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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.
Who talks from their groin anyway? Why do people fall for such foolish nonsense.
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The Groin speaks
I know lots of people who talk out of their ass...
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The Groin speaks
I know lots of people who talk out of their ass...
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Re: Who talks from their groin.
Who talks from their groin? Everyone who bought handsfree to keep from getting brain cancer.
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We're not going to make it, are we? The human race, I mean.*
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?
Protect your child from WiFi and Werewolves!
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Why stop there?
Child safety seats have a nasty habit of decapitating the passengers they are supposed to protect. In my new hospital job, I got to see all the details of how this happened to one unfortunate child, her head flew through the windshield.
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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Re: Why stop there?
wow, they actually allow you to work at a hospital? god has a cruel sense of humor.
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Re: Who talks from their groin.
Um...your phone is constantly transmitting and recieving. Unless you're like me and keep it turned off when not in use. But most people don't. So if you keep it in your pocket, unless you're using it a hell of a lot, you'll get more radiation to your groin than your head.
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my tv station said something stupider
they claim that you shouldn't try to conceive a baby during summer because it will do badly on standardized tests. this is denver's 7 news saying this.
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Well Hi Dee Ho,
Guess what ... life is eventually fatal for everyone.
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Not conceiving in the summer may have some merit. That has to do with pestisides being more abundant in the spring and summer. We all have to live life though, and to think of giving up a nice midsummer frolick in meadow, well, thats unspeakable.
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Re: Re: Moby be his name
Forget about the third arm, if irradiating my son's loins will produce rampant abnormal growth, then it is within my interest and my Swiss daughter-in-law's interests that this "unforeseen phenomena" runs its "unnatural" course...
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Nice post dorpus. You have emboldened us all with confidence in our health care system.
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Re: Why stop there?
Sure, even hospitals need janitors.
Err, sanitation technicians. Custodial engineers?
Goddammit, what's the current safe phrase for garbage man?
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Re: Why stop there?
OK, show of hands - who else immediately had a desire to strap the dorpus in a baby seat?
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Underwear woven from silver
LOL! Let me just get my aluminium foil helmet and I'm good to go!
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Re: Underwear woven from silver
A cavity in a conductive material is a resonant
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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PS
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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I'm going to start selling swimsuits lined with sodium to...um...protect against any waterborne radiation.
And rid the world of a few stupid people...
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SPACE UNDIES!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Oh dear god, the madness spreads
www.stuff.co.nz/4069858a10.html
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*** holding hand up high ***
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