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The point of the article was to dismiss precautionary worry as a reason to believe in the effect. Unless there is anything pointing towards the phones causing
by Mahh 16y ago
The point of the article was to dismiss precautionary worry as a reason to believe in the effect.
Unless there is anything pointing towards the phones causing cancer, we shouldn't worry about it.
Consider how afraid we would be of touching anything that hasn't been proved to not cause cancer. People would have anxiety over doing anything, and most of it would be unwarranted.
Of course, considering that there is a bit of evidence pointing towards cell phones causing cancer(even if it's just correlation rather than causation), it may be of worth to consider worrying, but don't worry just because you have no information at all.
- runningdogx 16y agoThe second comment on scientificamerican.com (by richard2010) after the article explains why we should not dismiss precautionary worry. There are many other ways radiation can affect microbiology besides directly ionizing atoms.