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Vibrating for it to wake you means you need to keep it close to your body. I wonder what health implications it may have -- In general its really bad to have a cell phone touching your body for prolonged periods of time because of the radiation it emits.

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I would really like to see a citation for that!

The problem is that it is VERY hard to do a conclusive study on this. Never mind that a low dose radiation study would take many years: the hard part is that you need to randomly select half of your group to use only non-radiating (non-functional) cell phones. Good luck finding a group of volunteers for that.

Google it. It's all over the internet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_heal...

Because if it's all over the internet, it must be true?

The wiki page even says: The WHO added that "to date, no adverse health effects have been established as being caused by mobile phone use."

As far as I can tell there has, to date, not been a single proper study that actually showed any effects. Just a bunch of fearmongering and cases like this: http://retractionwatch.com/2012/03/26/rabbits-neednt-worry-a...

There is no evidence of increased cancer risk from cell phones. Steven Novella has good posts on it. "Warning Labels on Cell Phones": http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/warning-labels-... and "Another Cell Phone – Cancer Review": http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/another-cell-ph...

Following your link: > In 2011, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified mobile phone radiation as Group 2B - possibly carcinogenic.

Group 2B includes coffee, pickled vegetables, titanium dioxide (used in food coloring and sunscreens), and work in carpentry, dry cleaning, printing industry, and textile industry.

I think I'll keep my cell phone. (And coffee and kimchi, for that matter.)

Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but doesn't everyone (or at least the solid majority) keep their cells in their pockets? Close to er..."important" parts of your body?

Sleeping 8 or more hours next to it is just going to compound the issue, but this is already something people don't seem to care that much about...at least in practice.

Aside from being a little warmer, the radiation has no effect on you.

Worse than being deaf while in an emergency situation?

>FDA states that "the available scientific evidence does not demonstrate any adverse health effects associated with the use of mobile phones."

http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingProducts/RadiationEmitt...

I don't accept the premise here.

But even if cell phone radiation was actually harmful, you could just leave your phone in airplane mode while you slept.

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