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Plants won't grow near Wi-Fi routers, experiment finds

RetroGrow

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Could your wireless be causing problems?
" It's not difficult to understand the appeal of Wi-Fi. This revolutionary technology, which has been commercially available since 1999, eliminates cabling and wiring for computers, reduces cellular usage charges and allows us to connect to the Internet from anywhere with a signal. Despite these benefits, however, studies continue to show that the radiation generated by wireless routers is negatively affecting our health. In fact, the British activist website Stop Smart Meters recently published a list of 34 scientific studies demonstrating the adverse biological effects of Wi-Fi exposure, including studies linking it to headaches, reduced sperm count and oxidative stress.

The latest research into the dangers of Wi-Fi, though, comes from a surprisingly humble source: Five ninth grade female students from Denmark, whose science experiment revealed that wireless radiation is equally as devastating to plants.

Undeniable results
The experiment began when the five students realized that they had difficulty concentrating in school if they slept near their mobile phones the previous night. Intrigued by this phenomenon, the students endeavored to study the effects of cellphone radiation on humans. Unfortunately, their school prevented them from pursuing this experiment due to a lack of resources, so the students decided to test the effects of Wi-Fi radiation (comparable in strength to cellphone radiation) on a plant instead.

The girls placed six trays of Lepidium sativum seeds (a garden cress grown commercially throughout Europe) in a room without radiation, and an equal amount in a room next to two Wi-Fi routers. Over a 12-day period, they observed, measured, weighed and photographed the results. Even before the 12th day arrived, however, the end results were obvious: The cress seeds placed near the routers either hadn't grown or were completely dead, while the seeds placed in the radiation-free room had blossomed into healthy plants.

The experiment earned the five students top honors in a regional science competition. Moreover, according to a teacher at their school, Kim Horsevad, a professor of neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden was so impressed with the experiment that he is interested in repeating it in a controlled scientific environment.

http://www.naturalnews.com/z043238_Wi-Fi_routers_radiation_plant_growth.html
 
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I have plants growing in my office that are right next to a router. They are just fine. That being said I am not a fan of the radio waves being so close to me. We are going to switch out our wireless, and hard wire everything in the Spring.
 

supermanlives

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well my router was next to cable box/tv where I sprouted seeds for a few years.maybe my router was low power? that is all
 
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foomar

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Used to do weed control on electricity board sites , plants would grow into and around 50 kv transformers without hindrance , must have been a high em field all around these sites.

Similar work on a radio station , radar sites and microwave relays showed not a trace of damage or lack of germinateing seeds , on restricted sites where your bank cards are scrambled by the field strength that limits you to one hours exposure.


If these girls are anything like my granddaughter , they have headaches from texting crap to each other till two in the morning.
 
total bs, this is how science works these days...do a poor experiment that doesn't really prove anything, and call a few news outlets, then as long as it has an exciting headline, bam! it's a freaking viral story picked up by 50 online news sites...re-written to make the story seem more professional until you can barely piece together the facts, then people read stories like "chocolate and beer are good for you!" and they live the rest of their lives by it when it was really just one dimwitted nutritionist with a blog and no studies, and a bunch of online news outlets passing the story down the line until half the country thinks it's true...

it amazes me that somebody would give them a good grade without any semblance of proper scientific method! i have a houseplant right next too my router...it's actually touching the pot, and has been for several years, the plant is fine...it's not even about the validity of the experiment, of which there is none, it's about the fact that they clearly had no idea how to do a controlled experiment to prove a theory...Is that not the entire point of science class?!?! this country is breeding generations of total morons...we are in big trouble
 

Coconutz

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Hey Retro... I know youve read every single fucking thread on icmag several times over...
How could you have missed the threads where people warm their beans up on their routers and missed the last time this same link was posted on icmag.
Do you just refresh the broadmite thread non stop?
Just fuckin with you homie
 

supermanlives

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experiment finds, anything passes as an experiment and then can pass as a fact to confuse people DAVESNOTHERE
 

RetroGrow

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Hey Retro... I know youve read every single fucking thread on icmag several times over...
How could you have missed the threads where people warm their beans up on their routers and missed the last time this same link was posted on icmag.
Do you just refresh the broadmite thread non stop?
Just fuckin with you homie

Nope, haven' read every thread, but have learned a lot.
Obviously, I never saw this "news" story before. If I had, I wouldn't have posted it.
I'm also well aware that 5 girls doing a "science" experiment isn't scientific. Just wanted to see what the reaction would be, and if anyone else had noticed any effect of this nature.
Ever hear of "My IC"?
Broad mites was one of my subscribed threads, and I check all subscribed threads every day. Unfortunately, there were a couple of individuals there posting disinformation, and one whose goal it was to get the thread binned by neg repping every post by a couple of people, and by attempting to obliterate other's posts by turbo posting 20 posts in a row, none of which were new or relevant, but just put there to take up several pages of space spewing his hatred in an attempt to bait me & the mods. The mods fell for it. Doesn't really matter, as everything that needed to be covered was covered, and the new people coming into the thread were just asking the same questions over & over because they were too lazy to read. I have a particular aversion to broad mites, and I care about putting out a safe product, first & foremost, hence my interest.
 

Cannavore

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I used to use my router as a heat pad for germing beans when I used the paper towel method. I had no problem with that. My old veg box was also next to it as well along with my tv, and Xbox.
 

Hammerhead

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I use to have my router and DSL modem in the flower room . I never noticed any issues with the plants.
 
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