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I'm of the same persuasion, but I'm also not going to say it's nonsense.

If 1 out of 100,000 people would really suffer from this it would take a major test to figure out who those people are, especially if - like almost every other radiation sensitivity - the effect is cumulative rather than instantaneous.

Let's make an analogy with sunshine:

A person is asked to determine whether sunlight is on a small section of their arm or not. After several guesses we determine that they can't determine this with a probability higher than what you'd arrive at if you guessed.

We can then conclude that 'light sensitivity' is nonsense. But absense of light over longer periods of presense of too much light will definitely have an effect.

If being sensitive to HF is cumulative then we need a completely different test regime than to simply ask people if they can sense a wifi transmitter is on or off.

You'd have to test over periods of days or even weeks.



If being sensitive to HF is cumulative, then it has nothing to do with the phenomenon being reported. It just so happens that people are using the term "elecrosensitivity" to refer to the specific and fairly well debunked phenomenon that they claim to experience. It doesn't seem fair to ask science, after debunking the phenomenon that was reported, to continue on to debunk every other phenomenon that could go by the same name.




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