I mean I ‘know’ that carrying a thing in my pocket that has a sizable battery and sends mass amounts of rays through your body continuously throughout the day would ‘logically’ point to ‘more than likely’ but then in practice – there is no side effects. So does our body have a natural defense for all of the above?
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Radiation is a scary word. Ordinary light from a desk lamp is radiation. But colloquially when people say radiation they mean ionizing radiation. That’s particles or waves carrying enough energy to start knocking electrons around in your cells or cause transcription errors while your DNA is making copies. The frequencies used by consumer electronics don’t operate at those energies and that is why they are deemed safe.
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