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For all we know, induced electrical currents can trigger some kind of local cancer-promoting inflammatory reaction.

• zarzavat 4y ago
  Or just chronic inflammation. I’m not an expert so take all of this with a grain of salt, but the danger of high powered long wavelength radiation sources is not that they damage DNA directly via ionization, but they deliver heat energy deeper inside the body than e.g. a laser (which will just give you skin burns), the same way that a microwave oven heats food on the inside not just on the skin. Clearly if you are standing next to a high enough power transmitter, you will be cooked and die. At lower power you may survive but with severe burns. The effect of sub-acute doses is not clear, but it’s certainly not solid reasoning that just because your cell phone is not causing cancer that there isn’t a higher chronic dose that will. There is a space of power between “cell phone” and “admitted to hospital with burns”.