Thoraiya DyerRayfence: Protect yourself from radiation, blunder around in the dark
October 13th 2008 21:59
Just when you thought you couldn’t possibly fit another lifestyle hazard into your list of suburban dangers to panic about, here comes electromagnetic radiation, as explained by Ramsdals ( Really Long Link ), makers of Rayfence:
“Ramsdals policy is to help people suffering from electromagnetic radiation.
We believe that electromagnetic radiation is a huge problem in our world today and we believe that the constant increase in man made sources of electromagnetic radiation is out of control.
The responsible authorities must take action worldwide before it is too late.”
People suffer from electromagnetic radiation? I want that one explained in more depth, please.
“Typical symptoms due to electromagnetic radiations are permanent tiredness, headache, concentration difficulties, indigestion, itching, joint and muscle pain. Allergies can also increase due to electromagnetism exposal.”
That’s funny. I always thought electromagnetic radiation was what made life on earth possible.
You know, light from the sun allowing plants to grow, providing food for us and for other animals. No sunlight, no photosynthesis, no oxygen for us to breathe in the first place.
Seems pretty handy, that ol’ sunlight. But what does sunlight consist of?
“Sunlight, in the broad sense, is the total spectrum of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun…Direct sunlight gives about 93 lumens of illumination per watt of electromagnetic power, including infrared, visible, and ultra-violet.”
( Really Long Link )
That’s right, folks. Electromagnetic radiation is the name we give to a bunch of different types of energy that travel around the universe in the form of waves.
Some, we experience as light and heat. Others, like UV and x-rays, we can only detect with machines. Some can be harmful – you already know about the dangers of too many x-rays and the need to put sunscreen on to protect from UV rays, not to mention the lethal effects of gamma rays from nuclear weapons.
Says skin cancer website ( Really Long Link ) Dermis.net:
“Light rays form waves and carry energy. Therefore they can be compared to waves of water. On a calm day the ocean has waves that are far apart. Their wavelength (from one peak to the other) is long and they do not carry much energy. The same with light – some light has long waves and does not carry much energy, other light has short waves, very close together, that carry lots of energy which may be harmful (ultraviolet-light). Just like the ocean waves after a hurricane.”
The whole electromagnetic spectrum – that is, all of the different wavelengths (see above) - seem to be the target of Ramsdal’s anger.
Ramsdal’s website’s scientific source is Olle Johansen, PhD ( Really Long Link ) who says that,
“I introduced the clinical term "screen dermatitis" to explain the cutaneous damages that developed in the late 1970's when office workers, first mostly women, began to be placed in front of computer monitors…The working hypothesis early became that persons with the impairment electrohypersensitivity react … just as you would do if you had been exposed to e.g. sun rays, X-rays, radioactivity or chemical odours.”
Dr Johansen is not a supporter of Rayfence, but he has discovered that some very sensitive people react to man-made electromagnetic radiation (such as that from computer screens) in the same way as they react to natural electromagnetic radiation (such as from the sun). They get kind of sunburned while sitting indoors.
Interesting, but there is no test offered for this sensitivity. There is no recommended method of screening. No checkups by dermatologists, or skin biopsies. And there’s nobody else who seems overly concerned by this apparent phenomenon.
However, Ramsdal’s recommends everybody get hold of the “bio” protective agent, Rayfence!
“RayFence EMF Protection Shield can help you personally; shield your apartment, your house, your school, your office and large outdoor areas. With our efficient EMF Protection Shield products many people can get an improved quality of life.”
This is the most hilarious range of products for sale on the internet that I have seen in months. They have a “mobile phone chip”:
“The RayFence Mobile Chip is a very small and compact bio chip mobile phone protection to be installed inside the mobile phone and the wireless phone. It eliminates or strongly reduces the bad feeling of radiation that many people have when using a mobile phone.”
…which is especially recommended for children…
“Children have even thin cranium and are therefore more vulnerable to electromagnetic radiation and should of cause be well protected by a mobile phone protection device!”
…and somehow powers itself using the phone battery after simply being sticky-taped to the outside of said battery.
Where to start with the debunking? I feel like a starved dog in an unmanned butcher’s shop.
We’ve already talked about what electromagnetic radiation actually is.
How about making note of the fact that “Mobile phones are sophisticated two-way radios that use radiofrequency (RF) signals to transmit and receive voice and data. When you make or receive a call, your mobile phone communicates with a network of low powered radio transceivers called base stations” – (vodaphone.com.au) – so how can the Rayfence Mobile Chip “reduce the bad feeling of radiation” without interfering with the phone’s function?
I know…it DOESN’T DO ANYTHING!
Now to the children’s cranium claim. What kinds of electromagnetic radiation can pass through a person’s skull?
Cody Polston explains, at sgha.net :
“The different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum have very different effects upon interaction with matter.
Starting with low frequency radio waves, the human body is quite transparent. (You can listen to your portable radio inside your home since the waves pass freely through the walls of your house and even through the person beside you!)
As you move upward through microwaves and infrared to visible light, you absorb more and more strongly. In the lower ultraviolet range, all the uv from the sun is absorbed in a thin outer layer of your skin.
As you move further up into the x-ray region of the spectrum, you become transparent again, because most of the mechanisms for absorption are gone. You then absorb only a small fraction of the radiation, but that absorption involves the more violent ionization events.”
Right. So radio waves (from your phone) and x-rays are both capable of passing through you, for different reasons. If you want to protect children’s craniums from rado waves, you’re going to have to do more than just shield their mobile phones. Because radio waves are everywhere that your radio can pick up a signal.
EVERYWHERE!
So, maybe what you need is the Rayfence Handy Piece?
“For the RayFence Handy Piece to cover a complete house or an apartment plus the outside garden area the EMF protection should be put on a wooden table or shelf, or on a small plate at the same places…The effect of this EMF protection is strong enough to cover a big house and its garden…RayFence Handy Piece is a small and light piece of equipment that sets up a zone that neutralises or at least minimizes the effect of the electromagnetic radiation.”
I’m sorry, but the Handy Piece is clearly not working. Once again, I offer the evidence of being able to clearly see the device.
As the final, grandiose straw, we have Area Protection:
“RayFence Area Protection is no less than a break through in a long struggle against the effects of electromagnetic and ground radiation. It is now possible to shield all kind of telecommunication transmitters and high voltage lines over large geographic areas including ground radiation. Tests have been performed showing that over several kilometres in radius the effects have been neutralized on people…Based on lengthy testing we are convinced that this will give the population in the protected area a much better life quality with less illness and health problems.”
I love this little half-hearted attempt at a caveat:
“Installing the Area Protection system can of course not take away illnesses or problems contracted by an unhealthy lifestyle. It is therefore important to make a distinction between the health problems we have caused ourselves through our way of living and the illnesses caused by electromagnetic and ground radiation. The latter can be sorted out by contacting Ramsdals.”
Hmm, maybe I’ll contact Ramsdals. And maybe I’ll put foil on my head and walk around telling everyone I’m an astronaut.
As Samuel Butler, a satirical novelist, once said, “I don’t mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.”
Next time someone tells you to watch out for radiation, tell them you need radiation to be able to watch anything.
“Ramsdals policy is to help people suffering from electromagnetic radiation.
We believe that electromagnetic radiation is a huge problem in our world today and we believe that the constant increase in man made sources of electromagnetic radiation is out of control.
The responsible authorities must take action worldwide before it is too late.”
Rayfence "Handy Piece"
People suffer from electromagnetic radiation? I want that one explained in more depth, please.
“Typical symptoms due to electromagnetic radiations are permanent tiredness, headache, concentration difficulties, indigestion, itching, joint and muscle pain. Allergies can also increase due to electromagnetism exposal.”
That’s funny. I always thought electromagnetic radiation was what made life on earth possible.
You know, light from the sun allowing plants to grow, providing food for us and for other animals. No sunlight, no photosynthesis, no oxygen for us to breathe in the first place.
Seems pretty handy, that ol’ sunlight. But what does sunlight consist of?
“Sunlight, in the broad sense, is the total spectrum of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun…Direct sunlight gives about 93 lumens of illumination per watt of electromagnetic power, including infrared, visible, and ultra-violet.”
( Really Long Link )
That’s right, folks. Electromagnetic radiation is the name we give to a bunch of different types of energy that travel around the universe in the form of waves.
Some, we experience as light and heat. Others, like UV and x-rays, we can only detect with machines. Some can be harmful – you already know about the dangers of too many x-rays and the need to put sunscreen on to protect from UV rays, not to mention the lethal effects of gamma rays from nuclear weapons.
Says skin cancer website ( Really Long Link ) Dermis.net:
“Light rays form waves and carry energy. Therefore they can be compared to waves of water. On a calm day the ocean has waves that are far apart. Their wavelength (from one peak to the other) is long and they do not carry much energy. The same with light – some light has long waves and does not carry much energy, other light has short waves, very close together, that carry lots of energy which may be harmful (ultraviolet-light). Just like the ocean waves after a hurricane.”
The whole electromagnetic spectrum – that is, all of the different wavelengths (see above) - seem to be the target of Ramsdal’s anger.
Ramsdal’s website’s scientific source is Olle Johansen, PhD ( Really Long Link ) who says that,
“I introduced the clinical term "screen dermatitis" to explain the cutaneous damages that developed in the late 1970's when office workers, first mostly women, began to be placed in front of computer monitors…The working hypothesis early became that persons with the impairment electrohypersensitivity react … just as you would do if you had been exposed to e.g. sun rays, X-rays, radioactivity or chemical odours.”
Dr Johansen is not a supporter of Rayfence, but he has discovered that some very sensitive people react to man-made electromagnetic radiation (such as that from computer screens) in the same way as they react to natural electromagnetic radiation (such as from the sun). They get kind of sunburned while sitting indoors.
Interesting, but there is no test offered for this sensitivity. There is no recommended method of screening. No checkups by dermatologists, or skin biopsies. And there’s nobody else who seems overly concerned by this apparent phenomenon.
However, Ramsdal’s recommends everybody get hold of the “bio” protective agent, Rayfence!
“RayFence EMF Protection Shield can help you personally; shield your apartment, your house, your school, your office and large outdoor areas. With our efficient EMF Protection Shield products many people can get an improved quality of life.”
This is the most hilarious range of products for sale on the internet that I have seen in months. They have a “mobile phone chip”:
“The RayFence Mobile Chip is a very small and compact bio chip mobile phone protection to be installed inside the mobile phone and the wireless phone. It eliminates or strongly reduces the bad feeling of radiation that many people have when using a mobile phone.”
…which is especially recommended for children…
“Children have even thin cranium and are therefore more vulnerable to electromagnetic radiation and should of cause be well protected by a mobile phone protection device!”
…and somehow powers itself using the phone battery after simply being sticky-taped to the outside of said battery.
Where to start with the debunking? I feel like a starved dog in an unmanned butcher’s shop.
We’ve already talked about what electromagnetic radiation actually is.
How about making note of the fact that “Mobile phones are sophisticated two-way radios that use radiofrequency (RF) signals to transmit and receive voice and data. When you make or receive a call, your mobile phone communicates with a network of low powered radio transceivers called base stations” – (vodaphone.com.au) – so how can the Rayfence Mobile Chip “reduce the bad feeling of radiation” without interfering with the phone’s function?
I know…it DOESN’T DO ANYTHING!
Now to the children’s cranium claim. What kinds of electromagnetic radiation can pass through a person’s skull?
Cody Polston explains, at sgha.net :
“The different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum have very different effects upon interaction with matter.
Starting with low frequency radio waves, the human body is quite transparent. (You can listen to your portable radio inside your home since the waves pass freely through the walls of your house and even through the person beside you!)
As you move upward through microwaves and infrared to visible light, you absorb more and more strongly. In the lower ultraviolet range, all the uv from the sun is absorbed in a thin outer layer of your skin.
As you move further up into the x-ray region of the spectrum, you become transparent again, because most of the mechanisms for absorption are gone. You then absorb only a small fraction of the radiation, but that absorption involves the more violent ionization events.”
Right. So radio waves (from your phone) and x-rays are both capable of passing through you, for different reasons. If you want to protect children’s craniums from rado waves, you’re going to have to do more than just shield their mobile phones. Because radio waves are everywhere that your radio can pick up a signal.
EVERYWHERE!
So, maybe what you need is the Rayfence Handy Piece?
“For the RayFence Handy Piece to cover a complete house or an apartment plus the outside garden area the EMF protection should be put on a wooden table or shelf, or on a small plate at the same places…The effect of this EMF protection is strong enough to cover a big house and its garden…RayFence Handy Piece is a small and light piece of equipment that sets up a zone that neutralises or at least minimizes the effect of the electromagnetic radiation.”
I’m sorry, but the Handy Piece is clearly not working. Once again, I offer the evidence of being able to clearly see the device.
As the final, grandiose straw, we have Area Protection:
“RayFence Area Protection is no less than a break through in a long struggle against the effects of electromagnetic and ground radiation. It is now possible to shield all kind of telecommunication transmitters and high voltage lines over large geographic areas including ground radiation. Tests have been performed showing that over several kilometres in radius the effects have been neutralized on people…Based on lengthy testing we are convinced that this will give the population in the protected area a much better life quality with less illness and health problems.”
I love this little half-hearted attempt at a caveat:
“Installing the Area Protection system can of course not take away illnesses or problems contracted by an unhealthy lifestyle. It is therefore important to make a distinction between the health problems we have caused ourselves through our way of living and the illnesses caused by electromagnetic and ground radiation. The latter can be sorted out by contacting Ramsdals.”
Hmm, maybe I’ll contact Ramsdals. And maybe I’ll put foil on my head and walk around telling everyone I’m an astronaut.
As Samuel Butler, a satirical novelist, once said, “I don’t mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.”
Next time someone tells you to watch out for radiation, tell them you need radiation to be able to watch anything.
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Comment by Thoraiya Dyer
Demented World
I've gotten some feedback which suggests I need to clarify myself, here.
I am NOT claiming that electromagnetic radiation is harmless.
Didn't I just say x-rays and UV are dangerous?
And if you MUST talk about the phones, the jury is still out on whether radiation from mobile phones is harmful. While Australian neurosurgeon Vini Khurana feels there is a correlation between the cancers he removes and which side of your head you hold your phone to ( Really Long Link ), a massive study in the UK ( Really Long Link ) involving 4000 people showed that mobile phone use does NOT raise the risk of cancer, at least in the first ten years. It also mnetions that there is no known biological mechanism for the phones causing cancer.
But that's not the point!
The POINT is that Rayfence is COMPLETE and UTTER BALONEY.
MMkay??