mortsmi7
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[citation][nom]nonoitall[/nom]And it's important to note that microwaves, while damaging in high doses (just like any heat source), are still not the same type of radiation that causes sunburns or skin cancer.People hear the word "radiation" and think Chernobyl and nuclear fallout. What many don't realize is that radiation is just another word for light. Nothing would work without radiation. Only high-frequency radiation (ultraviolet, x-ray, gamma ray) has displayed sufficient energy concentration to mutate DNA and cause cancer, and visible light is actually closer to those frequencies than radio waves and microwaves. (So if you're afraid of cell phone radiation giving you cancer, you may as well be afraid of anything that you can see as well -- since you can see it, it's obviously either dishing out radiation or bouncing it back at you from another source.)It strikes me that two things in particular were happening in the mid to late 80's: Cell phones were first coming out, and MRIs were becoming widely available. So all of the sudden we've got tons of new brain cancer diagnoses. They had probably been going on for centuries, but up until then most had gone undiagnosed. But still, people need to blame something for all these new brain cancer cases. I know! How about those new radiation machines that people stick up to their heads! They just came out this week, and we just discovered these cancer cases this week, so those have got to be the cause! Right?[/citation]
Um, light is only one type of radiation. Stop talking out your ass. Your point might not be wrong, but the information you support it with is way off base.
Um, light is only one type of radiation. Stop talking out your ass. Your point might not be wrong, but the information you support it with is way off base.
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