How radiation can become an epidemic

You will recollect that I have earlier warned of the effects of increasing radiation in our environment, from mobile phones to computers.

Yesterday, I met the first person that I have ever met, who described herself as suffering from "Radiation Sensitivity Syndrome". Of course that was simply her name for it, and there is no such disease in the medical lexicon. In fact, according to her, the existence of such a thing is denied by the medical establishment.

However, she told me that she used to work as the divisional leader in a software company and loved her job. She had some slowly increasingly medical symptoms, and decided to take a holiday in a rural area. When she returned to her work, she was violently affected whenever she came near a computer or whenever anyone turned on a mobile 'phone within about 10 meters.

She was most puzzled by it and went to her usual doctor but he insisted that she was suffering from a psychological problem, not a medical one.

She has since then gone to several other doctors, with the same (or similar result).

On researching her condition, she discovered some of the sort of research to which I have drawn attention, but of course lots of other research as well (I haven't kept up with the research since I drew attention to it here).

And she has discovered many other people on the internet who share such symptoms.

What convinced me about her story is two things:

1. She is obviously distressed about not being able to go back to her job, and she still enjoys chatting, reading, researching....

2. She was wearing special clothing manufactured by Swiss Shield (http://www.swiss-shield.ch/index.php?id=42&L=1) which manufactures cloth to address the problem from which the lady who I met is suffering. Clearly, if there were not a sufficient number of buyers of Swiss Shield's quite expensive cloth, the company would go out of business.

So there seems to be a kind of unrecognised plague of radiation-sickness which is creeping upon us, and will overtake us before we are aware of it.

Following the commercialisation of research, it is of course now nearly impossible to do any real research into such problems, where the interests of corporations are to avoid such research taking place.

In the old days of publicly-funded research, corporations had to go to great lengths if they wanted to suppress research that jeopardised the financial success of their products.

Nowadays, all that corporations need to do is to ignore the existence of problems, and to avoid funding research into those problems.