There are many situations where people assign causality when there is no true evidence or mechanism. One of the best examples are cancer clusters. There have been examples of well-understood (almost certainly causal) cancers caused by industrial occupation, but cancer is common enough that some things that look causal are purely coincidental. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls was almost certainly causal, while "high voltage electrical lines cause cancer" probably is not (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/01/health/long-after-an-80s-...)

So no, it doesn't counter the hypochondria theory.

You can’t really use a questionable source to verify the same source.

fair point. i guess i’m just illustrating that it’s not as clear as the parent makes it seem.

People get strange symptoms all the time. I currently have a chronic scalp condition that doctors haven’t really identified and a really stiff neck. Of course I’m going to go ‘aha!’ If someone gives me a plausible explanation

Psoriasis and computer neck?

No to the first, yes to the second

probably

As someone who lives in that building and works at Apple, I don't believe her. We were all pretty mad that she caused us to panic about being poisoned and gettin cancer.