Mobile phones cause HIV-Aids

Mobile phones cause HIV-Aids -

Has Dr Crippen taken leave of his senses? Certainly not. It’s the newsagent's fault. This morning he accidentally delivered the “world’s greatest newspaper” rather than the normal “Independent on Sunday” and therein is an article by a much respected government advisor:

THE spate of deaths among young people in Britain’s suicide capital could be linked to radio waves from dozens of mobile phone transmitter masts near the victims’ homes. Dr Roger Coghill, who sits on a Government advisory committee on mobile radiation, has discovered that all 22 youngsters who have killed themselves in Bridgend, South Wales, over the past 18 months lived far closer than average to a mast. He has examined worldwide studies linking proximity of masts to depression. Dr Coghill’s work is likely to trigger alarm and lead to closer scrutiny of the safety of masts, which are frequently sited on public buildings such as schools and hospitals. (The world’s greatest newspaper)

This sounds like inflammatory wibble to Dr Crippen but we must not rush to hasty conclusions. So, off to Dr Coghilll’s website to find out more. You can tell that Wendy Denning is a doctor of medicine because in all the pictures of her on her website she has a stethoscope round her neck. Dr Coghill does not wear a stethoscope so perhaps he is not a medical doctor.

He has a beard, though, which lends a certain gravitas. And like Dr Wendy, he "advises" the government. He is obviously very clever and knows a lot about electromagnetic radiation. He knows how to magnetise water too. How does that help, you may ask? Why not ask the dog:

The Coghill dog water magnetiser

Given the choice your pet will always choose to drink magnetic water, they can tell the difference. Magnetic water is more natural. Using a pet coaster ensures that your pet receives maximum benefit from their drinking water. They will love the taste. Helps with- Painful and stiff joints, muscular complaints, skin problems etc. (Coghill sales)

Dr Coghill’s expertise extends to humans as well:

Coghill's Moodmaker

Can help with impotency without the use of powerful drugs. The Mood Maker will gently and gradually increase circulation in the pelvic area. The small unit discreetly attaches to your underwear. Viagra, eat your heart out!! (Coghill sales)

A man capable of producing such wonderful products deserves to be taken seriously. He writes at length about HIV_Aids

"It ain't just me, it ain't just you; this is all around the world".

The idea that AIDS is caused by a virus is a well-protected fiction. The possibility that immune deficits, both mild and serious, can be acquired through over-exposure to non-ionising electromagnetic fields is, however, real, and proven in the laboratory. If these two statements themselves were not paradigm-shifting enough, there is a distinct possibility also that all viral structures are simply a physical manifestation of coherent electromagnetic fields, and are not really organic creatures at all, lying on the borderland between the organic and the inorganic, the material and the field, the ghost and the machine. This possibility has been known in the highest echelons of the U.S. Government since 1943, as a result of wartime experimental work on high EM fields. (Roger Coghill)

The things that Uncle Sam didn’t tell us! That explains everthing.

This is all, of course, the most despicable wibble and one wonders how a man who purports to be a scientist can trade on the credulity of the general population not only to promulgate his cod science, but also to sell his ludicrous products.

Ben Goldacre at Bad Science is already on the case. In one of his funniest and most wonderfully understated posts, he takes a look at Roger Coghill, his "qualifications" and his “science”. (sic)