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Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.

Today is Wednesday February 22nd, 2006.

This is your host, Stephen Ovella, president of the New England Skeptical Society.

Joining me tonight are Perry DeAngelis, Yellow and Bob Ovella.

Hey everyone.

We have a special guest tonight, Terence Hines, author of Suda Science and the Paranormal.

He'll be joining us in just a few minutes.

But first, let's start with some Skeptical News items this past week.

A report published in the Register, which is a British newspaper,

discusses the possibility that Wi-Fi area networks,

basically using radio signals to wirelessly connect computers together,

that there is concerns among some people that this may be a risk factor for either leukemia or brain tumors.

This is like the cell phone nonsense.

Exactly.

And the power lines.

And the power lines, yeah.

Right, it's basically all part of the same basic health scare.

Now there is actually, but the article is about is a university in Canada that decided to limit their Wi-Fi network on campus

so that they wouldn't be exposing their students to excessive radiation.

This is the name of the university is Lakehead University.

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