Green Bank, WV: Home to a giant telescope and a bunch of people who think they’re allergic to electromagnetic waves.
There's a quiet, hilly place in West Virginia that's home to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, as well as radio arrays belonging to Navy intelligence and, purportedly, the NSA. And in one of those weird geographic quirks that you just can't make up, the isolated area has also attracted a band of people who are convinced that radiation from WiFi and cell phone signals, forbidden there so as not to interfere with the arrays, is giving them rashes, splitting headaches, and chronic pain that make life in the outside world unlivable. It's there, in the National Radio Quiet Zone, that these folks can find relief. You might think of them as the WiFi refugees. A whopping five percent of Americans believe they've got something called electromagnetic hypersensitivity---aka, a physical reaction ...
