I'm Not Saying Anything, But….

Fear not the damage from this onslaught of EMR. Our loss of memory and concentration is caused by “having fun”.

The Daily Mail strikes again. This, from their “Good Health” section earlier in the week:

“Ditch It: Worrying about your memory. A failure to remember facts could simply be a sign you are having fun. According to a study in the journal Cognition and Emotion, concentration levels fall when we enjoy ourselves, reducing the brain’s ability to commit facts to memory”.

Right. Our brains are failing to work properly because we’re enjoying ourselves too much. Who thinks up this rubbish?

So, with a just a vague reference to some journal, this un-credited piece is published in the UK’s biggest daily newspaper. It’s very convenient, too…yet another sneaky way of misinforming the public and helping them fail to make any connection between EMRs, phone use, masts near their home/work, and health/cognitive problems they might be getting that they can’t explain.

Rather more sinisterly, this ridiculous explanation is suggesting a link between mental incapacity and enjoyment, at the very moment in history when society is totally under the spell of technology’s ability to entertain us at the touch of a button. More to the point, when nearly everyone is glued to their mobile phone or smartphone in order to talk, text, surf, tweet or watch “content” transmitted across too-powerful 3G networks. The connection is surely no mere coincidence. This is misinformation of the worst kind, deliberately fed through the media to stop the public thinking that their unexplained mental lapses could possibly be caused by that gadget they have constantly next to them.

Spin this around, and imagine the reaction to an article/comment claiming links between EMRs and illness. “Where’s the evidence??? We want hard, cold facts backed up by zillions of studies!!!!” they would scream. They’d discredit it immediately, and probably not even publish it in the first place. Yet unsubstantiated drivel like this, designed purely as a smoke-and-mirrors tactic to throw people off the scent, is not even credited to a journalist and still gets slipped in with all the other Health advice and tips.

Oh, and next to this article is a silly picture of a dog in a party hat. Genius.