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We have little reason to believe it's dangerous either. Look, I've known dozens of RF engineers who died of cancer (mostly lung) - people who had much higher t
by Aloha 5y ago
We have little reason to believe it's dangerous either.
Look, I've known dozens of RF engineers who died of cancer (mostly lung) - people who had much higher than common exposure to both low frequency and microwave RF, but they all had one thread in common - they all smoked like chimneys. As an aside, they also used carcinogenic solvents with regularity for most of their careers. It's best not to confuse correlation with causation.
There is no evidence to indicate that exposure to RF at 5G frequencies is different than exposure to any other kind of higher frequency RF, 800, 1900, 2.6 and the other cellular bands behave similarly around the human body. If anything I'd expect lower effects, because the field strength is so low.
There is an enormous body of work that indicates that field strength not frequency is the relevant thing here.
Articles like this are little more than opinion articles.
- qorrect 5y ago> We have little reason to believe it's dangerous either. I took that as the point of the article, we don't know enough to say whether it's safe or dangerous, so let's pause and study it "for real this time". > Articles like this are little more than opinion articles. This article sounds like it's the opinion of the 240 scientists that are calling for the study though, not an uninformed journalists opinion.
- Aloha 5y agoWe have a pretty enormous body of work that was used to set safe field exposure limits for RF. No one seems to be making a rational argument why that work isnt relevent.
- RobertRoberts 5y agoLook at the documentation of many industrial strength radio systems that include health regulations for exposure to RF. (sometimes on the outside of the box in stores even) A hand-wavy sort of dismissal of health issues around many forms of radiation seem to be common in the tech world.
- hammyhavoc 5y agoI know plenty of RF engineers who haven't died, or have lived very long lives. They also don't smoke.
- Aloha 5y agoThat was the tongue in cheek remark. Smoking has taken a great very many lives before their time.