My my, another two-bit study about cell phones as mentioned in The Journal May 18 ("Experts find no evidence linking cellphones, cancer").
These things can be dangerous regardless what the experts found. If I ever read nonsense this is it. The first microwave ovens operated on frequencies around 800 MHz to 900 MHz. This was changed later on so the ovens would operate at around 2,300 to 2,450 MHz and the cell phones could use the 850 MHz frequencies since these frequencies are much better suited for communications purposes due to their propagation characteristics.
Time and again the cellphone companies are trying to convince their clients these cell phone radio waves are harmless; I wonder why? Looks that they do the same as with cigarettes -- no harm proved.
Anyone with half a brain can understand that if you can cook with these radio waves at 850 MHz there has to become kind of some kind of similar action on the molecular level in the head if done often enough, and some people never seem to be without a cellphone against the head.
If all of a sudden it is proved these radio waves can do damage, an enormous upheaval in the cellphone industry would take place and that seems to be reason for the continuous reassuring of the public.
It seems to me one can use cellphones safely but not by walking around with the antennas pressed against the head or close to it. Looking around and seeing how cell phones are used makes one shudder.
Robert H. Fransen
Sherwood Park
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