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

[Julius Szelagiewicz]

I'll bite just this once and no more. The case of peptic ulcers involved
repeatable tests and a proof in the form of a bacterium. The wireless
stuff seems to be done by people with just a passing knowledge of how
science is supposed to be done. As hard as it might be to believe, some
great universities have not so great faculty. The thing to remember is
that many real radiation studies have been done over the decades. Some of
them had funny if true results. As an example I give you the level of
microwave radiation you get at the beach on a sunny day - it exceeds by an
order of magnitude the radiation you get from your cellphone taped to your
skin. The power level of wifi attenuates very quickly. To seriously push a
hypothesis that it is harmful you'd need to be very gullible, say on the
level of
belief in homeopathic medicine. We have all been exposed to lots of
microwave radiation with sources like microwave ovens, microwave
communication, radars and the big elephant in the room - the Sun. let me
put it to you in CS way: it doesn't compute.

julius

> On 03/15/2011 09:30 AM, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
>> The problem with science is that any fraud or crank with a PhD can
>> publish
>> just about any garbage in a "peer reviewed" journal. The sane people
>> just
>> don't have enough time to debunk all the dreck and the gullible will
>> believe anything. There is no global warming! Your peer reviewed
>> "scientists" have proven it!
>>
>> Clifford, Reddit might be a better forum for this kind of nonsense.
>
> Let's say what you're saying is true, that Havas is a crank. What about
> Blank? What about the other scientists who've done work in this area? Do
> you know something they don't and can prove it or is this just your
> "opinion"? What qualifies you to dismiss their work? Is it "just common
> sense"? If so, common sense also had people doing some pretty stupid
> things in the past, like subjecting themselves to X-rays at shoe stores
> and smoking cigarettes because they were "safe".
>
> A perfect example of how some scientists who were dismissed as cranks
> were eventually found to be right is the case of peptic ulcers. You can
> read about it here:
> <http://cogsci.uwaterloo.ca/Articles/Pages/Ulcers.one.html>.
> --
> Regards,
>
> Clifford Ilkay
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