Wheres the precautionary approach?
In the UK, where you can’t take a vitamin pill or a herbal supplement unless it has been proven safe in research, no studies exist on WiFi, yet it is being rushed out willy-nilly with 70 per cent of secondary schools and 50 per cent of primary schools now using it. Panorama visited a school in Norwich, with more than 1,000 pupils, to compare the level of radiation from a typical mobile phone mast with that of Wi-Fi in the classroom. Readings taken for the programme showed the height of signal strength to be three times greater in the school classroom using Wi-Fi than the main beam of radiation intensity from a mobile phone mast. Yet, the clear advice from Sir William Stewart to the government on mobile phone masts was that the beam of greatest intensity should not fall on any part of the school grounds, unless the school and parents agreed to it. Philip Parkin, general secretary of the Professional Association of Teachers said: “I think schools and parents will be very worried about Wi
