Caltsar,
not beeing speciallist, I agree with most of the things you wrote - the main point in question is (what we generally do not know) what is high / medium / low intensity of radiation. Obviously, having yourself inside of a microwave is too much, but for example talking mobile phones and rats
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Originally Posted by Caltsar
Certainly when exposing lab rats to incredibly high fields this has an adverse effect, but this doesn't mean the effect is enough to cause us harm in our daily life due to fields given off by the wiring in our walls (which are absolutely TINY by the way).
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one a doctoral student at a nearby univesity finished last year an life-long experiment with rats (meaning covering the whole life of the rats, not his own) with daily exposure corresponding to two-hours active mobile phone use. The effects were quite strong, but of course - as you write - rats are much smaller animals and our tolerance to this type of (microwave and other) radiation is quite certainly larger. Thus, we can get some upper bounds easily, but lower bounds (safety bounds) are difficult to come by. I am not overly sensitive about the issue (I stated before that i do not see any problem with using wireless ereaders and similar), but ...
... to give you a specific and personal example (not really a scientific evidence, but to explain concerns etc.) why there are in my opinion some valid concerns about wireless in general: a wlan hot spot was installed in my office approx. 1.5 or 2 meters from my working place some time ago (please note I did not know about its existence at that time). As you might guess because it is an example, there were likely some kind of health consequences: my tinitus was getting worse to the point that I repeatedly heard loud clacking sounds. After finding out about the wlan hotspot and knowing there were no other changes home or at work, I agreed with the employer just to move the hotspot further away so that the intensity decreases number of times (it was needed in that area) and the problem = loud sounds were gone (tinitus very naturally, but sadly not). I cannot of course claim 100% that hearing loud non-existing sounds was caused by the hotspot, but it appeared and disappeared with it and there were no other identifiable causes (which I tried to think hard about before bothering my employer with something so strange-sounding as the wlan-related health problems).
Now, it could very well be that - as you wrote - the effects of the EMF radiation were possibly only temporary (so they did not appear elsewhere than on my working place), but (i) how should one know and be certain about it and (ii) even these temporary effects were sufficiently troublesome.
Sorry for a long of topic comment, but I do not think there will be any valid concerns about wireless ereaders anyway.
Best,
Ja