Panorama rapped over wi-fi report

The BBC has upheld complaints against a controversial Panorama investigation into wi-fi health concerns, saying the programme had given a "misleading impression" of the state of scientific opinion on the issue.

The Panorama wi-fi report by Paul Kenyon was widely questioned after it was broadcast, not least by the BBC's own science correspondent, David Gregory, and the Guardian's Bad Science column.

A Guardian Unlimited article says:

Two viewers complained that the programme, Wi-fi: A Warning Signal, which aired on BBC1 in May, had given an unbalanced impression of the state of scientific opinion and had wrongly suggested that wi-fi installations give off a higher level of radiation than mobile phone masts.

They also complained that an experiment designed to test whether certain people were hypersensitive to such radiation had been misleadingly presented.

Professor Michael Repacholi, a scientist who had appeared on the programme, also complained that the scientific issues had been presented in an unbalanced way and that the treatment of his own contribution had been unfair.

Full article at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/nov/30/
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