- which is making people sick! .. List of symptoms: sleep problems (insomnia, difficulty falling asleep, night waking, nightmares); stress, agitation, anxiety, irritability; headaches, sharp pain or pressure in the head; ringing in the ears, ear pain, high pitched ringing; concentration, memory or learning problems; fatigue, muscle or physical weakness; disorientation, dizziness, or balance problems; eye problems, including eye pain, pressure in the eyes; cardiac symptoms, heart palpitations, heart arrhythmias, chest pain; leg cramps, or neuropathy; arthritis, body pain, sharp, stabbing pains; nausea, flu-like symptoms; sinus problems, nose bleeds; respiratory problems, cough, asthma; skin rashes, facial flushing; urinary problems; endocrine disorders, thyroid problems, diabetes; high blood pressure; changes in menstrual cycle; hyperactivity or changes in children’s behavior; seizures; recurrence of cancer.”
There is no scientific validity to these health warnings. According to a a well-reasoned article debunking these alarmist reports (“Smart Meters, Dumb Science”)
Do electric cars generate dangerous EMFs?
Psychologists might be able to explain why some Americans are more worried about health problems caused by electric cars than health problems caused by internal combustion engines. I can’t.
In 2012, Consumer Reports looked into worries over EMFs generated by electric cars, and reported
Electrical hypersensitivity?
It turns out that there are two kinds of EMF worriers: ordinary worriers, and a subset of people who consider themselves to be “hypersensitive” or to be plagued by “electromagnetic sensitivity.”
The syndrome is defined on a website maintained by the Healthy House Institute
Scientists are skeptical that electrical hypersensitivity exists. According to a report from the Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (“Possible Effects of Electromagnetic Fields on Human Health”)
The World Health Organization is also skeptical: “Some individuals report ‘hypersensitivity’ to electric or magnetic fields. They ask whether aches and pains, headaches, depression, lethargy, sleeping disorders, and even convulsions and epileptic seizures could be associated with electromagnetic field exposure. There is little scientific evidence to support the idea of electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Recent Scandinavian studies found that individuals do not show consistent reactions under properly controlled conditions of electromagnetic field exposure. Nor is there any accepted biological mechanism to explain hypersensitivity.”
To some readers, these worries over “EMF hypersensitivity” might ring a bell; they resemble worries by some Americans that they suffer from multiple chemical sensitivity an article titled “Dirty Electricity” (The CCPA Monitor, June 2012), Helke Ferrie wrote, “The symptoms of electropollution-induced sickness involve all organs with many debilitating symptoms, from skin rashes to cancer; they are part of the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) spectrum.”
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