Dear Editor,

The misinformation train rolls through town with a new “documentary” involving people locked in a contest of who can stay away from the evils of radiofrequency, including all the drama and hearsay of a soap opera. They bully trained installers, claiming this changing of nothing more than a gigantic fuse requires an electrician, then they put a tester against the smart meter to show the RF signature. A yelling match ensues at the poor installer, calling him a liar. “It shouldn’t be on! You said!”

I notice they didn’t put the RF tester up to the meter before it was swapped out. Why? Because the RF meter would’ve shown the exact same reading! Try an experiment. Visit a hardware store, pick up one of those $10 voltage detectors, which is the simplest form of an RF tester, that beeps when placed near an electrical outlet. Then take it outside and place it near your smart meter. That tester is going to beep, blink and otherwise inform you of an active 120-volt alternating current that has been running through our walls since the early 1900s.

They also claim that the meter pulses WiFi constantly, but the daily data is contained in memory. It only needs to pulse once a day. It was a valiant effort to wait for the Q-and-A before offering another point of view. I sat through the entire 105 minutes of the worst conspiracy documentary on the planet without so much as a peep.

When the time came, I put up my hand like a school kid and only got ignored for the effort. Call me crazy, but I paid my donation — why couldn’t I ask a question too? The organizers, who decline to allow any counter points to their insane theories, start yelling at me. Not allowed to speak openly, I asked for my donation back and it was shoved in my face, and I left promptly.

As a local computer geek, I’d be happy to make time for an official debate with this group. The only ‘expertise’ I bring is a certified basic knowledge of electrical circuits and common sense. It’s enough to poke holes in everything they claim because they exhibit signs of not knowing the basic fundamentals of electricity or statistical analysis. These folks are really good at stacking the truth.

Darrel Brooks

Merritt