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potential risk from wireless headphones

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NigelGresley · 13/03/2019 17:03

More news on the radiation soup we’re living in:
metro.co.uk/2019/03/12/wireless-headphones-pump-radiation-brain-cause-cancer-8889250/amp

Ignore the sensationalist ‘headphones cause cancer’ but consider that this story come soon from an article written by a
professor of biochemistry at the University of Colorado.

Potential effects could be:

‘increased cancer risk, cellular stress, increase in harmful free radicals, genetic damages, structural and functional changes of the reproductive system, learning and memory deficits, neurological disorders, and negative impacts on general well-being in humans.

‘Damage goes well beyond the human race, as there is growing evidence of harmful effects to both plant and animal life.’

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NigelGresley · 13/03/2019 17:05

Sorry didn’t review. ‘Came from’ not ‘Come soon’.
metro.co.uk/2019/03/12/wireless-headphones-pump-radiation-brain-cause-cancer-8889250/amp/

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SpoonBlender · 13/03/2019 17:23

Meh. The Metro is the same team as the Mail Online. The referred Medium article by Jerry Phillips (the professor you mention) doesn't appear to exist. There is an article that mentions him at medium.com/s/the-nuance/are-airpods-and-other-bluetooth-headphones-safe-214a0449e13a which says "various people say it could have effects" but also

"Other experts disagree and say that when all the research on EMF is pooled and analyzed, the data clearly indicate an absence of harm.

“There are many thousands of papers of varying quality and relevance to health that point in all sorts of directions,” says Kenneth Foster, a professor of bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania who has studied the effects of wireless radiation on human health. While you could cherry pick data that paint Bluetooth and other wireless technologies in a scary light, “these arguments have no credibility,” he says.

Foster points out that the WHO and other public health organizations have analyzed the literature on Bluetooth and wireless tech and haven’t found “any clear evidence for health hazards at exposure levels below international limits.”"

So it's a crap story badly researched by clickbait artists. Why else pick on Apple Airpods, which are probably the least far in your ear shape that you can get, with the radios in the silly looking arms down your cheek?

noblegiraffe · 13/03/2019 17:25

There’s a huge number of scientists out there who don’t believe in evolution. We don’t need some guy’s opinion, but actual mechanisms by which this could happen, and concrete evidence that it does.

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