{"id":390664,"date":"2010-03-04T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5486076"},"modified":"2010-03-04T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T03:40:00","slug":"electro-hypersensitivity-the-gadget-allergy-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/390664","title":{"rendered":"Electro-hypersensitivity: The Gadget Allergy [Health]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/03\/radiationheader.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/03\/500x_radiationheader.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\"  title=\"Electro-hypersensitivity: The Gadget Allergy\"\/><\/a>A man hassled a neighbor over his <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5445632\/man-sues-neighbor-becomes-homeless-over-wifi-allergies\">Wi-Fi allergies<\/a>, and we dismissed him as a member of the tin-foil hat brigade. Now we&#8217;re reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/article\/2010-02\/disconnected\">PopSci&#8217;s<\/a> look at the Electro-hypersensitivity&mdash;the real deal gadget allergy&mdash;and we&#8217;re feeling sorta like assholes.<\/p>\n<p>The article opens with an anecdote of Per Segerb\u00e4ck, a serious electro-hypersensitive who lives in a cottage north of Stockholm. He can be rendered unconscious by a single cell phone call.<\/p>\n<p>The sickness stems not from the gadgets themselves but from the electromagnetic radiation they produce; it seeps from phones, computers, televisions, and pretty much anything else that you&#8217;d say defines our modern society as modern. Making matters even worse for Segerb\u00e4ck and the similarly afflicted is that the science on electro-hypersensitivity is far from a consensus.<\/p>\n<p>Still, fainting from a phone call is hard to argue with. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/article\/2010-02\/disconnected\">PopSci&#8217;s article<\/a> for the full story of people who <i>really<\/i> can&#8217;t stomach gadgets. 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Now we&#8217;re reading PopSci&#8217;s look at the Electro-hypersensitivity&mdash;the real deal gadget allergy&mdash;and we&#8217;re feeling sorta like assholes. The article opens with an anecdote of Per Segerb\u00e4ck, a serious electro-hypersensitive who lives in a cottage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1549,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}