Irrational wi-fi fear – thanks Panaroma
June 25th, 2007
A few weeks back, Panorama – the BBC’s once serious and noteworthy current affairs programme – broadcast a lazy, fear-mongering film about wi-fi.
In a television market where Gillian McKeith still gets to make programmes, I suppose we shouldn’t be too surprised when the BBC joins in and produces similar nonsense.
The Register has a good response to the wi-fi-fear in general, Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science offers some great insights in the comments and a chap called Wellington Grey has a fantastic cartoon on the dangers of wi-fi.
Categories: Bad science, TV
Thank you for linking to my site.
-Grey
Typical.
We are forced to pay for the BBC and they use the money against us.
Maybe the Panorama lot have been watching too much Horizon recently.
“Next week on Panorama: scientists, politicians and philosophers claim that immigration, coupled with global warming and human genetic modification, will lead to a race of asian super-mutants within the next ten years. We ask: is Gordon Brown’s government up to the task of defending us from this master race?”