Re:Colorectal cancer incidence in teens up 300% since 1999
by choilive on Monday May 13, 2024 @05:33PM
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Cell phones emit non-ionizing radiation so this shouldn't be possible from a first-principles physics standpoint.
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Re:Colorectal cancer incidence in teens up 300% since 1999
by hollerith on Monday May 13, 2024 @05:40PM
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Just because it doesn't ionize atoms doesn't mean it can't have biological effects.
Re:Colorectal cancer incidence in teens up 300% since 1999
by Qem on Monday May 13, 2024 @06:12PM
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Some bacteria secrete small iron oxide crystals and are able to use those to sense magnetic fields[1]. Our guts are full of bacteria. Wonder if a nearby RF emitter can cause some of them to run amok. They surely tested the effects of cellphones in human tissues, but I doubt the same was done to bacterial cells.
Re:Colorectal cancer incidence in teens up 300% since 1999
by JumpCrisscross on Monday May 13, 2024 @08:38PM
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> bacteria secrete small iron oxide crystals and are able to use those to sense magnetic fields
There is preliminary evidence "that MTB in the gut are associated with grey matter volume in magnetite-rich brain regions related to orientation and navigation" [1].
> Wonder if a nearby RF emitter can cause some of them to run amok
This was explored (and dismissed) in the early noughties [2], when cell-phones-cause-cancer was enjoying a halcyon. (I think it was radiation from CRTs before that. Probably non-organic vegetables today.)
[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00343-021-0495-1
Re:Colorectal cancer incidence in teens up 300% since 1999
by JPLeRouzic on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @02:08AM
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All electromagnetic radiation that encounters some conductive material induces (tiny) currents. Cells are full of conductive materials.
"Low-frequency electric fields influence the human body just as they influence any other material made up of charged particles"
https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/rad...