UC Berkeley: Cellphone radiation is harmful, but few want to believe it
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Re: UC Berkeley: Cellphone radiation is harmful, but few want to believe it
#2Is the brain cancer risk increase associated with any cell phone use or specifically holding it up to your ear while talking to someone
I'm more worried about prostate cancer since my phone is sitting next to my crotch 16 hours a day
Re: UC Berkeley: Cellphone radiation is harmful, but few want to believe it
#3Cell 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?
Re: UC Berkeley: Cellphone radiation is harmful, but few want to believe it
#4> Joel Moskowitz
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/dont-fall-...
"Don’t Fall Prey to Scaremongering about 5G"
Re: UC Berkeley: Cellphone radiation is harmful, but few want to believe it
#5The National Cancer Institute has a whole page debunking this: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/r....
Re: UC Berkeley: Cellphone radiation is harmful, but few want to believe it
#6I don’t get how non ionizing radiation can cause cancer…but let’s say it did, would be much more useful to give some risk profile rather than just fear mongering that we don’t choose to believe. Almost everything we do can contribute to cancer but by how much?
Re: UC Berkeley: Cellphone radiation is harmful, but few want to believe it
#7Is the brain cancer risk increase associated with any cell phone use or specifically holding it up to your ear while talking to someone I'm more worried about prostate cancer since my phone is sitting next to my crotch 16 hours a day
I was going to suggest you an EMF pouch case for your phone then read this
> Bogus products Edit Products have been advertised that claim to shield people from EM radiation from mobile phones; in the US the Federal Trade Commission published a warning that "Scam artists follow the headlines to promote products that play off the news – and prey on concerned people."[72]
According to the FTC, "there is no scientific proof that so-called shields significantly reduce exposure from electromagnetic emissions. Products that block only the earpiece – or another small portion of the phone – are totally ineffective because the entire phone emits electromagnetic waves." Such shields "may interfere with the phone's signal, cause it to draw even more power to communicate with the base station, and possibly emit more radiation."[72] The FTC has enforced false advertising claims against companies that sell such products.[73]
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_device_radiation_an...
Re: UC Berkeley: Cellphone radiation is harmful, but few want to believe it
#8What about bluetooth headphones?
Re: UC Berkeley: Cellphone radiation is harmful, but few want to believe it
#9The 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.
Re: UC Berkeley: Cellphone radiation is harmful, but few want to believe it
#10> For more than a decade, Joel Moskowitz, a researcher in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley and director of Berkeley’s Center for Family and Community Health, has been on a quest to prove that radiation from cellphones is unsafe.
Implicit in this is that, despite the decade-plus quest, he has done nothing like proving it.
And that seems to be the case.
The most telling refutation is despite the low-quality research Moskowitz cites showing potential harm, the explosion of cellphone use has not led to an increase of the harms that are supposedly associated with it in that research.