Sleeping children wi-fi radiation warningMay 21
2007
by Rhodri Clark, Western Mail
A WELSH radiation expert has warned of the dangers posed by wireless internet
technology to sleeping children.The fears come amid claims that so-called “wi-fi” internet
connections in schools could damage children.
Biologist Roger Coghill, of Pontypool-based Coghill Research Laboratories, has
warned parents not to use wi-fi until the science is proven. “ It’s
a precautionary principle I’m advocating,” he said. “ The risk
is probably greater in the home than in schools because people don’t sleep
at school. Sleep is the principal time when we repair our cells.”
Wi-fi allows laptop and other computers to access the
internet from anywhere in the house, and often from the garden.
Mr Coghill said wi-fi in the home would add to the electromagnetic
fields there – on top of those from sources such as mobile-phone
masts.
Mr Coghilll, a member of the Government’s advisory committee on electromagnetic
fields, will attend a conference in Japan next month to hear about the latest
research on wi-fi’s possible health effects.
He said, “What we can say, based on the laws of
physics, is that all electric fields are super-positive, so that if you
have a base level of radiation in your environment and you bring out
a new source, it does actually add to it. As it builds up, that impact
increases. It’s worse for children than adults because they are
still growing,” added Mr Coghill.
Electromagnetic radiation disturb the body’s own
electrical fields, for example ones controlling heart beat or cell development.
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BBC Panorama programme call for research into the potential dangers
of Wi-Fi. Researchers claim to have found the maximum signal strength
one metre from a wi-fi-enabled laptop in a classroom in Norwich was three
times that measured 100 metres away from a mobile phone mast nearby
“A pioneering elementary school district outside Chicago
has been sued for installing a wireless computer network by parents
worried that exposure to the network’s radio waves could
harm their children.
According to the complaint, filed last month in Illinois state court, parents
of five children assert that a growing body of evidence outlines ‘serious
health risks that exposure to low intensity, but high radio frequency radiation
poses to human beings, particularly children.’”
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