[LINK] Europe issues alert over "more or less potentially harmful" cell phone radiation

[Kim Holburn]

Unfortunate really.

Ars has followed it up with:

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/05/european-politician-wants-to-get-phones-wifi-out-of-classrooms.ars

> Alarming lack of science behind European wireless tech health alert

....

> Fortunately, the report itself provides some hints as to how how its author came to his conclusions. In doing so, it provides a caution about how politicians can take ambiguous science and latch onto some evidence selectively, creating a severely biased perspective. Most worryingly, it shows how they can do their best to ensure that others end up adopting the same perspective.



On 2011/May/27, at 3:01 PM, Paul Brooks wrote:

> On 27/05/2011 12:55 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:
>> 
>>> Yes, you read that right. Here's resolution 8.3.2 of the draft: "ban all mobile phones, DECT phones or WiFi or WLAN systems from classrooms and schools, as advocated by some regional authorities, medical associations and civil society organisations."
> 
> Hmmm. Wondering about the long-term health impacts arising from lining each classroom
> with lead sheeting to keep the WiFi out, and the OH&S implications of 30 lengths of
> blue ethernet cable snaking across the floor to each desk - not to mention from
> children strangling each other with said 30 lengths of blue ethernet cable while the
> teacher's back is turned.
> 
> oh - a market for spring-loaded retractable cables that can be pulled down from the
> ceiling when required...must patent that....
> 
> P.
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