CrunchGear

I really hope there’s no merit to this story.

This is no joke. Just think about what the advent of wireless communications technologies and the prevalence of mobile phones, wireless routers, and cordless phones in the home have done to the cumulative amount of electromagnetic radiation in a home. Do you really think the UN, the government, or industry itself have done proper environmental impact analysis on the rise of EMR? Can you trust anyone who makes their money from the wireless industry?

I can’t find any evident that the “Australasian Journal of Clinical Environmental Medicine” even exists. Can anyone else???

You act as if this is the only study that’s ever been done suggesting that Wi-Fi and cell phone antenna are dangerous to health. There are MANY studies that have been done. The FCC and the WHO are not reliable when it comes to corporate profits intermingled with your health safety. You have to look at the INDEPENDENT studies, and look at SEVERAL of them. They all say the same thing. It doesn’t take a Ph.D. to figure out what’s going on here, folks (unless you want to continue playing the Faux News “stupid Americano” game, perpetually, into the sunset…)

We live in a GIANT magnetic field constantly bombarded by cosmic rays. Our bodies are very resilient to electromagnetic interference.

I find studies and stories like this disturbing in the way they distract from the real stories;
The REAL story should be about electricmagnetic interference should be on the new Microwave Heat Gun or on TAZERS and how they kill people.

I heard it causes the earth to turn flat!

Best to get your kids wrapped in their tinfoil helmets, then.

Well, if the WHO said it then it MUST be true…

More “scientists” who don’t understand correlation is not causation, or rather, rely on the fact the public doesn’t understand that fact.

We know autism is more likely to occur in families with two intelligent parents. We know families with intelligent parents are more likely to have wireless routers, because they are more likely to have the income and sophistication required in order to acquire and use them. Lastly, the default configuration of wireless routers is very low in energy, far lower than even cell phones.

Yeah, um… next.

I’m glad that it isn’t TV anymore.
I’m glad that it isn’t vaccinations anymore.
I’m glad that it isn’t genetics anymore.

This is all B.S.; scientist don’t know jack about autism.

The increase in incidence of autism far pre-dates significant use of wireless technology, more specifically WiFi. I also recommend you google “Australasian Journal of Clinical Environmental Medicine.” No one can find it and it’s being treated as a hoax by several autism sites.

WiFi operates in the ISM band, the same frequency range that microwave ovens, Bluetooth and many wireless phones use. How does the study separate the effects of all these emitters? And if one is bad, all of them are.

It’s not BS if your grasping at anything that even remotely makes sense to try and help your child…I am.

Interesting theory…

Well, consider WHO and UN had to reduce their numbers of AIDS infected b millions, I would count them as the more reliable source by their virtue.

“Australasian Journal of Clinical Environmental Medicine”

Every reference to that publication on Google is related to this story. I’m not sure I’m buying this.

Wi-fi is set to be the next scapegoat!

Warning: wi-fi causes autism, brain cancer, your cell phone battery to explode, global warming, ring around the collar, dingy socks, lower miles per gallon and erectile dysfunction…

This study is a pathetic joke

This is a no-brainer (no pun intended). I am a retired radio tower climber and if people only knew about the effects of RF (radio frequencies) to the human body. When working radio towers, OSHA requires the RF system to be turned down (yeah right, like that actually happens). A man can get a headache from to much RF that can last for days, or weeks at a time. I have have been “burned” many times by RF before. RF burns from the inside out. Your insides will actually get hot as your skin will freeze in 25 degree temperture. Microwaves ovens operate at 10.5 gigahertz and wireless routers work between 2-5 gighertz. Sound familair?

Funny how we have lived on this huge magnetic chunk of metal all our lives circling an even larger chunk of gases causing huge magnetic fields and its our little devices that cannot even remotely compare causing all these harmful effects. Just the same as Global Warming. Its all junk science intended to scare and control the masses

Nobody cares as long as WIFI produces profits and the gov’t taxes those profits. After all, gov’t and corporations are quid-pro-quo whorehouses sold to the highest bidder. When the gov’t dislikes books, Amazon bans ‘America Deceived’. When big business needs more revenue, the gov’t hands out no-bids contracts. WIFI will stay until it is no longer profitable, autism be damned.
Final link (until Stark County District Library bends to pressure and drops the book):
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-38523-0

From the Quackometer website.

“Autism: If You Can’t Blame MMR, Let’s Try Wi-Fi”

http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2007/07/autism-if-you-cant-blame-mmr-lets-try.html

Really pathetic parenting, believing in flawed science coming from a lawyer.

“Dr. George Carlo, Ph.D, M.S., J.D, is a public health scientist, epidemiologist, lawyer, and the founder of the Science and Public Policy Institute”

Correction, the microwave frequency for WiFi (802.11b) and Microwave Ovens found in the home kitchen, and some cordless phones is 2.4 Ghz.

Wifi output is in the 100 MilliWatt range while the ovens are in the 1000-1500 Watt range. Note that the ovens supposedly don’t leak much even though they do cause your cordless phone to lose its signal indicating that there has to be some leakage.

It is true that those who work on these RF towers do suffer a whole host of medical problems so the evidence can be considered fact.

If you search microwave oven repair the first thing your read about is how it can cause instant blindness and sterility in men.

Bottom line is that these WiFi frequencies are a new thing for our biological systems to deal with while cosmic rays are an entirely different set of frequencies which over millions of years biological systems have developed defences for.

Brian: The two aren’t comparable. A radio tower will emit hundreds or thousands and sometimes tens of thousands of watts; if you’re climbing the thing, you’ll be very, very close to it. Wireless routers, on the other hand, generally emit one-twentieth of a watt or less; even if one is concerned about this, it can be moved somewhere in the house where people don’t spend a lot of time. Even at one-twentieth of a watt, the amount of microwave energy absorbed will still be far less than that received merely by standing in the sun.

Well, you’ve poked your head up now, Peter, and THEY’RE COMING FOR YOU.

Scare tactics!!

I think there’s more evidence that Federal funding causes autism. At least around here. Those school districts that get funding for each case of autism found seem to find a lot more cases than those that don’t. Also, they can “cure” autism with enough speech therapy, it turns out. At least that’s how OUR school system works.

Scientists have no idea what causes it. Fortunately, they have ways to help kids modify behavior and focus better.

So… just give your kids a tin-foil hat and all is well.

Lol.

This is just another example of using alchemy and fully refuted “theories” to explain autism, generally to alarm parents of autistic children. Autism is a type of personality, which is largely inherited. The evil autism god du jour (in this case WiFi) did not remove a neurotypical child and replace xym with an autistic child.

Last week it was mercury, the week before, it was a disorder to be cured with shock therapy, etc.

Face it, if it weren’t for these autistic children (who grow up to be autistic adults), the entire accomplishment of humanity would have been beer, darts, and a few weapons.

So was Einstein exposed to too much WiFi or just didn’t have enough abusive “treatments”?

Try http://www.safewireless.org/

Radio frequency energy leaked from microwaves is far less powerful than having a cellphone near your head. The federal standard for “safe leakage” from a microwave is about 2.5 milliwatts per square centimeter (at a distance of about two inches from the microwave). On a calibrated leakage detector, even an egregious microwave with a misaligned door will usually not come close to that. The leakage meter will usually barely budge on even a leaky microwave door.

However, place that same meter near the antenna of any cellphone and it will peg the meter. With that in mind, I have never liked talking for long periods of time on my cellphone, and when I do, I usually will put it on speaker phone, so the antenna is not near my head.

There seems a strange irony in chronic cellphone users frying their brains with the radio frequency energy that is being modulated by their own voices. No matter what anyone says, it’s not a good idea to have your DNA helixes vibrating wildly while your cells are dividing, in my opinion. It most likely will greatly increase chances of mutations and therefore possible bad side effects.

Here’s a FOX NEWS ALERT for Peter!

http://www.amazon.com/America-Deceived-E-Blayre-III/dp/0595385230

“I am constantly running into spam on political web sites, all either written by the same person, or by a group of people who are using the same boilerplate. Every one of them claims that Amazon and other sites have banned this book. Obviously Amazon hasn’t, so why the lies? Why the spam? I would venture to guess that it is a sleazy campaign to drum up sales for a book which cannot stand on its own merits.” — Reviewer Tom Potts, Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)

http://www.acnem.org/

Thank God this writer understands how stupid these new findings are … I mean, really, when I get done being leeched for my fever I’ll get back to bowing down before my altar to science …

Watch out Wi-Fi also causes global warming … or maybe Global Warming causes autism … hell I forgot must have been using my cell phone too much lately.

No really this must be how the Amish movement got started. Too much new technology it must all be bad somehow! We must stop using new technology!

Ever since Bill Clinton poked that intern, autism has been on the rise. Is there a connection perhaps? Maybe it’s because OWLgore and his disciples have been flying private jets to warn people against driving their cars is related to the rise of autism.

The earth is bathed everyday from space with a wide spectrum of energy waves, yet we still live longer than any previous generation heretofore.

Magic or junk science. If it scares, then someone will demand MORE government intervention.

The tv remote control has made me indecisive.

It a sign of the High Tech times. I see more people dying from brain cancer than from other types of cancer. I don’t think we will ever find out what is causing it.

http://www.infosecnews.org

Stop with the conspiracy theory, fools. Sure, some telecom companies would lose $$ if this was proved true.

However, everyone conveniently forgets that hundreds of other companies would make a FORTUNE if wi-fi had to be replaced. Heck, even the companies out there now that do WiFi would make $$. How? everything would have to be replaced — ca-ching!!
It can’t be hidden by industry because their are others out there that would benefit.

Just like the old 100mpg carburetor legend. I can promise you there’s no such thing. Why? Simple. It would make trillions of dollars. If Ford had it, they’d crush everybody. If some businessman had it, he could go to any investment banker and they’d give him billions to start a company.

as someone noted, autism occurs more often in educated, upper income families. what do these families have in common….even more than cell phone and router? they have working parents who put their kids in the day after they are born. where a poorer woman might have a family daycare setting, or a relative to watch kids, these “super moms” put the kids in professional daycare where they can be bombarded with educational toys, classical music, and a second language. the only thing missing is physical contact and love. i realize that this is not a PC observation, but it makes more sense to me than the router business. oh, and get rid of those baby carriers. that’s what arms and hips are for.

Global warming causes more plants and faster plant growth! Plants cause cooling!

….wait a minute!!

This story is a hoax.

Text of Study dr. Carlo is here:

http://groups.google.de/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/browse_thread/thread/db4184b562dce0d5

Autism is evolution. Why doesn’t anyone suspect that the suburban middle class in America is breeding retards through natural selection? A race of middle managers living in subdivisions doesn’t need a strong reproductive impetus for the production of physically and mentally robust children.

The cases of Autism have increased in our children as a result of these so-called “mandatory” vaccinations that poison their young brains and bodies–not as a result of WiFi. Though, with recent studies confirming the use of cell phones linked to abnormal brain tumors, I’m sure that WiFi is doing a significant bit of damage to ALL of us as well.

That said…do a little research people. http://www.ewg.org

Look up the preservative Thimerosal. *it’s mercury–mercury is a known poison. Look at the rates of autism in comparison to the use of this preservative in our vaccinations.

Think about the average toddler’s first few years of life and how many times we pump them full of this crap that is “supposed to” help them live longer, stronger and healthier lives.

It is important to look into these things that we so often, too quickly commit to as truth simply because someone else has checked it out–it is important to do your own reading. Sometimes the REAL answers are scary, that doesn’t mean that we cannot move past that fear and find light and hope.