That neighbor who swore 5G towers cause migraines - I checked the data

My neighbor Dave has been on about 5G causing his headaches for like 2 years now. He gave me a whole list of studies and a map of towers near our town in Ohio. I spent an afternoon cross-referencing his headache logs with tower activation dates from the FCC database. Turns out 3 of his 7 headaches happened before the nearest tower even went up. The other 4 lined up with high pollen days, not 5G signals. I told him and he just said the towers are "retroactive" or something. Has anyone else actually tried to fact-check these claims with hard evidence?

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seth_martinez211d ago

I mean you literally showed him the dates and he still moved the goalposts. That's the thing with these beliefs, facts don't really matter if someone's already decided they're right. Good on you for actually checking the data though, most people just take the fear and run with it.

baker.riley1d ago

That whole "retroactive" thing he came up with is honestly kind of genius in a sad way. But the angle nobody's talking about is this - what if the real problem isn't 5G at all, but the fact that people like Dave are hyper aware of their bodies now? Like, once he decided towers were the enemy, he probably started paying way more attention to every little twinge in his head. Before 5G was a thing, those pollen headaches were just bad allergy days he'd shrug off. Now every ache gets blamed on something he can't control, which actually makes the anxiety worse and probably triggers more headaches in a loop. It's like his brain found a target for all his random discomforts, and facts can't break that connection because targeting that discomfort is making him feel some weird kind of control.