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Federal scientists released partial findings Friday from a $25 million animal study that tested the possibility of links between cancer and chronic exposure to the type of radiation emitted from cell phones and wireless devices. The findings, which chronicle an unprecedented number of rodents subjected to a lifetime of electromagnetic radiation, present some of the strongest evidence to date that such exposure is associated with the formation of rare cancers in at least two cell types in the brains and hearts of rats.
There are some major caveats, though. The results were only observed in male rats; there weren't any significant effects seen in female rats. Exposure in utero didn't seem to affect cancer risk. And in male rats, the incidence of those two cancers was quite low. But even a small increase in the incidence of those cancers could have a major public health impact given how many people in the world regularly use cell phones.
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Saturday May 28 2016, @06:15AM
Does this mean that all those people claiming to be RF sensitive actually have a leg to stand on?
From the report (page 13):
I don't know what all the big words mean, but it sounds like there is nervous system involvement.
That would be consistent with a sub-set of the population being able to "feel" radio waves.
(Score: 2) by quintessence on Saturday May 28 2016, @06:33AM
Glial are more akin to collagen, but for nerve cells, i.e.- they operate like scaffolding.
Tests run on people who claim to be able to detect wi-fi signals have been negative. People have not been able to detect the presence at any better rates than chance.
That is not to say they aren't feeling something, but more than likely it isn't related to wi-fi. No sensory cells are affected anyway.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 28 2016, @07:34AM
That would be consistent with a sub-set of the population being able to "feel" radio waves.
Sure, the subset with magnetic implants in their fingers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 28 2016, @10:24PM
When I first saw a headline about this, I wondered if it was like the cyclamate study that said if you drink 10 gallons of kool-aid a day for 120 years, you would likely develop cancer.
Another page I saw said the "scientists" didn't want to "confuse" the results with the effects of -heating-, so they established what that power level was and backed off just a dab.
"Science". Heh.
As an AC down in the (meta)thread notes, there are over a billion human subjects using cellphones in that decade-long-and-more experiment.
No statistical significance noted yet.
If there was a correlation found between increased cancers (particularly on the side of the head where the thing was held i.e. where the field strength is the greatest), that would have been splattered all over the news.
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