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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by adamsea on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:44AM (#21312816)
Also the World Health Organization (WHO) is cited:

https://www.iarc.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/pr208_E.pdf

"Lyon, France, May 31, 2011 ‐‐ The WHO/International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), based on an increased risk for glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer1 , associated with wireless phone use."

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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by gridlockd on Monday October 21, 2019 @11:13AM (#21313198)
The "possibly carcinogenic" declaration is quite weak ("evidence far from conclusive").

Even if it was "carcinogenic to humans", there's a lot of things that are vital to modern society which fall into that category. It's then up to the regulators to guess an "acceptable" limit of exposure.

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Re:“We have no reason to believe 5G is safe” by drucik on Monday October 21, 2019 @11:39AM (#21313521)
“One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.” seems appropriate here...
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