That’s what you get for catering to pseudoscience – more pseudoscience.

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A Los Angeles middle school has turned WiFi off in a classroom to accommodate a teacher, Anura Lawson, who believes she has electromagnetic sensitivity. Now Lawson is petitioning to have WiFi turned off in every classroom in California. That’s what you get for catering to pseudoscience – more pseudoscience.

Electromagnetic (EM) sensitivity is a controversial disorder; well, controversial in that the scientific community has investigated it and concluded that it does not exist, but some individuals still believe they have it. Like many spurious disorders, the symptoms are mostly non-specific. Lawson claims she experienced, “dizziness, migraines, and heart palpitations,” while her daughter claims that her “brain was running slower.”

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The evidence is very consistent and shows that people who self-identify as having IEI-EMF will get symptoms when they think they are being exposed to EMF, but when blinded cannot tell if they are or are not being exposed. This fits my general rule of thumb – if a phenomenon disappears under proper blinding, then it likely does not exist.

The scientific community has performed due diligence here and adequately studied the question with a clear result and solid consensus: true electromagnetic sensitivity does not exist. People who believe they have EMF sensitivity should be counseled that this is the case. Journalists reporting on this phenomenon should also clearly convey this fact.

...http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/fight-over-wifi-in-public-schools/