Sedona is and has always been a hotbed of a conspiracy theories
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Whenever there’s a big national news event, a national news event that affects Sedona and the Verde Valley or a news item that’s hard to explain in simple terms, conspiracy theories are bound to follow. These theories are compounded in Sedona with our often “unique” type of residents who seem to pride themselves on “alternative” thinking to explain these things.
We can look through our past editions going back years to find hyper-local and more general conspiracy theories that have popped up over the years.
In Sedona, the introduction of smart meters around 2017 and 2018 lead to massive local pushback from conspiracy theorists who claimed that the transmission of radio frequencies caused all sorts of health ailments. Most residents, however, didn’t buy into the conspiracy and didn’t want to pay for the additional costs for human meter readers that smartmeters would have saved on their monthly bill. Still, many residents illogically opted out of having them and took on the additional monthly costs.
The opposition was predicated on residents not understanding the science of radio waves, the math of the inverse-square law and what the word “radiation” means.
Ionizing radiation from X-rays, gamma rays and radioactive materials that bump electrons out of their orbits and can lead to health effects at high levels, but most radiation isn’t ionizing; it’s merely photonic energy that travels through space as particles or electromagnetic waves, like light, radio waves, infrared light, microwave transmissions and thermal radiation from the sun that warms our skin. Smart meter opponents equated the two, very different, types — to their own financial loss on their electric bills.
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