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According to the English Newspaper The Independent:
'Wi-Fi: Children at risk from 'electronic smog''
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Britain's top health protection watchdog is pressing for a formal investigation into the hazards of using wireless communication networks in schools amid mounting concern that they may be damaging children's health, 'The Independent on Sunday' can reveal.
This has been banded around for a while now and to me looking at the front cover of the Independent (see below) they just want to sell a few more newspapers:
This debate reminds me of the Mobile Phone concerns, however research back in 2006 showed that their is no immediate danger to radiation omitting from a mobile phone, however understandably people are concerned about mobile phone masts.
Like I said before the report into Wi-Fi hasn't started yet and no one really knows if radiation comes from these 'hotspots'. And anyway my house is fully Wi-Fi'ed and I aint brain dead yet.
A blanket "I certainly don't" is not necessarily the right way to go about things. Alot of money has obviousy gone in to such research, and new technology is very, very dangerous in a sense that no generation has ever lived through it full yet. When smoking was popular in the 1920s, people had no idea that it could possibly be bad for you; and any pioneering research that would be looked back today on, as corerct, would be dismissed as you have just done. I'd be more wary, and say we shoudl stop and think before investing millions in to school wifi networks - they go out of date in a matter of years or even months in many cases anyway.
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don't get me wrong, I'm not sure why schools are investing in these wi-fi networks, from what i've seen yes their good, but they can be unpredictable and can go down easily. I'd stick with wired connections, however sam we have been living with the consequens, per say, I mean look at cordless phones (not mobile phones) from what I've heard they give out the same stuff, however it is complicated, what I was trying to say in the story is I think the newspaper in question is just tryng to scare people for no good reason even before research has started.
All the paper is doing is making news. The Independent is a good paper. That "stuff" is microwave radiation that is also given off at a different frequency by mobile handsets and any other RF equipment. It's nothing new on the engenda; the paper will pick up on it every time thereis a whitepaper out. Health fears lead schools to dismantle wireless networks Nov 26, 2006 - a school dismantled their wireless network due to parents concerned.
Your topic title "It's bad, apparently" indicated an element of nievity, does it not?
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don't get me wrong, I'm not sure why schools are investing in these wi-fi networks, from what i've seen yes their good, but they can be unpredictable and can go down easily.
I'm not sure I was "getting you wrong" in attempting to stand in the way of your uninfomed yet rapid dismissal of the research publiched in the lest few weeks - despite your contradictory statement, wireless networks seem to work well in the specified ranges, and there is no technical reason why they would fail as opposed to an ethernet wired network.
Wireless networks can be effective and cheaper than introducing specialised computer rooms or "labs" - laptops can be used at a normal school desk, without the specialised and expensive wiring, and workstations. Laptops are also now much cheaper to maintain and store, even from a security perspective.
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what I was trying to say in the story is I think the newspaper in question is just tryng to scare people for no good reason even before research has started.
What you were trying to say, is that the story is, in short, a load of bulls**t and is a complete lie - maybe the independent had access to an exclusive whitepaper - maybe the manufacturers of wireless technology don't want such findhing to emerge - maybe those same multinational companies and their several partner companies or companies with good relations refuse to fund such research, and will only fund research with a hypothesis in favor of wifi systems - after all, all research is funded or sponsored - and a research project funded by DLINK would be bias, would it not? Finally, I'm not sure you even read the article, because - research has obviously started if a whitepaper has been published - even if it is preliminary research or even secondary research on already collected data - it is still valid research in its own right.
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we have been living with the consequens
I see no consequenses just yet - maybe we will in the future?
Mobile phones havent been proven to be safe. If i remember correctly, the tests were conducted over a ten year stint. That means that if you're exposed to mobile phones for 10 years, you probably wont get a brain tumour as a result.
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