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...are carcinogenic, potentially cancer causing, comparable to pesticides and the stuff your car spits out.
The agent (mixture) is possibly carcinogenic to humans. The exposure circumstance entails exposures that are possibly carcinogenic to humans. This category is used for agents, mixtures and exposure circumstances for which there is limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans and less than sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals
Originally posted by Whyhi
...are carcinogenic, potentially cancer causing, comparable to pesticides and the stuff your car spits out.
The idea that cell phones cause cancer is going against every legitimate study
Originally posted by againuntodust
All radiation, electromagnetic, RF, etc is bad for the human.
One answer in the thread is pretty good (and some answers aren't so good). I'll get to that in a minute, but here's what you need to know:
Originally posted by AnteBellum
Well if this is the case for cell phones what about computers and laptops that most of us hover over all day at work?
I understand the differences between a laptop and a cell phone but in essence isn't one just a smaller version of another?
Confession time, I know this but if I'm just going to make a quick call I'll still hold the phone next to my head sometimes, especially if I'm in a noisy environment, I can't hear what the other person is saying too well when holding the phone an inch from my head...who can? So even if you know about this warning to keep the phone at least an inch away, will you actually do it? I don't always do it, and I'm one of the few who knows about it.
the legal departments of cellphone manufacturers slip a warning about holding the phone against your head or body into the fine print of the little slip that you toss aside when unpacking your phone. Apple, for example, doesn’t want iPhones to come closer than 5/8 of an inch; Research In Motion, BlackBerry’s manufacturer, is still more cautious: keep a distance of about an inch.
The warnings may be missed by an awful lot of customers.
My older laptop doesn't have any built-in wireless communication. But I bought 2 cards for it. One is a wireless network card.
Originally posted by gift0fpr0phecy
Computers don't output radio transmissions (unless they have a wireless network card to utilize wireless internet), so they are not dangerous. Even if they do have a wireless network card the transmissions are not as powerful as cell phone transmissions so they would probably be less harmful (if not completely harmless because you are not holding it to your head).
Most laptops come standard with a wireless network card, but if you don't use it you can turn it off.
I think we agree on that. Even cell phones probably aren't too dangerous to light and moderate users. The only studies that have shown risk relate to people deemed "heavy users", so if your cell phone is pressed against your head for very long periods of times, not only may you be violating the manufacturer's recommendations on how to use the cell phone, but you might be at risk. Computers don't invite us to press the antenna against our heads, that's one reason they are probably safer.
So, no, computers are not dangerous.
I noticed the New York Times article also mentioned the warnings for Apple and Blackberry phones come on disposale slips of paper packed with the devices. It seems like they want to be able to say they warned you about it, but they don't want the warning to appear in the manual, or on the device where it may make you think twice about using it! So it's interesting you noted the warning on the air card is the same way. Someone suggested that if Apple had a visible warning on the phone to keep it away from your head a certain distance, some people might actually think about that warning and it might affect their usage (possibly reducing it, which Apple doesn't want).
Originally posted by gift0fpr0phecy
I have one here, and right on the device it has an RF warning. In the box it came in there is a piece of paper with a warning sign on it that says to keep the device at least 11 millimeters away from users and bystanders.