How Real Is the Nocebo Effect? Can your mind make you sick? Carol Tavris dissects the “nocebo effect”—how negative expectations conjure real symptoms—separating genuinely startling science from anecdote and hype.

Interesting. Discussion about a new book on the #nocebo effect. #Health effects people doing #research on #electrohypersensitivity ( #EHS) and other environmental diseases come across regularly (disclaimer: sometimes, it could be the real thing. of course):
www.skeptic.com/article/side...

“Bogeymen,” “Murderers,” and “Loonies”: Emotions in Dutch Debates on 5G and Health - Floortje Moes, Christian Bröer, Klasien Horstman, 2025 Scientific advice is often solicited in governance, yet it is increasingly challenged in the public domain. Public participation is often suggested to mediate o...

New OnlineFirst article (OA): ""Bogeymen,” “Murderers,” and “Loonies”: Emotions in Dutch Debates on 5G and Health" by
Floortje Moes, Christian Bröer + Klasien Horstman #emotion #publicparticipation #controversy #5G #electromagneticfields #electrohypersensitivity journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Exposure Perception and Symptom Reporting in Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance Attributed to Electromagnetic Fields Using a Co‐Designed Provocation Test Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance Attributed to Electromagnetic Fields (IEI-EMF) is a syndrome that defines people who report symptoms that they attribute to their exposure to EMF sources, without...

Good new improved provocation study on #electrohypersensitivity (#EHS).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Results support previous results from such studies against #EMF as the causal agent for symptoms.

....intriguingly except for 1 person.

Frontiers | Self-diagnosing electromagnetic hypersensitivity—A case study Self-Diagnosing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) – A Case StudyBy David AshtonIntroduction'Exclude the impossible and what is left, however improba...

A very nice narrative (non-academic) article on #electrohypersensitivity by someone with #EHS (@dave-ehs.bsky.social):
www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...

Frontiers | Could electrohypersensitivity be a specific form of high sensory processing sensitivity?

I was the editor for an interesting new #openaccess article by a French/Belgian group published in Frontiers in #PublicHealth, and which discussed a potential mechanism for #electrohypersensitivity / #EHS:

www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...