Tuesday, November 03, 2015

we only WANT bad news

Recently someone asked me how I can allow my kids near wifi devices.  After all, she heard they cause cancer.
I had no idea what she was talking about, I thought this debate had died down a long time  ago. So I went looking.
The current fervor seems to have been started by a Forbes article in January (this one) that was immediately debunked by a Forbes article released three days later (this one).
Sadly, no one wants to hear the unimpressive news that everything is OK. If you look at the views on those two articles, the scary one has 300000+ views while the rebuttal has less than 10% of that number.

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