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Re:Stop global roll out of 5G networks until safety is confi... by namibj on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @11:18AM (#25834947)
4G doesn't do anything weird compared to older mobile/cellular radio technology. 5G includes an order of magnitude higher frequencies, with far less penetration depth into humans. Thus the power is dumped into less volume. While the power levels involved seem very safe, we don't have the vast research body of cm waves.
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Re:Stop global roll out of 5G networks until safety is confi... by thu2111 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @12:16PM (#25835762)
But we do have a lot of research into the effects of radio on biological cells, though. Is the assumption here that less power but higher frequency would somehow have effects on the body that have previously never been noticed and for which there is no present theoretical basis? Is this theory falsifiable in any reasonable way?
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