Cellphone masts: health debate continues

Beri said:
Ooohhh BS.
So you also say then we will never know for sure if there is a link?
And yoda agrees with me on this
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It is very difficult if not almost impossible to prove a negative. Proving cellphones / towers ARE'NT dangerous is like being asked to prove the Easter Bunny doesn't exist. How sure are you he doesnt exist?

While most people carry on about cellphones being dangerous to our health and they can "feel" the radiation, most people forget about everything else in the home that emits electromagentic radiation.
Something as simple as your electric blanket, emits EM radiation with a magnitude and surface area much larger than your tiny cellphone.
 
not even gonna give these crackpots a single minute of my time.... except to write this post obviously! :D
 
Beri said:
Ooohhh BS.
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No, not BS. You're talking in absolutes, whereas empirical science doesn't operate in absolutes.

Beri said:
So you also say then we will never know for sure if there is a link?
And yoda agrees with me on this
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Again, no. As Haptic says, we know which types of radiation are harmful, we know the levels at which it is harmful and we know how it manifests. The people claiming cellphone towers emit harmful radiation should provide their evidence, because it's severely lacking.
 
Even if cellular transmissions posed a low grade cancer threat, would we care? We're in contact with carcinogens all the time but obviously take the pragmatic view that probabilities are low and so long term that we quite knowingly continue. Just some of the common carcinogens in our environment - non-stick frying pans, cosmetics, most plastics, all alcoholic beverages, coffee, bubble bath, popcorn, anti-perspirant, bacon, baby powder, paint, petrol fumes, braaivleis etc etc

How many of these people who are so terrified of cellphone towers will happily expose themselves to dozens of carcinogens every time they park by the braai drinking beer and eating processed meat that came wrapped in plastic, having used firelighters doused in benzine/paraffin? Probably, these things will one day cause cancers in some of us, but do we really care?
 
If my body allows me to get better cell reception than I'm all for it!!

BUT

If my body causes the interference then stop giving me cancer cell providers!!!!!111111
 
unless you are made of some really interesting substances your body isn't causing interference - otherwise operators would have to increase the signal in areas of high population density; they don't and on the contrary high population density means making smaller low powered cells.
 
Gnome said:
Ask yourself: Would you want to live next to a transmission tower?

To me, the answer is no. I'm sure many others feel the same.

So in that regard I sympathise with these people and hope they set a legal precedent.

Radiation exposure is very subtle since the effects can only be measured over a period of 10s of years. I certainly wouldn't want to be the guinea pig.
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I know of a farmer staying next to one, when the wind blows in a certain direction, the tower whistles.
 
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