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I have been a follower of John Dvorak's articles on PC Magazine for a long time. His column comes out like clockwork, but his Opinions page was not updated for weeks. A little searching found an article on Medium from John himself. He says that he was released for his article that was critical of the forthcoming 5G system, and the magazine went so far as to replace his article with a pro-industry article. You can read John's story here.
A sad sign of the times where advertising rules everything.
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday October 16 2018, @11:36AM (2 children)
The problem is you're looking at it from a generalist perspective vs my EE-ish perspective.
The existing physics simply will not be denied... if cell phones caused cancer (via ... what biochemical path? There doesn't seem to be one...) then the average lifespan of a transmission site broadcast engineer or industrial induction heating technician would be a mere couple months. Welders would die within weeks. Radar avionics technicians would never live long enough to retire. Pragmatically it doesn't happen. But theoretically other than thermal effects blasting EM waves is about as interactive with chemistry as a neutrino beam.
I will admit that people mushing weird plastics into their hands and faces IS somewhat new, so if the plastic in "iphone glass" or "iphone case plastic" causes skin cancer after 50 years I would not be surprised (because that kind of thing is a known predictable historical analogy).
(Score: 2) by rleigh on Tuesday October 16 2018, @02:08PM (1 child)
Actually, my background includes EM and imaging work. There are all sorts of interesting phenomena which can occur and change the characteristics of EM radiation. What about second and third harmonic generation, which can change the effective frequency and hence power? I've personally used second harmonic generation in collagen to do deep imaging of physical structures. What about interactions with dense body tissues such as bone and cartilage? What about localised hotspots due to constructive interference. There are a lot of factors to consider, and I don't pretend to know it all.
Now, any problems are not so huge as to cause immediately obvious problems, that's clearly true. However, the long-term effects are yet to be fully characterised. And there may be subtle effects we are yet to discover.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 18 2018, @09:46AM
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with 2 or more can never be certain.
Arrogant simpletons with a modicum of related experience will always be cock sure...