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> If they did, I would hope people around them recognized that their conflation of neurotoxins in water and largely benign electronics makes very little sense.
by freeflight 9y ago
> If they did, I would hope people around them recognized that their conflation of neurotoxins in water and largely benign electronics makes very little sense.
Right now we consider these electronics, and their emissions, largely benign but that doesn't mean that's actually the case in the long term.
Think about the amount of wireless stuff constantly going on around you: GSM, EDGE, UMTS, LTE, bluetooth, several WLAN standards, radio, satellite and so on. Humanity has never been blasted with that much EM radiation before and the blast is constant and pretty much ever-present.
I find it hard to believe that all those EMR don't have any effects at all on living things. Sure, we get doses of it anyway from space and the sun and so on, but that doesn't mean that adding our own won't make the doses cross a threshold.
Wouldn't be the first time humanity underestimated the long-term effect of something just to realize, a couple of decades down the line, "Oopps.. wasn't as healthy as we thought".
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y ago> GSM, EDGE, UMTS, LTE, bluetooth, several WLAN standards, radio, satellite Non-ionizing, regulated dosage. Maybe we'll discover they were dangerous, but evidence doesn't support it so far.
- freeflight 9y ago> regulated dosage Of a single device, but how do we account for the accumulation of the dosages when there are literally dozens of those devices constantly around us? Let's also keep in mind that we haven't been living like this for very long, 10-20 years ain't really that big of a timeframe. For all purpose and effect, this is a rather recent development in human history. That's stuff bad dystopian sci-fi stories are made of: 30 years from now developed countries will reach "peak ERM" and people's brains suddenly start shriveling to raisins ;)
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- dxhdr 9y ago> Non-ionizing Non-ionizing radiation can have adverse health effects, e.g. UV light.