Wi-Fi Scaremongering

The BBC has a current affairs programme that’s been running for decades: Panorama. Most of the time, the stories presented under the Panorama banner are worthy, interesting, and well researched. Just occasionally, however, one slips through that is so completely the opposite that one wonders what on earth the programme editors were thinking.

 

We’ve just had a perfect example: Panorama’s programme on the "dangers" of Wi-Fi. A programme so full of bad science and selective use of data that it’s given Dr. Ben Goldacre, over at Bad Science, something to really get his teeth into.