London District Bans WiFi: "We Are Frying Childrens' Brains"

Wireless networking is to be banned from a London school district after a local politician claimed that we are "frying children's brains" with the technology and that the world will "wake up in 20 years" with serious health problems as a result of radio waves. From the Tottenham Journal:

"The committee recommended the council should write to all schools notifying them of the council's concerns, suspend wi-fi use and installation, host an open seminar on the issue, promote hard wired internet, consult parents over installation and only switch wi-fi on when it's needed."

What, we should only fry children's brains "when it's needed?"

The councilor in question, Emma Jones (Labor—Bruce Gove), said: I, quite frankly, think we are frying children's brains. I'm really worried we going to wake up in 20 years with serious problems." Campaigners cited a recent documentary that was so comprehensively and quickly debunked the BBC felt it necessary to publicly smack down the producer of its own show.

Hysterical health scares are Britain's answer to America's creationism — a systematic mythology rooted in paranoia and folk panic, so deep-seated in the national soul it can never be excised.

Wi-fi 'victory' for school protesters [Tottenham Journal"