Comments on: Wifi Danger Report on the BBC Missleading… gee ya think? http://depletedcranium.com/wifi-danger-report-on-the-bbc-missleading-gee-ya-think/ Bad Science And Scary Science Wed, 23 May 2012 23:59:21 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Finrod http://depletedcranium.com/wifi-danger-report-on-the-bbc-missleading-gee-ya-think/comment-page-1/#comment-25635 Finrod Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:43:45 +0000 http://depletedcranium.com/?p=253#comment-25635 [quote comment="25634"]Could you check the grammar on "Beaupre". I can't even understand what's being said.[/quote] Therre's nothing wrong wwith the grammar. You must just be an idiot.

        hotspots wifi said:

Could you check the grammar on “Beaupre”. I can’t even understand what’s being said.

Therre’s nothing wrong wwith the grammar. You must just be an idiot.

]]> By: hotspots wifi http://depletedcranium.com/wifi-danger-report-on-the-bbc-missleading-gee-ya-think/comment-page-1/#comment-25634 hotspots wifi Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:30:50 +0000 http://depletedcranium.com/?p=253#comment-25634 Could you check the grammar on "Beaupre". I can't even understand what's being said. Could you check the grammar on “Beaupre”. I can’t even understand what’s being said.

]]> By: Dylan http://depletedcranium.com/wifi-danger-report-on-the-bbc-missleading-gee-ya-think/comment-page-1/#comment-674 Dylan Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:24:54 +0000 http://depletedcranium.com/?p=253#comment-674 But but but... it's for the children! What of the children! Protect the children! How do we know it's safe? How do we know? You cant prove it, because we don't accept science! FOR THE CHILDREN! Oh oh oh... the poor children. You and your big corporations. Damn you getting money for killing the children! But but but… it’s for the children! What of the children! Protect the children! How do we know it’s safe? How do we know? You cant prove it, because we don’t accept science! FOR THE CHILDREN! Oh oh oh… the poor children.

You and your big corporations. Damn you getting money for killing the children!

]]> By: DV82XL http://depletedcranium.com/wifi-danger-report-on-the-bbc-missleading-gee-ya-think/comment-page-1/#comment-631 DV82XL Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:55:40 +0000 http://depletedcranium.com/?p=253#comment-631 Well, you all remember when power lines were tagged a a cause of childhood leukemia. In 1979 with a single flawed epidemiological study two researchers,published an article alleging that the incidence of childhood leukemia was higher in neighborhoods that were near electric power lines. The idea was picked up by The New Yorker that alleged that power lines were "Currents of Death" and that the power industry and the government were engaged in a cover-up. However there was and is no convincing evidence in the published literature to support the contention that exposure to extremely low-frequency electric and magnetic fields are demonstrable health hazards. But of course that wasn't the end of it, a number of factors kept it going: Researchers, that had dedicated their careers studying this question, and had staked their reputation on the existence of a link, wanted their funding continued and naturally they argued strenuously against terminating their field. Naturally there were consulting firms making money advising clients on strategies for EMF minimization and the usual scum marketing low-magnetic-field electric devices for "electrically hypersensitive" people," and various "protective" devices. Politicians who did not understand the science responded imprudently to the fears of their constituents. Public distrust of utilities, big business, and established scientists also plays a role; claims of a massive cover-up of the purported danger was the very clever posture of those that stood to gain because it tended to discredit in advance the scientists who disagreed. Most important, the power-line scare has this in common with Wifi scares: electromagnetic fields are not understood by the public. Nor can they be felt, tasted, seen, or touched. This makes them mysterious, and easily to portray as threatening, and thus profitable to the advocates of the dangers. Well, you all remember when power lines were tagged a a cause of childhood leukemia. In 1979 with a single flawed epidemiological study two researchers,published an article alleging that the incidence of childhood leukemia was higher in neighborhoods that were near electric power lines. The idea was picked up by The New Yorker that alleged that power lines were “Currents of Death” and that the power industry and the government were engaged in a cover-up. However there was and is no convincing evidence in the published literature to support the contention that exposure to extremely low-frequency electric and magnetic fields are demonstrable health hazards.

But of course that wasn’t the end of it, a number of factors kept it going:

Researchers, that had dedicated their careers studying this question, and had staked their reputation on the existence of a link, wanted their funding continued and naturally they argued strenuously against terminating their field.

Naturally there were consulting firms making money advising clients on strategies for EMF minimization and the usual scum marketing low-magnetic-field electric devices for “electrically hypersensitive” people,” and various “protective” devices.

Politicians who did not understand the science responded imprudently to the fears of their constituents.

Public distrust of utilities, big business, and established scientists also plays a role; claims of a massive cover-up of the purported danger was the very clever posture of those that stood to gain because it tended to discredit in advance the scientists who disagreed.

Most important, the power-line scare has this in common with Wifi scares: electromagnetic fields are not understood by the public. Nor can they be felt, tasted, seen, or touched. This makes them mysterious, and easily to portray as threatening, and thus profitable to the advocates of the dangers.

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