BBC screwed up on wi-fi report
The programme explored the question of whether the development of wi-fi in schools and city centres posed a risk to health. Two viewers complained that the programme gave an unbalanced impression of the state of scientific opinion on the issue (thus exaggerating the grounds for concern), that it wrongly suggested wi-fi installations give off a higher level of radiation than mobile phone masts, and that an experiment designed to test whether certain people were hypersensitive to such radiation had been misleadingly presented. In addition, Professor Michael Repacholi, a scientist who had appeared in the programme, complained that the scientific issues had been presented in an unbalanced way and that the treatment of his own contribution to the programme was unfair to him.
