It started with an observation and a question.
The girls noticed that if they slept with their mobile phones near their heads at night, they often had difficulty concentrating at school the next day. They wanted to test the effect of a cellphone's radiation on humans, but their school, Hjallerup School in Denmark, did not have the equipment to handle such an experiment. So the girls designed an experiment that would test the effect of cellphone radiation on a plant instead.
Over the next 12 days, the girls observed, measured, weighed and photographed their results. By the end of the experiment the results were blatantly obvious — the cress seeds placed near the router had not grown. Many of them were completely dead. Meanwhile, the cress seeds planted in the other room, away from the routers, thrived.
The difficulty is that once installed in schools, they are switched on constantly. Whether the children are using them or not, they are exposed to that level of radiation.
In the past few years, iPad has become many adults’ best friend and children’s babysitter. It is used as a computer, eBook reader, camera, video/music player, word processor, communication device, drawing tool, game pad, and more.
When WiFi+3G iPad was introduced to the market, technicians discovered not three but five antennas, including the frame of the LCD screen being a giant antenna.
This means if you don’t handle the iPad exactly as instructed, the RF radiation can exceed governments’ limits for human exposure. Unfortunately, most parents and teachers have no idea about this, and have never communicated the manufacturer’s instructions to children who are using iPads.
Male staff may prefer not to be in a wireless environment, due to potential decreases in male fertility. Exposure of human sperm to a wireless laptop or mobile phone decreases sperm motility (Avendano et al, 2010; Wdowiak et al., 2007; Erogul et al., 2006; Agarwal et al., 2008; Agarwal et al., 2008b; Fejes et al., 2005). Mobile phones decrease sperm viability and are associated with an increase in the percentage of sperm cells with abnormal morphology/shape. In standby mode mobile phones significantly decrease sperm motility and count (in rabbits; Salama et al., 2008). Wireless laptops and mobile phone radiation have been shown to damage human sperm DNA (Avendano et al, 2010; De Iuliis et al., 2009) and mouse sperm DNA (Aitken et al., 2005 ). It is likely that men working with wireless technologies will have reduced fertility. More examples and detail in 'Scientific Research'.
Some studies have shown a decrease in cognitive ability** with exposure to mobile phone electromagnetic fields (especially chronic exposure; eg. Maier et al., 2004 - human; Nittby et al., 2008 - young rats, very low powers, exposure 2h/week for 55 weeks). Other studies have shown no effect; some acute studies have found improvements in cognition (Lai, 2007). The question of whether it is desirable for a technology which should be assisting with education to be having a detrimental effect on cognitive ability in some circumstances needs to be asked. More examples and detail in 'Scientific Research'.
Apparently, WiFi is the new mold. In central Ontario parents are lobbying the school to turn off the WiFi due to fears that it is making their children sick. You can take the news report of the parents concerns, time-warp about ten years in the past, and substitute “mold” for “WiFi” – the arguments are the same, and the evidence as weak, but the identified problem has just shifted.
Some parents in the Barrie, Ont., area say their children are showing a host of symptoms ranging from headaches and dizziness to nausea and even racing heart rates.
Within the last few months there was a rash of illnesses in a local high school. Memory loss, dizziness, sleepiness, nausea, skin rashes. This was also a brand new school, in which construction continued on one wing. They shut down one wing, had multiple environmental quality tests that showed nothing, and eventually reopened it and said people were imagining it. A few people switched schools.
But the damning problem is that there is a university in Ontario that shut down the WiFi on campus. The president of the U who made the decision is a biologist. His position was – until its been proven safe, lets just be precautionary since WiFi is a convenience. That sounds sort of reasonable, if you don’t know the evidence. But the problem is – he represents a figure of scientific authority to lots and lots of confused people, who are going to see his action as an indictment on wifi.
The German teachers' Union for Education and Knowledge (GEW, Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft) has told its members to resist the rollout of WiFi into schools in Germany on safety grounds. The GEW Union in Hesse has proposed 'Due to possible effects on school performance, a healthy school should not only be smoke free, but also allow teachers and students to teach and study in a radiation free environment' .
Most Canadian school boards are introducing WiFi, but at a slower rate than Peel – slower not because of concern about exposure, but because installation is more complicated in older schools with thicker walls. Toronto’s school board aims to have at least partial WiFi in all its schools by 2016, and is adding zones regularly. Because WiFi exposure has been deemed safe in Canada, the expansion proceeds without notification.
WiFi routers, wireless laptops and tablet computers (iPads) emit man-made pulsed digital microwave radiation. Hundreds of peer reviewed studies show that this type of microwave radiation has serious biological effects. Schools, public libraries and communities throughout the world are starting to dismantle wireless systems and are returning to wired technology because of an increase in headaches, fatigue, tinnitus, heart palpitations, memory and concentration problems and ADD/ADHD among children and adults.
"There is consistent emerging science that shows people, especially children are affected by the increasing exposure to wireless radiation. In September 2010, theJournal of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine ‐ Fertility and Sterility reported that only four hours of exposure to a standard laptop using WiFi caused DNA damage to human sperm.".
''Adverse health effects from wireless radio frequency fields, such as learning disabilities, altered immune responses, and headaches, clearly exist and are well documented in the scientific literature. Safer technology, such as use of hardwiring, is strongly recommended in schools”.
We already know, for example, that WiFi radiation generated by cell phones penetrates the less protected, and still developing, brain of a child to a much greater degree than it does an adult. We also have research that shows cell phone bases provoke cardiac arrhythmias. Plus, the studies continue to roll in.
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