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China’s Mothers Rethink Anti-Radiation Clothing

At Bloomberg, Adam Minter describes the improbable scientific claims made both for and against clothing designed to protect pregnant women from electromagnetic radiation. A recent CCTV report claimed that the clothing could actually trap and concentrate EM radiation within the body, magnifying its supposed ill-effects. In the wake of the report and the tweets, sales of the clothing have plummeted,