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“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”

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Re: “We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never implied that. The study of radar operators in the military specifically states that the cancer could be caused by anything, calling out industrial solvents often used when servicing radar equipment. But the “5G is cancer” people use the study to support their claim that millimetre saves cause cancer.

The radar operators surely don’t wash them every day with “industrial solvents”. It’s nowhere said that there’s any basis that the operators are consistently exposed to them. The study also doesn’t claim what you claim, it is written much more carefully.

Where did I claim that servicing equipment means washing the equipment with industrial solvents?

Why do you feel the need to “scare quote” industrial solvents which is a common term used to refer to toxic and carcinogenic chemicals used in industrial processes?

Re: “We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”

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Honestly, after a glance at the links, they don't inspire confidence in me either. There are papers about very small changes on very rare types of cancer, measured by proxy on a species where it's common; papers criticizing the critics claiming association with interested parties (what is a perfectly fine thing to claim, but what is it doing in a scientific paper?); and the only wide review I could find claims that t…

Agree - there's shouldn't be any place for ad hominem attacks in a scientific paper. To me, this is a strong indicator of bias and/or journalistic incompetence.

Maybe it's initially counter-intiutitve, but the rise in the rate of cancer should be expected as lifespans are increased and deaths from other diseases decline. E.g. every male will get prostrate cancer "if" they live long enough.

Re: “We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”

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Interestingly, this is apparently a story that a lot of Russian troll farms are pushing hard at the moment.

Please don't post unsubstantive comments here, and please especially don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/science/5g-phone-safety-h... https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/13/nyt-russia-is-attacking-5... https://fudzilla.com/news/48674-russian-trolls-behind-anti-5...
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