WiFi in Schools Proven to be Dangerous
Introduction by Dr. Magda Havas, BSc, PhD
October 18, 2010
This is the documentary on WiFi in schools that was on Global TV 16 by 9, The Bigger Picture on Sunday October 17, 2010. It is just under 15 minutes and is excellent! Parents and teachers we need to do something about this since children are exposed to microwave radiation without anyone protecting them, not the government, not the school board and certainly not the IT Departments!
Teachers need to speak out especially if they are sensitive and reacting to this radiation. Parents and grandparents also need to speak out if their children are reacting adversely with headaches, dizziness, heart irregularities, etc.
The good news is that we can still access internet in schools by using wires rather than wireless technology without being exposed to microwave radiation.
WiFi in schools proven to be dangerous
(14:32)Transcript
0:00 [Music]
0:00 here's Mary Galo good evening and
0:03 welcome to 16x9 the bigger picture you
0:06 can't see it you can't taste it but some
0:09 are calling it a serious health threat
0:11 every parent should know about WiFi
0:14 wireless internet is in schools Coast to
0:16 Coast but why do some kids say Wi-Fi is
0:19 making them sick in a 16x9 investigation
0:23 we put Wi-Fi to the test here's our
0:25 Carolyn
0:28 Jarvis they Gathering by the hundreds
0:31 hacking a public forum in Toronto
0:33 filling a school board meeting in
0:35 Peterboro I don't know what I'm going to
0:36 do if you if you have Wi-Fi in there I
0:38 just I can't I can't do this to my
0:40 daughter I cannot put her through this
0:42 experiment and assembling at a church in
0:44 Vancouver a fever pitch building over
0:47 what they see as a threat invisible to
0:49 the Eye Society in general uh doesn't
0:52 want to lose a convenience at the
0:54 expense of safety they're talking about
0:56 radiation exposure from Wi-Fi or
0:59 Wireless internet and their concern it's
1:02 making their kids sick I just think that
1:04 we don't know so why risk it today
1:07 schools across the country are rushing
1:09 to install it but these students say the
1:11 convenience isn't worth the risk I had
1:14 heart racing headaches nauseous it's a
1:17 really weird feeling weak and I'm really
1:20 shaky and when they're not at school
1:22 does it happen on the weekends no
1:24 there's no Rhyme or Reason to the
1:26 symptoms they range from headaches to
1:27 nausea heart palpitations even
1:30 rashes so 16x9 wanted to find out
1:34 exactly what if any threat exists in
1:36 schools so we went with this man
1:38 industry tester cavinder Dylan to
1:40 measure the radiation levels in a
1:42 typical Wireless classroom is it fair to
1:44 say that this would give us an average
1:45 sample size of what we'd be seeing in a
1:47 typical classroom um yes we're going to
1:50 be concentrating on this area so this
1:52 will basically be give us what the
1:54 proportional rate is to simulate an
1:55 actual classroom we set up each computer
1:57 to stream video constantly receiving
2:00 information from the devices that are
2:02 being uh set up right now and we got our
2:04 antennas uh hooked up and we're getting
2:06 the real life signals with the
2:07 correction factors from the antennas and
2:09 the cable losses right now we are
2:11 basically uh
2:13 113.8k
2:15 so in effect according to Health Canada
2:18 this classroom would be deemed safe um
2:20 according to the criteria yes so next we
2:22 go out into the hallway to check the
2:23 router one of several in the school
2:25 fixed to the ceiling the levels here hit
2:27 2600 microwatts 20 times the reading
2:31 inside the classroom people who are
2:32 actually in Industry who are testing
2:34 this they they they feel this is a high
2:36 limit this is this is very high really
2:39 you heard them our industry tester calls
2:41 that level high but it's still well
2:43 within Canada's safety guideline now
2:46 that guideline is a thing called Safety
2:48 Code 6 it sets the limit for radio
2:50 frequency radiation exposure and Health
2:53 Canada says there's no way the levels we
2:55 found are causing those headaches and
2:57 heart palpitations and Beth Peterson of
2:59 Health Canada says the science backs it
3:02 up there's no evidence scientific
3:04 evidence that those kind of effects are
3:06 caused by the energy um limits that kids
3:09 are exposed to by Wi-Fi Health Canada
3:11 sets the limit at 10 million microwatts
3:13 per meter squared now that might not
3:15 mean much to most of us but in 2008
3:18 Toronto's Board of Health said it's way
3:20 too high and asked Canada's Minister of
3:22 Health in this letter for much stricter
3:24 regulations a 100 times more strict
3:28 Health Canada never changed the thing
3:30 still no matter what any guideline says
3:32 these parents say they've seen it for
3:34 themselves and Wi-Fi is harming their
3:37 kids so she had to hold on to friends in
3:40 order not to collapse on the floor she
3:43 had headaches and we're not talking just
3:44 regular headaches they were extreme
3:45 headaches where the secretary would call
3:47 me I'd have to come pick her up
3:49 according to this doctor there's good
3:51 reason to believe these kids are telling
3:52 the truth and not just making up some
3:54 excuse to skip school there's no
3:56 question in my mind it exists Dr
3:58 Jennifer Armstrong specialized in
4:00 environmental medicine the big thing
4:02 with kids is they're more vulnerable why
4:04 children are more vulnerable their
4:05 skulls are thinner their their bodies
4:08 are not um as strong as ours in in
4:11 general they're developing their brains
4:13 are developing so you expose children to
4:17 radiation and their little bodies don't
4:19 handle it as well and cardiologist Dr
4:21 Steven Sinatra agrees as a parent if I
4:25 had a young child would I want to use my
4:27 child as an experiment to see if it's
4:28 going to take 30 years or 20 years or 10
4:30 years they become sick no not me but and
4:33 the thing is we have to sacrifice
4:35 accelerated education and convenience
4:38 and basically we have to look at the
4:40 safety of our children we have to do it
4:42 as a society well 16 by 9 wanted to test
4:45 the power of Wi-Fi so we went to visit
4:48 environmental scientist Magda Havis from
4:50 Trent University to do another test
4:53 Professor havas's subject Martin who
4:55 calls himself electrically sensitive is
4:57 hooked up to a heart monitor and Havis
4:59 sets up a wireless computer well what
5:01 we're going to be doing is we're going
5:02 to be taking Martin and exposing him to
5:06 microwave radiation from Wi-Fi the same
5:08 type of thing that we have in schools
5:09 for example and just monitoring his
5:11 heart to see if his heart reacts to any
5:13 of the radiation he won't know when
5:15 things are turned on or off so it's
5:16 going to be a blind study in that regard
5:18 with the Wi-Fi plugged in Martin's heart
5:20 rate accelerates in mere moments now I
5:23 can feel something it's going through my
5:26 chest I feel it down in my legs too the
5:29 closer the router is the greater his
5:31 reaction um a few seconds ago it was
5:33 like my chest was actually jumping in
5:36 the middle here then seconds after the
5:38 wireless internet is unplugged just like
5:41 that his heart rate slows down Martin
5:43 how are you feeling right now fine I
5:46 don't think there's anything on but
5:48 listen to this those levels Martin was
5:50 exposed to well they're acceptable
5:52 according to Safety Code six so if
5:54 they're safe why was his heart racing
5:57 Magda Havis has a theory so some
5:59 percentage of the population is reacting
6:02 to these microwave uh radiation at
6:05 levels well below Safety Code 6 but I'm
6:07 not sick from Wi-Fi and I use it all the
6:09 time well not everyone has the same
6:11 sensitivities we have children who have
6:12 peanut allergies we have uh people who
6:15 are allergic to uh pollen they react to
6:17 pollen and it's same with electrical
6:20 sensitivity only uh a percentage of the
6:22 population react still Health Canada
6:25 insists it's done its homework looked at
6:27 every bit of Science and that level of
6:28 radiation won't hurt anybody our safety
6:31 limits are set on we use a weight of
6:32 evidence approach so there are thousands
6:35 of Articles thousands of peer reviewed
6:38 scientific articles on the issue 16 by 9
6:41 wanted to take a look at that evidence
6:43 so we asked Health Canada for its science
6:45 they sent us this a list of 16 studies
6:49 entitled specific to Wi-Fi so we did our
6:51 own homework going through every study
6:54 and not a single one looks at whether
6:56 Wi-Fi in schools poses a health risk to
6:59 students
7:00 AA says since Health Canada isn't
7:02 controlling Wi-Fi parents are going to
7:04 have to so are you suggesting that
7:06 parents should tell their kids a
7:07 13-year-old or 14-year-old who may be
7:09 attached to his laptop or his iPad you
7:12 should stop using that it may not go
7:13 over so well but you know when children
7:15 want to smoke and if you're a
7:16 responsible parent you allow your your
7:17 13-year-old child to smoke in my mind
7:20 there's no difference between the two if
7:21 anything um I think maybe microwave
7:24 radiation is going to show up to be much
7:26 more harmful than smoking simply because
7:28 of the amount of of exposure that we're
7:30 we're seeing in our everyday environment
7:32 so how about the people who make these
7:34 products we asked to speak to Wi-Fi
7:36 manufacturers about the possible health
7:38 effects but they declined our request
7:40 for an interview the organization that
7:42 represents them the Wi-Fi Alliance did
7:45 however provide 16 x 9 with this written
7:47 statement Wi-Fi technology meets all
7:50 national and international safety
7:52 requirements and emits signals that are
7:54 typically hundreds to thousands of times
7:56 below the safety limits all well and
7:58 good but back in the schoolyard these
8:01 kids may have reason to wonder if it's
8:02 safe to go to school what do you want
8:04 done for them to turn it off do you feel
8:07 like there's anything you can do
8:10 no I'm pretty sure they won't listen to
8:12 us
8:14 kids as some schools in Canada race to
8:17 install Wi-Fi there are other schools
8:19 that are concerned about reports of
8:20 headaches hyperactivity and increased
8:23 heart rates in children should we be
8:25 concerned about Wireless technology and
8:28 what exactly does it admit
8:30 here again is our Carolyn
8:34 [Music]
8:35 Jarvis across the country these parents
8:38 teachers and experts are saying the same
8:41 thing there are children getting sick
8:43 and I don't think it's worth the risk I
8:45 really hate sending her to school given
8:48 the environment that she's in Wi-Fi is
8:50 toxic it's a different form of toxicity
8:52 but it's toxic to our bodies he would
8:54 often complain of heart palpitations or
8:57 chest pains i' start getting headaches
9:00 foggy vision and like just all weirded
9:04 out to expose my kids knowingly is very
9:08 frightening for me for me as a parent I
9:10 find it incredibly frustrating and scary
9:12 and sad that no one's even listening to
9:15 the concerns of the parents their
9:17 concern that radiation from Wireless
9:20 computers and this little Contraption
9:22 mounted in the hallways in classrooms of
9:24 schools can make students
9:26 sick it's Wi-Fi and health Canada says
9:29 there's no risk from the radiation it
9:31 emits that's just simply not true that's
9:34 simply not true Dr David Carpenter is a
9:36 world renowned expert in environmental
9:38 toxins in Albany New York and he says
9:41 the Canadian government is just plain
9:43 wrong what we do is look at the weight
9:46 of the evidence but that's what they
9:47 said they did they didn't the weight of
9:49 the evidence demonstrates clearly that
9:53 exposure to radio frequency radiation
9:55 the causes disease the evidence is
9:58 strongest for cancer cancer caused by
10:00 Wi-Fi emissions certainly doesn't add up
10:03 with health Canada's insistence that
10:05 Wi-Fi is safe so you're saying that
10:07 their science is faulty or their
10:08 analysis of the science is faulty their
10:10 science is faulty and certainly their
10:12 analysis is faulty you can selectively
10:14 look at at literature but there's been
10:18 evidence for harmful effects of
10:21 Microwave Radio Frequency Radiation for
10:24 30 or 40 years why choose to ignore that
10:27 how does that possibly benefit them
10:30 when you acknowledge you have a problem
10:33 and you're a government agency you have
10:34 to do something about
10:37 it Canada's government might not be
10:39 doing anything about concerns but in
10:41 France the town of Arville St Clair is
10:45 it's the first municipality in the world
10:47 to remove Wi-Fi from schools and public
10:52 buildings mayor rodolph tamas says he's
10:54 taking a precautionary approach because
10:56 he's not willing to gamble with the
10:58 health of children here
10:59 so this town that 10 years ago went
11:01 Wireless ahead of everyone else became
11:04 in April of 2009 the first to shut it
11:09 down Wi-Fi is an important tool he says
11:12 but there are places it simply shouldn't
11:14 be like schools so now all but two
11:17 schools here are Wi-Fi free and the town
11:20 plans to strip Wi-Fi from all its public
11:22 buildings by the end of the
11:27 year but a reveal s isn't returning to
11:30 the Dark Ages in fact it's once again on
11:33 The Cutting Edge of Technology it's
11:35 installed a state-of-the-art fiber optic
11:38 system that's faster more stable and
11:40 according to the people here safer aen
11:44 sander leads an awareness group against
11:46 Wireless Technologies people could see
11:49 that they were victims that it was not
11:51 that innocuous that some people really
11:53 suffered from this so it started a real
11:55 interrogation among the public and
11:57 people said that well if it's not
11:59 absolutely necessary why should we uh
12:01 use the thing and parents around here
12:03 are applauding the
12:06 change she says removing Wi-Fi is a good
12:09 thing for
12:10 [Applause]
12:12 students and while other European
12:14 countries might not be pulling Wi-Fi
12:16 they are taking a stand in 2007 Germany
12:19 recommended children limit their use of
12:21 Wi-Fi uncertain of its long-term effects
12:24 and in Britain a handful of public
12:26 schools decided independently to remove
12:28 it
12:29 but back in Canada there's no
12:31 precautionary approach Wi-Fi is going up
12:33 not coming down leaving students like
12:36 McKenzie honing with no good option go
12:38 to school and feel sick it's just kind
12:40 of weird it felt like my heart skipping
12:42 beats or don't go to school at all I
12:45 noticed that every time I like came home
12:47 for the weekend it start to get better
12:48 and by Sunday I'd feel normal no like
12:51 headaches or anything like that well
12:52 this is the petition MacKenzie's mom
12:54 Linda is fed up waiting for the
12:56 government to change its mind so she
12:58 started her own campaign hopeful more
13:01 parents will join her we don't have 10
13:03 years on this issue because the exposure
13:06 of radiation for the kids is is harmful
13:08 environmental health expert Dr Carpenter
13:11 says it's time we stop turning a blind
13:13 eye to the risk when you look at the
13:15 guidelines that have been put in place
13:16 by Health Canada do they go far enough
13:18 to protecting Canadians they certainly
13:21 do not these guidelines are based on a
13:24 fallacy a fallacy that according to Dr
13:27 Carpenter is putting children Children
13:29 at Risk it's appropriate for parents to
13:33 demand that Wi-Fi not be placed in
13:35 school not because we have proof at this
13:40 stage that it's harming the children but
13:43 because we have absolutely no evidence
13:46 that it's safe contrary to what any
13:48 government agency says and not heeding
13:51 the warnings of experts like Dr
13:53 Carpenter is leaving students like
13:55 Jeremiah feeling helpless I really am
13:57 nervous I don't really like school no
13:59 more do you used to like school I used
14:01 to love it I'd get mad if I missed a day
14:05 Dr Carpenter warns there may be many Mis
14:07 days or worse for students like Jeremiah
14:10 if change doesn't come soon you don't
14:13 want to wait until you can count the
14:15 bodies before you tell the public that
14:18 there is a serious potential of
14:21 harm and with regard to the issue of
14:24 Wi-Fi in schools this is exactly where
14:27 we are
14:28 [Music]
WiFi causes heart problems, headaches and other neurological disorders in children.
Canadian Documentary exposes the truth.
You can't see it but it's everywhere. WiFi connects computers to the internet, no cords required. Now kids are using it in wireless classrooms across the country. But is it an invisible danger? Carolyn Jarvis investigates why some parents say WiFi in schools is making our kids sick.
Dr Havas demonstrates that a Wi-Fi router can cause cardiac arrhythmia and tachycardia in some people. Dr Carpenter, MD, says "You don't want to wait until you can count the bodies before you tell the public that there is a serious potential of harm. And with regard to the issue of Wi-Fi in schools, this is exactly where we are". Hérouville St. Clair in France leads the way by removing Wi-Fi in schools and putting in state of the art fibre optic networks.
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