In article <telecom24.41.13@telecom-digest.org>, PAT wrote:
> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: But I don't think you can absolutely
> say radio frequency radiation is totally without harm to people.
> Consider for example the very cruel thing that some people (mostly
> children) do of putting small animals in microwave ovens and then
> turning on the unit. And why is it that microwave ovens have very
> well-shielded doors on them and the oven will not work if the door is
> open. I understand that radiation at microwave levels is different
> than radiation from a cell phone, but is there no comparison at all?
> PAT]
The microwave oven uses very similar radio frequencies to a cellphone.
However, the way that a microwave oven causes damage to animal flesh is
by heating it via excitation of the water molecules in it. The power
output of a cellphone is three orders of magnitude below a typical
microwave oven, in addition to which the microwave emitters are
designed to concentrate their power rather than radiating it uniformly.
A cellphone emits far too little power to cause any damage by heating,
and no other mechanism has been posited for it to harm people.
The bottom line: the science is in, and there is abundant reason to
believe that cellphones do not directly cause harm of any kind. If you
rear-end a cement truck on the freeway because you were yakking on your
cell, that's not the phone's fault.
Anything else is just crying wolf.
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