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Joel Moskowitz is a psychology professor.

NIH has a whole page dedicated to this https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/r...

Really don’t understand how or why people trust the government. It’s one thing not to buy into FUD. It’s another thing to say the government having a page on the Internet is some conclusive thing.

The government is made from people, just like businesses are. Who do you trust, Verisign?

And who makes money from our worrying about cell phone cancer?

The government is paid to say things by lobbyists and currently denies global warming. A year ago global warming was a national security threat.

I don’t trust Verisign. But I rely on companies that have their profits at stake when they conduct business. Which is not the case for government, which gets its revenue by coercion and spends it haphazardly, spasmodically with abandon.

Trusting entities that aren’t your closest relatives and friends is naive and careless.

> And who makes money from our worrying about cell phone cancer?

Every news outlet that got clicks on the subject. The Worry Industry, broadly. Why do you think people took the time to report on it? Altruism? Boredom? You think techcrunch.com is a hobby? Every day these people go to work and identify click bait so they can keep their jobs. Many people make money from this.

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