No, Jill Stein, WiFi Isn’t Cooking Our Children’s Brainzzzz

[workinclasszero]

No, Jill Stein, WiFi Isn’t Cooking Our Children’s Brainzzzz
By Fare la Volpe - August 7, 2016 - 12:07pm

Greetings once more, dear readers! It’s that time of the week for the Snake Oil Bulletin!

This week we continue our ongoing theme of examining the anti-science beliefs of the various frontrunners and also-rans of this three-ring election cycle. Originally we were planning to look at Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party and his beliefs on mandatory vaccines (spoiler: he no like), but Green Party Jill Stein made the ill-advised decision speak into a microphone again, and as it was last time, the result was terrible for science.

http://wonkette.com/605241/no-jill-stein-wifi-isnt-cooking-our-childrens-brainzzzz

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Maybe just hers.

[workinclasszero]

3. Well Jill Stein will just have to implement the standard defense

against those horrible invisible rays.

?fb

[bravenak]

2. Omg. It's true!

She can go stfu right now, thx.

[Wilms]

4. Controversial Paper Suggests Wi-Fi Exposure More Dangerous To Kids Than Previously Thought

Most parents would be concerned if their children had significant exposure to lead, chloroform, gasoline fumes, or the pesticide DDT. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IRIC), part of the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO), classifies these and more than 250 other agents as Class 2B Carcinogens – possibly carcinogenic to humans. Another entry on that same list is radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF/EMF). The main sources of RF/EMF are radios, televisions, microwave ovens, cell phones, and Wi-Fi devices.

Uh-oh. Not another diatribe about the dangers of our modern communication systems? Obviously, these devices and the resulting fields are extremely (and increasingly) common in modern society. Even if we want to, we can’t eliminate our exposure, or our children’s, to RF/EMF. But, we may need to limit that exposure, when possible.

That was among the conclusions of a controversial survey article published in the Journal of Microscopy and Ultrastructure entitled “Why children absorb more microwave radiation than adults: The consequences.” From an analysis of others studies, the authors argue that children and adolescents are at considerable risk from devices that radiate microwaves (and that adults are at a lower, but still significant, risk). The following points were offered for consideration:

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This is not a call to throw out all electronic devices. However, at the very least, it should open up the discussion about different safety levels for adults versus children. Hopefully more longitudinal studies will be done to verify or contradict the assumptions so far. In the meantime, are the government’s current regulations adequate? The exposure levels they warn against haven’t seem to have been updated for more than 19 years.

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But, short of that worst-case scenario, the topic certainly merits more scrutiny, and perhaps some common sense limits on what devices our children use, and for how long.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertszczerba/2015/01/13/study-suggests-wi-fi-exposure-more-dangerous-to-kids-than-previously-thought/#73dae1e25fdc

[Recursion]

7. OMG stop. *Water* is 2B.

2B means every single scenario we've tested it in hasn't caused cancer, but it's possible that exposure while on fire and riding a donkey would cause cancer, and since we can't rule that out it's 2B.

[Wilms]

8. Tell the authors.

I'm too busy spraying DDT in my yard and enjoying a cigarette. Doctors approve.

[Recursion]

9. The authors know that, but they know that the audience doesn't (nt)

[Wilms]

11. Last I checked, the authors are scientist...

...not anti-science tists.

[AgadorSparticus]

10. Lmao!!!

[liberal N proud]

5. Jill Stein is the science conspiracy candidate

[DinahMoeHum]

6. Her tinfoil hat is screwed on too tight. . .

. . .methinks.

[niyad]

12. and this woman is a harvard-trained doctor???

[workinclasszero]

13. Hard to believe I know

Then again look at republican Ben Carson......

[niyad]

14. I know, was thinking about him as well.

scary.

[workinclasszero]

15. How can a person have all that learning

But only engage the reptilian brain in politics?

[niyad]

17. don't forget--carson is a young earth creationist as well.

[Maru Kitteh]

16. Boy. Vegetarian Stein sure has a thing for pearls and fur doesn't she?

Might they be gifts from the Motherland?

But I digress.

Stein associates herself in the Green party with kooks and cranks that swallow hook line and sinker every single anti-American conspiracy theory they read on the internet. They also tend to really LOVE the woo! Putin's network RT is happy to supply Greens with a wealth of this material while praising their candidate and flattering her with kind attention, were she can always be found on the front page. Comrade Stein spends so much time at RT she probably has her own office.