I'll try to find and post a direct link with some reporting which is surely less subjectively tainted and cynical than mine is admittedly (and deliberately) below but, in summary, a family has filed a lawsuit against a private school located in Southboro, Massachusetts, claiming that the Wi-Fi there is making their precious attendee ill.
More specifically, they claim that their progeny is a "victim" of (...are you ready? drum roll here please...) Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome.
Whether that "condition" is actually known or acknowledged by anyone in medicine, I certainly cannot and do not claim to know. There was no media mention of the student's grades or social success at the school either.....but $250,000 would apparently help to make little Thurston (not his real name, I hope) somehow feel better.
Whether either parent is a litigator / attorney, I also do not claim to know (...but I might be willing to place a small wager).
The school has had independent contractors measure and assess electromagnetic radiation levels at the school. As reported by news media (so take with a grain of salt), the results indicate levels less than 1/10,000th of anything thought to be in any way potentially harmful to anyone. That would seem to be some serious "hypersensitivity" --- from which anyone and everyone else at this private school is somehow mercifully spared or otherwise apparently immune.
I am not a doctor and I don't play one on TV, nor am I technically knowledgeable about electromagnetic radiation and / or Wi-Fi.
What I am, however, is highly skeptical and wary of frivolous lawsuits (...not that I am implying that this is any such thing). :ignore:
P.S. No mention of little Thurston perhaps transferring to a public school --- maybe even one without any Wi-Fi at all.
More specifically, they claim that their progeny is a "victim" of (...are you ready? drum roll here please...) Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome.
Whether that "condition" is actually known or acknowledged by anyone in medicine, I certainly cannot and do not claim to know. There was no media mention of the student's grades or social success at the school either.....but $250,000 would apparently help to make little Thurston (not his real name, I hope) somehow feel better.
Whether either parent is a litigator / attorney, I also do not claim to know (...but I might be willing to place a small wager).
The school has had independent contractors measure and assess electromagnetic radiation levels at the school. As reported by news media (so take with a grain of salt), the results indicate levels less than 1/10,000th of anything thought to be in any way potentially harmful to anyone. That would seem to be some serious "hypersensitivity" --- from which anyone and everyone else at this private school is somehow mercifully spared or otherwise apparently immune.
I am not a doctor and I don't play one on TV, nor am I technically knowledgeable about electromagnetic radiation and / or Wi-Fi.
What I am, however, is highly skeptical and wary of frivolous lawsuits (...not that I am implying that this is any such thing). :ignore:
P.S. No mention of little Thurston perhaps transferring to a public school --- maybe even one without any Wi-Fi at all.
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