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The kicker for me is a line in the Honda Insight Service Advisor and Parts Counterperson Guide, and I quote: "Anyone with a heart pacemaker, ICD, or other medical implant that can be affected by strong magnetic fields should stay away from the rotor." The driver is not far from that rotor, and that is truly frightening.
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This guy is totally overreacting. That line from the repair manual applies when the transmission is separated from the engine, and the IMA motor's permanent magnet rotor is exposed. There are no warnings in the engine bay, because EMF levels in the engine bay are normal.
The big EMF-generating part of the hybrid is just an electric motor. There's nothing too exotic or scary about that.
The fact that the Odyssey has similar levels of EMF says something: igntion systems, in car entertainment, radio broadcasts, and your cell phone bathe you in EMF at a level that is probably acceptable, despite the fact that isolated evidence suggests otherwise.