Comments on: More EMF Hysteria

By: Chiara

Chiara — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 16:43:51 +0000

The World Health Organization stated that they will not comment on microwave radiation effects on people until 2015, when it will be able to establish effects on human beings. The WHO only began studying microwave radiation effects on children in 2009 and it said it won’t be able to comment until 2020.

Since when is refusing to have your child be a guinea pig being labelled hysteria? If we are talking critical thinking, why is it companies in Canada and the U.S don’t have to prove their products are safe but instead the public has to prove they are unsafe?

Some of the most brilliant minds in history never had any exposure to the ‘quality of education’ you refer to ( which translates into wifi access in the classroom).

Isn’t this a tit bit hillarious? I mean I am all for the exposure to modern technology when it pertains my childs education but to make the argument that it is crucial to have access to wireless in order to call it quality education and to use my child as an experiment in the process is beyond ludacrous.

“The American Academy of Pediatrics in 2004 issued a policy statement indicating that children 0 to 2 years of age should not be exposed to any form of technology, and school-aged children should be limited to 1 to 2 hours technology per day.

Further research indicates that there is no research evidence to support the use of technology for the achievement of student literacy (with the exception of assistive technologies for children with significant disabilities), and mounting research which indicates causal links between technology and impairment to child physical, mental, social and academic performance.

Responsible schools might be wise to consider discontinuing all technologies with students through grade six until such time as these technologies have proven to be effective and safe. Relying on the World Health Organization and Health Canada reports that wireless internet is safe is not recommended, as neither can produce long term studies to support their statements, and ultimately may result in harm to children.”

By: DS1000

DS1000 — Sat, 21 May 2011 12:16:40 +0000

Thanks for the post jre, I almost just lost my breakfast.

By: DLC

DLC — Sat, 21 May 2011 11:58:17 +0000

Dr. Panic, aka Dr Sanjay Gupta, is now as I write doing a half-hour long panic-fest on cell phones and cancer, on CNN. I couldn’t watch more than a few minutes of it. Horrible.

By: ccbowers

ccbowers — Wed, 18 May 2011 17:40:39 +0000

Speaking of Europe as if it is one country is problematic. It makes for a simplistic (and incorrect) view, since there are many different perspectives that people hold from many different countries/ cultures. Even when referring to a single country like the U.S., as if the country were a single entity with one perspective…I can only imagine what is said about the U.S. elsewhere using such simplistic thinking.

By: locutusbrg

locutusbrg — Wed, 18 May 2011 16:19:34 +0000

!6 years olds and sometimes younger can smoke legally in europe, and they are worried about WiFi. That makes sense.

By: tmac57

tmac57 — Wed, 18 May 2011 13:51:09 +0000

So turn off your cell phones. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off! Turn them off right in the middle of the sentence I’m speaking to you now! TURN THEM OFF…

Howard Beale (sort of)

By: eiskrystal

eiskrystal — Wed, 18 May 2011 07:59:47 +0000

“What’s up with the Europeans?”

It’s when your politicians don’t have enough proper work so take a 2nd job as overprotective nannies.

I’m not even sure why we have a Council of Europe and if this is their output, i’m sure i’m not the only one.

By: norrisL

norrisL — Wed, 18 May 2011 06:30:08 +0000

What’s up with the Europeans? They banned meat produced with the aid of hormones many years ago, despite the fact that there is little to no evidence of harm to consumers. This was a political decision to make them look good to the “green” constituents. Now they want to ban something else that is harmless. They banned (or tried to, not totally sure on this one) GM food because of concerns re health. Don’t these twits know that a Labrador is a GM dog (not that I’m about to eat a Labrador, I’d much rather a Chihuahua). Banning use of GM foods has the potential to increase starvation and yet little to no chance of causing health effects.
Stuart

By: jre

jre — Wed, 18 May 2011 01:03:45 +0000

Oh, crap. ccbowers, CivilUnrest and ChrisH got me completely derailed with ideas for magically realistic environmental horror stories -- like, what if there were two polarities of dangerous fields, but in a China Mieville-ish City and the City kind of way, each was only dangerous to those who were not supposed to perceive it, but, by some horrible mistake, did? Enough of that. I'm here to tell you that your worries are over. Not only does this scourge have a name -- "dirty electricity" -- but there are selfless humanitarians out there who want nothing more than to spend their lives testing your home and installing state-of-the-art equipment to safeguard you and your family from the undoubtedly grisly consequences of exposure to these EMF thingies. I think a small fee is involved.

By: ChrisH

ChrisH — Tue, 17 May 2011 23:46:00 +0000

Make it worse, have the invisible cars driven by invisible teenagers!