British Government to study health effects of WiFi

[ab9003]

They dont care about the long term profit. They just care about the money now. So what if there consumers die, there money will have to go to somebody else afterwards right?

[Eyedunno]

Plus if customers find out that one company sells a dangerous product while a competitor sells safer products, they'll choose the competitor. And we can't forget expensive lawsuits. I'm very anti-corporate myself, but I'm pro-capitalism at the same time, and a lot of this stuff is alarmism (though it's true that corporations put profit first, since the actual owners - the stockholders - are not responsible for anything except whether or not they want to keep their money invested).

Anyway, while I also suspect the claims are bogus, I get the feeling this study will be useless and worth ignoring entirely, since it seems biased in favor of harmlessness.

[John Vattic]

wifi in small doses is still exposure to radiation.
At the very least don't wear one of those bluetooth earpieces.

[Eyedunno]

wifi in small doses is still exposure to radiation.
At the very least don't wear one of those bluetooth earpieces.

Fallacy of equivocation. Radio towers give off radiation. Your own body radiates heat. Holding a magnet and waving it around will generate radiation. Lightbulbs give off radiation, including a bit of cancer-causing UV, especially from halogen bulbs. Better get your tinfoil hat, son.

[The King]

i read in the newspaper a few weeks ago that they did something like this in the us but in elemetary school and how it was affecting elementary school students

[John Vattic]

Fallacy of equivocation. Radio towers give off radiation. Your own body radiates heat. Holding a magnet and waving it around will generate radiation. Lightbulbs give off radiation, including a bit of cancer-causing UV, especially from halogen bulbs. Better get your tinfoil hat, son.

I'm just saying I'm not gonna stick a little radio tower in my ear if i don't have to.

maybe wear a foil kangol with two bluetooth earpieces running two phones, browsing the net on laptop while playing moh psp online and sipping a damn fine supremo homie..... Sure to win me miltipraise at the local aluminum wifi coffeshop, and why not. Brave new world for brave new warriors.-~

[dgila]

2.4 GHz is very dangerous it surely causes DNA damage...
But routers here in europe don't cause any trouble if you are just 1 m away, they have very low power.

Radiations of 2.4 Ghz are used by microwave ovens with much more power than a router, of course.

[r2works]

the fact that a "Government" agency is performing the test, should raise eyebrows in it self.

[bangertree]

While the 2.4-GHz WiFi frequency is the same frequency that is used by microwave ovens, a microwave oven has much more intense emissions than does a cell phone or a WiFi router or card.Whereas most cell phones have a peak power output of 2 W, most WiFi routers have a peak power output of less than 100 mW.Additionally, unlike cell phones and their base stations, WiFi cards and routers are not in con-stant communication with one another. Dr. Kenneth Foster, a professor of bioengi-neering at the University of Pennsylvania, re-cently completed a study of WiFi, taking over 350 measurements at 55 sites across four coun-tries. According to his research, which was re-cently submitted to a journal for peer review,not only does WiFi equipment emit less radia-tion, it does so in much smaller bursts. However it did have an adverse effect on a piece of cheese that had fell from his jacobs cream cracker and landed on his Belkin router. He described the cheese as tasting"somewhat like a unwashed foreskin". Dr FOster refused to answer how he knew what a foreskin tasted like

[Eyedunno]

2.4 GHz is very dangerous it surely causes DNA damage...
But routers here in europe don't cause any trouble if you are just 1 m away, they have very low power.

Radiations of 2.4 Ghz are used by microwave ovens with much more power than a router, of course.

The visible light spectrum is in the range of hundreds of terahertz. OMGOMGOMGOMG! Poke your eyes out so you can forget about the high-frequency radiation all around you.