Is wireless broadband dangerous?

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Am thinking of changing my broadband to sky, they provide a wireless router.

DH is worried that wirelss routers send out brian frying rays and now has got me worried!

What do you think?

I don't think they are any more harmful than the other rays sent out by mobile phones etc.

Roffle at brian though

Do you have a mobile phone? Do you worry about the brain frying rays from those?

Also, chances are you are surrounded by brain frying rays from wireless broadband courtesy of your neighbours.

I think, with mobiles, radios, sattelites, sky dishes etc, we are so surrounded by brian frying rays, one more wireless router is not going to make a difference.

yes they do send out brian frying rays but the same rays are sent out by cordless phones too

brian hasn't got a hope

if you believe the whole phone mast/radio wave/mobile phone thing then have a good google there is a lot on it

I know someone who doesn't have cordless phones for this reason and she is normal and not insane

It's not dangerous. End of.

Absolutely no credible evidence at all

cmot you have no idea if that's true at all! what a funny thing to say

hippi i think that actually it does increase the concentration if it's in your house, for example of you have a cordless phone extension in your bedroom

Ah, no, the bedroom is the one place where anything cordless is banned... (I have a hippi-crystal-healing-believer type of friend and she said keep the bedroom clear of rays...)

Yes, I suppose it adds to what is already there, but I think overall we are microwaved various times a day just going about our business so I have decided not to worry about it any longer...

Actually, I have quite a good idea, having studied non ionising radiation and it's biological effects at postgraduate level, and reading professional journals and peer reviewed paper journals which cover the subject, and there is no evidence at all that wireless/cordless phones/mobile phones cause any biological detriment to humans.

a doctor (real doctor) told me that going on the place is the equivalent of having five chest x-rays

I have no idea if that's true

place?

oh that's interesting, scuse me dissing your credentials but then I didn't know about them so I suppose I didn't

you are the person to ask then

the first time you said "no credible evidence" but the second time "no evidence"

so there is some evidence but it's not credible? have you got the time to go into it further?

How on earth do you keep your bedroom free of rays? What about radio waves? Television? Light?

going on a plane sorry

Well, notquite, that was what my hipppi-crystal-healing friend could not tell me, although she does have a nice collection of crystals on her window sill which apparently do the trick
But for me it was basically no cordless phone, no cordless radio alam thingy, nothing electrical apart from the lights...

For no other reason that we go in there to sleep and not to websurf/listen to music/make phonecalls...
It probably does not make one iota of difference, but it does make for a clutter free room

Depends on how far you go on a plane - going to New York, gives your whole body the same amount of ionising radiation as your chest gets from a chest x-ray. This is as the earth is bombarded with radiation given off by the sun and stars all the time, much of which is absorbed by our atmosphere. The higher up you are, the more of this cosmic radiation you get.

I meant to type credible the second time too. The problem is that anyone can make a webpage or publish in a newspaper/magazine or whatever that they think that there is a problem with x,y,z and it causes a,b,c. But without someone conducting a large study with proper control groups, and then other people who are knowlegable in the field examining that study to check that there are enough people being studied, that the analyisis is correct etc, it's not credible evidence

ok thanks
have the studies not been done then
studies must have been done, with all the controversy

i heard somewhere that baby monitors emit more radiation than mobile phones?

Ah, well, I'd agree that it's a bad idea to watch tv, make phone calls, etc, etc, in your bedroom. But not for radiation reasons, for quality of sleep reasons!

Make your family hats out of tin foil. Problem solved.

I've been looking on the internet, apparently wirless signals gives out the same brain flying waves as a baby monitor!

Roffle at NotQuite - I just choked on my toast!!
I do however appreciate your advice adn will commence making anti-brian-frying-protection-helmets forthwith!

Ah ... but the funny thing is, a recent study showed, that tinfoil hats amplify radiation from phones etc etc. (Yes, it's funny, but also true - I'll find a cite.)

Wait - I had it wrong. Tinfoil hats specifically amplify radiation in the part of the spectrum reserved by the US gov't. See here. They even tested it with three different 'models' of helmet. (Personally, I tend to wear The Centurion, it's the most flattering.)

God those conspiring evil government bods are sneaky, aren't they?

By cmotdibbler on Thu 15-Jan-09 10:03:50
Actually, I have quite a good idea, having studied non ionising radiation and it's biological effects at postgraduate level, and reading professional journals and peer reviewed paper journals which cover the subject, and there is no evidence at all that wireless/cordless phones/mobile phones cause any biological detriment to humans.

LMAO That had to be the put down of the week (sorry stuffit - not laughing at you!)

maybe she's not
maybe she just made it up