Green Building Forum - WiFi - should we worry about exposure? Sat, 30 May 2026 20:03:45 +0100 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.0.3 WiFi - should we worry about exposure? https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=8960&Focus=144446#Comment_144446 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=8960&Focus=144446#Comment_144446 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:49:44 +0100 Ed Davies Posted By: fostertomFlying against the evidence, esp scientific evidence, is a long-standing and valuable tradition.
I agree that it's long-standing. Usually (but not quite always) it is the opposite of valuable.

What particularly concerns me is that the amount of ridiculous nonsense that gets spouted on subjects like this could make it harder for any real evidence to emerge if there actually is a problem. E.g., scientists would feel discouraged from publishing results which are merely indicative of some effect but which are not ironclad where, in a more balanced atmosphere, they'd just publish with appropriate caveats and nobody would bat an eyelid.]]> WiFi - should we worry about exposure? https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=8960&Focus=144447#Comment_144447 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=8960&Focus=144447#Comment_144447 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:56:50 +0100 fostertom
I can gratefully rely on Scientists and technicians to do what they believe in. I don't have to be a signed-up rationalist and they don't have to be like me, who they find so disconcerting. I know I need Scientists and technicians, but they can't bear to need me.]]> WiFi - should we worry about exposure? https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=8960&Focus=144448#Comment_144448 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=8960&Focus=144448#Comment_144448 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:07:29 +0100 fostertom WiFi - should we worry about exposure? https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=8960&Focus=144457#Comment_144457 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=8960&Focus=144457#Comment_144457 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:53:22 +0100 Ed Davies Posted By: fostertomEd, I don't get what you mean - sounds like Scientists are so fragile that Science will burst into tears if it's not allowed to continue its ways unchallenged.
No, that's not what I mean. What I mean is that it's difficult to figure out what's really going on when the conversation is polluted and polarized by people who twist everything to their own prejudices irrespective of the actual evidence.

I think they/it are more robust and resourceful than that.

Good.

As Science reluctantly discovers how full of ambiguity and indeterminacy the cosmos is, it's a pity Scientists can't learn to swim happily in that.

Just because the universe is indeterminate at the quantum level and often very sensitive to initial conditions at a broader level doesn't mean it's reasonable to just make stuff up and expect to be taken seriously.]]> WiFi - should we worry about exposure? https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=8960&Focus=144458#Comment_144458 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=8960&Focus=144458#Comment_144458 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:58:34 +0100 fostertom WiFi - should we worry about exposure? https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=8960&Focus=144472#Comment_144472 https://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/newforum/comments.php?DiscussionID=8960&Focus=144472#Comment_144472 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:55:45 +0100 wookey
Take a look at the other visualisations - there is some good stuff in there. Plane crashes, financial bailouts, climate change, radiation levels.]]>