cellphones? imho our generation cigarettes. studies will point that radiation are not harmful until they are.
The power is at a maximum 3 watts, and is usually measured in milliwatts if you're somewhere with excellent reception.
This is roughly on par with the amount of heat released while charging. Not fast charging mind you, charging with an old micro usb 5v charger.
Compare this to a radio station which can transmit tens of kilowatts of power. If radio waves could cause cancer, people who work at radio stations would be riddled with it, and radio stations have been around a lot longer than phones.
I'm sorry I have lost the paper when upgrading my home PC over the years. I too would like to read follow-up studies, if there are any. If anyone reading this knows what paper I am talking about, please do reply.
That is, wouldn’t we want to compare the radiant flux rather than the power?
Also how much time do you actually spend with the phone against your head on any given day? A few minutes maybe. Someone working at the radio station is there for 8 hours.
I don’t have an opinion on whether mobile phone usage is more or less likely to cause cancer than working in a radio station.
Cell phones are not the problem (well, not the microwaves at least).
You can measure the energy of one photo using this equation.
Microwaves at 2.45 Ghz = 1.6243499999999998e-24 eV
Gamma radiation at 3 x 10(19) Hz = 1.9889999999999998e-14 eV
So about 10(10) more energy per gamma ray photo or about 10 billion times more energy.
Is anybody actually surprised? We eat crappier and crappier food, even basic stuff like vegetables is heavily modified, pumped directly with insecticides, herbicides, and drains from nearby farms that could contain literally anything. Most fish went from very healthy to questionable at best. We move much much less. We have more but are less happy and have more stressful lives. Race to bottom puts sugar into all processed foods just to make them more addictive. Microplastics. BPAs. PFOAs. And so on and on. The idea that somehow this would have 0 negative effect is a bit naive, no?
If it was cellphones it would be easy to spot as places where they are closest to (left/right hip, head) would be ones with increased cancer rates
Smartphones might genuinely be a thing future generations will look at asking "what were you thinking?", but this argument is completely moot, as it could be used against literally anything.
Studies will suggest that electricity is not harmful until it is. Studies will suggest that freedom of speech is not harmful until it is. Studies will suggest that touching grass is not harmful until it is.
Smoking prevalence has reduced dramatically in the past fifty years. If anything that should be a declining reason over the course of the last century.