[...] "I can see from my tractor that they are all skin and bones. It's enough to make you cry." On the other side of the small road that winds along his property, a short distance from the town of Mazeyrat-d'Allier, in the Haute-Loire department, Frédéric Salgues can spot what he considers to be the cause of his cows' problems, less than 300 meters away: a cell phone tower commissioned by Orange on June 28, 2021.
[...] On May 23, the administrative court of Clermont-Ferrand ordered the 4G antenna's cessation of operation for a period of two months.
This measure, unprecedented in France, should become effective within three months. The objective is to carry out an expert assessment in order to "establish a potential causal link between the behavior of the cattle and this antenna." The administrative court highlights "a significant drop in the quality and quantity of milk produced, a serious disruption in the behavior of the herd and its voluntary denutrition and abnormally high deaths.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 18 2022, @08:31PM
Those who say cellphone radiation can't do anything because it's non-ionizing should go stick their heads in an oven and turn it on. We already have plenty of scientific evidence than brains are sensitive to temperature. Even a few degrees too high can cause damage. And cellphone radiation has been found to have measurable effects on the brain:
https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2006/04/25/1621201.htm [abc.net.au]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5952570/ [nih.gov]
That said just having the phone further away from your body and head should reduce the effects dramatically.
But cellphone towers have quite high power outputs and there might be some "hotspots".
While not all of the kilowatts will be passing through your head, you definitely wouldn't want to have your head being in an accidental focal point or hotspot: https://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/5g-base-stations-use-a-lot-more-energy-than-4g-base-stations-says-mtn [fiercewireless.com]
Can we really assume cellphone radiation can't get reflected or focused in similar ways?
After all similar stuff has happened for solar radiation: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/130904-walkie-talkie-building-london-melts-sunlight-physics-science [nationalgeographic.com]
https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/why-do-skyscrapers-melt-things/ [popsci.com]