I wish that a law is passed that requires all parents to watch this video. Also, translate this video to every major language so that parents of all nationalities can get some sense.
+Flow No. No they can not. The people saying cell phones can cause cancer ARE speaking out of PURE ignorance. They're not speaking "not from ignorance". Just the opposite, the ONLY thing that's causing them to spout this crap is ignorance.
+Flow Just how?? Their frequencies are so low even visible light has higher frequency then them. Does this mean light can give us cancer as well (I'm not talking about UV light from the sun which obviously it can)?
+Abdulrahman Khan And then there should be another video why kids should not use cellphones too much. Not related to physical health, at least not directly.
+Andy Plater not me. there are people out there that need to hear it explained as clearly as possible. anything that involves waves, energy (of any sort) or radiation raises their tinfoil caps' antennas. my mother is like that. she thinks microwaves and air-fryers (wtf? WHY?) are dangerous because "radiation". and she won't listen to reason. then i ask her what is radiation and she has no clue. it's just because some random idiot on the internet posted a stupid chain letter thingy and she read it. i hate facebook, i wish my brother never introduced her to it so many years ago. she falls victim of every stupid conspirator theory (vaccines are eeeeeevillllllllllllllllllll111) possible, and it GETS TO MY NERVES. i wouldn't be able to handle it if i still lived with her. still, i visit her regularly (have lunch at my parent's house every day) and i don't like seeing her being manipulated like that.
+Sir Zoidberg My Daughter has brain cancer and even though I have been told a thousand times it's not the cell phone, I like hearing it 1000 more times. My daughter is OK now, but it was very scary. Thank you for this video.
+Get the Joke! it will still transfer its energy and it has a greater penetration depth than infrared radiation, but its penetration depth is no bigger than your head so most of the energy WILL get dumped in your head. If you use a 600W microwave you will dump that 600W into your head as heat. If you use a cellphone (which as far as i am informed can transmit 0.6 or 3 watts, does so in a spherical fashion and has radiation that penetrates through your head without interacting that much) you WILL heat up your head ... by fractions of a degree, which you could also do by wearing a hat.
Literally been told for years now by teachers and parents that I'm at risk for cancer because I sleep with my phone in my bed and kept my phone in my front pocket. Stumbled across this video and it's given me peace of mind! Thank you!!! :D
But a typical phone surface contains more bacteria than a toilet seat if you aren't cleaning your phone with a sanitizer and keeping it beside your head you are sleeping with much more bacteria than you should be
unless your phone is turned off its always screaming out here I am to a cell tower do some more research. Keeping it in your pocket is why the increase of IVF it slows down your swimmers for men and harms a women's eggs
Cell phone emissions are absolutely not safe, this has been known since the 70's. Work on the effects of electromagnetic fields on biological systems actually began the moment man could generate electricity in a controlled form, and EMR very shortly after Hertz described his methods. The earliest known papers were out of France, d'Arsonval 1893. There are two main questions which are connected but still distinct. -How can an input stimulus well below the threshold of ambient thermal noise have any effect? This became known as the kT paradox among Soviet authors. "Microwaves can only act by heating." -Microwaves are non-ionizing and therefore cannot break bonds. The answers to both are actually fairly simple. It's a matter of transduction and downstream amplification. The bulk of the effects are not directly due to the energy deposited, but the information. Biological systems are a) periodic systems, b) their structures are designed to resist random noise and to pick up on periodic or polarized signals. It's like if someone said "scenery can't possibly effect your emotions, the visible light lacks the penetration depth and energy to organize all your brain activity". Of course in actuality (for the most part) there's initial transduction by structures in the eye, and way downstream the body utilizes its own energy production machinery to effect sometimes massive downstream amplification and widescale changes in the entire body. At a different different scale, during the cold war a single light on an instrument panel, a few photons entering someone's eye, could trigger large scale "state change" sufficient to end the bulk of the terrestrial life on this planet several times over. Systems in some states don't have, or lose the capacity to dampen certain inputs. Biological systems are in many ways coupled oscillators, and under undisturbed conditions they go to great lengths to constrain their collective activity to certain ranges, avoiding damage. However if their communication is disrupted in some form that changes. A good example of periodicity (taken from Tian Yao Tsong of University of Maryland) is a sumo guy altering the course of a several ton pendulum by acting on it at a specific point. Or our ability to change the course of a several ton vehicle moving 80 mph, but only by acting or not acting on the steering apparatus. Other use of energy does not achieve that effect. The primary mechanism is an alteration of calcium flux, which has strong experimental verification. The characteristics of animal tissues are actually very good at propagating frequencies more deeply than industry claims. The intercellular space is essentially a conductive fluid full of negatively charged structures (membrane bound glycoprotein tips) protruding and crisscrossing around. It's an "electrical gutter". The movements of these charges puts forces on other structures, in this case most relevant is the charge groups in the calcium channel's voltage sensing subunit. When they're moved in roughly the same direction at the same time at activates the channel, which is a transmembrane protein (a pore) connected the cell interior with the extracellular space. Calcium flows into the cell. This is involved in signalling and other things. Essentially, if you have aberrant activation of these channels you're going to have the cell behaving incorrectly (anything from neurotransmitter release to immune function), and you're going to have chronically elevated intracellular calcium. That's where the DNA damage etc comes from, saturated and overwhelming processing pathways for downstream reactions. Like the nitric oxide synthases. Put shortly, there will be an increase in NO production and an increase in superoxide production Superoxide is remove by superoxide dismutase by turning it into H2O2. That's then turned into water and O2 by catalase or glutathione peroxidase. However, if it's not, hydrogen peroxide can do a bit of damage, but worse, it can be turned into hydroxyl radicals (eg via fenton reaction). Once NO and superoxide are at a certain threshold concentration they begin to combine to form peroxynitrite, a potent oxidant. They do this at a rate 5x faster than superoxide dismutase can act. It's a runaway process, structures and enzymes in the cell are damaged, DNA is damaged, lipids are oxidized. Cell damage or death results. There's also a kinetic mechanism at specific frequencies (like continuous wave 2.45 GHz), where some results show the DNA molecule begins to thrash around violently and will break off its histone groups etc. This is at fairly low intensities. Work by Reba Goodman and Martin Blank have identified characteristics of fractal antennas in DNA. Another mechanism involves altering the structure of water around structures attached to the cell membrane which either has a slight "drying" effect, or in some cases will cause conformational changes of proteins, and generate solitons in structures able to carry them. At millimeter wave frequencies, when the field is pulsed, the membrane will experience acoustic effects and according to soviet literature generate "temporary structures" which "remain long after irradiation has ceased.". Other effects of millimeter waves are demyelination and fragmentation of peripheral nerves, and broad degenerative changes in multiple organs and enzyme systems. This was in rats with exposure for 15 minutes per day, for 60 days, power density of 1mW/cm2. The papers included illness in occupationally exposed humans. A third mechanism is disrupted radical pairing around eg magnetite, and thus free radical generation. Also some stuff with cryptochromes. Refer to "-Documents, links, information.txt" in: www.mediafire.com/folder/dj875cd10yb72/EMF for more information, including we could have possibly going to this point. In brief, it came from early medical use, cold war era desire to freely use and install radar domestically and abroad, the EPRI, and then with all these old feet in the door, telecom picking up most of the work in the early 90's. By 1996 they got language in the 1996 Telecommunications act federally preempting local zoning denying cell tower placement based on environmental (health) concerns, so long as such emissions comply with FCC guidelines. And so the capturing of the FCC was already well underway, now, according to a Harvard ethics review and many other sources, it's pretty much complete. I've sat in on telecom lobbying, occasionally they slip up and talk as though they are the FCC. It should be no surprise that corporations and a multi-trillion dollar global industry would lie and manipulate. "_Index.txt" includes ~2500 other studies. Anyway, mechanisms are nice but from a public health perspective they aren't even needed and never were. Evidence from human studies, occupational exposure, animal studies, in vitro work, was overwhelming and damning by the 1970's. Do we need to know how cyanide kills things to not eat it? Or the damage of lead? Or Paris green? Or playing in the xray machines at the shoe store? Or breathing asbestos at the factory all day? Inhaling polonium and combustion byproducts of however many chemicals in and added to tobacco? Here we are again, we had the data and a subset of our population completely failed to use it. I really want to stress that it is bad, and we're all in a very bad spot. The end result of this is neurodegeneration and most likely population level irreversible infertility. This is what happened to mice exposed to an antenna park in Greece in the mid 90's. Refer to Magras and Xenos. We're already seeing this beginning now. To SciShow. At this point I strongly recommend researching further and posting a follow up to this video. Heat shock proteins are just stress proteins, they don't necessarily relate with heating or non-uniform energy deposition (micro-heating), microwave irradiation also elevates corticotropin releasing factor, another stress indicator. Which downstream acts on opioid systems, the endorphins and enkephalines, these things are addicting. With 5G coming real information and awareness of the last 100 years of literature, is long overdo.
Wow, interesting collection of studies. Are you an academic? I developed electrohypersensitivity just a few months ago and had to resign my job as an IT consultant and abandon my apartment because of it. I've been studying this topic non-stop ever since. I have about 40 studies which I found on PubMed, but I would love to see what else there is to find. I'm in the unfortunate position of having to hand research papers to my doctors to help them understand that I'm not delusional, even though I was diagnosed by a medical doctor and professor of medicine at Columbia University.
I’d like you know to I read your entire comment. did you consider the additional amount of radiation that we are exposed to 24/7 and have been well before the use of RF waves as a form of communication? I’m speaking of the EM waves that we see as visible light. Not only are we exposed to them all day every day, but light waves are a much higher frequency than any form of RF waves.
Does it really cause cancer? Im only 10 and i always use them in my free time and my brothers use them everyday and my parents also and me- dude like im so worried im gonna have it😭 i dont wanna die im too young😭 but everyone uses their phone everyday-
It's amazing that we live with signals all around us from multiple transmitters since the 50's & yet people look at a piddly little phone as if it were satan's spawn.
My dad was a radar and missile guidance technician and died in 1974 the doctors said it was caused by long term exposure to low level microwave radiation.
If anyone needs a list of harm that can be done by cell phones, here is a list, there is no cancer in there: Talking: Increases bacteria in the ear Heats the ear and to an extent brain Playing and texting: Posture problems (this is a huge issue, hernia is no fun neither RSI) Causes traffic accidents (someone here killed 4 of our colleagues in a car crash while she was on facebook while driving) Attention problems (esp. in kids) Sleep disorders (if used at night) Long duration use might cause eye focusing problems Locks you inside Limits or warps social development in kids
The reason for all the comments agreeing with this video: half the people who noticed this video clicked on it because they know they're right, and the other half ignored this video because they didn't want to be proven wrong.
Oh you would not believe. For example, there are still radiation shielding aprons for pregnant mothers and so on. The stupidity of people and how they would willing to pay for that stupidity is stunning. And the worst thing is that they think it's benevolent and kind to have that stupidity.
Χρήστος Τζήκας That's not the point though. This is one of the easiest to debunk so even though it's not as stupid as some other conspiracy theory or so, it shouldn't come up as often.
While saying that " It doesn't matter how it [a microwave oven] is, it's never going to emit infrared radiation" (1:30) is technically correct, it is a little misleading because certain thing in the beam (like water) can upconvert the microwaves into higher energy radiation (which is basically how microwaves cook things). If you place metal foil or a grape that is mostly split down the middle you will even get plasma arcs which by definition have been ionised.
but not because of the microwaves. They induce an emf in the metal foil which in turn surpasses air's breakdown voltage. Else you could say a hv transformer can generate xrays when its not the transformer but the arc that you can create with it. Another way could be heating a smooth piece of soft iron to above 600*C, which would make it start dissipating energy as infrared light. But it is still the iron emiting infrared, not the magnetron.
My mother had her face done. Botox. And everytime she puts a cellphone near her ear, it swells up noticably. Landline phones dont. Now, she uses her cell phone in speaker phone.
+Peggy Rapala 100,000?!?!?! Er ma gerd!!!!! I've always wanted a hundred thousand!!!!! I don't even care what it is but i sure have a hundred thousand of em!!!!!!! /sarcasm
this is why it's so important to hold ourselves to a standard of logic, evidence and objective analysis. So many people believe that cell phones or their microwave oven is potentially dangerous because it emits "radiation". why on Earth do so many people say things like “I have the right to believe what I want" or "I have a right to my opinion"? We should be respecting and valuing skepticism, objectivity, a willingness to jettison unsupported assumptions and plain old curiosity. Instead, we venerate people who express confidence and arrogance, no matter how ignorant they really are. I guess that's just human nature.
Party Bot The man in this video has no scientific background and he’s giving a biased opinion. Search medical videos by doctors, researchers pathologists etc. Microwaves are dangerous and holding a cell phone to your ear on a continual basis is detrimental. It’s better to use a headset and just heed warnings from the professionals, not from some idiot Layman on RUclips
Thank you so much! This video is a saviour. Everyone would always say that cell phones can cause cancer, making me scared. I'm delighted to know they don't.
@@Kluzkuz LoL. I watched it with my mom right before I got a cell phone when I was 11.... Those were Centennial Wireless days, 10$ a month - 500 minutes and unlimited nights ...something like that.
Excellent. I didn't know about the Frequency importance of harmful (ionising) radiation, but makes sense. But I have always reasoned thus: The radiation from the cell phone towers is all around us -- it's NOT dependent on us having a cell phone, the cell phone just picks it up, so all those radio & microwave frequencies are in the air all around us all the time whether we have a cell phone or not.
My 30yr old sister had a double mastectomy...at freakin 30!!!!! The largest cancerous mass in her breast was exactly where she kept her cell phone........
People are scared of the word "radiation" so we should start using it in places where it's correct but usually ignored. Like how flashlights and candles emit (visible light) radiation. Or your body is emitting (infrared) radiation right now.
+silver Harloe Or we could go the other way round and use radiation for everywhere it's technically correct to show how benign it is. "pass me that radioactive banana" "wow, you're emitting radiation you're so hot" "check out this cool radiation from the front of my monitor" "shit, my cellphone is emitting radiation, must have a call even though it's on silent" "check out what visible light radiation did to this paper, neat picture eh?"
One more thing that I was thinking about. It's possible that we may eventually find a correlation between hours spent on cell phone per week and incidence of cancer. A correlation is possible because of the lifestyle factor. Just like the number of hours spent at a computer may correlate with cancer. Lifestyle factor: physical inactivity. If you spend 8 hours a day consuming media (and let's be honest, I'm part of that category of people), you may not spend a lot of time exercising. And lack of exercise, especially if it leads to obesity (again, this applies to me as well) can increase the risk for some types of cancer (liver cancer, colon cancer).
Dirges Not all cancers. Cancer is not a monolithic thing. Different cancers have different causes. I was thinking in particular of liver cancer, which can be a consequence of non-alcoholic fatty liver, which in turn is generally linked to inactivity/obesity. There's also colon cancer. Honestly, I have never read the studies myself, but I have learned these things in college from people who I trust have read the studies (I'm a medical researcher). For colon cancer, a quick google search gave me this study for example: annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=708456 . I don't know if there's an association between inactivity and other types of cancer, there may, there may not. It may have the opposite effect in regards to skin cancer for example (but then again, that would not be the exercise, but the sun exposure having a negative effect).
radio: from radius, which means "spoke" in Latin, as in the spoke of a wheel. "Radio" or "radiation" just means anything that "radiates" out, ei goes out in every direction from a point, like the radii of a circle, like the spokes of a wheel. The sun's "rays" are from the same word, via French.
I am curious to see what effects cell phones do have on our health. There was a small study done on cress, which found that after a good while of growing, those which had been placed with an active cell phone were way more likely to die.Whilst it is probably not cancer, I wonder what could cause that.
Jesus christ thank you! Recently a young lad named Stu died of a brain tumor, who my family knew quite well. He became something of a local celebrity, with his own hashtag StayStrongStu to fit. When he passed, his mum began sharing loads of info about how his cancer was caused by him sleeping with his phone next to his bed and started posting loads of poor statistics and "facts." Bless her, she was only grieving and trying to understand why her son was taken so young. The problem was, because of his local celebrity status, a lot of what she was saying was taken seriously and gained quite a bit of following from a large proportion of people. And when I and a few others suggested that phones have no real way of causing cancer the response I got was a fairly aggressive "try telling that to Stu and his family!" To often science is disregarded in favour of emotional impulse thoughts and decisions.
Vain Glory But if the phone is emitting no problematic wavelengths (as this video has pointed out) then what could possibly be causing the cancer from sleeping nearby our phone?
@SammyCee23 unfortunately this sounds like a case of coincidence and correlation. Based on studies so far, an electron cannot be knocked out of a nucleus no matter the intensity of the source, only through the frequency. So it doesnt matter how hard someone is blasting that radiation, only what frequency the radiation is.
Two decades ago, my neighbor worked for CSU on one particular project - finding out whether or not cell phones are harmful to their users. I don't know what ever came of it except that he moved to North Carolina to continue his work elsewhere and he was convinced that they do.
The multi billion dollar Cyberknife Treatment industry (check out Scripps Oncology) has grown up to serve the major increases in diagnosed grade three anaplastic astrocytoma, and grade four giloblastoma multi-form. It is now trending in children as an entire pediatric oncology treatment facility just opened. They are treating kids four years old for neuronal blastoma that was so rare as to be unknown in children ten years ago. Check this out to verify, oncology is the largest growing sector in health care now, topping cardiology.
+RUclips has gone to shat I understood that incredibly specific and possibly obscure reference to California's excessive tendency to declare things carcinogenic.
hah "make as many phone calls as you want" Silly guy, phones are used to play candy crush and stalk your ex on twitter. Not to make phone calls. Silly guy.
Some other technology will come out in a few years that I will tell my kids will cause cancer or to their brains, even though it isn't true. Every generation has that: radio, tv, video games, and now cell phones.
listen I will get the best people on this, and they will do a tremendous, I mean really truly the greatest job ever at figuring what the hell is going on. And don't get me wrong cellphones love me, they say I'm the best.
+Nitay A. celphones are in the 600 to 1800mhz iirc fm radios go from about 80 to 120mhz. am radio is in the khz range. wifi and blutooth are in the 2,4ghz range. people repeating mass hysteria are between 1khz to 5khz
thank you for posting this video! There are way too many people who worry about this. Here some even get their office at work adapted so they get protected from mobile radiation....
I did not know this, but my guess was good. Also, thanks for making a fool out of all the people that hold their phone in a tilted manner in order to speak with it in a "safe" manner.
+Yellow Placing a RF source directly against your skin dramatically increases exposure. There are legal limits placed on safe levels of exposure allowed in devices because it is proven to be harmful to human health even without ionizing radiation. A common limit for cell phones is half an inch to an inch. The limit for some other devices is much more distance. To get certification from the FCC for example cell phone manufacturers often include warnings against direct contact with the head right in the user manuals because they could not meet the determined safe limits with direct contact.
Yellow RF can affect you. There are a number of ways it does this but the most obvious is in heating tissue. There is no debate that is causes this but there is some debate about how much low level heat that does not cause burns affects health. In the same way that microwave radiation is used to heat food other wavelengths are also capable of exciting molecules. There has been a great deal of research on this so I am not sure what specific point you are questioning. I encourage you to do your own research. My basic point though is that just because it is nonionizing does not mean that it doesn't affect tissue - it certainly can. Which is why there are regulations to limit exposure. How much harm this interaction is causing is a matter of study and debate but there is no debate that there is some interaction occurring.
Thanks for the video. This was really informative and relieving. I heard of that study before. So internet routers are also harmles? They have a similar wavefrequency.
Have you experience symptoms such as fatigue, headaches, poor memory, difficulty sleeping, and lack of clarity in your thoughts? It may seem that these could be the results of day-to-day stress and busyness, but there may be another culprit. All of these are symptoms of electro-sensitivity, which is something more and more people are finding themselves affected by. Studies done in 1997 have found “less than a few cases (of electro-sensitivity) per million”, however now as much as 2.5% of the population find themselves affected by electro-sensitivity. Even by most moderate calculations, electro-sensitivity is 1,000 times more common now than it was 20 years ago. Why could this be? Electro-sensitivity and its symptoms seem to be triggered by certain microwave frequencies of electromagnetic radiation. Microwaves are frequently used in electronics for the purposes of communication between devices. Due to their high frequency, microwaves allow for higher transmission rates and small antenna sizes, which is perfect for high-tech devices that are constantly getting smaller and faster. These are devices such as cell phones, tablets, laptops, and any devices able to connect to Wi-Fi, which can now include TVs and refrigerators Numerous studies, moreover, (2011-2017) report an increased risk of brain cancer due to the use of mobile phones Concern for other cancers: breast (male and female), testicle, leukemia, thyroid and much more. the current classification of radio frequencies as carcinogenic to humans (Class 2B) should be updated to carcinogenic to humans Many claim that this is not true at all or that there is no evidence just to progress with the construction of radio transmitters! And the 5 g accelerates all of this. One piece of advice I would like to give is to equip yourself with devices that protect against electromagnetic waves, such as Aires tech products,produced by AMERICAN AIRES, in my opinion is one of the best on the market 5g is part of progress, it is right to progress but why not protect yourself? www.airestech.com/category/media/ sites.google.com/view/sources-electrosmog
Hace you not thought of the idea that the reason more people think they have electricity sensitivity is because more people believe it’s real? This is a real effect. It’s the opposite of the placebo effect.
I have a question. Does prolonged use for like 5 hours or 10 hours change the frequency of this radiation? Or does it change the effect upon on the body?
it developed in the 1950s I think, long before cellphone-culture was a thing. Actually, if any conspiracy occurred, it was probably started by mail companies to lower cellphone usage and increase direct mailing LOL.
Well I have a personal anecdote that is hard to explain away. Seven years ago doctors found “terminal” cancer in the ER, which turned out to be Stage IV Metastatic Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma (I was given no more than 2-3 weeks to live). In a subsequent PET scan they found one of the largest tumors was on my left thigh. It was exactly the same size, length, and orientation as the antenna inside the iPhone I carried in that pocket. After years of radical treatment, recovery I still struggle with, and permanent disability, you can be sure I do not carry my phone next to my body. I am very suspicious of the research.
Excellent! Two further things to consider: A typical cellphone “radiates” at a power of about a Watt, which is *seriously* tiny! For comparison, our bodies radiate about 100 times that much in the form of body heat! The Inverse-Square Law: If you move a phone just 3 1/2 times farther away, it’s “radiation” levels go down by a factor of >10.
I do like the argument that RF just doesn't have enough energy to do anything biologically, but you could take it a step further: the RF that cell phones use is close to 1-2 GHz. Visible light is right around the point that has the lowest frequency/energy to do anything biologically (that's why you can see it, in a sense: it has enough energy that it can do something to molecules in your eye, but low enough energy that your body can use it in a controlled way, rather than the light just ripping things apart... and you might be able to find a little bit of chemistry and biology happening a factor of two or so lower in energy than visible light, but it's pretty close to the minimum energy). Visible light has a frequency of about 400-700 THz. You start running into problems, ionizing radiation, a factor of 2 (or more) above visible light, so around 1500 THz. Now here's the thing: 1 THz is 1000 times 1 GHz. That means that light starts to have enough energy to really cause harm when it has about 1,000,000 times the energy per photon of cell phone radiation. Cell phone radiation is 6 orders of magnitude too weak to hurt you. Also, unrelated, you CAN have situations where intensity matters for chemistry. With super high intensity lasers, with short pulses on the order of a Joule in energy, compressed to time durations of tens of femtoseconds, focused down to a small spot size, you can get intensities higher than what you would get if you focused all the power from the sun that hits the earth down to a postage stamp. When you have that high an intensity, you can have several photons hit an atom simultaneously, and you can get nonlinear optics phenomena where the atom can act as though it's getting hit by a higher energy photon. When you do this, you can get high harmonic generation, where an atom absorbs hundreds of wimpy infrared photons and emits a single, powerful extreme ultraviolet or x-ray photon. This is actually used as a tabletop coherent EUV and x-ray source, which is really hard to do otherwise, but could be extremely useful for things like the semiconductor industry, which wants to use EUV lithography to make circuits.
Please tell me more of what you know about the biologically relevant actions? From my current understanding based on work of Russell Foster, Sachin Panda and others, circadian entrainment has quite modest - that is, delicate - thresholds of being activated (or, messed up - the other side of the same coin). You appeared to allude there to some biological processes, so I was wondering about the extent of your knowledge of melanopsin and neuropsin? The subtle currents of injury? These are much different frequency bands and intensities to some of the more powerful ranges among those that you brought up.
+iamihop actually that category is called "probably not carcinogenic to humans", because as the scentific method works you can't actually rule out something 100%
Cell phones increase the risk of ear infections if you press them upon your ear when you talk (because of reduced ventilation in the acoustic canal, same as headphones). In turn chronic or recurring ear infections can increase the risk of middle ear squamous cell carcinoma. This is the only scientifically proven connection that I am aware of between cell phones and cancer, but I'm just a radiologist so my knowledge on this subject may be outdated or incomplete.
+Alex Seguin Sorry you've done so little with your life that you have to cut someone else down for their accomplishments and genuinely interesting information.
+Alex Seguin You click on a science video (Presumably to expand your knowledge), another person tries to add to that knowledge, and you belittle them? Why?
But does cell phone use cause chronic or recurring ear infections? More likely, it causes infrequent infections. Plus. cell phones don't seal off the ear canal like headphones. Most people do not hold them pressed to their ears. I just a chemist, but I caught the gaping hole in your logic.
+Mark Holm Some people do hold it pressed on the ear (especially elderly people), many others use "hands free" earplug devices when driving. It's not my speculation, I heard this at a medical congress a few years ago, it was a study made by ENT and neurology specialists after a ridiculous mass-media circus about cell phones causing cancer. They also found that excessive cell phone use significantly increases the incidence of migraines in the general population and reported a few cases of accelerated hearing loss in elderly patients suffering from degenerative inner ear or acoustic nerve diseases. Otherwise they found no correlation between radio waves exposure and ENT or brain cancer.
THANK YOU! There was this girl in my class who said she not to charge your phone near you while you sleep because you'll be exposed to radiation and get cancer. I told her that isn't how it works, and there's no risk to having your phone near you, but then she said, "It isn't about if there's a risk or not, it's about if you're willing to take the risk." LIKE, WHAT?! From that moment on I kinda just stopped talking to her.
I'm gonna show this to my mama
+Bruce Wayne But you have no mom or dad. Show it to yourself...again and again and again and again...
+Nechii Ambrose Martha!!!!!😭😭
Martha!!!
Lol
+Clark Kent WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME ?!
NOW I HAVE THE EVIDENCE, NOW I CAN PROVE HER WRONG...
ummm... mom?... we need to talk....
please?
+Đuko Balkanović You're wrong mom! In your face!
+Pass Port i'm thinking the same thing.. lol
+Đuko Balkanović 50.000 years??? Aw man, can we make it 49950? I have a party on 51967
+Đuko Balkanović 50.000 years??? Aw man, can we make it 49950? I have a party on 51967
I wish that a law is passed that requires all parents to watch this video. Also, translate this video to every major language so that parents of all nationalities can get some sense.
YES.
+Flow No. No they can not. The people saying cell phones can cause cancer ARE speaking out of PURE ignorance. They're not speaking "not from ignorance". Just the opposite, the ONLY thing that's causing them to spout this crap is ignorance.
+Flow Just how?? Their frequencies are so low even visible light has higher frequency then them. Does this mean light can give us cancer as well (I'm not talking about UV light from the sun which obviously it can)?
yup
+Abdulrahman Khan And then there should be another video why kids should not use cellphones too much. Not related to physical health, at least not directly.
wish this video went like this:
"Nope"
+Andy Plater Headsqueeze kinda did a thing like that: watch?v=3T49f2TFuiM
That's not how science works.
+Andy Plater not me.
there are people out there that need to hear it explained as clearly as possible.
anything that involves waves, energy (of any sort) or radiation raises their tinfoil caps' antennas. my mother is like that. she thinks microwaves and air-fryers (wtf? WHY?) are dangerous because "radiation". and she won't listen to reason. then i ask her what is radiation and she has no clue. it's just because some random idiot on the internet posted a stupid chain letter thingy and she read it.
i hate facebook, i wish my brother never introduced her to it so many years ago. she falls victim of every stupid conspirator theory (vaccines are eeeeeevillllllllllllllllllll111) possible, and it GETS TO MY NERVES. i wouldn't be able to handle it if i still lived with her. still, i visit her regularly (have lunch at my parent's house every day) and i don't like seeing her being manipulated like that.
+xinxian kongqi 👍👏 you got it
Then tell her than light is radiation.
This was reassuring, I didn't even want to be near my phone when I was told it caused cancer.
wait, i thought we left this question in the 90s, what is it doing here now?
+Sir Zoidberg the people asking the question in the 90s were too stupid to listen to the answer so they're still asking it now
Drakan R :D
+Sir Zoidberg One of my teachers still believes this, and showed videos with 'proof' about it to my class.
+Didgeridoomen I really hope she's not a science teacher
+Sir Zoidberg My Daughter has brain cancer and even though I have been told a thousand times it's not the cell phone, I like hearing it 1000 more times. My daughter is OK now, but it was very scary. Thank you for this video.
The answer is no, RUclips comments do.
+Let's Not well to be fair not just youtube
facts
All social medias cause cancer
Watch out - Watch this: ruclips.net/video/Ka5v_HLMhxs/видео.html : Attorney Jimmy Gonzalez Dies From 3 Different Cell Phone Radiation Induced Cancers
@@karlhans6678 ok boomer
Good to know that microwaves don't do any harm. I'll use my microwave oven as a hair drier.
+Get the Joke! it will still transfer its energy and it has a greater penetration depth than infrared radiation, but its penetration depth is no bigger than your head so most of the energy WILL get dumped in your head. If you use a 600W microwave you will dump that 600W into your head as heat. If you use a cellphone (which as far as i am informed can transmit 0.6 or 3 watts, does so in a spherical fashion and has radiation that penetrates through your head without interacting that much) you WILL heat up your head ... by fractions of a degree, which you could also do by wearing a hat.
microwaves are not harmless in high quantities... just not cancerous....
Darwin prize for you!
your username really inspired me
Microwaves DO cause harm
Literally been told for years now by teachers and parents that I'm at risk for cancer because I sleep with my phone in my bed and kept my phone in my front pocket. Stumbled across this video and it's given me peace of mind! Thank you!!! :D
You're more at risk rolling anti perspirant with aluminium on your arm pits lol
But a typical phone surface contains more bacteria than a toilet seat if you aren't cleaning your phone with a sanitizer and keeping it beside your head you are sleeping with much more bacteria than you should be
I still wouldn’t recommend that maybe set ur phone on your night stand desk if you don’t have those just sit it in the floor beside ur bed if anything
We been living in the same life 😂
unless your phone is turned off its always screaming out here I am to a cell tower do some more research. Keeping it in your pocket is why the increase of IVF it slows down your swimmers for men and harms a women's eggs
Me: *sleeps*
My brain: Hey, do you think you can get cancer from using a phone too much?
And here I am
So... I can keep eating cell phones then?
@@ghoststream4710 it cures all diseases
nomizw einai:So after all... Can I keep eating cell phones?(grammarthanks)
Lol
Glass is good for the tummy
underrated comment
Cell phone emissions are absolutely not safe, this has been known since the 70's. Work on the effects of electromagnetic fields on biological systems actually began the moment man could generate electricity in a controlled form, and EMR very shortly after Hertz described his methods. The earliest known papers were out of France, d'Arsonval 1893.
There are two main questions which are connected but still distinct.
-How can an input stimulus well below the threshold of ambient thermal noise have any effect? This became known as the kT paradox among Soviet authors. "Microwaves can only act by heating."
-Microwaves are non-ionizing and therefore cannot break bonds.
The answers to both are actually fairly simple. It's a matter of transduction and downstream amplification. The bulk of the effects are not directly due to the energy deposited, but the information. Biological systems are a) periodic systems, b) their structures are designed to resist random noise and to pick up on periodic or polarized signals. It's like if someone said "scenery can't possibly effect your emotions, the visible light lacks the penetration depth and energy to organize all your brain activity". Of course in actuality (for the most part) there's initial transduction by structures in the eye, and way downstream the body utilizes its own energy production machinery to effect sometimes massive downstream amplification and widescale changes in the entire body. At a different different scale, during the cold war a single light on an instrument panel, a few photons entering someone's eye, could trigger large scale "state change" sufficient to end the bulk of the terrestrial life on this planet several times over. Systems in some states don't have, or lose the capacity to dampen certain inputs. Biological systems are in many ways coupled oscillators, and under undisturbed conditions they go to great lengths to constrain their collective activity to certain ranges, avoiding damage. However if their communication is disrupted in some form that changes. A good example of periodicity (taken from Tian Yao Tsong of University of Maryland) is a sumo guy altering the course of a several ton pendulum by acting on it at a specific point. Or our ability to change the course of a several ton vehicle moving 80 mph, but only by acting or not acting on the steering apparatus. Other use of energy does not achieve that effect.
The primary mechanism is an alteration of calcium flux, which has strong experimental verification. The characteristics of animal tissues are actually very good at propagating frequencies more deeply than industry claims. The intercellular space is essentially a conductive fluid full of negatively charged structures (membrane bound glycoprotein tips) protruding and crisscrossing around. It's an "electrical gutter". The movements of these charges puts forces on other structures, in this case most relevant is the charge groups in the calcium channel's voltage sensing subunit. When they're moved in roughly the same direction at the same time at activates the channel, which is a transmembrane protein (a pore) connected the cell interior with the extracellular space. Calcium flows into the cell. This is involved in signalling and other things. Essentially, if you have aberrant activation of these channels you're going to have the cell behaving incorrectly (anything from neurotransmitter release to immune function), and you're going to have chronically elevated intracellular calcium. That's where the DNA damage etc comes from, saturated and overwhelming processing pathways for downstream reactions. Like the nitric oxide synthases. Put shortly, there will be an increase in NO production and an increase in superoxide production Superoxide is remove by superoxide dismutase by turning it into H2O2. That's then turned into water and O2 by catalase or glutathione peroxidase. However, if it's not, hydrogen peroxide can do a bit of damage, but worse, it can be turned into hydroxyl radicals (eg via fenton reaction). Once NO and superoxide are at a certain threshold concentration they begin to combine to form peroxynitrite, a potent oxidant. They do this at a rate 5x faster than superoxide dismutase can act. It's a runaway process, structures and enzymes in the cell are damaged, DNA is damaged, lipids are oxidized. Cell damage or death results. There's also a kinetic mechanism at specific frequencies (like continuous wave 2.45 GHz), where some results show the DNA molecule begins to thrash around violently and will break off its histone groups etc. This is at fairly low intensities. Work by Reba Goodman and Martin Blank have identified characteristics of fractal antennas in DNA.
Another mechanism involves altering the structure of water around structures attached to the cell membrane which either has a slight "drying" effect, or in some cases will cause conformational changes of proteins, and generate solitons in structures able to carry them. At millimeter wave frequencies, when the field is pulsed, the membrane will experience acoustic effects and according to soviet literature generate "temporary structures" which "remain long after irradiation has ceased.". Other effects of millimeter waves are demyelination and fragmentation of peripheral nerves, and broad degenerative changes in multiple organs and enzyme systems. This was in rats with exposure for 15 minutes per day, for 60 days, power density of 1mW/cm2. The papers included illness in occupationally exposed humans.
A third mechanism is disrupted radical pairing around eg magnetite, and thus free radical generation. Also some stuff with cryptochromes.
Refer to "-Documents, links, information.txt" in:
www.mediafire.com/folder/dj875cd10yb72/EMF
for more information, including we could have possibly going to this point. In brief, it came from early medical use, cold war era desire to freely use and install radar domestically and abroad, the EPRI, and then with all these old feet in the door, telecom picking up most of the work in the early 90's. By 1996 they got language in the 1996 Telecommunications act federally preempting local zoning denying cell tower placement based on environmental (health) concerns, so long as such emissions comply with FCC guidelines. And so the capturing of the FCC was already well underway, now, according to a Harvard ethics review and many other sources, it's pretty much complete. I've sat in on telecom lobbying, occasionally they slip up and talk as though they are the FCC. It should be no surprise that corporations and a multi-trillion dollar global industry would lie and manipulate.
"_Index.txt" includes ~2500 other studies.
Anyway, mechanisms are nice but from a public health perspective they aren't even needed and never were. Evidence from human studies, occupational exposure, animal studies, in vitro work, was overwhelming and damning by the 1970's. Do we need to know how cyanide kills things to not eat it? Or the damage of lead? Or Paris green? Or playing in the xray machines at the shoe store? Or breathing asbestos at the factory all day? Inhaling polonium and combustion byproducts of however many chemicals in and added to tobacco? Here we are again, we had the data and a subset of our population completely failed to use it. I really want to stress that it is bad, and we're all in a very bad spot. The end result of this is neurodegeneration and most likely population level irreversible infertility. This is what happened to mice exposed to an antenna park in Greece in the mid 90's. Refer to Magras and Xenos. We're already seeing this beginning now.
To SciShow. At this point I strongly recommend researching further and posting a follow up to this video. Heat shock proteins are just stress proteins, they don't necessarily relate with heating or non-uniform energy deposition (micro-heating), microwave irradiation also elevates corticotropin releasing factor, another stress indicator. Which downstream acts on opioid systems, the endorphins and enkephalines, these things are addicting. With 5G coming real information and awareness of the last 100 years of literature, is long overdo.
Wow, interesting collection of studies. Are you an academic?
I developed electrohypersensitivity just a few months ago and had to resign my job as an IT consultant and abandon my apartment because of it. I've been studying this topic non-stop ever since. I have about 40 studies which I found on PubMed, but I would love to see what else there is to find. I'm in the unfortunate position of having to hand research papers to my doctors to help them understand that I'm not delusional, even though I was diagnosed by a medical doctor and professor of medicine at Columbia University.
Too long; didn't read
You’re 100% wrong. It’s time to STOP
I’d like you know to I read your entire comment. did you consider the additional amount of radiation that we are exposed to 24/7 and have been well before the use of RF waves as a form of communication? I’m speaking of the EM waves that we see as visible light. Not only are we exposed to them all day every day, but light waves are a much higher frequency than any form of RF waves.
Joe Wilson does that mean you are forced to live in darkness?
Well, phewwww I thought I was gonna FUCKIN die!
+Nilguiri true. Everyone has to die eventually.
@BOLT Gaming well there’s good news watch this ruclips.net/video/eBS1jOC3olo/видео.html
Same bruh
Does it really cause cancer? Im only 10 and i always use them in my free time and my brothers use them everyday and my parents also and me- dude like im so worried im gonna have it😭 i dont wanna die im too young😭 but everyone uses their phone everyday-
@@magnetizzed no
It's amazing that we live with signals all around us from multiple transmitters since the 50's & yet people look at a piddly little phone as if it were satan's spawn.
it is.. not because of radiation, but for how you can misuse it...
@@lone.wo1f radiation is radiation, you don’t choose what it does.
Yes they certainly can! When I accidentally clicked a Leafy video I got cancer.
Haha. Nice.
Noice
And buzzfeed to m8
actually?
Remember kids, don't get cancer.
+bugplayer ah shit, thanks for reminding me. Almost forgot xD
The answer to fucking everything :D
Azivegu Glad I could help bud!
I won't :D
+bugplayer Strategic comma placement.
My dad was a radar and missile guidance technician and died in 1974 the doctors said it was caused by long term exposure to low level microwave radiation.
Me: Hello, is this cancer?
Patrick: No, this is Patrick!
How is this comment so old but not have more likes
"People tend to remember incorrectly." What a nice way of saying people lie.
If anyone needs a list of harm that can be done by cell phones, here is a list, there is no cancer in there:
Talking:
Increases bacteria in the ear
Heats the ear and to an extent brain
Playing and texting:
Posture problems (this is a huge issue, hernia is no fun neither RSI)
Causes traffic accidents (someone here killed 4 of our colleagues in a car crash while she was on facebook while driving)
Attention problems (esp. in kids)
Sleep disorders (if used at night)
Long duration use might cause eye focusing problems
Locks you inside
Limits or warps social development in kids
Why is there hair around my cancer?
+pnkflyd66 Because it's a teratoma?
+IceMetalPunk Dermoid
It's a hairy nipple.
I don't know you, but I like you. XD
I'm not gunna lie, a big part of me really wanted this to be a 7 second video.
Opening Theme
Just you saying the word: No.
End credits.
This video was actually really well communicated. two thumbs up, scishow.
The reason for all the comments agreeing with this video: half the people who noticed this video clicked on it because they know they're right, and the other half ignored this video because they didn't want to be proven wrong.
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY CITES THEIR SOURCES THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't believe people are still asking this question.
Oh you would not believe. For example, there are still radiation shielding aprons for pregnant mothers and so on. The stupidity of people and how they would willing to pay for that stupidity is stunning. And the worst thing is that they think it's benevolent and kind to have that stupidity.
That's nothing compared to other stupid statements
Χρήστος Τζήκας That's not the point though. This is one of the easiest to debunk so even though it's not as stupid as some other conspiracy theory or so, it shouldn't come up as often.
But sometimes I go to the Internet and it gives me cancer.
Microwaves just excite me
(well, most of me; the water content)
Hehe
Hehehe
Hehehehe
We will have a dehydration epidemic. Maybe thats the real reason we have to drink so much more water than people did in the past
this is the first time I watched your video and boy, I got myself subscribed!
Thanks bro showing my mom right now
While saying that " It doesn't matter how it [a microwave oven] is, it's never going to emit infrared radiation" (1:30) is technically correct, it is a little misleading because certain thing in the beam (like water) can upconvert the microwaves into higher energy radiation (which is basically how microwaves cook things). If you place metal foil or a grape that is mostly split down the middle you will even get plasma arcs which by definition have been ionised.
but not because of the microwaves. They induce an emf in the metal foil which in turn surpasses air's breakdown voltage.
Else you could say a hv transformer can generate xrays when its not the transformer but the arc that you can create with it.
Another way could be heating a smooth piece of soft iron to above 600*C, which would make it start dissipating energy as infrared light. But it is still the iron emiting infrared, not the magnetron.
Laharl Krichevskoy Absolutely, that is why I said he is technically correct.
My mother had her face done. Botox. And everytime she puts a cellphone near her ear, it swells up noticably. Landline phones dont. Now, she uses her cell phone in speaker phone.
Of course the recommended videos now show "fact: cellphones cause cancer" XD
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+Nick Mullins It's true, I now have 2 videos about how cellphones cause cancer in my recommended list.
+Peggy Rapala 100,000?!?!?! Er ma gerd!!!!! I've always wanted a hundred thousand!!!!! I don't even care what it is but i sure have a hundred thousand of em!!!!!!!
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I scrolled down to comment about how “someone should send this to my parents” but I see that ya’ll did that for me.
thank you guys, i was always worried about this and now my question has been answered :)
Thanks! Thought I could die when charging my phone at night!
this is why it's so important to hold ourselves to a standard of logic, evidence and objective analysis. So many people believe that cell phones or their microwave oven is potentially dangerous because it emits "radiation". why on Earth do so many people say things like “I have the right to believe what I want" or "I have a right to my opinion"? We should be respecting and valuing skepticism, objectivity, a willingness to jettison unsupported assumptions and plain old curiosity. Instead, we venerate people who express confidence and arrogance, no matter how ignorant they really are. I guess that's just human nature.
Party Bot my favorite is "I've done my research." Well random blog articles don't count as research.
Party Bot The man in this video has no scientific background and he’s giving a biased opinion. Search medical videos by doctors, researchers pathologists etc. Microwaves are dangerous and holding a cell phone to your ear on a continual basis is detrimental. It’s better to use a headset and just heed warnings from the professionals, not from some idiot Layman on RUclips
Thank you so much! This video is a saviour. Everyone would always say that cell phones can cause cancer, making me scared. I'm delighted to know they don't.
kids with cell phones before 20 years old are ten times likely to die from brain cancer - Dateline 20/20 tv show from over 20 years ago
@@killercuddles7051stop lying
@@Kluzkuz LoL. I watched it with my mom right before I got a cell phone when I was 11.... Those were Centennial Wireless days, 10$ a month - 500 minutes and unlimited nights ...something like that.
@@killercuddles7051i’m scared are u serious
@@LivLoves I'm not making it up. Cell phones contribute greatly to cancer.
Excellent. I didn't know about the Frequency importance of harmful (ionising) radiation, but makes sense. But I have always reasoned thus:
The radiation from the cell phone towers is all around us -- it's NOT dependent on us having a cell phone, the cell phone just picks it up, so all those radio & microwave frequencies are in the air all around us all the time whether we have a cell phone or not.
My 30yr old sister had a double mastectomy...at freakin 30!!!!! The largest cancerous mass in her breast was exactly where she kept her cell phone........
Like she kept her phone everytime?
Finally I Have A Reason Against My Parents And Guardians
People are scared of the word "radiation" so we should start using it in places where it's correct but usually ignored. Like how flashlights and candles emit (visible light) radiation. Or your body is emitting (infrared) radiation right now.
Finally, another person that knows this...
+silver Harloe Or we could go the other way round and use radiation for everywhere it's technically correct to show how benign it is. "pass me that radioactive banana" "wow, you're emitting radiation you're so hot" "check out this cool radiation from the front of my monitor" "shit, my cellphone is emitting radiation, must have a call even though it's on silent" "check out what visible light radiation did to this paper, neat picture eh?"
Yeah, thinking of getting a T shirt, it would read "Genetically modified Radioactive Mutant" with "All as natural as Mom's apple pie" on the bottom.
Cell phones in pockets would explain the uptick in colon cancer
You need to take a stats class…🤣😂
Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, hate leads to people trying to find ways to get rid of phones.
Pov: you are showing this to your mom because she wont let you sleep in the same room as your phone
One more thing that I was thinking about. It's possible that we may eventually find a correlation between hours spent on cell phone per week and incidence of cancer. A correlation is possible because of the lifestyle factor. Just like the number of hours spent at a computer may correlate with cancer. Lifestyle factor: physical inactivity. If you spend 8 hours a day consuming media (and let's be honest, I'm part of that category of people), you may not spend a lot of time exercising. And lack of exercise, especially if it leads to obesity (again, this applies to me as well) can increase the risk for some types of cancer (liver cancer, colon cancer).
+MichiruEll What studies correlates physical inactivity with an increase in cancer risk?
Dirges Not all cancers. Cancer is not a monolithic thing. Different cancers have different causes. I was thinking in particular of liver cancer, which can be a consequence of non-alcoholic fatty liver, which in turn is generally linked to inactivity/obesity. There's also colon cancer. Honestly, I have never read the studies myself, but I have learned these things in college from people who I trust have read the studies (I'm a medical researcher). For colon cancer, a quick google search gave me this study for example: annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=708456 . I don't know if there's an association between inactivity and other types of cancer, there may, there may not. It may have the opposite effect in regards to skin cancer for example (but then again, that would not be the exercise, but the sun exposure having a negative effect).
What do you know about the biological clocks?
You are one of SciShows best presenters.
Can you tumbs up a video more than once? This video deserves all the thumbs up. Literally. All of them.
Heck yeah, more watching SciShow on my phone!
radio: from radius, which means "spoke" in Latin, as in the spoke of a wheel. "Radio" or "radiation" just means anything that "radiates" out, ei goes out in every direction from a point, like the radii of a circle, like the spokes of a wheel.
The sun's "rays" are from the same word, via French.
I am curious to see what effects cell phones do have on our health. There was a small study done on cress, which found that after a good while of growing, those which had been placed with an active cell phone were way more likely to die.Whilst it is probably not cancer, I wonder what could cause that.
Jesus christ thank you! Recently a young lad named Stu died of a brain tumor, who my family knew quite well. He became something of a local celebrity, with his own hashtag StayStrongStu to fit. When he passed, his mum began sharing loads of info about how his cancer was caused by him sleeping with his phone next to his bed and started posting loads of poor statistics and "facts." Bless her, she was only grieving and trying to understand why her son was taken so young. The problem was, because of his local celebrity status, a lot of what she was saying was taken seriously and gained quite a bit of following from a large proportion of people. And when I and a few others suggested that phones have no real way of causing cancer the response I got was a fairly aggressive "try telling that to Stu and his family!" To often science is disregarded in favour of emotional impulse thoughts and decisions.
No she has a case. there has been studies showing sleeping next to your cell phone causes tumor. I've read it in several magazines.
+Vain Glory but a magazine is no peer reviewed science journal
Vain Glory But if the phone is emitting no problematic wavelengths (as this video has pointed out) then what could possibly be causing the cancer from sleeping nearby our phone?
I suppose. I would like to learn more about this topic. Let me know if you find anything good.
@SammyCee23 unfortunately this sounds like a case of coincidence and correlation. Based on studies so far, an electron cannot be knocked out of a nucleus no matter the intensity of the source, only through the frequency. So it doesnt matter how hard someone is blasting that radiation, only what frequency the radiation is.
This is the clearest video I've seen about this subject
Good to know, I have a bump behind my head and thought is what cancer, and it’s probably a cyst
Two decades ago, my neighbor worked for CSU on one particular project - finding out whether or not cell phones are harmful to their users. I don't know what ever came of it except that he moved to North Carolina to continue his work elsewhere and he was convinced that they do.
darn i was hoping i could blame my leukemia on my cellphone instead of the universe hating me XD
I know this comment is old and idk if the cancer part was a joke but if you do have cancer, stay strong!
u good now blockhittinskrub?
i hope your situation gets better dude.
Who out there is still worried about this BS? I thought we took care of this years ago.
+SilentS Well, considering you clicked on the video AND commented, clearly there's a reason to make the video.
Yeah, we did when people got worried microwaves gave you cancer
+cobiegaming Probably around the time they started voting for Trump.
Oh, relax. No
+Sweet Meats well I imagine a good deal of people watching this didn't know _why_ cell phones don't cause cancer
The title should have been "Do the cell phones cause the cancer?"
The multi billion dollar Cyberknife Treatment industry (check out Scripps Oncology) has grown up to serve the major increases in diagnosed grade three anaplastic astrocytoma, and grade four giloblastoma multi-form. It is now trending in children as an entire pediatric oncology treatment facility just opened. They are treating kids four years old for neuronal blastoma that was so rare as to be unknown in children ten years ago. Check this out to verify, oncology is the largest growing sector in health care now, topping cardiology.
In California it will.
+RUclips has gone to shat I understood that incredibly specific and possibly obscure reference to California's excessive tendency to declare things carcinogenic.
hah "make as many phone calls as you want" Silly guy, phones are used to play candy crush and stalk your ex on twitter. Not to make phone calls. Silly guy.
+Dogeasaurus Rex I think it's like texting with your mouth, except you have to force air through your throat hole to make it work.
+Rudresh Ryan wait you mean cellphones can make phone calls?!
Rudresh Ryan who stalks soneone on twitter 😑
Only if my mom could understand
Jeez I know right
Some other technology will come out in a few years that I will tell my kids will cause cancer or to their brains, even though it isn't true. Every generation has that: radio, tv, video games, and now cell phones.
Thank goodness. Now i can send this video to people instead of explaining it myself or the millionth time.
Finally, I have the evidence to prove my weird LA teacher wrong!
Thank you very much for this video; there's a lot of misinformation out there that worries people needlessly!
We need a total shut down on cell phones until we can figure out WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!
+Crouchy232323 Lol. If you check out my channel and like a video, you will win 100,000!!
+Crouchy232323 Donald trump reference?
+Crouchy232323 lolno
#notAllCellphones
listen I will get the best people on this, and they will do a tremendous, I mean really truly the greatest job ever at figuring what the hell is going on.
And don't get me wrong cellphones love me, they say I'm the best.
Strangely enough nobody suspected radiophones or talkies to cause cancers.
+Young_Lion Or radios in general.
+Nitay A. celphones are in the 600 to 1800mhz iirc
fm radios go from about 80 to 120mhz.
am radio is in the khz range.
wifi and blutooth are in the 2,4ghz range.
people repeating mass hysteria are between 1khz to 5khz
Laharl Krichevskoy How about microwaves?
thank you for posting this video! There are way too many people who worry about this. Here some even get their office at work adapted so they get protected from mobile radiation....
I did not know this, but my guess was good. Also, thanks for making a fool out of all the people that hold their phone in a tilted manner in order to speak with it in a "safe" manner.
+Yellow Because a few millimeters of air would stop ionizing radiation? xD
Entropy Zero Exactly. They would not be used if they was not safe either, phones.
+Yellow Placing a RF source directly against your skin dramatically increases exposure. There are legal limits placed on safe levels of exposure allowed in devices because it is proven to be harmful to human health even without ionizing radiation. A common limit for cell phones is half an inch to an inch. The limit for some other devices is much more distance. To get certification from the FCC for example cell phone manufacturers often include warnings against direct contact with the head right in the user manuals because they could not meet the determined safe limits with direct contact.
***** Why should it matter if it cannot even affect you? Link a source instead.
Yellow RF can affect you. There are a number of ways it does this but the most obvious is in heating tissue. There is no debate that is causes this but there is some debate about how much low level heat that does not cause burns affects health. In the same way that microwave radiation is used to heat food other wavelengths are also capable of exciting molecules. There has been a great deal of research on this so I am not sure what specific point you are questioning. I encourage you to do your own research. My basic point though is that just because it is nonionizing does not mean that it doesn't affect tissue - it certainly can. Which is why there are regulations to limit exposure. How much harm this interaction is causing is a matter of study and debate but there is no debate that there is some interaction occurring.
I love non-ionizing radiation.
i wish my mum could speak english
+Apemanwithcalculator why?
Same 😂
Thanks for the video. This was really informative and relieving. I heard of that study before.
So internet routers are also harmles? They have a similar wavefrequency.
ThePikmania Yes. They cannot harm you either.
I can't wait to show this video to so many people
You'd think people would be more worried about the sun giving them cancer than a goddamn cell phone.
Have you experience symptoms such as fatigue, headaches, poor memory, difficulty sleeping, and lack of clarity in your thoughts? It may seem that these could be the results of day-to-day stress and busyness, but there may be another culprit. All of these are symptoms of electro-sensitivity, which is something more and more people are finding themselves affected by. Studies done in 1997 have found “less than a few cases (of electro-sensitivity) per million”, however now as much as 2.5% of the population find themselves affected by electro-sensitivity. Even by most moderate calculations, electro-sensitivity is 1,000 times more common now than it was 20 years ago. Why could this be?
Electro-sensitivity and its symptoms seem to be triggered by certain microwave frequencies of electromagnetic radiation. Microwaves are frequently used in electronics for the purposes of communication between devices. Due to their high frequency, microwaves allow for higher transmission rates and small antenna sizes, which is perfect for high-tech devices that are constantly getting smaller and faster. These are devices such as cell phones, tablets, laptops, and any devices able to connect to Wi-Fi, which can now include TVs and refrigerators
Numerous studies, moreover, (2011-2017) report an increased risk of brain cancer due to the use of mobile phones Concern for other cancers: breast (male and female), testicle, leukemia, thyroid and much more. the current classification of radio frequencies as carcinogenic to humans (Class 2B) should be updated to carcinogenic to humans
Many claim that this is not true at all or that there is no evidence just to progress with the construction of radio transmitters!
And the 5 g accelerates all of this.
One piece of advice I would like to give is to equip yourself with devices that protect against electromagnetic waves, such as Aires tech products,produced by AMERICAN AIRES, in my opinion is one of the best on the market
5g is part of progress, it is right to progress but why not protect yourself?
www.airestech.com/category/media/
sites.google.com/view/sources-electrosmog
This has been thoroughly debunked.
Hace you not thought of the idea that the reason more people think they have electricity sensitivity is because more people believe it’s real? This is a real effect. It’s the opposite of the placebo effect.
“And the 5g accelerates all of this” did you not watch the video?
If radio frequencies were carcinogenic to humans then visible light would turn everyone into a pile of tumor
I have a question. Does prolonged use for like 5 hours or 10 hours change the frequency of this radiation? Or does it change the effect upon on the body?
Yes, if you smoke them.
DAD, DO YOU SEE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!
+Andrew Van Lare (Drewlare01) I know the feeling.
I don't know how much trouble this video would have saved me growing up. My mom is still an avid believer in cell phone cancer!
this makes me feel much better!
This is a no brainer
This rumor was probably made up by a bunch of parents who wanted to keep their children off their phones lol
it developed in the 1950s I think, long before cellphone-culture was a thing. Actually, if any conspiracy occurred, it was probably started by mail companies to lower cellphone usage and increase direct mailing LOL.
Well I have a personal anecdote that is hard to explain away. Seven years ago doctors found “terminal” cancer in the ER, which turned out to be Stage IV Metastatic Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma (I was given no more than 2-3 weeks to live). In a subsequent PET scan they found one of the largest tumors was on my left thigh. It was exactly the same size, length, and orientation as the antenna inside the iPhone I carried in that pocket. After years of radical treatment, recovery I still struggle with, and permanent disability, you can be sure I do not carry my phone next to my body. I am very suspicious of the research.
I can think of a way your cell phone can give you cancer:
Jake Paul
Excellent! Two further things to consider:
A typical cellphone “radiates” at a power of about a Watt, which is *seriously* tiny! For comparison, our bodies radiate about 100 times that much in the form of body heat!
The Inverse-Square Law: If you move a phone just 3 1/2 times farther away, it’s “radiation” levels go down by a factor of >10.
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fasterthings lolllll u bet ur ass.
Don’t forget Verizon, Sprint etc. etc.
People still make phone calls?
+DKlarations You don't sound funny at all.
More surprisingly,people still call it "cell phone" rather than smartphone...
motasem al-yamani It should be called smartgrapho, because phone=sound, and grapho=write.
+DKlarations its the only way to phone home
+DKlarations thought the same, that's more intriguing than anything discussed in the video
I do like the argument that RF just doesn't have enough energy to do anything biologically, but you could take it a step further: the RF that cell phones use is close to 1-2 GHz. Visible light is right around the point that has the lowest frequency/energy to do anything biologically (that's why you can see it, in a sense: it has enough energy that it can do something to molecules in your eye, but low enough energy that your body can use it in a controlled way, rather than the light just ripping things apart... and you might be able to find a little bit of chemistry and biology happening a factor of two or so lower in energy than visible light, but it's pretty close to the minimum energy). Visible light has a frequency of about 400-700 THz. You start running into problems, ionizing radiation, a factor of 2 (or more) above visible light, so around 1500 THz. Now here's the thing: 1 THz is 1000 times 1 GHz. That means that light starts to have enough energy to really cause harm when it has about 1,000,000 times the energy per photon of cell phone radiation. Cell phone radiation is 6 orders of magnitude too weak to hurt you.
Also, unrelated, you CAN have situations where intensity matters for chemistry. With super high intensity lasers, with short pulses on the order of a Joule in energy, compressed to time durations of tens of femtoseconds, focused down to a small spot size, you can get intensities higher than what you would get if you focused all the power from the sun that hits the earth down to a postage stamp. When you have that high an intensity, you can have several photons hit an atom simultaneously, and you can get nonlinear optics phenomena where the atom can act as though it's getting hit by a higher energy photon. When you do this, you can get high harmonic generation, where an atom absorbs hundreds of wimpy infrared photons and emits a single, powerful extreme ultraviolet or x-ray photon. This is actually used as a tabletop coherent EUV and x-ray source, which is really hard to do otherwise, but could be extremely useful for things like the semiconductor industry, which wants to use EUV lithography to make circuits.
Please tell me more of what you know about the biologically relevant actions? From my current understanding based on work of Russell Foster, Sachin Panda and others, circadian entrainment has quite modest - that is, delicate - thresholds of being activated (or, messed up - the other side of the same coin). You appeared to allude there to some biological processes, so I was wondering about the extent of your knowledge of melanopsin and neuropsin? The subtle currents of injury? These are much different frequency bands and intensities to some of the more powerful ranges among those that you brought up.
"so go ahead, make as many phone calls as you want".....said no one ever
What I see:
What my mom sees: *CHERNOBYL*
What does not give cancer?
Dying
+Matro Tyramat not existing
memes.... wait
+Matro Tyramat
Cell Phones.
+iamihop actually that category is called "probably not carcinogenic to humans", because as the scentific method works you can't actually rule out something 100%
I was scared because every morning i wake up I end up sleeping with my phone because i watch asmr😌
Same it happens to me almost everyday,i gotta pay attention these days
Where's Hank gone? :'(
my tummy
rip hank ;(
Probs helping do crash course
+ImTooSimple He could be sick, yanno...
Hank typically does the longer episodes, whereas Michael usually answers direct questions. It isn't the rule, but I see a trend.
Better call Saul, tell his brother the good news.
BARK BARK BARK (Glad I'm part of the 100 year long term research of multiple fields at once of various radio fields on humans.)
What about second-hand cell phone use?
All these damn people around me are using cell phones.
Cellphones can't give you cancer, but listening to Justin Bieber can.
anything stupid really lol
Cell phones increase the risk of ear infections if you press them upon your ear when you talk (because of reduced ventilation in the acoustic canal, same as headphones). In turn chronic or recurring ear infections can increase the risk of middle ear squamous cell carcinoma. This is the only scientifically proven connection that I am aware of between cell phones and cancer, but I'm just a radiologist so my knowledge on this subject may be outdated or incomplete.
Good for you
+Alex Seguin
Sorry you've done so little with your life that you have to cut someone else down for their accomplishments and genuinely interesting information.
+Alex Seguin
You click on a science video (Presumably to expand your knowledge), another person tries to add to that knowledge, and you belittle them?
Why?
But does cell phone use cause chronic or recurring ear infections? More likely, it causes infrequent infections. Plus. cell phones don't seal off the ear canal like headphones. Most people do not hold them pressed to their ears. I just a chemist, but I caught the gaping hole in your logic.
+Mark Holm Some people do hold it pressed on the ear (especially elderly people), many others use "hands free" earplug devices when driving. It's not my speculation, I heard this at a medical congress a few years ago, it was a study made by ENT and neurology specialists after a ridiculous mass-media circus about cell phones causing cancer. They also found that excessive cell phone use significantly increases the incidence of migraines in the general population and reported a few cases of accelerated hearing loss in elderly patients suffering from degenerative inner ear or acoustic nerve diseases. Otherwise they found no correlation between radio waves exposure and ENT or brain cancer.
Yes thank you dispel the myth in 20 seconds just play it straight. I love you scishow
THANK YOU! There was this girl in my class who said she not to charge your phone near you while you sleep because you'll be exposed to radiation and get cancer. I told her that isn't how it works, and there's no risk to having your phone near you, but then she said, "It isn't about if there's a risk or not, it's about if you're willing to take the risk." LIKE, WHAT?! From that moment on I kinda just stopped talking to her.
+Zakary Yuen It's about whether you're willing to take a risk that may or may not--but probably doesn't--exist? ... *Facepalm*
I know right? It's like, oh shoot I shouldn't sit in this chair because I might die from the non-existent risk!"
What about wifi? That HAS to cause cancer, right?