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And the Uninformed Shall Lead

Published 10/10/03

Filed under: Miscellaneous

What happens when people who know diddly about science start pretending they do? This does.

Here’s the gist:
Parents in a Chicago-area school are demanding (via lawsuit, of course) that their kids’ elementary school stop using an 802.11b network (also called a WiFi network). This is a low-power wireless way to allow laptops to connect to the school’s network and the Internet.

But horror of horrors, it uses — wait for it — radio waves. And… and… and those must be dangerous! Yes! They must! Because… because we don’t understand them! Yes!

(FYI, those 802.11b connections use the same frequency as the cordless phones most of those parents have at home… and at less than 4 percent of the power.)

Snide comment based on obscure references: These parents need to raise their kids BF Skinner-like, but in Faraday cages.

The Fray

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