The school board’s support for wifi on ferries, or any other place of learning, is ironic. Several studies conclude that exposure to wireless (which includes wifi as well as cell phones) interferes with learning and memory: Fragopoulou et al., Pathophysiology 17 (3), 179-187 (2010); Wu et al., ACTA Biophysica Sinica 15, 152-157 (1999); Hao et al, Neurol. Sci. 2012 (Feb. 24). Summaries of these and other studies supporting a link between wireless and adverse bioeffects — increased stress hormones, disrupted immune function, sperm damage, permeability of the blood-brain barrier, and increased cancer rates (to mention just a few) — can be found at www.bioinitiative.org. This website contains over 1800 peer-reviewed studies (pro and con) on wireless. I urge you to read them and judge for yourself whether it is a good idea to subject our children and ourselves to ever-increasing amounts of wireless radiation.
Pamela Finley
Juneau
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I am a student at UAS and I also run my own business. I am also a parent. I spend almost every day around wireless connections because of my distance learning and cell phone use. I have a 4.0 GPA on my degree program. My WiFi usage hasn't seemed to affect my brain capacities.
Teaching our children to apply themselves, to love life, and to develop proper behaviors of discipline will do more for their education and characters than waging war against WiFi.
Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia
(Opens drawer, pulls out spoon)
"Evaluations Of International Expert Group Reports On The Biological Effects Of Radio-frequency Fields."
(Pops off the lid)
That is the title of the metanalysis by Luc Verschaeve,
Scientific Institute of Public Health, O.D. Public Health and Surveillance,Brussels and University of Antwerp, Department of Biomedical Sciences Belgium.
(Dips spoon into container)
Of the more than thirty international reviews in the report, all but one did not "consider that there is a demonstrated health risk from RF-exposure from mobile telephones and other wireless communication devices.”
(Searches around the majority of the frozen white stuff)
The single exception was the BioInitiative report. Anyone want to guess why?
(While you are thinking, pardon me while I pick another cherry out of my ice cream)
Here is the link to the pdf (page 17 has a good table).
http://tinyurl.com/bcmybom
Mike
Thanks Mike
Now I'm hungry for some Cherry Garcia with my coffee. Alas, guess I'll just have to look at a picture of it on my iPhone.
try aluminum foil hats
to reduce the affects of radio waves on your brain. You'll have to wear it 24/7 as radio waves are all around us and are produced by natural sources as well as man made.
Stay outside on deck
I've heard that the salt spray dilutes any of those bad rays. Give me a stinking break for heavens sake.