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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 [...]
The Government doesn’t care about ID cards
There were a bunch of news stories last week ridiculing the Government’s ID card strategy by revealing that, though 50,000 cards will have been issued by April, no official (or unofficial) organisation is yet capable of reading them. No card readers have been issued and the back-end systems aren’t ready yet either. Ministers say they’ve [...]
Primary school “paedophile” prompts cyber-bullying panic
The Guardian is reporting that pupils as young as 10 in Padstow, Cornwall, may have been posing as paedophiles online in order to bully their peers.
“Police initially believed a local man was trying to groom the children by befriending them online and arranging to meet them.”
The subsequent discovery that it was probably just a bunch [...]
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 [...]