Wifi - Not as big a danger as they thought!
By Dave Adamson in Reader
Posted in Uncategorized on December 4, 2007 at 10:14 pm
It turns out that the BBC programme Panorama may have misled viewers into the dangers of Wifi in May 2007.
Yes, whilst the programme may have claimed that wireless networks give out more radiation than a mobile phone mast (really!) it turns out that that wasn’t true. You see, research could have told them that, but this is a channel that inadvertently showed footage of The Queen storming out of a room by cleverly re-editing footage together.
The BBC’s own complaints unit had this to say http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/news/2007/11/30/51156.shtml
I found it difficult, following this piece of sensationalist journalism, to defend wireless as people were more convinced by the voice of reason (the BBC) than the voice of reason (someone who might know a thing or two about a thing or two.) The result tended towards people who demanded research into the dangers of wifi whilst speaking on a mobile phone, microwaving food whilst pressing their other ear to a radio.
Now, I wouldn’t mind but I don’t claim to know everything, I just claim to have a bit of common sense, which is more than can be said for the scare mongering of the Panorama programme.
I’ve no doubt that, in the future, we’ll discover something untoward about wireless transmissions - after all, it turns out everything is bad for you.
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Loading ...Comment by Jason Slater - December 5, 2007 on 9:56 am
I wonder if one day someone will invent something where the side effect is that it is good for you?
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