Thanksgiving is only a few months away, so it’s time to start learning about your annual confrontation with your strange relatives’ screams. This year, you can prepare for one possible talking point: An extensive review of the scientific literature concludes that cell phones do not cause head cancer.
Recent papers published in journals international environmental organizationis not based on any new experiments or research. Rather, it is a systematic review of 63 studies published between 1994 and 2022 on the link between radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) (the type of non-ionizing radiation emitted by cell phones) and common head cancers.
These include cancers found in the brain and its protective membranes, the pituitary gland, the salivary glands, as well as brain tumors and leukemia. The review, led by an international team of doctors and medical researchers and commissioned and partly funded by the World Health Organization, found that exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields from mobile phones did not lead to an increased risk of, or increase the risk of, various cancers and tumors. and tumor risk.
The studies used in the analysis were diverse, conducted in 22 countries and examining different sources of RF-EMF. These include radiation originating close to a person’s head (such as a handheld mobile phone), radiation coming from a greater distance (such as a mobile phone tower), and radiation from both (such as a person exposed through a handheld transceiver or workplace equipment ). They also examined how long people were exposed to radiation.
In fact, no link between radiation and increased cancer risk has been detected in any case, even among people who are near their phones nearly all day long. One exception is glioma, a tumor of the brain or spinal cord that occurs in people exposed to occupational levels of radiation. Even so, the risk “is not significantly increased,” and the risk does not increase even if cumulative exposure levels increase, the researchers said.
The idea that cell phones cause cancer is one of the uncertain beliefs many people have, but it Feel Specious. After all, we hold a small radiation receiver next to our head for minutes or even hours at a time. It doesn’t help that the data is often confusing. The American Cancer Society says on its website that studies of the link between cell phones and different types of cancer have produced “mixed” results, but adds that many of the studies have limitations.
Some studies on rising rates of head cancer have been taken out of context by conspiracy theorists, malicious actors and the misinformed. The theory is so widespread that both the New York Times and the Washington Post published reports 13 years apart with the headline “Can Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer?” This theory was advanced by lawyer/failed presidential candidate/turncoat Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who espoused other discredited medical beliefs.
In 2011, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified RF-EMF as possibly carcinogenic to humans, but the decision was “largely based on limited evidence from observational studies in humans,” said Ken Karipidi, assistant director of health effects assessment at the Australian Radiation Agency Ken Karipidis said.
“This systematic review of observational studies in humans is based on a much larger data set than the one examined by IARC and includes more recent and comprehensive studies, so we can be more confident in our conclusions about exposure to wireless technologies. The radio waves do not pose a risk to human health,” he added.
That’s it, there you have it. Now you can prove as conclusively as science can prove anything that cell phone radiation does not cause brain tumors. Your weird cousin, uncle, or whatever, will have to surrender to the unyielding power of your facts and science. They certainly did before quickly turning to adrenochrome and Bill Gates’ vaccine nanobots. Well, you tried.
