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California Government On the Dangers of Cellphones (cbslocal.com)
mi quotes a report from CBS Local: After keeping it hidden for years, California's Department of Public Health has released a draft document outlining health officials' concerns about cellphone radiation exposure. The previously unpublished document was released this week after a judge indicated she would order the documents be disclosed. Health officials' overall recommendation is to "increase the distance between you and your phone" by using a headset, the speaker phone function and text messaging. Health officials recommend not sleeping near your phone and not carry it in your pocket or directly on your body, unless it is off. The fact sheet also states that "EMFs can pass deeper into a child's brain than and adult's" so suggests parents limit their child's cellphone use to texting, important call and emergencies.
If that's the case, then the entire human race needs to move to the bottom of salt mines, because the amount of radiation being produced by the sun ought to fry our brains by the time we're six months old.
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How many times are we going to go through the whole cellphone radiation thing?
Recently there was a story here about a room that can charge any device that enters into it. I cannot wait to see the health issues that arise from that.
I'm so confused....
That said, RF is dangerous depending on signal strength and exposure time. I don't, out of long time habits instilled in the Military, keep a cell phone by my head. I use headphones. Can the body tolerate the cell phones? Probably, but it's kind of like eating bacon. It tastes really good but in large quantities is not very healthy. Everything in moderation was coined quite wisely.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
You understand that as long there has been life on this planet, it has been bathed in EM radiation, right?
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... tablets on or about the body, using WiFi, which produces the exact amount of _____. (Hint: EMF)
Health officials recommend not sleeping near your phone and not carry it in your pocket or directly on your body ...
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
This was a draft document someone whipped up that wasn't used because there were no facts to back it up. It wasn't "hidden", it just wasn't used.
Given multiple other studies have already concluded that there actually is no danger from EMR, I seems this must necessarily prove one of:
a) every one of those other studies were wrong or have been corrupted, presumably by "big telco"
or
b) CA are just a bunch of ultra-paranoid wingnuts that want to live in fear.
So which is it actually?
And everybody dies!
See! Radiation! It's Bad!
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
"After keeping it hidden for years, California's Department of Public Health...
It's pretty fucking bad when you can't even make it through the first fucking sentence of TFS before wanting to dial a damn lawyer.
You had one fucking job to do, Department of Health .
This bullshit, coming from the land that gave birth to "known to the state of California to cause" warning labels.
Fucking hell.
But, but, but those Romans used lead pipes! It surely must be better to die of thirst than to swallow homeopathical amounts of lead or radiation!
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Cell Phones and Cancer Fact Sheet
"Exposure to ionizing radiation, such as from x-rays, is known to increase the risk of cancer. However, although many studies have examined the potential health effects of non-ionizing radiation from radar, microwave ovens, cell phones, and other sources, there is currently no consistent evidence that non-ionizing radiation increases cancer risk (1).
"The only consistently recognized biological effect of radiofrequency energy is heating. The ability of microwave ovens to heat food is one example of this effect of radiofrequency energy. Radiofrequency exposure from cell phone use does cause heating to the area of the body where a cell phone or other device is held (ear, head, etc.). However, it is not sufficient to measurably increase body temperature, and there are no other clearly established effects on the body from radiofrequency energy."
Sleep easily next to your smartphone tonight.
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Are we getting an early start on this or something?
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Sadly I can't find it now, but I definitely remember reading a study that found for radiation exposure, using wired headphones when your phone was transmitting (i.e. during a call) was actually significantly worse than holding the phone to your head, because the headphone wires/headphones themselves directly conducted the EM radiation straight into your ear canals.
A few subtle warnings over the next few years, And finally: A warning label on the side of the phone.
You know.. There have been studies... Pretty detailed studies on this. Just ask the FCC, they are responsible for regulating this stuff.
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You understand that as long there has been life on this planet, it has been bathed in EM radiation, right?
Here I go being responding to your trolling again... Sure, ALL wavelengths, power levels, durations, proximities, and modulation envelopes of EM radiation, from hertz to terahertz, can be assumed to have the same effect, (or lack thereof), on human cell and tissues. NOT.
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The referenced draft document simply states that IF you are concerned about it, here's how to reduce exposure. It doesn't state that RF exposure is dangerous.
In fact the National Cancer Institute says the opposite:
What the study showed: No association was observed between cell phone use and the incidence of glioma, meningioma, or acoustic neuroma, even among people who had been cell phone subscribers for 13 or more years
This is why everybody around me seems to come off like drooling idiots! It's the cell phones! They really ARE cooking the brains! Lets call it a disease, and sell the plebs some medication.... you know for "symptoms"
You are being ripped off every second of every day, so that advertisers can help rip you off even more tomorrow.
If cellphones were truly harmful to brain function, I think we would have seen the world gradually getting dumber and dumber up to the present day.
Hey, wait a minute ...
Does that mean that you should stand outside uncovered in 110 degree sunny weather for hours at a time every day? How about standing in front of a microwave transmitter at the minimum safe distance for a prolonged time every day? Your point is both irrational and illogical.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
So .. a 50 year old waterway that until this year had not been used .. goes boom and you equate this with a cellphone radiation study? Wow. You are a special kind of stupid.
Tell me what you believe...I'll tell you what you should see.
What is particularly ironic is that the same people who obsess over the possible health effects of cellphone radiation will send their children outside to play in the sunshine without a moment's thought ... to be exposed to ionizing radiation that causes about 10,000 deaths per year from melanoma in the U.S. alone.
This is totally off-topic, but its worth remembering that the water that is inundating California isn't all evenly distributed, so there may very well be parts of California that are still in drought conditions, while other parts are very much in non-drought conditions. Since the governor is responsible for the entire state, he may very well be aware of the local maxima/minima, and how well the former can be retained/distributed to the latter, over time.
That does the damage. If you beam the same W/m2 continuously you won't do much damage apart from local heating up of tissues. Pulse the damage in a way similar to neurons - aka digital - and you'll start forming disease.
Actually the lead pipes in Flint Michigan didn't become a serious problem until highly polluted water was run through them. Lead pipes develop a patina that shields the water running through it. The switch to nasty contaminated river water corroded the pipes and introduced the large amount of lead that is the problem now.
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If you touch a screen projector light bulb you get the same effect. As long as it's not ionizing, EM is EM, just a difference in penetration and how evenly you're warmed. The heat from my cellphone's battery is worse for me than the 0.2watts total of microwave EM it emits. If anything, being more penetrative reduces the concentration of the heating. The human brain generates about 25 watts of waste heat. It's going to take some pretty high wattage cellphone to make any difference.
Know what will quickly increase my brain's temperature? Working out.
Well I certainly buy the brain damage part.
I can find one story from 1993 of a Motorola engineer suing them... not compelling.
You also might get testicle/scrotum cancer if you don't place your phone on your lap.
If you are closer to the tower, you are exposed to more of the energy from the tower.
The VOIP comment just baffles me. Does DTMF cause cancer too?
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And yet billions of people don't have brain cancer. Hmm...
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
A quick google on the topic shows that the bacteria in question so happens to produce reactive Oxygen compounds that so happen to straddle the UV spectrum. High blue or violet visible light is just enough energy to trigger these compounds into reacting and oxidizing the insides of the bacteria.
This entire category of "attack vector" makes an organism sensitive to an EM radiation of a given frequency or higher. If we had this issue with microwave radiation, we'd also have the issue with IR radiation, instantly killing us.
The higher the frequency, the more "damaging" the EM radiation, except possibly in cases where there is a resonance. Every atom in our body emits IR radiation. Once you calculate for the surface area of a human's atomic surface area, you're sitting in the range of 15 gigawatts of IR at room temperature. If you think the radiation of a 1watt cellphone is going to compare to the 15 billion times of IR..... But, if you think the 1 watt of microwave radiation could cause localized heating, then I agree.
While our body deals with a wide range of temperatures, it's "not normal" to have a potentially sharp temperature gradient. As for the brain. Not sure. It has a lot of blood flow and should keep the temperature quite uniform. Not to mention the brain generates 20watts of waste heat. Assuming 100% of that 1 watt gets absorbed, you're talking about a 5% increase in waste heat. The deeper the microwave radiation penetrates, the more evenly distributed the heating will be.
It all comes down to heating and there are many things in our lives that cause much worse heating, by magnitudes. If you're concerned about resonance, don't worry, newer wifi tech is using more and more spread spectrum and wider and wider channels.
Why not use Lead pipes? They use Lead as a sweetener. Goes great on all kinds of food. It's like they had soda for water.
Always love seeing those labels "The product is known to the State of California to contain chemicals that may cause cancer." Nobody else knows, though, which should tell you everything you need to know about the State of California thinking they're smarter than its citizens who wouldn't be able to go about their lives without the State telling them to.
A flat, smooth metal square someone can stand on. The same metal, shaped with jagged edges, would slice the person to bits. Digital energy pulsed in non-smooth, broken waveforms, creates jagged energy environments. Notice remote charging? This is possible because the particular arrangement and timing of pulses differs from smooth analog waves. The digital wifi differs from simple analog emf in the same way that a smooth metal square differs from a serated knife edge.
of course, other microwave frequencies will, as well. Nothing special about 2.45 GHz, other than being an ISM frequency.
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Cancer causes cell phones
I guess you are one of those "free energy" dudes*?
(* mostly dudes)
Remote charging is possible with "smooth analog waves" and the rest of your post is equally crap.
Learn to read. I never said there's a 15 gigawatt energy gradient, I just said there's 15 gigawatts of energy moving around in the form of IR. Just because there is not a gradient doesn't mean we're not being bathed in it.