http://www.facebook.com/riedlinger2 Robert Riedlinger
For those of you that think this is a joke,just keep your cellphone tight against your scull and make sure you live near a cell tower and install WiFi.in your home.You will over time wind up finding that this is not a joke.
Yeah Right
A naturopathic doctor is not a doctor, so don’t pretend to be one.
http://www.facebook.com/chipcherry Chip Cherry
This is absurd. There is zero evidence that WIFI, cell phone signals, etc. can cause damage to us. The symptoms that are cited as evidence for WIFI affects are non-specific and could be caused by anything. Even a confirmation bias in which one remembers details that confirm their suspicions (headache, stomach ache) and forgets details that don’t support the suspicion (all the times when symptoms aren’t present) can lead us to conclusions that are wrong.
The dogmatic approach that people take to this topic is apparent in the last line of the article: “We don’t need the proof,” she says. “We are the proof.”
Dismissing evidence because it doesn’t support your superstition is a really bad way to gain knowledge. Science works. Gut feelings do not.
j lantern
There are so many problems with the “science” in this article, where does one even begin.
First of all, there is no such thing as “radioactive waves.” Something is radioactive when it emits high-energy particles and radiation spontaneously, like Uranium or Plutonium. It is fallacious to conflate radioactivity with electromagnetic radiation.
Second, non-ionizing radiation either passes completely through the body harmlessly, or (if absorbed) heats the body marginally. This heating has been shown to be far less than that experienced by wrapping yourself in a blanket on a cool day. Radiation doesn’t become harmful (to the best of our science) until it becomes ionizing (UV-B and above) at which point it can cause DNA damage. There is no mechanism known to science (even theoretically) that results in harm to the human body from non-ionizing radiation, unless it is so intense that the heating results in burning of tissues, like when you put your hand on a hot stove. All consumer electronic products that emit radiation do so in the non-ionizing part of the spectrum.
Finally, even without our modern electronic world, we are receiving radiation all the time: cosmic rays, UV from the sun (not to mention light), and background radiation from the Earth. You can’t get away from it. Sit around a fire and you are receiving infrared radiation—far more energetic than most of the electronic devices we use.
