Wireless health risks: any proof of it being a threat? Do you take it into account?

The WHO published a report in 2006 with the following conclusion:

Considering the very low exposure levels and research results collected to date, there is no convincing scientific evidence that the weak RF signals from base stations and wireless networks cause adverse health effects.

I'm sure that if any convincing studies had found problems, we'd have heard an awful lot more about it. Instead, all I've ever heard about are studies not finding any effect, and studies which find an effect but then get debunked.


In most countries maximum Wi-Fi power is limited to 100 mW (0.1 watts). The power drops proportionally to the square of distance.

By comparison, cell phones are limited to some 2 W (2000 mW), and using them you hold them right by your head, and yet there isn't any proof that they do any harm.

CB radio has max output is 4-5 W (5000 mW).

More examples of output power (wiki).

As noted by X-Istence in the comments below, in all cases, this is the maximum power. Both Wi-Fi and cell phones automatically lower their power when possible.


Wireless health risks tend to be touted by the same nutters who think DNA can be supercharged, water can be infused with memory, cancer can be cured with a coffee enema, etc.

It's entertaining to take such a person and ask them to turn on their radio or older TV, switch to a channel that's getting static, and explain to them that the fuzz they're seeing/hearing is radiation coursing through their bodies from the Big Bang.