Indeed, a mumbojumbo word soup.
Light from the sun is more powerful than cell phone radiation. Being outside, or by a window, is far more dangerous.
Light from the sun is more powerful than cell phone radiation. Being outside, or by a window, is far more dangerous.
> modulation of wireless devices
> makes the energy more biologically active
> our cellular mechanisms
> natural cellular processes
> stress proteins and free radicals
Define any of the above, and point to a reputable source when any of the above phrases are used. It's a collection of phrases which are all "off", like a foreign person with broken english.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulation
• No clue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_activity doesn't apply. (This is a crank warning sign.)
• This is too generic to answer out of context.
• Same as the above, perhaps with the naturalistic fallacy thrown in (also a crank warning sign).
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_hormone and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-radical_theory_of_aging
Of your six quotes, only two (maybe three) of them are crank warning signs, and two have clear, well-defined meanings.
I doubt he's right, but I'm not confident enough to laugh at him. Even relatively low-intensity radio waves affect neurons, so it's not like they have no effect on the body.
Free radicals: It's very difficult to create free radicals with photons that has less energy than UV rays. And the photons of cell phones has a few order of magnitude less energy. The term is well defined, but it's almost impossible that it's relevant.
Stress hormone: Your link is about hormones produced by glands, and in the sentence it looks like some modification of each cell. Again, the term is well defined, but I'm not sure they are talking about the same thing, and it's not very probable that it's relevant.
Except the Sun generates a tremendous mish-mash of modulated EM radiation, so "modulation" is also a nonsense argument.
What's next for the Gish gallop crowd?
> The period in which the Sun passes behind a geostationary satellite is brief — about 10 minutes at most according to Dr Carter — but the noise is enough to degrade or completely disrupt radio and television broadcasts, as well as satellite internet.
Is this correct? I'm not much more than a layman in physics, but I thought RF, being below the visible spectrum, is non-ionizing thus unable to cause any cell damage.
Edit: Besides from microwaves or similar oscillating fields.
Remember that cells are stateful biochemical machines, so it's not just instantaneous damage from radiation as the only possible pathway. If the authors are right and the cells are in some way receptive to the modulated emissions, some bio-structures might be like antenna and demodulators, stimulating the cells at many lower frequency scales. An analogy here could be a crystal radio which demodulates AM broadcasts into an audible frequency, or the way old GSM call negotiation patterns would induce an audible pattern in computer speakers.
This summary of occupational safety concerns for mechanical vibration covers a topic I found interesting when it first appeared as a news item years ago: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6415671/
I know you might say this is vastly different scales of energy between whole body vibration from an industrial job and emissions from a battery-powered cell phone. My observation is merely that there are many ways that we might naively think that our bodies are robust, while with repeated exposure to seemingly harmless conditions, subtle damage accumulates.
Yes. Otherwise a microwave oven would just sear stuff. Radio frequency penetrates meat. It doesn't do it well, because meat has high impedance, but it does penetrate.
Disclaimer: I don't believe cell phones are causing cancer; there just isn't enough power involved. It's all bunk.
I'm sceptical that low levels of non-ionising radiation can do damage, but it's not physically impossible. (I know of no biological mechanism by which it could cause harm, but I'm no biologist.)
a) individual rays/particles have enough energy to knock electrons off ("ionizing radiation"). This is dependent on wavelength/frequency, not the amount of radiation, so even small amounts can be possibly problematic.
b) quantity of radiation brings enough energy to heat things up, cause damage through heating.
Cell phones have neither problem.