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Re:California Governor Vetoes Statewide 5G Antenna Standards by timthelion on Saturday October 21, 2017 @06:35PM (#15523993)
What lack of understanding is there though? We already know that doctors are unable to preform reproducible science, so we cannot trust them to prove that cell-phones are safe. Physics tells us that cell-phone radiation enters the body and interacts with cells. Of course, the panic that often accompanies such uncertainty is irrational and unscientific, but the steadfast belief that the radiation can do no harm is equally so.

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2012/ph250/lu1/

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Re:California Governor Vetoes Statewide 5G Antenna Standards by WillPostForFood on Saturday October 21, 2017 @07:02PM (#15524083)
There is some science we aren't still worried about reproducing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law

The focus on micro towers is misguided because the possible health threat is from the handset, and more micro towers means phones can operate at lower power, which would be a good thing for the worriers.

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Re:California Governor Vetoes Statewide 5G Antenna Standards by timthelion on Sunday October 22, 2017 @04:52AM (#15525796)
Doen't the inverse square law show that more towers closer to the ground, even transmitting at a lower wattage, could be worse than a few towers high up and far away?
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Re:California Governor Vetoes Statewide 5G Antenna Standards by WillPostForFood on Monday October 23, 2017 @04:46AM (#15531684)
Just think about your handset, not the towers. The handset has to broadcast to those towers, at a power they can receive. As you hold that handset, to you want it to be broadcasting at low power to a nearby tower, or higher power to a tower further away? And who says that old tower is further away? It is going to be close to someone, even if it isn't you.
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Re:California Governor Vetoes Statewide 5G Antenna Standards by viraptor on Saturday October 21, 2017 @07:46PM (#15524252)
> We already know that doctors are unable to preform reproducible science

We've done pretty well so far with doctors doing good research. This is the basis of all modern medicine. Sure, there are going to be issues in some cases. There are going to bring failed experiments.

But we're winning massively since science really got into medicine. Your assumption is not really valid.

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Re:California Governor Vetoes Statewide 5G Antenna Standards by dang on Monday October 23, 2017 @03:03AM (#15531264)
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