Sometimes the world is too much.

I went off to look up magnetrons (you know, microwave is just a chip with a block of iron and wire)

Hit this on wikipedia:

  or where infants have been placed inside them,[43][44]   
  resulting in microwave burns.

The reference:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pHXdUbiRiA8C&pg=PA87&...

Ok, stopping arguing gleefully with all-comers and going to bed depressed about the sorry state of humankind. And willing to vote for the death penalty should it come round again soon.