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[Jane M. Hill]

I just think it's wonderful that there's a place where electrosensitive 
people can find solace.


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On 01/10/2015 1:49 PM, Steve Ross wrote:
> Shows you the power of PR people to push stories for their own agendas.
>
> Remember how the NYT did a front page story on the Obama stimulus 
> program in 2009 as it was being considered in Congress? The story 
> zoomed in on the broadband package, 1% of the total program, as s 
> "cyberbridge to nowhere."  The NYT stenographer (he called himself a 
> reporter) said he had come up with the phrase himself. Right. Just a 
> few days earlier PR for a major cable company had used the phrase on me.
>
>
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> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Christopher Mitchell 
> <christopher at newrules.org <mailto:christopher at newrules.org>> wrote:
>
>     I just saw a similar article on Ars -
>     http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/01/electrosensitives-seek-haven-in-wi-fi-quiet-zone-as-teens-set-up-hotspots/
>
>     Christopher Mitchell
>     Director, Community Broadband Networks
>     Institute for Local Self-Reliance
>
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>     On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Steve Ross
>     <editorsteve at gmail.com <mailto:editorsteve at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         And yet,  almost all the double-blind challenge tests,  where
>         you randomly subject electrosensitive people to signals,  turn
>         out negative. I know of a half-dozen mildly positive studies, 
>         only two of which could be replicated by the researchers, but
>         used methodologies not quite double blind.
>         It is always possible that some people are sensitive to some
>         wavelengths,  but everything from fluorescent ballasts at 3600
>         Hz to wifi at 2.4 or 5.2 GHz or cellular at 1.9 GHz? Yes,
>         there are harmonics, but signal strength gets so low so fast...
>
>         And so many activists complain about cellular or wifi yet have
>         microwave oven and cordless phones  emitting similar frequency.
>
>         On Jan 10, 2015 11:27 AM, "Tom Johnson" <tom at jtjohnson.com
>         <mailto:tom at jtjohnson.com>> wrote:
>
>             http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/the-town-without-wi-fi/
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