In what sounds like a re-run of mobile phone radiation panic, is there evidence for harm?
Sitting too close to the TV. Standing in front of the microwave. Spending too long on the mobile. Living under a pylon, or next to a phone mast. We’ve always worried about what the technology around us might do to our bodies. Now, wi-fi is rolling out from the humble coffee shop hotspot to create swathes of wireless networks in towns and cities. But some are concerned that we don’t know enough about the health effects of electromagnetic radiation – the radio waves that allow the computer network to transmit (along with longwave, FM and TV and phone frequencies). For others, headaches and skin rashes – that they feel are due to the radio waves – are prompting a big switch off. I had thought, ‘great, we can make use of it’, but then I started getting a series of headaches that got worse Teacher Michael Bevington The worry for parents is that children, who have thinner skulls and developing systems, are exposed to more gadgets and gizmos than previous generations. What might these be doin
