Stamp Out Wireless?

h/t HotAir headlines - members of the Berkeley council have some interesting thoughts on the current wireless boom - driven by the addition of some wireless antennas. How can a movement be termed progressive when so much of it seems to be driven by undocumented fear? Good luck with this one.

"When we start getting tumors and our babies start dying, we'll know in the future the negative health effects of these things," she said. "But one thing we can do now is to reduce demand - only use cell phones for emergencies and use land lines for computers."

The World Health Organization, in a recent report, concluded that cell phones and cell-phone towers pose little risk to health. It also stated that more research needs to be done.

Comments

[Purple Avenger]

There's a lot of reasons not to use wireless, but this is not one of them.

[dumbblonde]

Just take a drive through Berkeley and you will understand. It's good entertainment. These people live in their own universe, and science/facts/reality/logic/etc are not allowed to penetrate their little world-in-a-bubble.

[redherkey]

As is the case with the global warming cultists, these folks have a fundamental misunderstanding of the big bright object in the daytime sky. If you're concerned about radiofrequency (as well as global warming), your primary factor of concern should be the sun. Of course, we're at a solar minimum right now, which means if you're worried now about deathwaves penetrating the foil caps, you'll be down right terrified when the cycle wakes back up and really starts pumping out the noise.

I can't imagine the horror these moonbats would have if I showed them what's passing thru their rather unoccupied skull right now on a spectrum analyzer. Everything from the usual radio and TV broadcasts (including NPR on your local wealth-seizure-funded "public" radio affiliate and the BBC, which I'm sure uses only green radiowaves for safety) to low-frequency evil military communications, cell phones, crazy amateur radio people, power lines (including very noisy and leaky broadband-over-powerline services), unhealthy Howard Stern on Sirius (at a nasty microwave cooking 2.3 GHz) to harmless Cuban spy network communications. All of this maddening noise is going through most of us this very moment, combined with the sun's own massively powerful wideband transmitter.

Makes you wonder if Reynolds Wrap outta advertise on DailyKos and the DU websites...

[Da Coyote]

A sure bet for those not acquainted with such things as field strength and depth of EM penetration, one can always just listen to a lib set of politicians talking about science and assume the opposite of what they claim. After all, look at Gore...who possesseth not a degree capable of hiring him at McDonalds....but still pontificates on climate change. Remember "Silent Spring"? Know how much of that was proved bunk? Remember, politics was placed on earth by our maker in order to mercifully provide employment for those who truly cannot do anything else.