So, lately, I've had to deal with fearmongering about opioids,
the net neutrality repeal, and tax cuts.
But at least it can't get any dumber!
It's rolling out powerful 5G technology throughout the United States,
some studies show a link between cell phone radiation and cancer.
Oh, for crying out loud...
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5G uses high-frequency waves that support faster speeds but don't travel as far,
requiring a network of antennas built in closer proximity than the existing infrastructure.
Or using fiber connections between them as many mobile companies are opting for.
But health experts worry about potential risks
associated with exposure to radiation from cell phone antennas.
No, they don't.
In 2011, the International Agency for Research on Cancer
identified RF fields as "Possibly carcinogenic to humans."
I've linked to this study below.
Well, I say "study," it's more of a bogus press release designed to get unwarranted attention.
Anyway, it says:
And it concluded,
So, they admitted the evidence was limited for two kinds of cancers
and inadequate for the rest, and based their entire set of conclusions on
That 40% figure comes from a study known as the Interphone Study, which I've also linked to.
This study itself concluded:
So
A study in Sweden found that Swedes who talked over cell or wireless phones for over 25 years
were at three times the risk of developing glioma, a brain tumor that is often malignant,
than those who use them for less than a year.
Linked below as well, but this is the last one I'm going to do.
It's clear this guy has never even looked at these studies.
The problem here is the Fallacy of Small Numbers.
They say that the rate tripled. What this fearmonger
is that this triple rate is 0.016%, which is triple the control rate of 0.005%.
But if you point out that the increased risk is 0.011 percentage points,
it doesn't quite sound so scary all of a sudden.
The study's authors claim that this level is statistically significant,
but the total sample size is 1,498 cancer sufferers and 3,530 controls.
The minimum uncertainty using the 1/√n method is 1.4%.
And that's total percentage, not the percent change,
which is how they get that three times figure.
So at a minimum, even with zero bias in the numbers,
the uncertainty of this study is two orders of magnitude higher
than the difference between the two groups.
This is
Also, this data relied on people remembering their cell phone habits from
And myself, I'm suspicious of the sample sizes.
1,498 active participants and 3,530 controls?
Where do they pull those numbers from?
Or was that just where they stopped once they got numbers to their liking?
I smell p-hacking.
Like I said, this is the last of his studies I'm going to look at,
because it's clear he has no credibility whatsoever in evaluating them.
Here's the bottom line.
Cell phone use more than tripled just between 2000 and 2010, and has only gotten bigger since then.
If there were anything at all to this, we'd be seeing skyrocketing rates of brain cancer.
We don't.
The 5G rollout will effectively expose the entire population to dangerous effects.
No it won't.
The rollout of 5G is very frightening, because what this is going to do
is place a mini cell tower every 300 meters along every residential street in the country.
And that's going to mean that nobody is going to be able to escape
the radiation that comes from those 5G devices.
In order to cause cancer, radiation has to be ionizing.
That means the wavelength has to be short enough
to bump into a tiny little molecule inside a cell
and strip away an electron, converting it to an ion.
The biggest that ionizing radiation comes is about 10 nanometers,
but really starts below 0.01nm.
The
100,000 times longer than the longest wavelength of ionizing radiation.
For an analogy, think of the kind of waves you'd need to capsize a ship.
You'd need short, choppy waves to do it.
Let's say you have a cruise ship 100 feet wide.
Would you expect it to be capsized by waves that are
Or would you expect a 3-foot-wide canoe to be capsized by a wave
Of course not! Yet that's the scale we're dealing with here.
Oh, and between the millimeter-wavelength waves and ionizing radiation,
you have
You would have to be completely ignorant of even the
to think there was
But since when has that ever stopped the news media from fearmongering?
If you walk down the sidewalk, if you live in a house there,
you're going to be continuously exposed.
You're exposed to far more ionizing radiation from the sun, cosmic rays,
and even the rocks around you than you
The evidence for a link between cell phones and cancer is diddly minus squat,
and the evidence against it is everything we know about physics, biology, and radiation.
Our regulators, dominated by physicists and engineers and not health-effects people,
ignore all of that evidence.
Wow. Project much?
And we're only going to see more of this as 5G comes closer to implementation.
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