I know a guy who's still afraid to use a micro wave oven.

Scotty


"Bob Crantz" wrote in message
ink.net...
There's even worse!

Just think or being exposed to an unshielded fission
reaction where the
reaction products bombard your body andyour skin burns in
a matter of
minutes to an hour and longer term exposure results in
cancer. The sun
should be outlawed!

Amen!

OzOne wrote in message
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Canadian Uni hot under the collar over Wi-Fi safety
Tin-foil hats all round
By John Leyden
Published Wednesday 22nd February 2006 15:18 GMT
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A Canadian university has limited Wi-Fi networks on
campus, not out of
information security concerns, but because the long-term
safety of the
technology is "unproven".

Fred Gilbert, president of Canada's Lakehead University,
made the
order on the basis of possible health risk from the
technology,
especially to young people. Inconclusive studies into
possible links
between radio transmissions and leukemia and brain
tumors from, among
others, scientists for the California Public Utilities
Commission, led
Gilbert to make the "precautionary ban".


"All I'm saying is while the jury's out on this one, I'm
not going to
put in place what is potential chronic exposure for our
students.
Admittedly that's highest around the locations of the
antenna sites
and the wireless hot spots, but those are the places
people tend to
gravitate to because they get the best reception,"
Gilbert said,
Canadian technology website IT Business reports.

The Ontario University makes limited use of WiFi only in
areas where
fibre-optics links can't reach. Gilbert says he want to
see conclusive
evidence that the technology is safe before he'll be
prepared to
approve its wider use.

Robert Bradley, director of consumer and clinical
radiation protection
at Health Canada, said documents due to be published
this year should
establish that WiFi networks operating at below current
regulatory
limits poses no risk to humans. But if the controversy
about the
possible health risks of mobile phones are anything to
go by that's
unlikely to reassure everyone.

Jorg-Rudiger Sack, a computer science professor at
Carleton
University, said that while wireless is useful in
environments where
people are not likely to be working in fixed locations
(such as
airport departure lounges) its benefits in campus
environments are far
more tenuous. ®



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