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Panorama: Wi-Fi - A Warning Signal

submitted by benjee

1 decade 7 years ago

Britain is in the grip of a Wi-Fi revolution with offices, homes and classrooms going wireless - but there is concern the technology could carry health risks. The Government insists Wi-Fi is safe, but a Panorama investigation shows that radio frequency radiation levels in some schools are up to three times the level found in the main beam of intensity from mobile phone masts.

There have been no studies on the health effects of Wi-Fi equipment, but thousands on mobile phones and masts. The radiation Wi-Fi emits is similar to that from mobile phone masts. It is an unavoidable by-product of going wireless. In the last 18 months another two million of us in the UK have begun using Wi-Fi. Entire cities have become what are known as wireless hotspots.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/6674675.stm

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sigh... more insanity from people that don't understand the difference between "ionizing radiation" and "RF heating".

And I don't get the claim that there's "no studies". Of coruse there are - radio has been studied to death. Just because we put a different signal on it (802.11) doesn't make it different... which still totally ignores that 802.11 transmitters are way weaker than most radios out there.

Good set of links on badscience.net about this one. Proof that good, fair investigative documentaries died many years ago on the BBC.

word to deano. BBC sucks ass.

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