Forget About WiFi, You're Irradiating Your Child With The Baby Monitor
from the tinfoil-beanie dept
Newspapers and TV shows are having a great time fueling the freakout over the supposed dangers of WiFi, following the formula of technology paranoia + kids = gold. Over the weekend, the story was given a new twist, when one paper reported that radiation from baby monitors could be hurting babies. This is the sort of stuff the papers live for: the conflicts of modern life! Do you bathe your child with radiation and run the risk they'll grow a third arm or something, or not use the baby monitor and run the risk of missing out when the child needs you? Meanwhile, those laggards at the BBC are still worried about WiFi, with a new program claiming that radiation from a WiFi access point is three times greater than that from a mobile phone base station. Of course, never mind that the claims don't stand up to scientific scrutiny, and plenty of scientists -- without a vested interest in selling papers or attracting viewers with scare stories -- say it's safe. Some businesses, however, are lining up to capitalize on the fears, such as a Swiss company that's selling underwear woven from silver, which it says will ward off cell-phone radiation from the wearer's groin.
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Who talks from their groin.
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The Groin speaks
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The Groin speaks
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It's not the tech that will destroy us. It's our irrationality in the face of technology. Sometimes I worry that our minds weren't actually evolved to handle anything more than voodoo. That's what this fear of wifi is. Voodoo. Sympathetic magic.
*Stolen from Terminator 2.
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Silver?
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Why stop there?
Neighbor's swimming pools also tend to have a magnetic attraction for small children. One such child wandered away forever during a mother's day party, resulting in the mother going berserk, biting her tongue, and spraying blood all over the ER walls.
But in our polite society, it's more fun to think about abstract threats.
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Neighbor's swimming pools also tend to have a magnetic attraction for small children. One such child wandered away forever during a mother's day party, resulting in the mother going berserk, biting her tongue, and spraying blood all over the ER walls.
Thank you, David Lynch.
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Err, sanitation technicians. Custodial engineers?
Goddammit, what's the current safe phrase for garbage man?
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my tv station said something stupider
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Guess what ... life is eventually fatal for everyone.
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Underwear woven from silver
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circuit, even if it's filled with Q spoiling brains.
The aluminium foil might hurt more than it helps.
I think worrying about things like baby monitor
emissions is rather strange given how the majority
of automobile drivers conduct themselves.
At least the woven silver underwear might retard
bacterial growth. That's something.
PS
Dorpus makes me laugh. Is that wrong?
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Dorpus makes me laugh. Is that wrong?
No, it just means you're slightly less anally retentive than most people. The guy cracks me up too.
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And rid the world of a few stupid people...
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Oh dear god, the madness spreads
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So you want to make your baby electrosensitive?
Anyway, my advice, for what its worth, is if you do want to put a baby monitor in your childs bedroom make sure its a wired one or an analogue one, see http://electricsense.com/?p=897
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baby safety
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