Is Wi-Fi Bad for your health?

[::::BASSIST::::]

Is Wi-Fi Bad for your health?

http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/columns/article.php/3095831

I often have my son playing around my laptop while its on. I've recently gone hardwire, because I dont want to risk any harm to him.

Am I being overly cautious?

[KeithBMI]

Baiman references a study at the University of Washington in which rats lost long-term memory after exposure to radiation

How do you test rats for long-term memory?

[iamlowsound]

Originally Posted by ::::BASSIST::::

Is Wi-Fi Bad for your health?

http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/columns/article.php/3095831

I often have my son playing around my laptop while its on. I've recently gone hardwire, because I dont want to risk any harm to him.

Am I being overly cautious?

IMO it is the same idea that cell phones give you brain cancer. Going by wire will always be faster than wifi, if your connection is faster than your wireless card is.

lowsound

[jimc]

I swear I got tennis elbow playing the tennis game in Wii sports

I had to give up playing.

[newbold]

Unless you're in the middle on nowhere (like, say, alaska) you're going to be subjected to all sorts of radiation.

Of course WiFi is bad, but it's not as bad as not making positive conscious nutritional choices or the off gasing that your furniture is poisoning you with.

Try to be good to yourself instead of worrying about what's bad.

buy new products accordingly.

[Atoz]

Wow... what a bunch of crap.

[SuperDuck]

Stay away from Wi-Fi, but for the love of Pete keep smoking and drinking. And not exercising.

[kissmybASS01]

I think wi-fi should be okay as long as you cook it to an internal temperature of 175 degrees F.

[Armueller2001]

Originally Posted by SuperDuck

Stay away from Wi-Fi, but for the love of Pete keep smoking and drinking. And not exercising.

LOL. Awesome post.

I try not to set my laptop near my wee-wee when I'm using it. Other than that, I'm not too worried.

[kserg]

Originally Posted by KeithBMI

How do you test rats for long-term memory?

They forgot to mention that they were same rats they used in weed test.

[BassActionBtard]

If your going to try to protect your kids from Wi-fi radiation, lock them in a trunk and throw it on the ocean. Its the only way to be sure,


J/K, seriously though, if your that paranoid, you will never be able to walk into a mcdonalds, starbucks, grocery store, library, apartment complex, commercial building, college, mall, or suburban neighborhood because they all emit wi-fi signals.

[::::BASSIST::::]

Yes, but its all a matter of degrees, my friends.

I know that I cannot protect my 3 year old or myself from everything at all times, including radiation. However, I do take protective measures when it seems *reasonable to me*. For example, I have not had a microwave oven in 8 years, and I don't own a cell phone. Yes, I do occasionally use these things so I am not a freak about it. However, whenever I can, I try to minimize harmful things like radiation.

By the way, interesting tidbit...

Often when someone is diagnosed with a brain tumour, its in the same shape as the antenna of their cellphone.

Food for thought perhaps?


I am just wondering just how significant Wi-Fi radiation is. Worse than a microwave, better than a cell phone?

(and no, I dont smoke, drink, or do drugs)

[Tsal]

Originally Posted by ::::BASSIST::::

Often when someone is diagnosed with a brain tumour, its in the same shape as the antenna of their cellphone.

How many of them are the shape of a microwave oven?

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Originally Posted by ::::BASSIST::::

By the way, interesting tidbit...

Often when someone is diagnosed with a brain tumour, its in the same shape as the antenna of their cellphone.

Food for thought perhaps?

Do you have any proof or is this just hear-say?


Also, consider the difference in power output from the likes of a microwave to a wifi card.

I guess you moved house to stay away from any overhead power lines? Those can be nasty too.

Just last year a guy in my home town died because of overhead power lines . . .






(honestly, nothing what so ever to do with him hitting one with a metal pole).

[::::BASSIST::::]

The antenna / brain tumour was from a 60 Minutes type news show, so no I don't have direct evidence.

As I said, I havent owned a microwave oven in 8 years.

Sheesh, you guys sure are combative in OT.

[jady]

ARE NOT!!!!!!!!!

[i_got_a_mohawk]

Originally Posted by ::::BASSIST::::

The antenna / brain tumour was from a 60 Minutes type news show, so no I don't have direct evidence.

As I said, I havent owned a microwave oven in 8 years.

Sheesh, you guys sure are combative in OT.

Your combative!



And no, the reason I asked is because a tumour forms from a single cell. Granted, there can be other cells surrounding it that are starting to display mutation or whatnot, but you need to make all 6 "hallmarks of cancer" to form a tumour (well, a metastatic one, dare say you dont for a benign one). Which in itself seems to make any similarity to an antenna coincidental.

[mambo4]

Both Microwaves and cel phones have been pretty much debunked as possible sources of cancer...

The main advantage of eschewing both are better tasting food and safer driving.

That said, if your lifestyle choices lead you to happiness, more power to ya!

[Bob Lee (QSC)]

WiFi can be bad for your health. It often makes you stay up late surfing the Internet.

[::::BASSIST::::]

Originally Posted by mambo4

Both Microwaves and cel phones have been pretty much debunked as possible sources of cancer...

The main advantage of eschewing both are better tasting food and safer driving.

That said, if your lifestyle choices lead you to happiness, more power to ya!

Thanks, that was an interesting and helpful article.