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Story: Government to study Wi-Fi health risks

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Studies motivated by fear of magic

These studies wouldn't be though enough anyway unless prolonged exposure over many years were to be conducted and technology can't wait.

We already know that living next to power lines greatly increases the risk of cancer but you don't see us ranting on about removing electricity from schools do you?

Some walkie talkies that are legal in america output over 1watt of power and you hold the damn thing to your head.

It's the mobile phone causing damage saga all over again. While I agree some of the early mobiles espcially the small ones like the Nokia 8810 gave off shocking amount of whatever it is that caused speakers to pop and headaches but the handsets overall proved to have little or no effect and less so now.

My only fear is that nothing is researched and in a rush to get Draft N finalised an seriously dangerous wi-fi device is manufactured in laptops and we won't discover it until half the population is sterile.

However, the reasoning behind much of this research seems to be - "if it seems to work like magic then it is probably killing us" rather than based on any evidence or examples. Do you know how many radio waves, tv signals, satellite scans, mobile phone tower transmissions and infra red beams the average city dweller walks through every day? Adding Wi-fi to this doesn't sound like it will make a difference.

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