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Wifi is not a health risk
The Daily Mail has once again disgraced itself by promoting the scientifically discredited view that wifi networks are harmful to health. On November 19 it published an article by Alasdair Philips that said some remarkable things about electromagnetic radiation.
Under the headline “Is electro smog causing your headache?” Philips claims that plans to wifi-enable towns such [...]
Should you worry about Wi-Fi ‘health risks’ to children?
Are your children being harmed at school because invisible Wi-Fi radiation is frying their brains?
It’s an arresting question, and media outlets as large as the Independent and the BBC have been asking it in recent weeks, however the answer is “no they’re not”. Here’s why:
Wi-Fi transmissions are hundreds of times lower than the World Health [...]