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In the 1920's and 1930's there were scores of people
claiming to "hear radio in [their tooth cavity] fillings". Today, we have more people in more countries with more tooth fillings near more (and more powerful) transmitters than ever before, yet nobody claims to hear radio in their teeth. The focus has shifted to other, more fashionable sources of radiation, such as cellphones. It all boils down to whether low-level, non-ionizing radiation has any effect at the molecular level or not. Conventional wisdom had it that being that radiation non-ionizing, if its intensity was short of sufficient for inducing macroscopic heating, it would not be harmful. On the other hand, heating had long been tied to cataracts and male sterility, and of course to burns. In recent years, it was discovered that many birds had the capability to convert the earth magnetic field into electrochemical nerve signals. As microscopic magnetic crystals were found in birds' brains (and later in humans' brains as well), speculation is now focusing on the possibility that physical effects may have some heretofore unnnoticed chemical impact too. Bad statistical manipulation is easy to spot, bad data much less so. As an RF addict and a statistics aesthete, I hope research will continue, but I am not terribly concerned. |
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