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RE: Tracking Down Pseudoscience - Part 2

in #psychology9 years ago (edited)

EMF Radiation is harmful in many cases. Radar guns from police are a known health issue. Cell phones for sperm has strong evidence. Cellphone radiation heat in your head has evidence. It's not made up BS. When I put my phone next to my ear, and not touch, if I am using it for too long, my ear starts to have discomfort, a feeling is present. I can feel it. It might be because i have sensitive ears... but it's not pseudo science. Peace.

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The energy levels of EMF are extremely low (especially when compared to the energy levels of the particles emitted during radioactive decay). They are not sufficiently high to cause any sort of DNA damage, that much I can confirm. The feeling you have with your "sensitive ears" is in all likelihood just psychosomatic.

Yeah, I wasn't making any claim of DNA damage though.

As for trying to dismiss the effect of a cell phone on sensitive ears as mere "psychosomatics": http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16595330

Maybe your ears are fine, but I have am affected by it to some degree. I have an issue with one ear, with cold air, wind, etc. EMF also seem to affect it, as I stated. Not everyone has the same physical conditions as everyone else.

The cited study lacks an acceptable positive control of users who talked on non cellular (EMF) emitting telephones for similar duration of time. As it is widely known that prolonged exposure to loud noise (like one from talking on a phone) can lead to hearing loss (which was what the cited study was testing for). Not surprisingly the study found that users who talked on the phone less had better hearing. I don't feel their conclusion is justified by the experimental design.

I am sorry you have troublesome ears. Have a great one.

show me the evidence and I'll gladly look in depth.

Sperm reduction: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4074720/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21799142

Cell phone heat affect
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3538231/
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=645813

I'm not saying it definitely causes DNA breaking, or definitely causes cancer, or whatever. I'm saying there is evidence that it is harmful. High doses of energy into your brain as heat is not fully understood yet. There are affects of the heat and EMF on sperm, we need to study more the long term effects on the brain.