How Do Y'all Feel About These?

I have been thinking about trying those mini flouresent bulbs, but somehow I had doubts about whether or not they are safe. My main concern was that I would get the same headaches I get from stores and workplaces lit with flouresent bulbs. Now I get this in an E-mail and feel really concerned:

  Thursday, 15 November 2007
            Are trendy Econobulbs strafing the brain stem?

            Are trendy Econobulbs strafing the brain stem?
            I attended a meeting last night - no, not Jesse Jackson's (who was
            speaking in Oxford) - I liked them better when they were with
            Motown. This one was a UFO group meeting. I go now and again.
            They're a lovely, fascinating bunch of people and I always learn
            something new.

            One of the members is a bit of an 'Inspector Gadget', you know, the
            sort of person who can whip up a (working) moon-lander out of an old
            bed base, a couple of hose clips and the crank case of a Morris
            Minor. A delightful eccentric genius. I'll call him Alan.

            Anyway...I'm sitting talking to another member when Alan wanders in
            nonchanently. He's bearing his customary plastic shopping bag
            crammed with dvds and cds, bits of wire and capacitors (whatever
            they are), magazines and stuff, as well as an ordinary light bulb
            and one of those econobulbs that governments everywhere are
            encouraging (sometimes forcing) us to use.

            "Watch this," Alan pipes up. "Have you got a ordinary radio?" he
            asks our host, who disappears out of the room and returns with said
            item. The radio is plugged in and switched on and so is the ordinary
            light bulb. Alan waves the radio around the bulb and the radio
            behaves as it should do; but when the same exercise is performed
            with the econobulb the most horrendous interference ensues - which
            immediately gave me a powerful headache and a nauseous feeling.

            As you might have gathered I am not a technolological person (I
            can't even write it let alone understand it) and the scientific
            explanation went over my head like a Concord; so I asked Alan to
            write it down. Hope you can understand it better than I can:

            "The mini fluorescent bulbs that are currently recommended, due to
            missing out of 5 components (Diode capacitors and ferrite
            suppressors) are prodigious source of bio and environment EMI
            (Electromagnetic interference)."

            Alan posits that mini fluorescents are dangerous to human beings and
            are also designed to interfere with long wave radio. The
            electromagnetic interference harmfully affects our brain stem and
            jams long (and some medium) wave broadcasts.
            In the event that all light bulbs are replaced with the new energy
            saving light bulbs (called globes in Australia) all households will
            be prevented fom receiving distance long wave broadcasts.
            These new bulbs inhibit the flow and reception of long waves.

            Alan says:

            "This silly 20W bulb is more effective than any amount of government
            jamming...that is, people implementing the low voltage or
            fluorescent bulb protocols are jamming all frequencies below radio 5
            from reception ESPECIALLY FOREIGN BROADCASTS that are conventionally
            always jammed by Fascists, National Socialists...and Communists."

            Is this a tactic to not only isolate us but negatively impact on our
            health as well? In any case, test the radio/ light bulb exercise
            yourself. I saw and felt the effects and I won't be using them.
            Posted by Ellis Taylor at Thursday, November 15, 2007  
            Labels: ecobulbs, econobulbs, electromagnetic, EMI, jamming, light
            4 comments:
              nightlight said...
              Many Thanks Ellis for this 'heads up'.
              Now I see why all there are so many 'free' econobulbs on offer.
              Targets? environment concerned families- perhaps another 'dumbing
              down' project.
              Does any one know anything about Phillips or Mullard - past
              history of danger to workers -hushed up?
              Hope you don't mind my using your blog for this question Ellis.
              from darkness to LIGHT
              (pun intended)
              nightlight
              16 November 2007 10:03  
              purple ronnie said...
              Thanks - I had been having a problem with by broadband connection
              dropping every night for months. One night I accidentally switched
              off my economy light bulbs in an ajoining room and realised theat
              the broadband was connected. I tried switching on the economy
              bulbs and again the broadband dropped. This happens every time the
              bulbs are switched on. I'm so glad I read this, at last I know I'm
              not going mad (although if I don't get rid of the economy bulbs I
              may well be).
              22 November 2007 23:34   
                   purple ronnie thank you for sending in your experience of the
              broadband-econobulb conflict. I agree these things have an
              enormous potential to harm both mental and physical (so inevitably
              spiritual) health.
sorry about how this looks, I can't seem to edit it~hopinso