[BAWUG] Re: [SOCALWUG] Parents sue school over WLAN's health effects on children

[Jon King]

BAWUG readers:  I roped you into this socalwug thread because I wanted to hear what you all would say. read the email below to find out what I am responding to...   this is so sad. it is an absolute load that people are actually able to make their way into a court to talk about something like this. "substantial body of evidence". what are they talking about? there isn't a fact in this supporting these claims. it is absolute slander. tests quite to the contrary have indicated that RF is 100% harmless. they have done studies with rats and RF and they used signals thousands of times stronger than those emitted by your Waps and they couldn't prove it even gave the rats headaches. this kind of suggestion is just silly and should those spewing it should be forced to produce evidence or shut up.   ----- Original Message ----- From: Geoff Shively To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 8:51 PM Subject: [SOCALWUG] Parents sue school over WLAN's health effects on children I reliable source forwarded this to me:   "Parents in Oak Park, Illinois, have launched a class action lawsuit against the local school board for threatening the health of children by installing WLAN technology in classrooms. The lawsuit alleges that Oak Park Elementary School District 97 has "ignored the substantial body of evidence that high frequency electro-magnetic radiation poses substantial and serious health risks, particularly to growing children." It accuses school authorities of failing to "adequately examine and assess the potential health risks that wireless LANs pose to humans, particularly children who are still growing." The suit argues that "there is a substantial and growing body of scientific literature studying and outlining the serious health risks that exposure to low intensity, but high radio frequency (RF) radiation poses to human beings, particularly children...[and that] prolonged exposure to low intensity RF radiation can break down DNA strands, cause chromosome aberrations and break down the blood-brain barrier, thereby permitting toxic proteins to invade the brain." For more than two years now I have argued that health concerns are a future sleeper issue which would come to the fore as WLANs become more pervasive. It appears that the future is here." Cheers, Geoff Shively, CTO PivX Solutions, LLC   Are You Secure? http://www.pivx.com