Did you know that if you put raw meat on your counter top and turn you thermostat to 85 it will never cook no matter how long you expose it to that temperature?
It will certainly go rancid faster if you place it under an IR lamp than if you don't, and if somebody lies to you and sells you an IR bulb that is twice as hot as you intended, the tissue will degrade much faster than you anticipated when you said it won't cook. It may be that it will not burn, but it will still be damaged.
Did you know that persistent exposure to excess levels of various frequencies of non-ionizing radiation can damage the skin, leading to skin cancer?
"It will certainly go rancid faster if you place it under an IR lamp than if you don't, and if somebody lies to you and sells you an IR bulb that is twice as hot as you intended, the tissue will degrade much faster than you anticipated when you said it won't cook. It may be that it will not burn, but it will still be damaged."
That may be true but there is a slight problem with this analogy... food doesn't go rancid because meat is damaged by temperature, it goes rancid because heat accelerates the growth of microorganisms which have contaminated the meat. This isn't typically the case with the meat which composes your body (exceptions are of course infections) and especially isn't normal with regard to the brain.
That said the FCC recommendations are based entirely on heating of tissue proven to damage the protein. There are any number of ways RF and heating could disrupt the operation of the brain, even more so when you consider we are still discovering new ways the brain communicates. The brain has been found to not only communicate with fired electrical signals as once thought but also via field effects. RF could impact those communications. It has also been found that cell phone EMF can activate glucose functions in the neural cells of the brain. Who knows what that is doing. Even the heating alone could be having more impact in the brain where the water expansion it causes takes place in a confined space and may impact conductivity of tissues.
Those are just thoughts off the top of my head, there are all sorts of ways the radiation from a phone might negatively impact the brain which haven't been studied, are poorly studied, or even can't be easily studied. While it is true that there is little evidence to support the idea damage is being caused the issue is hardly settled "beyond reasonable doubt."
That was the point! There are multiple ways that high levels of non-ionizing radiation can damage you. Not only direct heat damage, but indirect heat damage (drying, etc), interference with signaling, etc.
There is a level that is believed safe, and levels above that are believed not to be safe, and this was above safe levels. That doesn't imply there is only one danger.
Refusing to learn about the dangers doesn't imply that there is little evidence. 20 years ago they found that rats had trouble remembering t
Still non-ionizing (Score:-1)
FUD...
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Did you know that burns are not ionizing radiation?
Did you know that long term heating of tissues in your head can damage those tissues?
No, I didn't think you did.
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It will certainly go rancid faster if you place it under an IR lamp than if you don't, and if somebody lies to you and sells you an IR bulb that is twice as hot as you intended, the tissue will degrade much faster than you anticipated when you said it won't cook. It may be that it will not burn, but it will still be damaged.
Did you know that persistent exposure to excess levels of various frequencies of non-ionizing radiation can damage the skin, leading to skin cancer?
Did you know that anything that damage
Re:Still non-ionizing (Score:3)
"It will certainly go rancid faster if you place it under an IR lamp than if you don't, and if somebody lies to you and sells you an IR bulb that is twice as hot as you intended, the tissue will degrade much faster than you anticipated when you said it won't cook. It may be that it will not burn, but it will still be damaged."
That may be true but there is a slight problem with this analogy... food doesn't go rancid because meat is damaged by temperature, it goes rancid because heat accelerates the growth of microorganisms which have contaminated the meat. This isn't typically the case with the meat which composes your body (exceptions are of course infections) and especially isn't normal with regard to the brain.
That said the FCC recommendations are based entirely on heating of tissue proven to damage the protein. There are any number of ways RF and heating could disrupt the operation of the brain, even more so when you consider we are still discovering new ways the brain communicates. The brain has been found to not only communicate with fired electrical signals as once thought but also via field effects. RF could impact those communications. It has also been found that cell phone EMF can activate glucose functions in the neural cells of the brain. Who knows what that is doing. Even the heating alone could be having more impact in the brain where the water expansion it causes takes place in a confined space and may impact conductivity of tissues.
Those are just thoughts off the top of my head, there are all sorts of ways the radiation from a phone might negatively impact the brain which haven't been studied, are poorly studied, or even can't be easily studied. While it is true that there is little evidence to support the idea damage is being caused the issue is hardly settled "beyond reasonable doubt."
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That was the point! There are multiple ways that high levels of non-ionizing radiation can damage you. Not only direct heat damage, but indirect heat damage (drying, etc), interference with signaling, etc.
There is a level that is believed safe, and levels above that are believed not to be safe, and this was above safe levels. That doesn't imply there is only one danger.
Refusing to learn about the dangers doesn't imply that there is little evidence. 20 years ago they found that rats had trouble remembering t