WLAN connections.  Same thing, and I use it all day, every day to connect to my wireless router.  Wireless MailMinder?  Yup, have one of those, too.  Wireless weather station?  Got one of those too.  Baby monitors?  No different.  

Better get used to it.  Wireless isn't going anywhere anytime soon.  

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I don't think that this technology can be very dangerous in the short term, because if it was, that would have become obvious by now.  It may be dangerous in the long term, and that is much harder to tell, simply because it is new technology which hasn't been around long enough for us to find out the long term consequences.

I have a long history (roughly half a century) of using telephones that are attached by wires to a specific location, rather than the kind that you can carry around with you, and I still find that perfectly convenient for my purposes.  Even aside from the health issues raised in this story, wire connections are still more reliable than the wireless kind, in terms of clarity of transmission.  I do not mind having to be in a specific location in order to use my telephone.

Our environment is filled with various kinds of electromagnetic radiation of many different kinds, coming from many different sources, but there is one respect in which the mobile or cordless phone is unusual, which is its positioning, held up to the ear and hence, extremely close to the brain.  So, even though the microwave emission by these devices is weak, the brain does get a relatively strong irradiation.  Therefore it is at least plausible to me that it has some medical consequences.  But it may be decades before we have good long-term statistical data.

Personally I think that it would be prudent to limit the expose of children to these kinds of phones, at least unless they use an earpiece, so that the microwave emission is not so close to their brains.

Dvandom nailed it in the sub queue: the poll results reflect my thinking exactly.

As a result of the second-hand smoke fiasco, I no longer take much of anything that comes from "official", government, or quasi-governmental sources regarding health and science in general at face value. Call me naive, but that was the first time I personally became aware of being outright lied to in order to advance a social agenda - even though the social agenda itself (ending smoking) was arguably a good thing.

Is limiting cell phone use in certain situations and by certain populations arguably a good thing? Of course. But don't try do that by telling me it's going to fry my brain and turn my kids into cancerous zombies.

The nanny-state loving ob/comp types who just live for wagging fingers and raising alarms are a lot scarier to me than second-hand smoke or microwaves.

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