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Glastonbury hippies claim local WiFi network is damaging their "ley lines"

by Scott Carmichael on Jan 6th 2009 at 10:30AM

In something that sounds like it came right out of a South Park episode, a local group of hippies is complaining that a recently installed WiFi mesh network in the UK village of Glastonbury is causing all kinds of health problems.

The new-age residents descended upon the village several years ago because they believe in its powerful healing abilities.

To combat the signals from the Wi-Fi hotspots, the hippies have placed orgone generators around the antennae, but so far without any success.

This might have to do with the fact that orgone generators look like they are just bundt pans with some tin foil pieces.

Speaking of tin foil, despite 100's of research studies, nobody has ever found any links between WiFi signals and health issues, and the village of Glastonbury has been blanketed in mobile phone signals since the late 80's without anyone feeling ill from the "radiation".

(Via: The Inquirer)

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Raymond Jan 6th 2009 11:26AM

Hey Guys! I clicked on the link for the generator and I am SOLD! I think I am going to get one for each corner of my home "Just in case!" Gonna get one for my car too! And a small one to put on my dogs collar, love my dog and wouldn't want any of that nasty stuff to make him sick!

Black Eagle Jan 7th 2009 4:46PM

This story is bouncing around the world, with every newspaper very happy to have something silly to publish. The fact is, there are health issues with low-level RF and microwave radiation, which is slowly increasing globally as our technology expands to use it more widely. There are biologists and physicians who document these health reactions to low-level EMF, but they are ignored in favor of the physics and engineering types to pooh-pooh any such problems. Governments are mostly on their side, as this is Big Business with billions at stake. So when they can find one or two nutters who -- by the way -- abuse the name and work of Wilhelm Reich, whose orgone energy discovery (see orgonelab.org, for example) is not much different from the modern-day idea of the invisible but powerful "Dark Matter" of astrophysics, well, they cannot restrain themselves, but will try to make a big ridicule and go for the cheap laugh. Your health is not of concern to them, nor to any newspaper that reports on serious issues with this kind of phoney (calculated) jocularity. Remember your Shakespeare: "Their buffonery is not innocent. They are the Kings jesters."

masked Jan 8th 2009 6:03AM

uh.. references?

barasawa Jan 8th 2009 4:53PM

Looks like they might be blocking the signals. Take a signal meter over there and measure it with and without the 'orgone generator'. If it is causing a signal depredation, take all of them and throw them in a trash dumpster. (Preferably after smashing them so they won't be reused.) On the other hand, if no appreciable signal loss is being caused by them, leave them there as 'modern art'. (That is if they all look as nice as the one I saw on another webpage about this issue. It they look like trash pyramids, treat them as such...)