Comments on: How about "electronic Viagra"? http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/04/24/how-about-electronic-viagra/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:18:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: peridot http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/04/24/how-about-electronic-viagra/#comment-916 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:10:55 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/04/24/how-about-electronic-viagra/#comment-916 In fact, one of the reasons this belief ever got any credence at all (beyond the confusion about what radiation is) is that there *was* a study of ham operators, electrical engineers, and other people with a high exposure to electromagnetic radiation at long (well, more than a millimeter) wavelengths, and they *did* have more cancers and illnesses than usual. Someone took a second look at that study, though, and found that they also had a higher exposure to various noxious chemicals used in electronic components (the magic smoke they run on!), which was quite sufficient to explain the difference. I'm afraid I don't have a specific reference, though. In fact, one of the reasons this belief ever got any credence at all (beyond the confusion about what radiation is) is that there *was* a study of ham operators, electrical engineers, and other people with a high exposure to electromagnetic radiation at long (well, more than a millimeter) wavelengths, and they *did* have more cancers and illnesses than usual.

Someone took a second look at that study, though, and found that they also had a higher exposure to various noxious chemicals used in electronic components (the magic smoke they run on!), which was quite sufficient to explain the difference.

I'm afraid I don't have a specific reference, though.

]]> by: Stark http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/04/24/how-about-electronic-viagra/#comment-912 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:55:22 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/04/24/how-about-electronic-viagra/#comment-912 ummm... rold = World Thwack! One smack of the anti-stupid stick for me! ummm... rold = World

Thwack! One smack of the anti-stupid stick for me!

]]> by: Stark http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/04/24/how-about-electronic-viagra/#comment-911 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:54:19 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/04/24/how-about-electronic-viagra/#comment-911 Ya know... it is somehow gratifying to see that this hogwash isn't limited to just the USA. I mean, I get so depressed looking at the crap that passes for "fact" around this country (the USA) that I actually get a little lift when I see that the rest of the rold is having to deal with the same idiocy. Of course I'm fairly certain that we get a bit more of this than rest of you (idiotic design anybody?) but at least I'm not alone in wanting to beat somebody (anybody!) with an anti-stupid stick. Oh, and I choose to believe it's elctronic B12 with a caffeine chaser - I get more than enough C as it is! ;) Also, if this EMF stuff is so harmful why aren't all the HAM operators in the world horribly ill? I mean they have some serious transmitters that are usually located right on the roof of their house! Ya know... it is somehow gratifying to see that this hogwash isn't limited to just the USA. I mean, I get so depressed looking at the crap that passes for "fact" around this country (the USA) that I actually get a little lift when I see that the rest of the rold is having to deal with the same idiocy. Of course I'm fairly certain that we get a bit more of this than rest of you (idiotic design anybody?) but at least I'm not alone in wanting to beat somebody (anybody!) with an anti-stupid stick.

Oh, and I choose to believe it's elctronic B12 with a caffeine chaser - I get more than enough C as it is! ;)

Also, if this EMF stuff is so harmful why aren't all the HAM operators in the world horribly ill? I mean they have some serious transmitters that are usually located right on the roof of their house!

]]> by: tomsk http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/04/24/how-about-electronic-viagra/#comment-905 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:12:07 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/04/24/how-about-electronic-viagra/#comment-905 I was so incensed when I saw that article in the shops that I scared a passing shelfstacker with my swearing. The Independent is supposed to be (relatively speaking) a sane persons' paper, and it's printing this Daily Mail-calibre horseshit on its front page?! I have been known to actually buy it in dead tree format, but won't be doing that again in the near future, that's for sure. Grrr. I was so incensed when I saw that article in the shops that I scared a passing shelfstacker with my swearing. The Independent is supposed to be (relatively speaking) a sane persons' paper, and it's printing this Daily Mail-calibre horseshit on its front page?! I have been known to actually buy it in dead tree format, but won't be doing that again in the near future, that's for sure. Grrr.

]]> by: evilspoons http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/04/24/how-about-electronic-viagra/#comment-903 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:00:41 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/04/24/how-about-electronic-viagra/#comment-903 That article (the original newspaper one) makes me want to cry. Apart from the obvious mention that they "emit radiation" (not electromagnetic, they make it sound like they're radioactive...) they're also saying the signal Wi-Fi networks emits is similar to that from cell phone towers! Oh my gosh! So's your car's keyless entry remote! Cell phones that (supposedly, I think the jury's still out on this one) microwave your brain emit 0.6 watts to 3.0 watts RIGHT NEXT TO YOUR HEAD, people. My Wi-Fi router has been hacked to emit 0.05 W from its base level of 0.03 W. And I'm not holding it against my head. I can't wait to find what these guys will say about ultrawideband. That article (the original newspaper one) makes me want to cry. Apart from the obvious mention that they "emit radiation" (not electromagnetic, they make it sound like they're radioactive...) they're also saying the signal Wi-Fi networks emits is similar to that from cell phone towers! Oh my gosh! So's your car's keyless entry remote!

Cell phones that (supposedly, I think the jury's still out on this one) microwave your brain emit 0.6 watts to 3.0 watts RIGHT NEXT TO YOUR HEAD, people. My Wi-Fi router has been hacked to emit 0.05 W from its base level of 0.03 W. And I'm not holding it against my head.

I can't wait to find what these guys will say about ultrawideband.

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