Amos: Microwave Madness, (Part 2).
- “Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.”
Did you know that a number of schools in the U.K. and elsewhere have removed their computer wireless network and returned to relying on hard-wired systems?
The decisions have been taken in the light of parental concern about the possible deleterious effects of these systems. Naturally I ask myself how safe is my cordless telephone, and wireless network system. According to some sources they’re not very safe at all!
The question then arises surely your government investigates and protects you from dangerous products? That’s true, of course, up to a point. I remember, however, purchasing a cordless phone from ‘Tandy’ that carried a red triangular sticker to warn that it must not be connected to the U.K. phone system. This same telephone also came with a certificate from the FCC, [the US administration], stating that it complied with Federal Safety Requirements.
Drugs permitted for counter sale in one country may be available solely on prescription, or banned altogether in a different country yet both administrations will justify their decisions on the basis of scientific evidence. Caveat emptor would appear to be the order of the day.
In May, 2007 the BBC’s Panorama Program investigated some schools in the UK that operated masted Wi-Fi Internet networks. They discovered microwave radiation in the classroom to be three times higher than that emitted from a mobile phone mast.
So what is all the fuss about? According to the BBC:
“The readings, [from masted WiFi systems], were well beneath the government’s safety limits – as much as 600 times below – but some scientists suspect the whole basis of our safety limits may be wrong.
“Panorama spoke to a number of scientists who questioned the safety limits and were concerned about the possible health effects of such radiation.
“If you look in the literature, you have a large number of various effects like chromosome damage, you have impact on the concentration capacity and decrease in short term memory, increases in the number of cancer incidences,” said Professor Olle Johansson of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
Another scientist, Dr Gerd Oberfeld, from Salzburg is now calling for Wi-Fi to be removed from schools.
He said: “If you go into the data you can see a very very clear picture – it is like a puzzle and everything fits together from DNA break ups to the animal studies and up to the epidemiological evidence; that shows for example increased symptoms as well as increased cancer rates.”
