[FRIAM] Slashdot | Group Wants Wi-Fi Banned, Citing Allergy

[Russell Standish]

IIRC, mobile phones are around 1000 times weaker than microwave ovens
and WiFi is something like two orders of magnitude weaker again (tho
WiMax is presumably stronger).

No study has ever showed mobile phones to cause biological heating
(although there are hints of other biological effects), which is the
main reason why its not such a good idea to stick your hand in a
microwave oven while its operating. They would be dangerous if they weren't
constructed as a Faraday cage with an interlocked door.

I'm not going to lose sleep over such weak EMI. There's more important
things to worry about than imaginary problems.

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 01:06:49PM -0400, PPARYSKI at aol.com wrote:
> I have heard that WiFi uses the same frequencies as microwave ovens and  that 
> there might be some very minimal risk because of this fact.  Don't  know!??  
> In any  case, we (our bodies and brains that is) are all  constantly receiving 
> hundreds if not thousands of radio signals.   Paul
> 
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