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Or how about reasonable levels of power? Ten watts per kilo is an absolutely nutso-bismol bonkers level of radiation compared to what real people and animals ar
by vertexFarm 8y ago
Or how about reasonable levels of power? Ten watts per kilo is an absolutely nutso-bismol bonkers level of radiation compared to what real people and animals are exposed to. I don't spend twelve hours a day inside a magnetron.
I'd like to see the results of an experiment where they have a highly controlled pair of populations that are identical in every way except one group of rats is in a Faraday cage. It would be ideal if they were still exposed to natural radio frequencies--after all, radio is not an exclusively man-made phenomenon. But of course GSM doesn't get through the atmosphere easily. A long-term study like that might actually be useful.
These studies where they bathe the rats in a few thousand times the average ambient power of our cell network are utterly blatant examples of confirmation bias in science publishing. They cranked up the amplitude until it had to have an effect on biology--stopping just shy of "significant heating" of tissues. Basically it's a microwave on defrost, complete with a scattering reflector and turntable to make sure the rats cook evenly. Doesn't seem like good faith to me. And of course dumbed-down science journalism will immediately clickbait it into the headline "Cellphones Will Literally Kill You," as is tradition.
- seandougall 8y agoI’m sure you could get some grad students to volunteer to sit around in the lab and play on their phones, if you wanted to up the exposure in a way that mimics realistic patterns...