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Yet another example of how the world is hard...

I'm not sure what to make of this. I thought there wasn't any good evidence of radiation from mobile phones being harfmul.

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There still isn't any good evidence. Sometimes seems like the hardest thing about the world right now is to avoid getting scared/depressed by excessive exposure to reports like this one.

Yeah.. reading all the comments that appeared after I wrote mine, it looks like I don't need to worry too much. That is, assuming the HN hivemind is on the right track -- which, for something like this, I think is generally the case.

I am in the same boat. I get a creeping sense of horror when I read such reports.

When I read such reports I try to assume the worst is true, in this example that cell phone towers do in fact cause increased rates of cancer, however minuscule. Then I ask, is this a cost that we as a society are willing to bear for value add of the thing in question. In this case, I think the increase in cancer rates would have to be astronomically high for us to say that's too dangerous.

Yes and no. If it turned out the evidence is really obvious, it actually might spur new developments without the problems of the older technology.

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