Peter Limbrick writes

I attended a meeting in Derby last month that was addressing concerns about wi-fi technology in the classroom. While we heard reports of pupils having unusual and unpleasant symptoms while sitting near wi-fi nodes on the classroom wall and of teachers becoming incapacitated in wi-fi parts of their school, we did not get a consistent message about the science.

My layman’s impression is that there is not yet a body of universally accepted science telling us that wi-fi is unsafe for children (certainly not any that the government wants to listen to). But, at the same time and of greater significance for me, there is no science telling us that it is safe. This reminds me of the debate about smoking and cancer and secondary smoking. We had to wait for decades for the government to pay attention to the mounting scientific evidence. As always, funding for scientific research, vested interests and the welfare of children must jostle for position.

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