Phantom Power and saving money
As much as I can get behind a good Daily Mail bashing I don't know if it was worth resurrecting a 8 month old thread. They're saying they can kill everyone because of what they contain if broken and they're new, everything that's new kills everyone and everything you love.
Even if they do present some miniscule health risk (and that's a big "if"), there are also health risks associated with traditional lightbulbs that aren't present with the new ones. The Mail always misrepresents issues of risk like this, when in reality people have to choose between competing risks.
Clare from Bath has now decided on this basis of this spurious evidence that the bulbs are the cause of all her recent health ills:
Clare from Bath has now decided on this basis of this spurious evidence that the bulbs are the cause of all her recent health ills:
Clare from Bath wrote:I have psoriasis, usually very mild just on elbows and knees and generally I don't need any steroid treatment. However, I now have these low-energy bulbs all over my home and in the last six months my psoriasis has erupted all over my body. I'm now on a very high strength steroid cream (£45 a tube) just to control it. I was very interested to read this article as I had no idea there could be a connection and for the life of me couldn't figure out why my psoriasis had flared up so badly
up and down the country Daily Mail readers are screeching "What about the children?! Won't somebody please think of the children!?"Sput wrote:Yep, fantastic example of correlation != causation, although I do suspect reading the mail does cause you to become idiotic after long enough.