So I had this really big argument with a friend of mine yesterday

>>8710333
if radio waves were harmful to humans we'd all be dead from a hell of a lot more things than cell phones and wi-fi

>>8710340
well in the last years the rate of cancer grew a lot and this was mostly associated with cell phone usage, at least that's what some studies show

>>8710348
I'm sure it has everything to do with harmless radio waves and nothing to do with the constantly rising rate of carcinogenic air pollution

>>8710333
DUDE didnt u know that radio waves knock electrons off your atoms then theyre ions and shit gets real nasty tbhf

>>8710361
you mean radioactive waves? bcz they create mutations by doing that

a link has never been demonstrated in humans. There are lots of studies on cell cultures in specific conditions that are invariably trotted out on this board but none of them can be reasonably extrapolated to humans.

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>>8710333
"They don't ionize atoms so they're harmless and have no effect whatsoever!!!11" used to be conventional wisdom.

Except now it turns out there's some effect, after all:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3780531/

Here's a more readable paper on the topic.
https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/7521102473.pdf

Tl;dr It's possible. More research is needed, and soon.

>>8710333
Yes. It is a major contributing factor to autism. But it's easier to blame vaccines and bad parenting. The plethora of radio waves ll around us is affecting all of us, making us more temperamental, anxious, etc.

>>8710333
no it's not true.

>>8710348
There are like 30 bajillion things you do during the day that are correlated with cancer. Eating packaged foods, being within 5 miles of someone smoking, being in the fucking sun for too long, even glancing at a screen of any kind, being anywhere near electronics, standing in the moonlight too long. Breathing outside whilst in a city with a factory. Owning a cat, the list goes on for shit that "might give you cancer".

>>8710474
Phenomena observed in cell culture do not always translate well to human biology. Living organisms are tremendously complex systems with many mechanisms for recognizing and adapting to sources of damage.

Even if a biologically plausible mechanism can be demonstrated in vitro, that does not necessarily mean the effect is relevant to human health in vivo.

It's bad for your posture, so from a purely osteopathic perspective, phones are cancer.

Its possible, but we don't know.

Probably no though.