brought premature death to thousands and inconvenience to millions. An estimated 4,000 people died because of it, and cattle at Smithfield, were, the press reported, asphyxiated. Road, rail and air transport were almost brought to a standstill and a performance at the Sadler's Wells Theatre had to be suspended when fog in the auditorium made conditions intolerable for the audience and performers".
-- http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/education/secondary/students/smog.html
4000 dead! That's nearly 80 Chernobyls!!
It is funny thing how people accept the fact something obvious like a gun shot wound can be fatal, but something long term, slow yet fatal such as asbestosis is thought to be phooey.
I think the real mental illness here is this mad rush to have all the latest and greatest technology in order to prevent being thought of as some kind of hick or neanderthal man.
Who cares if it fries your brain over time, makes your future children mutants or turns otherwise normal people into psycho killing machines?
These same people making comments of hippies are the same ones who run to church every week to talk to some invisible being.
Get a clue.
This is the least objective article I have ever seen on the internet. I suppose you would need to shock people in order to get hits on your obviously poor website, but why not try putting risque pictures of 18 year old "celebrities" on your homepage instead? Thats how the other comic books do it, and at least then people wont be lulled into visiting your website expecting a reasonable article. For shame.
It might give people a spiteful giggle to browse:
http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Farrell%2C%20Nick
(whether or not it's our own linguistically-challenged ninny, or not)
Chances of this comment falling down the back of the fridge? High, I'd guess. Pass the tinfoil hat, and happy new year all, even Nick :-)
Our Sun Puts Out Microwaves in Full Range of Spectrum, To Run Microwave Antenae, BackGround White Noise Must Be Overcome. So More Power from Local Antenae than Sun, During daylight. Which is Awful Lot of Electrical Power.
Next, Melotonin Production under Melan of Skin Occurrs About 1 Hour After Sunset & does Make person Feel Sleepy. Its Natural Phenomen, due to less stimulation of Cells. So Think About it, As Microwaves are powered same 24 hr daily, Source of Power Greater than Sun itself is Blazing thru Your Skin, Masking Melotonin Response, preventing Melotonin from production within your melon. Oh Sure Some Derogatory Nut could short switch on Microwave Oven door, Stick Your Head in It & So Much Less for thought, AS ALL its imagined Victims Must of Recieved, yet this Microwave Transmitter Affects Everyone in Community & is 100% guarenteed Distructive of Flesh.
In Radio Shaek itself, between Dioxins in Transformers & Microwaves themaselves, Twitch,Twitch & BabbleOn.
BTW Windows 7 is 6.2.7---- & 2.5 Gb iso in 32 bit. Feed that To bears. STeWie Drashek
..the way that a Drashek "not quite English, not quite language" textual vomit is posted just after a comment about spewing nonsense. Methinks the moderator is indulging in mischief (hooray).
More probably some bad mushy tea!
Efros
I sleep next to one EVERY NIGHT for the last few year. I don't get sick that often.
This story is just full of fodder and should be ignored.
This story is bouncing around the world, with every newspaper very happy to have something silly to publish. The fact is, there are health issues with low-level RF and microwave radiation, which is slowly increasing globally as our technology expands to use it more widely. There are biologists and physicians who document these health reactions to low-level EMF, but they are ignored in favor of the physics and engineering types to pooh-pooh any such problems. Governments are mostly on their side, as this is Big Business with billions at stake. So when they can find one or two nutters who -- by the way -- abuse the name and work of Wilhelm Reich, whose orgone energy discovery (see orgonelab.org, for example) is not much different from the modern-day idea of the invisible but powerful "Dark Matter" of astrophysics, well, they cannot restrain themselves, but will try to make a big ridicule and go for the cheap laugh. Your health is not of concern to them, nor to any newspaper that reports on serious issues with this kind of phoney (calculated) jocularity. Remember your Shakespeare: "Their buffonery is not innocent. They are the Kings jesters."
The writer of this article is an ignorant person about many things.
I feel sorry for you.
I love Glastonbury and know for sure that it is a magical place.Don't make fun of things that you don't understand .
The wireless in Glastonbury feels like a great intrusion to me,and makes me think that the conspirational theories of some of my "hippie" friends(and no,they don't do mushrooms) might have some truth in them.
I've been in Glastonbury as a tourist many times and was until recently contemplating a longer stay. But after this I'm not so sure anymore.
"Peace and love"