Ontario Parents Say School Wi-Fi Networks Make Kids Sick

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What a bunch of bull. If this were true then I'd imagine the kids would faint or get severe migraines if they stood right next to a microwave oven.

I imagine selling tinfoil hats will be very profitable in lower-intelligence areas of the US.

It isn't the Wi-Fi. It only allowed students to use computers in places others walk beside them. That creates a problem called Subliminal Distraction exposure. SD was discovered as a problem when it caused mental breaks for office workers. The cubicle was designed to deal with the vision startle reflex to stop it by 1968.

This has happened before, specifically on the Belgian Polar Expedition of 1898. The entire ship's crew except for it's doctor had similar symptoms. They all recovered when they worked outside the ship three months to chop it out of pack ice. There was no Wi-Fi or computers in 1898.

My wife had the mental event thirty days after the University of Alabama changed her office eliminating Cubicle Level Protection. I discovered it is unknown by anyone in medicine or psychiatry. It's a Design problem. Only designers and engineers working in Systems Furniture, cubicles, will be aware of it.

While you can verify that it exists as a harmless nuisance in the design of crowded office workspace it has never been evaluated for any other problem it might cause. Almost no one is aware it exists.

VisionAndPsychosis_Net is a seven year investigation. I suspect but cannot prove it is the cause of sudden strange disappearances and suicides of college students.

Just telling students about it and how to avoid exposure will stop it. Wi-Fi only magnified it. More students had massive exposure. The problem has always been there causing mental problems for students.

I have a Linksys WRT54GL router set to factory settings. I bought it to change the firmware to Tomato so I could use it to test antennas at my TCC College Wireless class. My wife, child and I started having chest pain. Also we had pain in the calf which felt like it was in a vein and a full body ache for months. This was bad enough we were testing everything in the house and had seen many doctors. I even bought a Trifield EMF meter looking for a electrical problem. When my four year old started hurting all the time I shut off the router out of desperation and within a few days we all felt 10 times better. It took some months of being exposed to its RF before we started hurting. I have also noticed alot of women i know having thyroid problems in the past few years. This also bothers me and they don't have WAPs. I thought wireless was great until my family started hurting. My professor said I should have my router tested. I hope this helps someone.

Do you know anything about journalism? You are supposed to report facts and NOT state any opinions. I love how you try to push your opinion on peoples' minds with the last paragraph written.

"This is not to suggest that the switch to Wi-Fi isn't going to interfere with small brains and school kids, but Palmer's claim that he's "eliminated" all possible culprits is certainly hyperbole. We have to wonder. Is it really so strange that kids are sicker during school days than on the weekends?"

Let people think and form opinions on their own. I'm so sick of mass media controlling the countries thoughts.

those kids are just faking sick cause they don't wanna go to school!

So.... they "don't display these symptoms at home," but one of the symptoms is "night sweats." Are they sleeping at school?

I hope that they have also made sure that there is no mold in the school, because a lot of these symptoms can be caused by mold exposure

I don't know about the kids, but all of the electronic gadgetry sure makes me sick. My favorite is the person who is your guest at dinner and proceeds to IM all through the meal. I also enjoy the thrilling ride with the driving IMer. Nothing is that important that it can't wait until after dinner or driving.

"kids from 14 different schools displayed symptoms -- including ..., night sweats and insomnia. Rodney Palmer and other members of the Simcoe County Safe School Committee say the kids don't display these symptoms at home."
If the symptoms include night sweats and insomnia, how can they not display these symptoms at home? What are they doing at the school at night?

Gosh, as a mom, it really all sounds quite normal ailments for children. Plus it's at school , you know, your kids favorite place to be lol.

If it's only in school they have these symptoms.... then how are they having night sweats and insomnia? Makes no sense to me...

It seems strange that wi-fi is making children sick. I lived 4 years living on a wireless campus, and I never feel anything, nor have I heard anyone complain about the wi-fi making them sick.

You have to keep in mind that this is a continuous exposure. A child would have to stand in front of a running microwave oven for 7 hours to get the same exposure. Also, wouldn't 20 laptops in the same classroom result in higher levels? Not sure, but would be interesting to find out.

Yes everybody, let's dismiss these symptoms until people start getting really sick. Wouldn't want to mess up your wireless reception while actual testing was done to see if it's safe. After all they're just children, and Canadian children at that.

This is a complete load of bunk. There have been extensive scientific studies utterly debunking these absurd notions. You CANNOT catch cancer or anything else from cell phones or electromagnetism, and any belief to the contrary is done so with complete ignorance to how electromagnetism and radio waves work.

I bet these same hysterical parents also refuse to vaccinate their children because of a baseless, paranoid belief that it causes autism.