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BC Human Rights Tribunal Rules Wi-Fi Isn't Dangerous

posted by mrpg on Wednesday July 18 2018, @11:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the and-the-cell-phones? dept.

Appalbarry writes:

CBC News reports that the BC Human Rights Tribunal has ruled against parents who insisted that their child needed special protection against radio waves. The parents believed that their son had a condition called electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS), a bundle of non-specific symptoms that they attribute to EMF exposure, and that "...Wi-Fi, cellphones and other electronics ... caused the boy's migraines, nausea, insomnia and night terrors. "

Claims that Wi-Fi causes health problems are not unusual on the West Coast of Canada, but these parents added new twists to the story. His mother believes that the condition was caused by living near a cell phone tower during pregnancy, and that severe headaches and episodes of vomiting were caused by the amplification system his teachers used to help students with hearing impairments.

T's family complained he developed a headache one day after staying inside for recess. In an appeal to the school board, his family said it happened because, "as you know, the RF [radio frequency] does penetrate the room he is in when the children are moving around the school with their cellphones on at recess and lunch."

The student has since moved to a private school specializing in, among other things, working with autistic children. He is now able to develop social skills by joining other students on regular field trips to a local (presumably Wi-Fi and cell free) farm.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by FatPhil on Thursday July 19 2018, @07:46AM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Thursday July 19 2018, @07:46AM (#709263) Homepage
    One of the things that often accompanies these loonie scares is the "they're covering it up" narative. "They know it's harmful, and they're lying to us", you know the thing. Of course, when you have fundamentally immoral industries such as the tobacco cartel who not only cover up, but even destroy evidence after the sub poenas have arrived, then that fuels the paranoia, but just because one industry's doing it, doesn't mean every industry is. What's most funny is when the evidence to the contrary is right in front of people's faces, but they refused to see it.

    I remember during the early-2000s cell-tower fuss, people were accusing Nokia of covering up cancer risks, while new towers were springing up on school roofs - because you've got to think of the children. Yet they completely failed to notice that the huge nearby Nokia campus had a cell-tower right in the middle of it. So apparently Nokia was trying to kill all its employees?!??

    Not that Nokia were the good guys. There was an independent Danish mobile phone equipment designer, Hagenuk, who had directional antennae technology, such that the phone would radiate away from the head more than into it, but that was the only patent they could bring to the table, and they wanted to play with the big boys. The mobile phone mafia didn't like them, so basically killed them.
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