Last week, the British Government announced they were authorising research into health concerns related to the use of WiFi networks. This is largely in response to bodies like the Professional Association of Teachers who said pupils were being used as “guinea pigs” until the safety of WiFi was established. Why schoolchildren should be picked out I don’t know as the ubiquitous WiFi is in offices, homes and various public places the world over. But I guess teachers don’t understand that.

The European Empire is also, apparently, funding research (also using my tax money) into the same concern.

All this is just a ploy to get you to read an item by one of my favourite newspaper columnists, Mark Morford, of the San Francisco Chronicle. In today’s column, WiFi, the death of us all. You are going to die. Wireless gizmos are devouring your brain, right now. Very sorry, Morford brings his exceptional talents for the written word and humour to bear on the WiFi scare.

Here’s a taster. If this doesn’t tempt you to go read the whole thing then you need psychological help!

I actually do believe, at least a little, that unchecked levels of EMFs can’t really be all that healthy, that danger does indeed lurk in our obsession with more/better/shinier/faster technologies and that the ominous hazards and the ongoing wash of radiation may be invisible and silent but that doesn’t mean they’re not as lethal and corrosive as, say, that feeling you get watching Dick Cheney breathe.

Now go read the whole thing and bookmark Morford so you don’t miss his pieces in the future.