[K12OSN] Slightly OT - Wireless in your school/building

[Les Mikesell]

On 3/14/11 9:53 PM, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> On 03/14/2011 09:37 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> So, now that pretty much everyone has had a wireless router in their
>> house, maybe a few feet away from where they sit by the computer,
>> not to mention the other ends of the connections in our laptops and
>> cell phones that are even closer, you don't think anyone would have
>> noticed how sick it makes us?
>
> Some people have noticed. A toddler of a friend in the U.K. was having some
> mysterious health problems. Doctors couldn't explain it. The father had a home
> office with a WiFi router right under his son's bedroom. He read an article
> about the possible adverse effects of WiFi on children and thought that he had
> nothing to lose by turning off the WiFi router for a while to see if it made any
> difference. His son's unexplained symptoms disappeared. That situation can't be
> attributed to a litigious parent. Who was he going to sue? Himself?
>
> We don't all react to foods the same way so why is it inconceivable that might
> not react to RF waves the same way? Is it not possible that some people and some
> children are more sensitive to this than others?

I suppose anything is possible - and someone might have the same reaction to the 
light/heat spectrum too.  But people get sick and then better all the time and 
have made up reasons for both for all of human history.  I don't think they'll 
stop now.

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   Les Mikesell
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