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Mobile phones and other wireless equipments are spewing daily copious amounts of electromagnetic radiation. Are we seeing a repeat of the love affair people had with X rays at the dawn of the 20th century? People were fascinated with an X ray photograph of their hand wearing a wedding ring. Fashionable shoe stores had an X ray machine to show you what a good fit it was for your foot!

Eventually after the death of Clarence Dally, Thomas Edison assistant, people realised that seeing through matter had its cost. Today people are fascinated with microwaves. I used to be a ham radio operator and there was anecdotal evidence that engineers who worked on radar equipment never fathered sons - only daughters...

The human body is extremely resilient but when is it too much? What we know is that the effect of radiation is cumulative - a tiny bit each day has the same detrimental effect as a larger dose in a short period of time. So just like passive smoking you might be irradiated whether you use a mobile phone or not. WiFi and other wireless networks are transmitting data literally through your body and maybe one day we might get a bionic antenna to pick up on all that information that passes across our head...

That might be a great script for a Dr Who episode but right now people are up in arms if a mobile phone tower is erected next to a pre-school.

If you are bored at home one afternoon why not experiment with a microwave oven. Have you tried to microwave eggs in there and see them explode? Have you microwaved a DVD-R to see the effects of electrical discharge through its metal film? Have you microwaved some potatoes wrapped in foil? (Turn off the lights in the kitchen and watch the show...)

These are some of the innocent pranks people can get up to but without being facetious the bottom line is that we do not have a clue what the long term effect of radiation will be on the next generation.

You would be considered a dork if you refused to use a mobile phone today. Everybody has one. It is a piece a jewellery and a toy you can enjoy all day. It is a great wife retriever to check-up on what your darling is up to. It can keep your children quiet at church while the sermon drags on. Clearly the advantages outweigh the scare mongering.

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