Will teachers give up coffee, too?

Apparently, some Ontario local teachers unions are calling for a moratorium on WiFi use in schools.

This issue seems to pop up every few years, so it is worth highlighting a few posts from my archives to counter the misinformation being distributed by fraudulent misrepresentations of science.

For example, in my post called “Academic dishonesty“, I point out the misleading editing of a World Health Organization press conference, intentionally removing a key sentence that referred to the junk science:

the lobbyist cut out the introductory sentence that refers to the bad science (“methodological limitations”) producing a “body of evidence” that is “uninformative for the overall classification.”

In 2012, I suggested some teachers needed to go “Back to school”

It is important to keep in mind that the World Health Organization put exposure to radio frequency energy in the same class of carcinogens (2B) as coffee. As my son tweeted, remove WiFi and you’ll have to remove coffee from our schools as well.

Not sure we’d see much teacher support for that.