Wi-Fi Allergy a PR Stunt 174
ADiamond writes "There is no Wi-Fi allergy. The English DJ claiming a Wi-Fi sensitivity, chronicled earlier, was a PR stunt to promote his new album. It would appear that the stunt was highly successful, appearing in multiple high-profile media outlets like The Sun, The Telegraph, and Fox News. The article at Ars goes on to discuss the evidence, or lack-thereof, of electromagnetic spectrum sensitivity."
Tried before with success.. (Score:5, Informative)
The ban Dihydrogenmonoxide stunt also got the media messed up in a comical frenzy over bad science.
This site is still up for your reading pleasure.
http://www.dhmo.org/ [dhmo.org]
The environmental impact of the stuff is huge. It's found most everywhere.
http://www.dhmo.org/environment.html [dhmo.org]
For those who don't get the joke the punchline is here;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax [wikipedia.org]
n 1989, Eric Lechner, Lars Norpchen and Matthew Kaufman circulated a Dihydrogen Monoxide contamination warning on the UC Santa Cruz Campus via photocopied fliers.[8] The concept originated one afternoon when Kaufman recalled a similar warning about "Hydrogen Hydroxide" that had been published in his mother's hometown paper, the Durand (Michigan) Express, and the three then worked to coin a term that "sounded more dangerous". Lechner typed up the original warning flier on Kaufman's computer, and a trip to the local photocopying center followed that night.
Trifecta (Score:3, Informative)
Lol, that's the tard-trifecta right there man. I sure hope Bigfoot doesn't get angry about the coverage of him this crap displaced.
Re:Trifecta (Score:3, Informative)
Re:But I have a real allergy (Score:5, Informative)
Most of the mysterious illnesses of our society, from wifi allergies to "travelling" pain, to fibromyalgia and chronic pain disorder, are all manifestations of dysthemia and depression.
Source?
Rectal extraction.