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University Bans wi-fi as Health Concern

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the microwaves-still-ok dept.

BaltikaTroika writes "A Canadian university has banned wi-fi, since the university President sees a possible link between electric and magnetic fields and brain tumors. According to the head of the university, "the jury's out on this one, I'm not going to put in place what is potential chronic exposure for our students." Is anybody outside of this university's administration concerned about this?"

3 of 693 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What about cell phones? by 1u3hr · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I believe not too long ago, Slashdot had an article concerning the cooking of an egg situated between two cell phones.

    That's a hoax, written six years ago, and Slashdot editors were suckered by it, as they have been many times before.

    Ivermee, a 60-year old archiver in a law firm in South Hampton, has written almost all of the pieces on the Wymsey site, including the egg article, which he wrote back in 2000. In the piece, he outlines eight ridiculous steps for hard boiling an egg using the transmissions of two cellphones pointed at each other with the egg in between.

    "I really underestimated how many people would take it seriously," he tells Gelf over email. "No other page on the site has grabbed people's attention and ire button as much as this one. What seems to be happening is that it 'travels' from blog to blog, forum to forum. It was big in Australia last year and seems to be big in the US right now."

  2. NO, 2.4 GHZ IS NOT THE FREQUENCY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... at which water molecules resonate. Microwave ovens use 2.4 GHz because that's where the FCC said they could go. It has absolutely nothing to do with water-molecule resonance or any other bogosity.

    Jeez, I wish people who have no earthly clue what they're talking about would refrain from posting.

  3. Re:Why not post the university in the summary? by nidx · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I actually GO to Lakeheadu University (5th year comp-sci) and from what I understand this decision is because of our University President. Our school paper did an article about this issue earlier this year and if I remember correctly his reasons for the ban were "the unknown effects on developing brains" which I belive was related to his field of study. IMO it's all ignorant BS.

    but I do love that this issue has reached slashdot!