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by brookhaven_dude 2437 days ago
Lack of evidence is not evidence of falsehood. Strong magnetic fields can make you forget things. No one know what sort of effect wrought by weak EM radiation exposure over decades. Some of us would like to err on the side of caution, if feasible. Just like GMO and organic food.
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"strong magnetic fields can make you forget things"

source?

(Not OP.)

I thought TMS can do that, after all it can do the reverse: https://neurosciencenews.com/memory-loss-reversed-tms-12006/

There are some adverse effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimulat...

I feel like that philosophy is like "never look down, for fear you might have to come to terms with the giants whose shoulders you stand on."

One of the tougher individual questions are 'how should one deal in societal stances one doesn't personally agree with, but tacitly relies upon society at large to in fact take those disagreeable stances?' war, defense, vaccines, GMO's, wireless communications.

I call these the "you need me on that wall" things.