Re: How Real is this problem?

[Leigh Meyers <the.buffalo.in.the.midst@xxxxxxxxx>]

As someone familiar with RF, I'd say that it isn't particularly good for
a child to spend extended periods with a 100 mw microwave transmitter
sitting on their lap.

Removing the wireless node helps from a standpoint of dissuasion.

It might solve the overpopulation problem though, as boys with slowly
toasted testes and girls with cauterized, scar tissued urethrae (sp. My
spellchecker told me so) are not prone to child-bearing.

The wireless node itself, as with cellphone towers (assuming some
nominal distance from the cell tower...) wouldn't be much of a health
threat.

For a child to be crossing the street near a school where there are
hundreds of parents engaged in phone conversation while driving is much,
much more of a threat.

Leigh

Michael Perelman wrote:
> Bale, Joanna. 2006. "Health Fears Lead Schools to Dismantle Wireless Networks."
> London Times (20 November).
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,591-2461748,00.html
> "Parents and teachers are forcing some schools to dismantle wireless computer
> networks amid fears that they could damage children.s health.  More schools are
> putting transmitters in classrooms to give pupils wireless access from laptops to
> the school computer network and the internet."
>
>  -- Michael Perelman
> Economics Department
> California State University
> Chico, CA 95929
>
> Tel. 530-898-5321
> E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
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