We are conducting a very large, uncontrolled experiment.
If millions of people come down with brain cancer 20 years from now, there will be much recrimination.
I don’t use the damn things at all.
Somebody should inform these doctors that their Bluethooth headsets also contain transmitters at a frequency of 2.4 GHz.
A Bluetooth headset stuck in your ear may be much worse than a cellphone antenna an inch or so away from your head, from an ionizing radiation perspective.
How do we know it couldn't also be associated with having spent extended periods of time with ones head up ones @ss.
There is not enough evidence to say one way or another that non-ionizing microwaves at the energy emitted by cell phones can cause cancer.
I can think of a mechanism that may lead to cancer, however. Ultraviolet radiation (non-ionizing) can obviously cause melanomas. Even though radiation may not be ionizing, it can at the right frequencies cause rotational and vibrational oscillations in molecules. That's why microwave ovens heat water.
I would think that at the right frequencies, telomeres at the end of DNA could be stressed to the point that they break off causing premature aging in a cell and possibly cancer during replication of a cell that has extensive damage to telomeres.
“What do brain surgeons know about cellphone safety that the rest of us don’t?”
Not much. But cell phone engineers don’t know much brain surgery either.
Well if this is the case then it’s gonna involve much more than cell phones. Police radio’s in the 800MHZ range, cordless home phones 800-2400MHZ, commerical business radio 800-950 MHZ, just for starters. I don’t hold them up to my ear for the simple reason most phones are too blasted small now that your hand covers the built in antenna. I use a wired headset with boom mike. I also have a mount for the phone in my vehicles. I can use the wired headset to talk to someone on the phone almost anywhere and talk so low on it that it bothers no one else. I think the scare is an over-reaction though.
If you are old enough, you might remember the advert from circa 1964:
“Doctors smoke Camels more than any other brand!”
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Quix,
here’s where I read about the hydrogen peroxide. Looks like a site with a few other topics of interest.
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