monkey jesus said:
I am a radio engineer you are wrong.
Your phone does not use microwave band which is 110-140Ghz. It is used in the comms industry but only for narrow band point to point links between distribution sites. You have to aim those suckers with a laser because the beam is so narrow. This is not what comes out of your phone, that's one of around 800 NON-IONISING frequencies. Does not have the energy required to remove electrons, does not alter your atoms, DOES NOT CAUSE CANCER!
Even if it did microwaves are non-ionising, all that would happen is that anything with a high water content would eventually heat up.
You are in far more danger going out without sunscreen on.
Sorry if I sound pissed, its not the first time I've had to explain this.
The range of 300Mhz to 3GHz is actually considered to be part of the microwave spectrum, albeit at the very bottom. Well, at least that's what I learned in spectroscopy...
Furthermore, you are wrong. Non-ionizing energy can still be quite problematic, as it can potentially break weaker bonds, such as those holding DNA together. Even light in the visible spectrum can destroy organic molecules, even though it is not ionizing. That's of course not to say you should put up lead shielding between yourself and your microwave, simply because waves of that wavelength have next to no penetrative power. That's also why UV light causes only skin cancer, and nothing more dangerous; your epidermis takes the beating, and your organs remain protected. Radio waves...well, they have enough energy to flip the spin of subatomic particles. High energy microwaves can cause vibrations in molecules, and hence a heating effect. Your common microwave oven runs at a far greater frequency than your mobile phone, so...have fun heating up your dinner by leaving it next to your phone. Oh hey, here's an App idea for you: microwave heating! Let's see if this (non-working) thing sells!
That said, I am extremely skeptical about this so called study. For one, any medical "study" that links X to disease Y is more often than not horribly flawed, employs poor methodology, or is outright falsified. Furthermore, there is always the problem of ambitious and often under qualified "scientists" confusing correlation with causation. I have no problem believing that heavy cell phone users have a higher instance of cancer formation than the general public, simply because there are a metric fuckton of other variables involved. City living an associated pollution, toxic exposure, drinking/smoking, etc are all other possible explanations. Any scientist worth their damn would make triply sure to account for all other possible explanations before even suggesting a distinct correlation. And correlation is meaningless! Causation must be clearly established before I would even consider taking the study seriously. This of course requires rigorous (that is to say the exclusion of all other possibilities) explanation of the mechanism of action, and "microwaves heat your brain" don't cut it. And finally, even if one were to somehow arrive at a precise mechanism for how radiation in the range in question could be responsible for the growth of tumors, it would still be necessary to show that an average cell phone (!) emits a sufficient amount of them during typical use (!) to be hazardous. And even if that happens, why not go after the bloody cell towers that emit (!) far more radiation than your cell phone's tiny antenna? Stupid fucking cargo cult science...
tl;dr: bullshit study is full of bullshit. Always take medical studies with a grain and/or several tons of salt.
