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Re:Edward Snowden's New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones fr... by dingaling on Thursday July 21, 2016 @02:12PM (#12138803)
People have long reported experiencing radio reception through tooth fillings, usually in the ham and FM bands from 1 to around 100 MHz.

I can imagine cell frequencies would be even more likely due to smaller antennae for the higher frequency.

Re:Edward Snowden's New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones fr... by milesokeefe on Thursday July 21, 2016 @02:54PM (#12139129)
It's not conclusive by any means but Mythbusters tested this and came to the conclusion that tooth filings don't act as an antennae:

http://mythresults.com/episode4

Re:Edward Snowden's New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones fr... by nitrogen on Friday July 22, 2016 @12:51AM (#12141761)
Sometimes the Mythbusters do interesting things, but their ad hoc methods, largely uninformed by theory, are often so haphazard that they prove basically nothing.
Re:Edward Snowden's New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones fr... by imglorp on Friday July 22, 2016 @09:03AM (#12143238)
Well, if they can manage to reproduce a phenomenon, however they stumble on it, it's pretty conclusively confirmed.

There's definitely doubt about their conclusion when they can't reproduce something and then declare it busted -- absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Re:Edward Snowden's New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones fr... by nitrogen on Friday July 22, 2016 @04:04PM (#12146374)
I can think of one "confirmed" myth involving bacteria that was likely invalidated by improper sample handling. The lab scientist who ran the test appeared to be straining to say that without overstepping her remit on the show.
Re:Edward Snowden's New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones fr... by timthorn on Friday July 22, 2016 @12:50AM (#12141758)
But do some, imperfectly fitting, filings act as a diode?