Glenn Fleishman, cleverly writes that “Wi-Fi isn’t the new asbestos.” He makes the point that a lot of the recent articles published in the UK have been “using bad science and anecdote” to tie wi-fi to health problems.

On the wireless side, there’s no such early evidence. The studies to date that have been peer reviewed and published—not collections of anecdotes or World Health Organization forums—show cellular effects only in circumstances that don’t mimic actual short or long term use. The studies that look at large cohorts find no effect, even over long periods of time. Of course, each of these studies is critiqued by those with either vested health or financial interest—people who think they’re being harmed by EMF or would like to make a buck off it.

But we’re not in the position where obvious, widespread health effects are visible among even the population of long-term mobile users. Wi-Fi, having been in use since 1999 in some organizations, also hasn’t produced any noticeable effects.

This is not to say that there’s no possibility that particular aspects of cellular and Wi-Fi technology couldn’t produce harmful effects on users or those in the vicinity of their use. But there’s no parallel one could make between our current understanding of the possible effects of EMF on human beings from these widespread technologies, and what was known about asbestos and tobacco long before appropriate steps were taken.

Given the power output and signals emitted by WiFi devices I feel pretty confident in thinking that there are no dangers.

Cell phones emit much stronger signals and there hasn’t been any proof of any dangers related to their usage. If you walk down any the street, in almost any city in the world, everyone has a cell phone “glued” to their ear but as much as some trial lawyers would love to be able to sue the cell phone companies they still haven’t come up with anyone suffering from health problems that could be tied to the devices.

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