# News from Ideocracy: Parents complain Wi-Fi is making students sick **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 20, 2010, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-from-ideocracy-parents-complain-wi-fi-is-making-students-sick/550854 "2010-08-20T10:17:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-from-ideocracy-parents-complain-wi-fi-is-making-students-sick/550854/41 "2010-08-23T05:05:05Z")
> [@Uzi](#): > > And Gamma Rays! My God! We’ll all be turned into Reed Richards or the freakin’ Hulk! \ … do you have a timeframe for that ? Cuz I’ve been trying to Hulk out for fricking years, but I just get a bit dizzy. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-from-ideocracy-parents-complain-wi-fi-is-making-students-sick/550854/42 "2010-08-23T05:54:05Z")
What about satellite tv, raining its toxic poison down on our heads? No, wait, those rays get collected into the satellite dish on the side of the house, so they don’t get at your kids. ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-from-ideocracy-parents-complain-wi-fi-is-making-students-sick/550854/43 "2010-08-23T05:58:38Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > … do you have a timeframe for that ? Cuz I’ve been trying to Hulk out for fricking years, but I just get a bit dizzy. I think you are confusing constipation with gamma rays. They are two different things, bud. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-from-ideocracy-parents-complain-wi-fi-is-making-students-sick/550854/44 "2010-08-23T08:39:32Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > **Chimera’s Home for the Terminally Stupid** sounds like a better and better idea with each passing day. so that’s where I should send the catalog of wifi protective technologies. Like these nifty devices that adjust the secondary harmonics of the wifi signal to filter out the harmful frequencies. Just $29.95/set. (holds out 2 small copper sleeves). ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-from-ideocracy-parents-complain-wi-fi-is-making-students-sick/550854/45 "2010-08-23T17:35:42Z")
You know, it occurs to me that teachers are missing a hell of an opportunity here - install cellphone jammers in every classroom, and tell the kids and parents it’s to keep the wifi signals from frying their tender brains. ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-from-ideocracy-parents-complain-wi-fi-is-making-students-sick/550854/46 "2010-08-23T17:49:25Z")
Until someone points out that the jammers themselves send out a signal. But, I doubt their thought process would figure that would be a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-from-ideocracy-parents-complain-wi-fi-is-making-students-sick/550854/47 "2010-08-23T20:01:03Z")
WiFi exposure is harmful to kids, and it should be obvious why. No one has ever become a furry without being exposed to the disease over an internet connection. If you prevent exposure to furry, you prevent the spread of furrie. So unless you want hordes of adolescent Canadian furries dry-humping across the countryside, you have to get rid of the WiFi. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-from-ideocracy-parents-complain-wi-fi-is-making-students-sick/550854/48 "2010-08-23T20:02:38Z")
{Goes downstairs, pulls airport out of wall, stomps it to bits} ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-from-ideocracy-parents-complain-wi-fi-is-making-students-sick/550854/49 "2010-08-23T20:56:58Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > > [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > > > Is there a vaccine for whatever they have? > > If there is, our GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE SYSTEM will pay for it. > But, yeah… we have idiots in our country, too. Won the thread in one reply. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-from-ideocracy-parents-complain-wi-fi-is-making-students-sick/550854/50 "2010-08-23T21:03:57Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > […Is there a vaccine for whatever they have? Yes, it is distributed by our Death Panels. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-from-ideocracy-parents-complain-wi-fi-is-making-students-sick/550854/51 "2010-08-23T21:27:46Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > WiFi exposure is harmful to kids, and it should be obvious why. No one has ever become a furry without being exposed to the disease over an internet connection. If you prevent exposure to furry, you prevent the spread of furrie. So unless you want hordes of adolescent Canadian furries dry-humping across the countryside, you have to get rid of the WiFi. Well, that just raises the question of who Furry Zero is. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2010, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-from-ideocracy-parents-complain-wi-fi-is-making-students-sick/550854/52 "2010-08-23T23:22:40Z")
Your answer is right here; > **[Furry Zero by zkfanart on DeviantArt](https://www.deviantart.com/zkfanart/art/Furry-Zero-12469752)** ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-from-ideocracy-parents-complain-wi-fi-is-making-students-sick/550854/53 "2010-08-24T05:09:24Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Your answer is right here; > > [Furry Zero by zkfanart on DeviantArt](http://zkfanart.deviantart.com/art/Furry-Zero-12469752) Well, shit. Guess I better call in sick tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-from-ideocracy-parents-complain-wi-fi-is-making-students-sick/550854/54 "2010-08-24T05:31:08Z")
Where I live at the other end of the province, Lakehead University bought into the [BioInitiative Report](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioInitiative_Report), and has severely [limited](http://policies.lakeheadu.ca/policy.php?pid=178) the use of WiFi on campus, except for the med school, which gets enhanced WiFi. It’s sort of embarrassing. ---
**Author:** ![Baboonanza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f475e1/32.png) [@Baboonanza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baboonanza)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-from-ideocracy-parents-complain-wi-fi-is-making-students-sick/550854/55 "2010-08-24T09:04:45Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Where I live at the other end of the province, Lakehead University bought into the [BioInitiative Report](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioInitiative_Report), and has severely [limited](http://policies.lakeheadu.ca/policy.php?pid=178) the use of WiFi on campus, except for the med school, which gets enhanced WiFi. > > It’s sort of embarrassing. It was clearly the Med school behind the report. Their cadaver porn torrents were running to slowly so they needed everyone off the network. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-from-ideocracy-parents-complain-wi-fi-is-making-students-sick/550854.md?page=2)