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https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/brain.html
He's either a shyster or a goddamned moron.
I personally know a couple people who went blind from looking at radio sources (one was a wave-guide the other was a radar dish; oops). That's one reason I never watch my food cook in a microwave.
As a kid we used to cook hotdogs using an antenna and transmitter.
So yeah, radio waves can have an effect on you no doubt. As for cancer, well, anything that damages your cells theoretically has a chance at cancer. Whether that risk is higher than normal with common radio sources like cellphones is up for debate but I think it's possible.
Edit: Most Wifi is very weak so at even a small distance unlikely to damage cells. Cellphones can be more powerful and you hold it right up against your body. Does it actually damage cells? I think the jury is still out but again I think it's possible..
Cell phones emit non-ionizing radiation. How can that possibly cause brain cancer? Shouldn’t we be seeing an epidemic of brain cancer if this were true? Wouldn’t the much stronger sources of radio waves we’re exposed to produce even more cancer? What about WiFi?
What about bluetooth headphones?
This was on an Ericsson from memory. old unit that hooked around your ear. I think I got it with a T28 great phone for the day.
The National Cancer Institute has a whole page debunking this: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/r... .
I wouldn't call that debunking. It says there are studies underway that take years. Sounds like the jury is still out to me. I think it would be wrong to just assume there are absolutely no risks.
Cell phone subscribers since 1997: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone#/media/File:Mobil...
The article claims cell phone radiation causes brain cancer. So where is it?
Cell phones emit non-ionizing radiation. How can that possibly cause brain cancer? Shouldn’t we be seeing an epidemic of brain cancer if this were true? Wouldn’t the much stronger sources of radio waves we’re exposed to produce even more cancer? What about WiFi?
Cell phones emit non-ionizing radiation. How can that possibly cause brain cancer? Shouldn’t we be seeing an epidemic of brain cancer if this were true? Wouldn’t the much stronger sources of radio waves we’re exposed to produce even more cancer? What about WiFi?
I think the theory is that effects like heating or pulsing might interfere with physical chemistry of biological mechanisms, rather than ionizing atoms directly. But I doubt we'll see these correlations taken seriously unless these interferences can be observed.
The local heating one always seemed much simpler, particularly as you didn't even need to have the heating come from the antenna, as I remember old cell phones--which you usually kept next to your head while talking (how quaint ;P--also routinely getting hot to the touch just from heat dissipation from the battery. There were tons of other explanations for the effects people found, though (which were stuff like "while we didn't find more brain tumors, if you got one it tended to be on the side you held your phone").
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I wouldn't call that debunking. It says there are studies underway that take years. Sounds like the jury is still out to me. I think it would be wrong to just assume there are absolutely no risks.
Brain cancer incidence since 1992: https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/brain.html Cell phone subscribers since 1997: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone#/media/File:Mobil... The article claims cell phone radiation causes brain cancer. So where is it?
Cell phones emit non-ionizing radiation. How can that possibly cause brain cancer? Shouldn’t we be seeing an epidemic of brain cancer if this were true? Wouldn’t the much stronger sources of radio waves we’re exposed to produce even more cancer? What about WiFi?
The National Cancer Institute has a whole page debunking this: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/r... .
I wouldn't call that debunking. It says there are studies underway that take years. Sounds like the jury is still out to me. I think it would be wrong to just assume there are absolutely no risks.
Were there a major risk of brain cancer from cellphone usage, it would have shown up in actual statistics. Hell, if the risk were as small as an extra one per million chance, we should still be able to find it (note that we're able to observe side effects that rare in the current COVID-19 vaccination drive). While the real world data is an uncontrolled study, the study size is so large that it has enormous statistical power in its own right.
