Sell your shares in wireless companies NOW!
RADIATION ALERT! ! !
I'm telling you, this is the end of all the Vodafones, Telecoms, Wooshes and whathaveyou-wireless companies in the world. For they are irradiating our children! Wifi-ing them till they're all wrinkly and desiccated, just as if they'd been put into a microwave.
Even if a "mobile phone mast" radiation measures a mere one per cent of the limit, wifi in classrooms at three times as much is clearly unacceptable. Three per cent of a low limit is bad, mmkay? Doesn't matter that Wifi and and cellular radios run in very different frequency ranges either, because that'd just confuse people wouldn't it?
I saw this coming many years ago, and wrote about it then. It was inspired by NIMBYs in Devonport objecting to Vodafone erecting a cellular access point on Mt Victoria, because there's a primary school nearby. Somehow I don't think said parents remember to turn off their mobile phones when picking up the kids in their fine particulate-spewing diesel 4WDs, or giving their little ones tinfoil hats with the shiny side out to bounce off radiation or think about the sun much, but that's besides the point. Radiation is a big bad word and henceforth, Wifi and mobile phones are pure evil, and any purveyors of such hideousness will surely go under soon.
Guy Kewney's Newswireless has a good long post on the topic, with some hilarious stuff like the former PM of Norway, Gro Harlem Brundtland, being "electro-sensitive" to mobile phones.
'My favourite clash with mast debaters on this was outside the local fire station last summer. There, a group of people stood, grim-faced and determined, in the sunshine, adamant that their children, who were within half a mile of a proposed 3G phone mast, should be spared this danger. And I can assure you that even with Factor 50 sun cream, they will have been exposed to more radiation in the hour or so they spent on the street, than they will ever "suffer" from having a WiFi access point in their classroom.'
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Comments
Sure Henrik: how about all of it?
There is simply no scientific evidence for what you claim, despite numerous trials.
However, people are clearly in distress over the matter, and I'm not going to hide my disgust over people who exploit their fears and discomfort.
Posted by: Juha | May 27, 2007 6:36 PM
Dear Juha,
Emotions aside, how about explaining what you recon is factually wrong about my post.
Posted by: Henrik Eiriksson | May 24, 2007 10:53 PM
A description in a scientific database MEDLINE.
Electrohypersensitivity: state-of-the-art of a
functional impairment.
Johansson O.
Electromagn Biol Med 2006 25:4 (245-258) .
Recently, a new category of persons, claiming to
suffer from exposure to electromagnetic fields, has
been described in the literature. In Sweden,
electrohypersensitivity (EHS) is an officially fully
recognized functional impairment ( i.e., it is not
regarded as a disease). Survey studies show that
somewhere between 230,000-290,000 Swedish men and
women report a variety of symptoms when being in
contact with electromagnetic field (EMF) sources. The
aim of our studies has been to investigate possible
alterations, in the cellular and neuronal systems of
these person' skin. As controls, age- and sex-matched
persons, without any subjective or clinical symptoms
or dermatological history, served.
Immunohistochemistry using antisera to the previously
characterized marker substances of interest has been
utilized. In summary, it is evident from our
preliminary data that various alterations are present
in the electrohypersensitive person' skin. In view of
recent epidemiological studies, pointing to a
correlation between long-term exposure from
power-frequent magnetic fields or microwaves and
cancer, our data ought to be taken seriously and
further analyzed. .
Author Address O. Johansson. Department of
Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, The Experimental
Dermatology Unit, Stockholm, Sweden. .
Author E-mail olle.johansson (at) ki.se
Posted by: hsem | May 24, 2007 8:56 PM
Henrik: slowly this time... my point is that the emotive arguments that you and others present are a million times more likely to be heard than common sense and science.
But then, you know that already.
Posted by: Juha | May 24, 2007 10:00 AM
The'low'guidelines you are referring are based on the recommendations of ICNIRP, a club of 14 industry friendly scientists who still deny the existence of any non-thermal biological effects of non-ionising radiation despite the existence of a body of at least 3000 studies demonstrating the contrary. A quote from the ICNIRP guidelines says it all: ’these guidelines are based on short-term immediate health effects such as stimulation of peripheral nerves and muscles, shocks and burns caused by touching conducting objects and elevated tissue temperatures resulting from absorption of energy during exposure to EMF’. I do believe they prevent ”frying our brains„ in the short term. However, it has been proven over and over again they are not protecting us from non-thermal effects, like DNA breaks, disrupted cell communication and the opening of the blood brain barrier, which occur at levels as low or lower than those commonly found in a Wi-Fi equipped classroom!
Look at the science with an open mind and be prepared to challenge your obsolete beliefs. In the 17th century Galileo's heliocentric view was deemed to be heresy, today it's an accepted fact!
Posted by: Andrea Klein | May 24, 2007 1:49 AM
Dear Juha,
No, what exactly IS your point?
You ridicule and demote but offer no explanations or useful information at all.
So, how about enlightening everyone with some of your science and common sense?
Show us that you actually have a clue about all this. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt for a while. That's millions of times more tolerance than wireless proliferators have ever offered.
Posted by: Henrik Eiriksson | May 24, 2007 1:24 AM
Yes, that's exactly my point: once you start using terms like "electrorefugee" and say things like "aggressively pulsing radiation that is millions of times higher than natural background radiation", you can kiss common sense and science goodbye.
Posted by: Juha | May 23, 2007 10:16 PM
I am a French hsem person.
* hypersensitive to EMF radiation
* electrorefugee : I was forced to leave my flat.
Sylvie R.
Posted by: HSEM | May 23, 2007 9:19 PM
It's funny how most proponents of wireless tech, especially those writing columns, have no clue about radiofrequent radiation and health effects.
Mr. Kewney is not nearly as biased as you and he actually thinks when presented with material related to health and wireless.
You can't compare sunlight to a wireless signal. Simple. Humans have evolved a threshold towards sunlight energy because it's always existed in our surroundings - but naturally not so with man-made electromagnetic fields.
Our cells have evolved with natural random noise so this new agressively pulsing radiation, that is millions of times higher than natural background radiation, triggers a stress reaction in cells.
Cells close down membranes to protect themselves and after prolonged exposure they become exhausted and potentially cancerous due to buildup of free radicals.
Posted by: Henrik Eiriksson | May 23, 2007 7:25 PM