San Francisco Abandons Mobile Phone Radiation Labels

judgecorp writes "The city of San Francisco has abandoned a law proposed in 2010 which would have required mobile phones to be labelled with their radiation level. Mobile phone industry body the CTIA fought the bill in court, arguing that there is not enough evidence of harm. The city is not convinced phones are safe — it says its decision to abandon the law is simply based on the legal costs."

Comments

Re:can't get past the hype and bad studies

[Joce640k]

Cellphone radiation is non-ionizing. You know that, right?

You also understand what 'radiation' and 'non-ionizing' mean in this context, right?

(ie. "radio waves" and "utterly incapable of damaging a DNA molecule")

Re:so consistent

[Joce640k]

Casual, recreational use of a variety of brain-altering drugs: fine.
Anonymous bathhouses where one can - hetero or homo - have sex with a variety of strangers: lifestyle choice.

Cellphones: "We should make sure we warn people about the dangers!"

Nope. I'd like to reassure you that the first two things also have plenty of lunatics trying to ban them.

Re:can't get past the hype and bad studies

[Greyfox]

Seems easy; measure your cellphone with a geiger counter (Accounting for background radiation) and label it with the number of millisiverts you're shooting into your brain while using it (0). Done. Unless, as XKCD points out, it's a banana phone. I wonder how many of those damn hippies have a sliced banana in their granola in the morning. I'd like to see their reaction when it's pointed out that they're getting more radiation from that than their cell phone.