Whats your cellphone radiation?

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astrocase

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I have a geiger counter at work. I've never seen it pick up any radiation from my phone.

As a matter of fact it picks up more radiation from concrete.

Besides, in order for the radiation to hurt you biologically it really has to have a smaller wavelength than the diameter of the cells in your body which a cellphone obviously doesn't emit.
 

johnjohn320

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Originally posted by: Amused
Nothing like worring about something that has not been shown to cause any harm whatsoever by any valid peer reviewed and repeated studies.

Yeah, that's what people said for years about tobacco's link to cancer.
 

astrocase

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Originally posted by: johnjohn320
Originally posted by: Amused
Nothing like worring about something that has not been shown to cause any harm whatsoever by any valid peer reviewed and repeated studies.

Yeah, that's what people said for years about tobacco's link to cancer.


Unless you can explain how cell phone radiation can affect the cells in your body though when it emits a wavelength of about a meter and your cells are roughly .00000000001 meters in diameter I just don't understand how you can compare the two. Even if there was an interaction every blue moon your immune system and body would be able to cope with the rogue mutation.
 

Staples

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I looked it up once. It was like .87 or so.

When does the phone actually emit radiation? Only when you are talking on it I have always believed but if that is incorrect, I might be radiating parts of my body that I would not want radiated.
 

mercanucaribe

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Originally posted by: Staples
I looked it up once. It was like .87 or so.

When does the phone actually emit radiation? Only when you are talking on it I have always believed but if that is incorrect, I might be radiating parts of my body that I would not want radiated.

What parts of your body WOULD you want irradiated? It's microwave anyway, not gamma radiation.
 

Amused

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Originally posted by: johnjohn320
Originally posted by: Amused
Nothing like worring about something that has not been shown to cause any harm whatsoever by any valid peer reviewed and repeated studies.

Yeah, that's what people said for years about tobacco's link to cancer.

Actually, no... they didn't (well, besides the tobacco companies... and only a fool would believe such a biased source). Tobacco's link to cancer was proven in the 50s with valid peer reviewed and repeated studies.

They have tried over and over to link cell phone usage to a variety of problems, and have failed to come up with a single valid study.

Your point is irrelevant, and moot.
 

MichaelD

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Yes! My phone reads in the "nuclear fallout" range of the scale. :D The review mentions something about "glows in the dark" I've never noticed that...then again, I can't really see well when I'm carrying the phone...vision gets blurry. But I love my phone!
 

johnjohn320

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Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: johnjohn320
Originally posted by: Amused
Nothing like worring about something that has not been shown to cause any harm whatsoever by any valid peer reviewed and repeated studies.

Yeah, that's what people said for years about tobacco's link to cancer.

Actually, no... they didn't (well, besides the tobacco companies... and only a fool would believe such a biased source). Tobacco's link to cancer was proven in the 50s with valid peer reviewed and repeated studies.

They have tried over and over to link cell phone usage to a variety of problems, and have failed to come up with a single valid study.

Your point is irrelevant, and moot.

Hello redundancy! Just so you know, I think you may be wrong and also incorrect. ;) Look, I'm not a doctor or a scientist, so you may be right. But the general public *did* believe the tobacco companies for a number of years because Congress was listening to the scientists those companies paid to do research on the subject. Philip Morris didn't officially accept that direct smoking causes cancer until 1999-how long until we prove the effects of second-hand smoke? That debate rages on. I'm not a paranoid person, I use my cellphone just like every other joe-but I won't wait until something is "official" to believe it's possible.