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comment by kleinbl00

    This article is definitely accurate, but some parts of it seem like they might be a bit too technical for the people who believe in electromagnetic hypersensitivity.

Exactly this. They say "my phone is making me sick." Then your average "skeptic" says

    In spite of their low energy, microwaves are remarkably effective at heating certain substances through a process known as dielectric heating. Certain molecules, like water, have regions of partial positive and negative charge which in the presence of an electric field rotate to align themselves in direction of the field. Domestic microwave oven emit photons with a frequency of approximately 2.45 GHz, meaning their electric field changes polarity 2.45 billion times a second, causing these polar molecules to rapidly bump off each other as they try to align to the rapidly changing field. The friction from these rapid collisions is converted to heat, which is precisely why microwaves are so efficient at cooking our predominantly water-based food. This is unfortunately rife for confusion; an entire plethora of blogs and dubious websites assert that microwave cooked food is harmful by dint of being exposed to radiation. But this is wrong-headed: microwaves are not radioactive and do not “irradiate” food – they merely harness vibrational energy to heat it.

Then they say "...I didn't understand a word of that. I still think my phone is making me sick." Then the average "skeptic" says

    While it might be tempting to dismiss EHS as a fake illness, it is vital to recognise that sufferers experience a very real discomfort. The fact that their illness appears to be psychosomatic rather than physiological in origin does not make it any less real to the afflicted, even if they are mistaken about the cause of their woes. The harrowing complexity of this has recently been portrayed sensitively in Better Call Saul, where the protagonist’s brother is severely afflicted by EHS yet remains convinced his illness is physical rather than psychosomatic, even when confronted with evidence to the contrary. That EHS sufferers might benefit more from psychological intervention than physical approaches does not detract from their evident pain.

And then they say "see? I said my phone was making me sick" and the "skeptic" immediately derides them for not understanding their 8-paragraph scientific bombast. Meanwhile, no one is convinced, everyone is mad, the skeptic is basically using a bunch of jargon he barely understands to say "it's all in your head" but not providing any sort of real solution for the sufferer, outside of "listen to me, I'm the expert, and all the evidence you've done on your own is meaningless because I use bigger vocab words."

HERE'S WHAT WORKS

"My phone is making me sick. I think I have EHS."

"Uhm... What we understand about electricity and magnetism tends to bear out that you don't need to worry about electromagnetic fields. Not to say the devices that generate those magnetic fields aren't a problem but if it were 'EHS' the way it tends to be explained, you'd have problems from a whole lot more than your phone."

"So you think I'm crazy."

"No, I think you have a problem that seems to be fixed by not holding your phone to your head. Who cares what it is if not holding your phone to your head fixes it?"

"But what about all these blogs?"

"Read up all you want. Just remember that nobody needs any qualifications to write a blog. Lemme know if you want to talk about electromagnetism 'cuz I've got equations and shit."

"Okay no thanks. What do you think about chemtrails?"

And then you facepalm, but at least you're not mad at each other.