NAYRhyno

April 14, 2009 at 3:09pm

Nice link Ogre.  The best part for those to lazy to click:

Photons of visible light carry more energy than
microwaves and bombard us much more frequently than microwaves from such
things as cell phones or wireless networks.

 

And that is visible light.  Not UV, which are much higher energy (thus the link to melenoma)

ogremustcrush

April 14, 2009 at 11:45am

As far as I know there hasn't been any conclusive evidence supporting the assertion that low-power low-freqency electromagntic radiation has any significant effect on biological systems. Considering that we are all drowning in radiation from many more sources than wi-fi and cell phones, I wouldn't be too concerned about those particular cases. I have to wonder if any of the teachers who are supporting this stuff ever go tanning, as long term exposure to UV radiation(high frequency electromagnetic) is harmful, and has quite a bit of evidence to back that up.

Funny though, when I was in high school I set up a high power wi-fi amp and high db antenna for the computer teacher. I sat right next to it. 

Here is a really good link on the safety of electromagnetic radiation. http://skepdic.com/emf.html . One thing to look out for is most of the media coverage of "radiation" of any sort is purely looking to drum up controversy, and tends to give creedence to whatever group is causing a fuss instead of the general scientific consensus. An important thing to note is the link above acutally has citations, which few news stories do for any of the studies they are writing about. 

DBsantos77

April 13, 2009 at 10:48pm

I believe this. I CANNOT have my laptop on my lap because I get a really bad pain "down there" and it hurts like a mofo, so I put it on a counter-top or hard object far away from my "jewels" Haha.

devin3627

April 13, 2009 at 10:09pm

It's an fact that 1 feet away a laptops wifi transmitter is dangerous. The general public is sheep, they only understand what their eyes can see.