Can Wireless Internet Damage Your Brain?

Ambro

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I was watching a TV programme a couple of weeks back and it was suggesting that by being within close proximity to a wireless router or similar for a length of time it can cause damage to the brain, similar to mobile phone masts, especially in young children, this was also backed up by scientific evidence and all thatkind of stuff. :D Since hearing that I now switch of my router before going to bed. :D Do you guys think this is true.
 
I'm not quite sure how to respond to this thread. :(

I hope you're not one of those people who gets strung along by every little piece of crap these "studies" come up with all the time. I'd expect most people on this forum to be able to spot that sort of rubbish a mile off, or at least take a look at the evidence and make up their own mind pretty quickly.

Just leave your router on, it's not going to fry your brain. Actually, leave it off and you'll save a little electric. :)
 
Ambro said:
I was watching a TV programme a couple of weeks back and it was suggesting that by being within close proximity to a wireless router or similar for a length of time it can cause damage to the brain, similar to mobile phone masts, especially in young children, this was also backed up by scientific evidence and all thatkind of stuff. :D Since hearing that I now switch of my router before going to bed. :D Do you guys think this is true.
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If you sat next to a mobile phone mast for several hours every day, it probably wouldn't do you any good, since it's blasting out a significant amount of power to communicate with every phone in the cell radius.

A mobile phone or a wireless router is not, since they're only talking to things more locally (the phone is talking to one or two cell towers, the router just has a considerably smaller area of effect).

Since you don't sit on a mobile mast for several hours a day, you'll be fine.
 
no scientific evidence to show it does. background radiation in places like Cornwall are many times higher than radiation from phones/wi-fi. due to the granite. they been living there fine for humm well ever. slightly diffrent type of radiation, but the same sort of thing at the end of the day.
 
If you're gonna **** off the studies suggesting these things are harmful you could at least explain why you're slagging them off. I know that scientific evidence is, to an extent, subject to interpretation, and that the interpretations presented in some studies are more valid than others, but there's no way for those of us outside the scientific community to know which studies are the reputable ones and which aren't! No need to attack the OP for something he read which he isn't qualified to have an opinion on.
 
manveruppd said:
If you're gonna **** off the studies suggesting these things are harmful you could at least explain why you're slagging them off.
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How often do these "studies" come out and suddenly the researchers flip-flop only weeks later? We're constantly being fed a stream of "facts" that really should come with a subject-to-change disclaimer.

Ohnoes mobile phones will give you brain cancer, bird flu is going to wipe out a chunk of the human population, salt is bad for you (then good for you, then bad for you again), hot water makes you infertile... It never ends.

manveruppd said:
No need to attack the OP for something he read which he isn't qualified to have an opinion on.
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Who's attacking him? Don't get so defensive.
 
manveruppd said:
If you're gonna **** off the studies suggesting these things are harmful you could at least explain why you're slagging them off. I know that scientific evidence is, to an extent, subject to interpretation, and that the interpretations presented in some studies are more valid than others, but there's no way for those of us outside the scientific community to know which studies are the reputable ones and which aren't! No need to attack the OP for something he read which he isn't qualified to have an opinion on.
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well I assume he's talking about panorama, in which case, the wifi all though higher than cell phones was still 600 times below the recommended maximum by the government,

and there can't be any decent studies yet, the technology is to new. There has not been a study on humans that has followed them for 3 or 4 decades to see the risk.
 
They only emit 1/1000th the maximum "safe" microwave power as set by the Government. The government microwave power limit for domestic microwaves is still very low and mobile phone masts emit many thousands of times this.
 
Rebelius said:
if that were true, wouldn't the same be true about mobile phones in your trouser pocket?
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Nope laptops on laps aint good as it warms up the friends below, nothing to do with radiation. :)
 
Jaffa_Cake said:
Typing 'Laptop fertility' into google got me some funny looks.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4078895.stm

Gives you the grim details there :eek:
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Here we go.

"May." "Could be." "Much more research is needed." "Further work is needed."

This is what all these "studies" say, and I say show me the money.

I've just done a study right now. I ate a slice of pizza, which may or may not enlarge my penis. SOMEBODY GIVE ME A HUGE GRANT! :o
 
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