Peter’s testimony on the power of suggestion is persuasive, and applies to Gulf War Syndrome, 911 effects, and many other cases.

Yes you are correct, it was only half complete. What i did not say was that the intention was that about 6 weeks after the supposed switch-on we would switch it on for real, specifically to cope with the problem you outlined. Not a real double blind test but the best in the circumstances.

As I said we had to terminate it early because of the notification to sue.

Peter

Un-powered, of course. But I’d lay long odds Mr. Magnetic would bite.

Your experiment was only half complete . You needed information as to the effects on the “population” when the transmitter was switched on. Your observation is akin to the “placebo effect” in a controlled study as to the side effects of a particular drug. Without actually giving out the drug, there is no way to demonstrate whether or not it has measurable side effects above and beyond what are caused by the placebo.

A company I worked for a few year ago did almost exactly what you suggested. There was a lot of talk in the press about the Tetra system being really dangerous because the pulse transmissions matched you delta waves (or something) so we got a lot of resistance to fitting our transmitters.

The company instigated health research where they asked everyone surrounding a new Base station to fill in health monitoring forms to assess health effects before and after switch on.

Early indications were that something like 50% of people reported worse health after switch on (usually described a ‘feeling unwell’ rather that anything specific or serious)

A few weeks after switch on the research had to be terminated as we had notification that we were being sued. Apparently our transmitters were causing one person to summer from insomnia, dizziness, chronic fatigue etc etc and we were being sued as he was so ill that he was unable to go to work. The research was terminated because we had to come clean and tell the lawyers that we hadn’t actually switched the transmitter on at all.

We were doing the exercise to prove just how gullible and suggestive people were. We proved that if you hint that something may cause illness, half the population will feel ill and a few will feel really ill (or think they do).

This should not be a big surprise. If you suggest that X-Factor is good entertainment then half the population will watch it!

The most powerful EMP producer is our Sun.

Suggesting Firstenberg should go someplace where the sun don’t shine? (and bring his lawyer)

I’d bet that this guy is afraid of new technology, so whatever he is feeling is a psychosomatic reaction to his own fear. I’d like to see this guy sit in a room carefully controlled so that there are no wayward wi-fi signals around, and then to hit a buzzer or something every time someone in the room next to him turns on a cell phone or boots up a computer with built-in wi-fi technology. Neither needs a receiving end to be emitting signals. This control test would should if he really is picking up on wi-fi signals. $10 on “he can’t.”