Mobile-mast danger is all in your head 'If you believe
something's going to harm you, it will' Researchers
investigating the health effects of mobile phone masts have
found that sufferers report symptoms regardless of whether the
equipment is actually on or off. The academic investigators were
led by Professor Elaine Fox of the University of Essex, and
their report (pdf) was published by Environmental Health
Perspectives, a peer-reviewed journal run by the National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. During the study, 56
people who said they suffered adverse health effects from mobile
mast transmissions were compared with 120 controls. Twelve of
the professedly mast-sensitive individuals dropped out after the
"open" testing, in which subjects were told whether or not a
transmission was actually happening, as did five controls. The
remaining 44 mast-sensitives and 115 controls were then put
through "double-blind" tests in which neither they nor the
researchers knew whether the equipment was transmittin