Study links WiFi with childhood autism
By Donald Melanson 
posted November 21st 2007 6:38PM
posted November 21st 2007 6:38PM
While there seems to be relatively few things that WiFi hasn't been linked to, it seems that a new study has managed to turn up yet another potential peril, in this case a link to childhood autism. According to the study published in the Australasian Journal of Clinical Environmental Medicine, the electromagnetic radiation from WiFi devices supposedly causes metals to be trapped in individuals' brain cells, which the researchers say slows clearance and accelerates the onset of autism symptoms. As Computer Weekly points out, however, a number of health agencies, including the World Health Organization, have repeatedly examined the issue and found no danger from WiFi devices (or cellphones, for that matter) operating at levels below international guidelines. Still, we have a sneaking suspicion that this is far from the last study of this sort we'll see, at least until each WiFi router shipped comes bundled with a tinfoil bodysuit.[Via Switched]
Alright everyone stop speculating. The real paper can be found here :
http://www.internalbalance.com/emr-autism-acnem.pdf
It is a perfect example of bad science: The research included meridian pressure points, detoxification, energy profiling and all kinds of quackery.
The publication is not in the PubMed National Library
of Medicine collection. It includes journals from all over the world.
Until this article is found... this must not be regarded as valid.
However, Dr George Carlo is real. He is very controversial and seems
to believe in a theory, electrosensitivity that has something to do
with symptoms and electromagnetic signals. It is controversial and
not yet proven. Dr Carlo is also leading a lobby group and the Wifi
scares have no good science behind it so far.
I am not dismissing the issue, there has to be good science work to
be done but this is not it.
The ugly on Dr Carlo:
http://www.badscience.net/2007/06/dr-george-carlo-responds-to-andrew-goldacre/
The study was published in http://www.acnem.org/ , which is becoming known as a "crackpot journal". It was more entertaining before, when they had their index of articles available on the web: they covered the whole gamut, from acupreassure to that the human nervous system really consist of optical fibers, and not of electrical conducting nerves. I think (hope...) that it will be a while before it is indexed in Medline.
Fuck.
That.
Shit.
There is absolutely NO LINK between heavy metals and autism. Autistic people have died because they've been treated for heavy metal poisoning that doesn't exist!
Ian...ignorant fools like yourself who know nothing, yet still insisit on shooting off their mouth make me sick. Here is just one of many M.D.s and others in positions where they would know who have brought forth the real origins of AIDs.
http://heyokamagazine.com/HEYOKA.7.HEALTH.AlanCantwell.MD.htm
Engadget, why can't we reply directly to those that reply to us?
just because i didnt know something doesnt make me an ignorant fool, i had no reason to believe that AIDS was a weapon of any kind and to hear it seemed like an absolute joke. so you know what im probably going to be the first one to do this, but i apologize about the whole thing.
that makes me sick that people have the balls to do shit like that, i dont understand it. im speechless. i wish someone with a heart was in the government
http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2005/Jan/14-777030.html
i'm not saying this to dispute you but one of the two has to be right... i just hope to god for some reason yours is wrong. but i have a feeling that man is fucked up enough to do something like this.
Ian,
We all know the government never lies...go to google video and search End Game by Alex Jones and learn about the history of Eugenics (The last part of the film).... it's also embedded on the video page of my site..... zude.com/caldude
I'm humbled by your apology.
Ian. You ARE an ignorant fool, for believing in what Hanna's saying.
I hear having 2 parents who work for microsoft causes autism.
thats not a bash at microsoft, but I really heard of a link between the children of computer programmers and autism. probably something to do with the coding genes
People should do some reading, there isn't really a rise in autism, we've just become better at discovering it.
Or just like Ken Robinson said in his TED talk about a different condition; "Maybe nowadays people would say she had ADHD, but in the thirties people were not aware they could have that."
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Purpose of Study: Hysteria
Result of Study: Funding
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BREAKING NEWS: BIRTH LINKED WITH CHILDHOOD AUTISM!
Such crap - no one knows how Autism forms, so when the study says "more of X causes Y", then what we have is a cause-and-effect relationship, which is crap.
We should pull the 'scientist' into the school yard, stand around him, point and yell "crappy crappy crap crap" over and over again :)
this ties in wonderfully with all the heavy metal spraying that has been conducted worldwide for the past 7 years :)
http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?s=7339345
It might, if heavy metal hadn't been ruled out as a cause.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVZAChMUa0Y :)
When I read the title of the feed I Though it was going to be something about closing themselves in their rooms and not in open areas to socialize or anything like it, but this is just ridiculous.
That's the dumbest bull I've heard in a long time. How long has Wifi been popular? Since maybe 2002-2003? Yeah, that's plenty of data. Considering that it makes zero sense on so many levels and that wifi uses microwave frequencies which are similar to those of existing phones and other devices which have already had such idiotic claims debunked to death.
Sloppy reporting guys. If you'd done any of the checking that Ars Technica did you would have discovered that this study is absolute that doesn't deserve to be reported upon.