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Re:Exposure to 835MHz RF-EMF induces hyperactivity and demye... by throwawayrf on Sunday April 24, 2022 @03:10AM (#31141905)
> but there’s no evidence Wi-Fi, cellphones or anything else radio related is hurting people

It seems like an attempt to do an epidemiological study would be highly compromised by everyday use washing out the exposure levels in the control group.

Or even a controlled double blind study. How would you even set up a double blinded experiment "do cellphones cause cancer" today?

Re:Exposure to 835MHz RF-EMF induces hyperactivity and demye... by throwanem on Sunday April 24, 2022 @03:18AM (#31141934)
You wouldn't need to blind an experiment like this, I'd think. Placebo won't prevent cancer, and nocebo won't cause it. (Besides, I don't see how you can blind it. Not like someone's not going to know whether their phone works or not!)

You could try recruiting your control cohort from the National Radio Quiet Zone. I believe it's quite thinly populated, though.

Re:Exposure to 835MHz RF-EMF induces hyperactivity and demye... by space_fountain on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:58PM (#31158431)
Radio energy drops off pretty quickly. If the question you hoped to answer was does RF at any level higher than the background from the Sun + cosmic background cause cancer then that would be difficult, but if the question was does holding a smartphone cause cancer it would be relatively easy. It would also be easy to give people a device that either transmitted rf or didn't with no outside indication. Also really easy to do this in mice or the like. So far all indicator are that for the sort of frequencies we use the only impacts are heating
Re:Exposure to 835MHz RF-EMF induces hyperactivity and demye... by eurasiantiger on Sunday April 24, 2022 @03:15AM (#31141922)
You put the control group in the United States National Radio Quiet Zone.
Re:Exposure to 835MHz RF-EMF induces hyperactivity and demye... by hdjjhhvvhga on Sunday April 24, 2022 @04:13AM (#31142163)
At this point you can't even talk about "blind", not to mention "double blind".
Re:Exposure to 835MHz RF-EMF induces hyperactivity and demye... by throwawayrf on Sunday April 24, 2022 @03:17AM (#31141933)
You'd also have to put the experimental group there, too.
Re:Exposure to 835MHz RF-EMF induces hyperactivity and demye... by throwanem on Sunday April 24, 2022 @03:18AM (#31141938)
You can't. The Zone exists to enable sensitive radio astronomy; if you radiate without authorization, they DF you and come tell you to stop.