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by chaffneue 5349 days ago
Not to mention smart meters - those new radio based power meters that contact the utility to digitally report electrical usage. Our electrical utility is poised to install them in BC and publications are dirtying the water with paranoia like this: http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2011/08/09/SmartMeterSkeptic/ and http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110808/bc...

Paranoia like this from the original WHO doc http://www.magdahavas.com/2010/12/02/are-smart-meters-safe/

and then there's whole orgs worried they're gonna get cancer http://stopsmartmeters.org/2011/08/11/smart-meters-not-green...

One random dude handed me a pamphlet about stopping the smart meters, citing that it was 10 feet from his head when he slept and that he'd have to find a new home if they actually install it.

I feel like I'm watching people make themselves crazy with panic over something that has little science to back it up.