I played golf with a guy that got burns on his leg from putting a cell phone in his pocket. He also had issues with big power lines. None of this bothers me, but I believe he had problems. I've read about other people that have problems. Just because you can't feel RF or don't realize you feel it or if it doesn't affect YOU, doesn't mean it is not an issue.
Some cellphone manuals state that you shouldn't place your phone in your pockets, one reason being that some times coins or keys can touch the terminals, thus shorting out the battery.
Also, if there was any correlation between the nominal 300 milliwatts a cell phones produces and cancer ( for example), there would be millions of people with that illness! How long have cell phones been around? Over 20 years. And there's no hard evidence to say that those devices cause any harm, other than to the pocket book.
Thermal effects have been known about and repeated in lab tests day in day out for far longer than the infamous cell phones. When they can prove RF is dangerous, (the RF we deal with), prove like the aforementioned thermal effects, then we're on to something.
Wasn't diathermy touted as the new wonder healer for everything that ails us back in the 30's - that was just RF heating of the tissues. Perhaps exposure to RF actually does us good, not harm. :roll:
Anyway, I'm sure that the combined effects of the taxi, police, public service vehicles and others around town which all have continuous data communications with their respective base stations put out more RF pollution than all the cellphones together.
When I was in high school, my chemistry teacher actually proved to us through equations how a radio wave does not have the energy required to break atomic bonds in the human body. I wish I could reproduce those results but they were quite interesting. They didn't even come close to being able to break a bond (cause cancer). Also, you should put it this way, AND PLEASE READ THIS BECAUSE THIS IS A CRITICAL POINT:
Everyone is talking about RF exposure, but what they don't realize is that the very thing that lets them survive is what they're fighting against. Light waves are the exact same type of energy as radio waves, only with a much higher frequency. So you're telling me that you're worried about a .3 watt cell phone giving you brain tumors when you bathe yourself underneath a 60 watt light bulb daily? If anything, light waves have a higher potential to create cancer since they're closer to UV light which is known to cause all types of cancer. What do you think that heat is when you touch a light bulb? Oh yeah, those are radio waves too (not technically but they're both EM radiation).
So let me just ask this again and get this straight... so you're telling me that you're worried about a cell phone, which gives off ONE THIRD of a watt, when you're exposed to not only 60 watt light bulbs, but also being exposed to 100 watts per square foot of light (including UV) when you're outside? You have got to be kidding me. While your at it, why don't you work on banning sun exposure since really that is the real issue here.
Light from a 60w bulb heating your skin is quite a bit different than electromagnetic waves passing through your body and heating internal organs. Its been proven beyond any reasonable doubt that RF energy can and does cause cancer in humans within certain frequency ranges, power levels and exposure times. Its also been proven that UV B can cause skin cancer but its not related to RF radiation exposure.
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I would like to see the creative reasoning behind that. Do you have a link to the study? I don't see how food can go to every single cell, attack it, inject DNA into the nucleus of the cell, and then completely replace the cell's DNA to whatever it wants it. I highly, highly doubt that genetically modified food can do that. I would like to see the "proof" of that.Don't be so sure! Right now Europe requires food to be labeled if Genetically modified crops are in it. In the United States they don't have to. Ten years ago the common wisdom was your DNA can't be changed by genetically modified crops. European studies have shown that they can. If you are a scientist studying this issue the only ones paying for it are the companies that want to sell the genetically modified crops and they fire you if your results don't come out how they like.
You don't like the words "absolute proof"? RIP scientific method.There is no big interest by anyone with deep pockets to study RF exposure, at least anyone that wants to find something that is negative to the radio frequency industry. Lots of bucks there, TV, cell phones, electric power lines and on the list goes. Even if they did find something, I bet more people would die if we didn't have all this RF traveling around. Anyway, the guys here that use terms like 'absolute proof" make me laugh, go smoke another cigarette.