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Skeptoid #273: Wi-Fi, Smart Meters, and Other Radio Bogeymen

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Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2011

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Demonizing radio transmitters as carcinogenic is popular, but is not supported by any reasonable science.

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Nearly every time there's a new technology, there's automatically a cadre of people who

0:08.9

insist that it's dangerous.

0:11.5

To be sure, this is what happened when radio was invented.

0:14.9

So even though today we've learned that radio is both natural and completely safe, there

0:20.2

are still those who insist that everyday radio devices, cell phones, Wi-Fi, etc., are

0:27.6

deadly lethal.

0:29.7

No boogeymen is today unskeptoid.

0:32.9

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

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Wi-Fi, smart meters, and other radio boogeymen.

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