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Maximal Ep. 428 | Invisible Clutter

🕑 Added 2024-01-29 12:01:01 +0000 UTC

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Ariel G.

As a dissenting voice regarding EMF: There is a certain level of irony that your guest Ryan was critiquing Musk when he himself would stand to benefit from people believing that electromagnetic radiation from non-ionizing sources would be harmful (buying his service). Given that one is a billionaire and one is not, I’d say the financial motivation is far stronger with your guest. And this comes from someone who definitely isn’t stanning Musk. I feel there was a missed opportunity at 34:53 to explain to the audience what the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation is and to provide more balanced proof of the claim that non-ionizing radiation is harmful. For example, I’d expect to see a lot more research on linemen suffering from life long exposure to power lines due to non ionizing exposure of the power lines, yet by and large their fatalities are from falling, lack of PPE… they also have higher risk of skin cancer from unprotected exposure to the suns radiation, which is ionizing radiation. The Bioinitiative Report mentioned is very controversial and considered to be very suspect in the scientific field. For more info: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/picking-cherries-in-science-the-bio-initiative-report/ just to start While I can appreciate the diversity of opinions on your podcast, I do encourage listeners to think critically about claims that can veer into pseudoscience. Otherwise, I enjoyed the discussion. I know you stand by providing a platform for different perspectives and anecdotal evidence, but impartial evidence based research is important to balance out that platform and I hope to see that in future podcast episodes.

Ashley

Loved this episode. It was also the one that made me a Patreon supporter and I’m thankful! Any suggestions on alarm clocks if we’re turning our power off (and our cells) I want to try this but I get up early for work.