Experts quash Wi-Fi cancer rumor   

网传恐怖实验验证wifi可杀植物 专家实验：没这回事

近日，微博与微信朋友圈再次流传有关常开wifi（无线网络）可能导致癌症的转帖，这让常用手机的“低头族”、“荧光族”们大感恐慌。wifi到底有无危害？晚上睡觉前是否应该关闭wifi，远离手机？[查看全文]

(ECNS) -- The Guangzhou Daily on Monday cited experts as saying that using Wi-Fi doesn't cause cancer and poses no danger to health.

The Wi-Fi cancer myth has dominated social media recently, as five Danish girls who had trouble focusing in class after sleeping with cellphones near their heads overnight began an experiment and found that Wi-Fi routers stunted seeds from growing normally.

Xin Like, an engineer in the Engineering Physics Department at Tsinghua University, together with a seeds company conducted a similar 12-day experiment to monitor the growth of common plant seeds near Wi-Fi routers in one room and others in another room without Wi-Fi routers.

The result released Saturday showed that all the seeds grew normally.

Xin thus concluded that electromagnetic radiation within a safe range doesn't pose health risks.

The non-government Songshuhui Association of Science Communicators put an end to rumors before that Wi-Fi signals kill sperm.

Jiao Shuming, a member of the association who got his PhD in electronic engineering at City University of Hong Kong, said at present the evidence of a possible link between RF (radiofrequency fields) energy exposure and cancer risk is far from conclusive and more research is needed.

Jiao said Britain's Health Protection Agency found RF exposures from Wi-Fi are likely to be lower than in mobile phones.