WiFi and autism: a quick debunking

[Deja Q]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071123-wifi-and-autism-a-quick-debunking.html

Late Wednesday, as most people in the US were focusing on the next day's holiday festivities, Engadget picked up on a potentially unnerving press release entitled "Link Between Wireless Technology and Autism Unveiled in New Scientific Report." Given the increasing prevalence of WiFi use, a clear link between this technology and autism should give many of us pause. But a closer examination of the press release should raise enough red flags that the announcement should be viewed with extreme skepticism./div]

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[TrogL]

1. You've GOT to fucking kidding

We have been bombarded by electronic waves of one form or another since like forever. The Sun puts out radio waves - that's all the static on an AM radio between stations. Lightning strikes put out radio waves - that's the crackle. There's TV and Radio towers all over the horizon (they've been there since the 1940's), cellphone towers on every block, cell phones on your hip (they broadcast all the time, pinging the local towers to let them know they're there).

Wifi adds like .0001% to the existing mess.

[Deja Q]

2. Not I, the source article.

But I concur; the probability is slim at best.

With the correlation of population growth, and the methods used to determine ADS disorders in adults... I think you get my drift. :)