kaled - 10:19 pm on Aug 15, 2009 (gmt 0)

Behavioural changes have been observed in animals exposed to high levels of EM radiation and also in cells but there is scant evidence of genuine hyper-sensitivity in humans. I'm reminded of some research a while back that suggested about 80% of people who believed they had a food intolerance were actually suffering from hypochondria.

Some people may be hyper-sensitive to EM radiation, but the reality is that most people who believe they are have jumped to the wrong conclusion. If the condition was as common as the belief, scientists would have reported it many times by now.

Some years ago there was a belief amongst some people that overhead power cables were a problem, but that's been forgotten in favour of more fashionable things to blame like cell-phone and tetra masts. The funny thing is that no-one has ever worried about radio and TV broadcasts and people living near TV transmitters are exposed to a lot of EM radiation at a frequencies not much lower than than those used by cell-phone and wireless devices. (Indeed, when analogue TV is switched off, much of the spectrum will be sold off for use by these devices).

Kaled.