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Dr Marie-Therese Gibson resigns from Tangara School for Girls over Wi-Fi health worries
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- Gepubliceerd: maandag 28 oktober 2013 13:07
news.com.au - THE long-time principal of an exclusive Sydney girls' school has quit due to health concerns over Wi-Fi radiation.
Dr Marie-Therese Gibson — who served for 19 years as principal of the Tangara School for Girls at Cherrybrook — resigned in July due to health problems she blames on Wi-Fi installed three years ago.
The school agreed to switch off the Wi-Fi in the administrative wing, but Dr Gibson said she suffered debilitating headaches when she visited other parts of the school.
Professor James McCaughan sit in his "Faraday Cage'' at his home
"I gave the best part of my life to that school but I had to resign because I couldn't exist in that environment,'' she said yesterday.
"I realised as time went on I was getting sicker and sicker and couldn't sleep at night.
"There were parts of the school I just couldn't go into.
"I started getting strange headaches and tremendous fatigue, and I found I couldn't think clearly.
"My thyroid is kaput and my body can't make melatonin.''
Dr Gibson said she believed schools should cable computers, or install switches to shut down Wi-Fi when not in use.
"Why should students be immersed in it for six or seven hours a day when they're using it for one?'' she said.
"It just doesn't make sense to me.''
Principal quits over 'Wi-Fi pain'
The new principal of Tangara School for Girls, Katrina George, yesterday said she did not want to comment on the matter.
Dr Gibson has served on the executive of the NSW Association of Heads of Independent Girls' Schools, and is on the board of the feminist think-tank Women's Forum Australia.
A Sydney University physics lecturer, Dr James McCaughan, also quit his job in July after Wi-Fi exposure from smart phones in the lecture room "shut me down''.
He said Wi-Fi on trains gave him a ringing in the ears.
"Different people react in different ways,'' he said yesterday.
"It's like when people go out in the sun, the fair skins come up with sunburn farm more quickly than people with olive skin.
"Once you've been stimulated (with EMF radiation) it doesn't stop when you turn it off — your head is still ringing.''