Chronic Vague Symptom Syndrome: Wi-Fi Edition

There’s more wi-fi scaremongering this week in The Indepedent, which cites an alleged wave of parents and school administrators in the UK who have disconnected wi-fi networks in their homes and schools. The idea that people were actually dropping wi-fi entirely because of phantom health concerns seemed positively eccentric when former CEI analysts Isaac Post and Peter Suderman wrote about it happening at Canada’s Lakehead University in March 2006. Now, however, it seems the retreat from technology has become more common. I predict that a maximum of sixth months will pass before a multi-million dollar lawsuit is filed in either the UK or U.S. alleging grevious personal harm from wi-fi “radiation.”