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>Radio simply cannot give you cancer. It's been proven. We understand the physics. It's been tested to death.

Actually, high exposure to radio sources (2G and 3G) have recently been found to cause cancer in male rats. It's unclear yet whether this effect carries over to humans.

https://factor.niehs.nih.gov/2018/11/feature/1-feature-radia...

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Yeah, the study is widely criticized. Ars Technica gave a nice breakdown of it here: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/draft-of-us-governme...

> To sum up the findings: a bunch of cancers that aren't statistically different from those found in the control group; a high-fatality control group; an elevated incidence of a single type of cancer, only in males, at exposures that are well above any that a human should experience.

To be fair, that's just one guy on a tech blog viewing a early draft of the findings. Here's a result of the peer review of the findings by a panel of experts:

https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/about_ntp/trpanel/2018/march/a...

>Panel 2 voted to recommend (8yes, 3no, 0 abstentions) the conclusion, clear evidence of carcinogenic activity of male Hsd:Sprague Dawley SD rats based on incidences of malignant schwannoma in the heart

But not female rats or male and female mice.

And for some reason the fact that the mice that were subjected to the cell phone signals lived longer is ignored by everyone.

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