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Vibrating for it to wake you means you need to keep it close to your body. I wonder what health implications it may have -- In general its really bad to have a
by devanti 13y ago
Vibrating for it to wake you means you need to keep it close to your body. I wonder what health implications it may have -- In general its really bad to have a cell phone touching your body for prolonged periods of time because of the radiation it emits.
- DangerousPie 13y agoI would really like to see a citation for that!
- devanti 13y agoGoogle it. It's all over the internet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_health http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_heal...
- DangerousPie 13y agoBecause if it's all over the internet, it must be true? The wiki page even says: The WHO added that "to date, no adverse health effects have been established as being caused by mobile phone use." As far as I can tell there has, to date, not been a single proper study that actually showed any effects. Just a bunch of fearmongering and cases like this: http://retractionwatch.com/2012/03/26/rabbits-neednt-worry-about-cell-phones-effects-on-their-sperm-count-say-three-retractions/ http://retractionwatch.com/2012/03/26/rabbits-neednt-worry-a...
- scott_s 13y agoThere is no evidence of increased cancer risk from cell phones. Steven Novella has good posts on it. "Warning Labels on Cell Phones": http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/warning-labels-on-cell-phones/ http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/warning-labels-... and "Another Cell Phone – Cancer Review": http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/another-cell-phone-cancer-review/ http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/another-cell-ph...
- yongjik 13y agoFollowing your link: > In 2011, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified mobile phone radiation as Group 2B - possibly carcinogenic. Group 2B includes coffee, pickled vegetables, titanium dioxide (used in food coloring and sunscreens), and work in carpentry, dry cleaning, printing industry, and textile industry. I think I'll keep my cell phone. (And coffee and kimchi, for that matter.)
- chrisBob 13y agoThe problem is that it is VERY hard to do a conclusive study on this. Never mind that a low dose radiation study would take many years: the hard part is that you need to randomly select half of your group to use only non-radiating (non-functional) cell phones. Good luck finding a group of volunteers for that.
- sp332 13y agoAside from being a little warmer, the radiation has no effect on you.
- nervousvarun 13y agoNot necessarily disagreeing with you, but doesn't everyone (or at least the solid majority) keep their cells in their pockets? Close to er..."important" parts of your body? Sleeping 8 or more hours next to it is just going to compound the issue, but this is already something people don't seem to care that much about...at least in practice.
- square1 13y agoWorse than being deaf while in an emergency situation? >FDA states that "the available scientific evidence does not demonstrate any adverse health effects associated with the use of mobile phones." http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingProducts/RadiationEmittingProductsandProcedures/HomeBusinessandEntertainment/CellPhones/ucm116282.htm http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingProducts/RadiationEmitt...
- dbloom 13y agoI don't accept the premise here. But even if cell phone radiation was actually harmful, you could just leave your phone in airplane mode while you slept.