We’ve heard of people trapped in their homes by a stubborn fear of the outdoors. But Steve Miller is forced to avoid the most ordinary public places because of an allergy to modern technology. The DJ, who once played at the massive Pacha club in Ibiza, is hit by dizziness, confusion and nausea whenever he’s near a wi-fi connection. Trips to the shops, the pub or catching a train all leave him in agonising pain.
Steve, who is best known by his stagename Afterlife, told the Sun: “I feel like an exile on my own planet. It’s almost impossible to find somewhere without wi-fi nowadays. If I go somewhere, I can instantly sense the wi-fi and have to leg it.”
The condition, known as electromagnetic sensitivity, affects two per cent of the population, and this is set to grow as more people opt for wireless internet signals.
Steve navigates normal daily chores with the help of a ‘wi-fi detector’ which spots areas he should avoid. […]In his current home, in a remote area of Cornwall, he is shielded from the ‘electrosmog’ by sturdy 18-inch walls.
There have been calls for the Government to determine whether or not wireless networks can damage your health. In April, teaching leaders called for the technology to be removed from schools to protect children from a heightened risk of sterility and cancer.
Uh huh, sure. So, he has to avoid laptops too? And Bluetooth…that must get him. Cell phones?
…electromagnetic sensitivity, affects two per cent of the population…
Never heard of this before. Last I checked these guys haven’t heard of it either, and from their perspective 2% is a big deal.
Hmm DJ you say in Ibiza. Never ever used E then.
Agreed. I’ve never heard of it either. But to be fair, its the Daily Fail, reporting on what he said to The Sun. Thats like, a double whammy of BS tabloid newspapers, where you shouldn’t trust anything they say.
Also, shouldn’t he be in a constant state of pain from all the radio, and cell phone signals that are constantly in the air. This guy is just some paranoid guy, whos been swept up in all this crap about radio waves giving you cancer, ect etc, and probably a complete hypercondriacts. I don’t see how it is physically possible for the human body to be aware of wifi signals. There is no physical mechanism that I’m aware of. This smells like complete BS to me
I have heard of this before – perhaps on this very blog. The story pops back up every few years, and seems particularly popular in Britain. IIRC it fizzled last time cause the woman agreed to testing and couldn’t pass.
This is some sort of tech hypochondria.
It’s a medical fact that Wifi makes you constipated.
Could be the exposure to all these wavelengths could be effecting the human brain and making people more stupid. It seems to me there has been a rash of stupidity in recent years. I think we should put several thousand elected officials in a deep bunker, completely isolated from communication for several decades. We’ll retest their IQ’s, if we remember where we put them.
I know there are a lot of overly defensive tech people on this blog, but haven’t you wondered what effect (if any) all the wifi\cell\radio etc… signals bouncing through our bodies might have on developing fetus’?
maybe he’s allergic to the douchebags at starbucks who go there to write their screenplays lol.
# 7 McRowan said, on July 28th, 2009 at 5:06 am
“I know there are a lot of overly defensive tech people on this blog, but haven’t you wondered what effect (if any) all the wifi\cell\radio etc… signals bouncing through our bodies might have on developing fetus’?”
What does a developing fetus have to do with human beings?
# 7
Based on a century of use and observations, absolutely nothing.
Hmmm
“Steve navigates normal daily chores with the help of a ‘wi-fi detector’ which spots areas he should avoid.”
So tell me then, WHY DOES HE NEED A WIFI DETECTOR if hes so f**king good at detecting the signals himself!
There is nothing some people won’t stoop to in order to gain attention and possible compensation!
I wish he’d come over to my house which has 3 separate wifi networks itself, and 3 out of the 5 adjoining houses have wifi too. I wanna see him fry!
This “condition” has been around for years, but so far it hasn’t stood up to a double blind study.
Maybe he’s OK with 802.11a.
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So far it hasn’t even stood up in a single-blind study.
These stories of sensitivity to radiowaves or electronics have yet to be shown true by any tests. However, it would seem to me that since everything is made up of vibrations of energy there should be some influence harmonically between everything in the universe, including radio transmitters. Any large reaction like sickness though, is probably a hypochondriac reaction to very small stimuli.
Of course, this has nothing to do with him being a DJ at places were drugs like meth are consumed like candies.
So let me get this right.
He is ‘sensitive’ to WiFi signals, yet he has not noticed that we evolved to live right next to a bloody great star putting out gazillions of watts of stuff all over the electromagnetic spectrum (which equates to about 1,000 watts per square meter). Yet he can tell if a unit putting out about 800mW is switched on – aye right!
OK then – I’ll believe it when you put him in a Faraday cage with a wireless router (indicator lights removed) and he can tell when it is switched off or on.
Are the walls of this guy’s bedroom lined with whatever kind of foil it is that spooks use to line the inner walls of their conference rooms? Supposedly nothing can get in or out of those rooms as far as radio waves. It’s probably not “tinfoil.” & aluminum foil doesn’t do anything, does it. Could somebody with an actual scientific background weigh in here, please. TIA.
Or he could cover himself in tinfoil and play lightning rod during a thunderstorm. The normal folks can stay inside and wave buh bye. What a ????? I can’t even think of an appropriate derogatory term to use on this guy.
I’m pretty sure this kind of disease has been disproven a couple of years ago. That is: There is not such thing.
I might be wrong though, I’m skeptical that’s all.
Hmmm, “dizziness, confusion and nausea” — sounds like a typical Saturday night.
I do wonder, though — we are constantly bathing ourselves in more and more electromagnetic radiation of all usable frequencies — at what point will the effects be noticeable? When _everything_ constantly emits radio waves, possibly at several different frequency bands at the same time? Already we have thousands of commercial radio and TV stations, microwave ovens, microwave telephone towers, about a billion cell phones, wi-fi (a, b, g and n), Wi-Max, cordless phones, all the wireless data services, RFID scanners at the entrance to every store and library, traffic radar, satellite communications, bluetooth headsets, RF remotes, CB radios, ham radios, police, fire, ambulance and taxi service radios and on and on and on. At _some_ point there has to be some effect.
More BS.
The dude is a DJ. He became that by listening to the radio (Wifi IS a radio) and playing records on a system that throws off electromagnetic fields all the time.
He must have gotten sick from his TV (I do but for cultural reasons) as well.
This is another one of those psychosomatic illnesses people get all the time. One can be convinced strongly about things in their own minds. This is why there are fundamentalists and paranoid sociopaths. (Sometimes, I know, they are the same thing)
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#22 – there is an effect: it makes women hotter.