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From the article > Second, distance is your friend. Keeping your cellphone 10 inches away from your body, as compared to one-tenth of an inch, results in a 10,
by michaelmrose 5y ago
From the article
> Second, distance is your friend. Keeping your cellphone 10 inches away from your body, as compared to one-tenth of an inch, results in a 10,000-fold reduction in exposure.
So logically if there was a correlation of any kind between cell phone use and brain cancer we could virtually eliminate the effect by all using headsets which sounds less dramatic and interesting than cell phone usage is the new smoking.
It doesn't help that the person calling out the dangers is in psych as opposed to medicine or physics.
- majewsky 5y agoHeadsets also emit radiation in order to talk to the phone, though. (Potentially less than the phone though since they need to cover a smaller distance.)
- michaelmrose 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth In the most widely used mode, transmission power is limited to 2.5 milliwatts, giving it a very short range of up to 10 meters (30 feet). If I read correctly a cell phone is using more like 1-2W so 800 times as strong. One could also use something, the horror, with a wire!