WiFi in Schools 2

As school boards and teachers around the world scramble to provide the richest learning environments for students with ever-decreasing budgets, most have been betting all their chips on Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) and portable devices that communicate with them.

It's easy to understand why schools would prefer to install wireless routers, rather than have ethernet cables running every which way. Conventional wisdom suggests that buying cables is more expensive than using the air for data transmissions. But, if we seriously consider the long-term costs of network maintenance and challenges caused by wireless interference, it becomes clear that WiFi is a hasty, short-term solution that is very likely to get bogged down when network traffic is high (when bandwidth is needed most).

Technical and economic factors aside, why are so few school administrators asking the question, "is WiFi safe for our children?"


Dr Andrew Goldsworthy on WI-FI in Schools - EMFacts

Most of the damage done by digital telecommunications is not due to heating but by the electrical effect their pulsating signals have on living tissues, which occurs at much lower energy levels.

The human body can act as an antenna and the signals make electric currents flow through it in time with the pulsations. It is this that does the bulk of the damage by destabilising the delicate membranes that surround each cell and also divide it into internal compartment such as mitochondria (the energy factories of the cell) and the lysosomes (the cell’s recycling factories).

All of these membranes are just two molecules thick and have a similar basic structure. They are liquid crystals, made largely of negatively charged molecules (which repel one another) stabilised by divalent positive ions (mostly calcium) that sit in between them by mutual attraction and hold them together like mortar holds together the bricks in a wall.

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Further papers by Andrew Goldsworthy, PhD:

How Electromagnetically-Induced Cell Leakage May Cause Autism

The Cell Phone and the Cell: the Role of Calcium

The Biological Effects of Weak Electromagnetic Fields