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The bloke who runs one of the local Labour party Facebook groups twice started a thread around a video of some twat driving around town with a field strength meter and wouldn't take no for an answer ... when pressed, he owned up to being a "professional" homeopath ...

It was difficult to find the energy to discuss the subject further after that ...

If he's a homeopath why does he need a strength meter,? Surely to him, dose is irreverent
 
I worry if you spend too long studying the nutters who are dissing 5G you can become infected too. Probably these rabbit holes are best avoided...
 
I worry if you spend too long studying the nutters who are dissing 5G you can become infected too. Probably these rabbit holes are best avoided...

Batshittery is an interest of mine, but I feel no need to read an awful lot of it. The people who believe that kind of shit are always copying each other anyway, so it gets boring even if the stench of batshit doesn't hang around one's brain. I just catch the highlights.
 
Paedo 5G lizard scum destroying Britain with sick fake virus lockdown. They knew wetherspoons were onto something and that's what started all this.
 
I read this in The Graun today about 5G conspiracy theories -- the article isn't just about Facebook (supposedly) cracking down on their spread ...
Facebook acts to halt far-right groups linkng Covid-19 to 5G
I'm not really aware of this poll, but it's referenced in the article :
Ben Quinn said:
Almost a third of British people say they can’t rule out a link between coronavirus and 5G, according to new polling revealing the extent of the baseless conspiracy theory.

Some 8% believe there is a link, while 19% are unsure, according to the survey of 2,032 adults by the polling firm Focaldata.

It's highly tempting just to dismiss them as thick as a brush :hmm: :mad:, but is that (bolded) figure more a reflection of how much these 5G stories are getting traction online?? :confused:
 
His comments have rather unsurprisingly gone down badly.

Quite rightly so -- he's a total arsehole for saying that :mad:
I never watch the ITV breakfast show anyway, but you can be sure as hell I'm not going to start now, with that total fuckwit's presenting it :mad: :thumbsdown:
 
They're not saying that coronavirus is transmitted by 5G though are they? They're saying that 5G can damage the immune system so that you catch it.


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They're not saying that coronavirus is transmitted by 5G though are they? They're saying that 5G can damage the immune system so that you catch it.


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It's not a consistent thing but certainly some people are going for the immune system line, yeah. IMO that is the more likely to be persistent, appealing as it does to a generalised fear that modern life is unnatural and bad for you, but which is both hard to argue specifics on and also has a kernel of truth, even if any specifics being talked about are bollocks (and actively counterproductive to addressing any real issues).

The same sort of issues come up with conspiracy theories that appeal to a generalised fear that the government and corporations lie to you for their own interests, which they do.
 
Many of the same folk will happily jump on a flight and not have a scooby about the radiation dose they are receiving as a shower of alpha particles, neutrons, electrons, protons, muons, pions and assorted heavy nuclei zip through and ricochet off the cells of their organs.

You included. You ain't going to dosed in alpha radiation going flying.
 
You included. You ain't going to dosed in alpha radiation going flying.
Wrong. Try again. You can't get away from alpha in the cabin any more than you can on the ground. Granted, it's a trivial part of the dose in the air and is difficult, if not impractical to measure, so largely ignored in research studies. Baryonic sources from the secondary hadronic cascade dominate. I did omit gamma and X though; also contributing and significantly so briefly at times from transient sources.

But this is a digression away from non-ionising radiation.
 
They're not saying that coronavirus is transmitted by 5G though are they?
Some of the more unhinged theories are saying that.

But one thing that it’s important to realise is that there isn’t one single “5G conspiracy theory”. Instead, there are multiple theories, which sometimes overlap, but can also contradict each other. Look at some of the larger anti-5G groups on Facebook, and you can find these claims sitting alongside each other: that the virus is the real cause of the disease, but 5G is making it worse, that the virus is not the cause of the disease and all the symptoms are actually caused by 5G, and that there is no disease at all, and the outbreak is a gigantic hoax to enable the government to install 5G under the cover of lockdown.
The other main theory is that Covid-19 symptoms were actually “mass injury” from 5G. Some pushing this theory also deny basic medical facts, in claiming that you can’t “catch a virus”. There are, of course, multiple respiratory illnesses spread by coughs and sneezes, that are caused by viruses.

 
I have yet to see even one of these fuckwits put forward a single remotely plausible mechanism of action through which this dastardly 5G is supposed to be hurting people. Aside from psychosomatic effects from people buying into this "electrosmog" nonsense, that is.
 
His comments have rather unsurprisingly gone down badly.


OFCOM is on the case.

Ofcom, the U.K.’s media regulator, is looking into a popular morning TV show after its presenter made comments about baseless conspiracy theories which link the coronavirus outbreak to 5G technology.

The watchdog said it received 419 complaints from viewers after TV presenter Eamonn Holmes said the media shouldn’t dismiss claims that 5G is spreading Covid-19 — despite the fact that such rumors have been widely debunked by scientists and public health authorities.

 
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