My money is on psychosomatic issues. The brain is a powerful thing; there's a story from WW2 where a GI had been shot, but the field hospital was out of morphine, so the nurse injected him with saline and his pain went away. So, his brain thought it was getting morphine and either started ignoring the pain signals, or more likely dumped a load of endorphins (which is essentially endogenous morphine) and that stopped his pain.
Reading about Marine (the woman on disability), I see she's tried lots of things to reduce her RF exposure. Many of which helped, but only briefly. She consistently concludes that this is because her sensitivity worsened. And does not even once suggest the possibility that she may have been experiencing the placebo effect, or that by coincidence, she was just having a good week.
She also reports a doctor found that her thalamus was receiving 35% of the oxygen that it should. This is the region of the brain responsible for sensory and motor signals, consciousness, alertness, and sleep. In short,
all the things she's having problems with. To her, this verification that RF is destroying her brain. To me, this is verification she's unable to distinguish between cause and effect.
Just plain bad science. And it's not hard to find a doctor or scientist who will validate a faulty conclusion. It's just a matter of trying enough of them.
As I mentioned, my mother is a paranoid schizophenic. One characteristic of that is that you always blame something external for whatever problems you're having. I didn't get along with her as a child, as she was already quite crazy and abusive (though nothing compared to now). But true to her condition, she decided I must be the crazy one. Took me to a psychologist, a good one, who at least helped heal some of my trauma. But that didn't solve the real issue, in fact it made less willing to tolerate her abuse, so she switched me to another psychologist. Then another, and another, in rapid succession. Until she found one that after 30 minutes of speaking with me, told her that I was hopelessly crazy, and would "surely be dead or in jail by age 18". That was what she wanted to hear, so no more psychologists.
She was satisfied for a while, until she saw a news report on teenage drug abuse, and decided I must be on drugs. Took me to a doctor for blood tests, no drugs. Immediately took me to another, same result. And another. And so on, until the last said "we can't detect any drugs, but your son's arm is covered in track marks, so we're sure he must be using them". Of course it was covered with track marks - from constant drug testing. But again, that was what she wanted to hear.
Now if I'd just told you that "doctors and scientists believe that I am insane, and had a raging teenage drug problem", without giving you the context, you might have believed it.
Similarly, take it out of context that the WHO recognizes EHS, and you might believe they think RF is responsible for it. Yet, from their page on it:
"Treatment of affected individuals should focus on the health symptoms and the clinical picture, and not on the person's perceived need for reducing or eliminating EMF in the workplace or home. This requires:
* a medical evaluation to identify and treat any specific conditions that may be responsible for the symptoms,
* a psychological evaluation to identify alternative psychiatric/psychological conditions that may be responsible for the symptoms,
* an assessment of the workplace and home for factors that might contribute to the presented symptoms. These could include indoor air pollution, excessive noise, poor lighting (flickering light) or ergonomic factors. A reduction of stress and other improvements in the work situation might be appropriate."What is notably absent here? Any recommendation to reduce RF exposure. They do not recognize RF as even a potential cause of EHS.
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