from Bob Park's newsletter:
CANCER AND CAUSALITY: EINSTEIN DIDN’T HAVE A CELL-PHONE.
Of the world’s 7 billion people, an incredible 5 billion have cell phones
(“mobiles” in most countries). The safe use of mobiles is therefore a
global health concern. The response of the World Health Organization was to
conduct a huge epidemiologic study aimed at demonstrating a link between
cell-phone radiation and brain cancer. The effort was seriously misguided –
no such link exists. The study served only to raise widespread public
alarm over a nonexistent hazard. Epidemiology, which is the study of
health patterns in populations; is important, but it’s not a substitute for
science. Science is the organization of knowledge into testable laws and
theories. It has been known for more than 100 years that electromagnetic
radiation at frequencies below the ultraviolet is non-ionizing, and thus
cannot create the mutant strands of DNA that constitute incipient cancers.
In 1905, Einstein’s “miracle year,” he theorized that electromagnetic
radiation consists of discrete units of energy, now called “photons,” which
are equal in energy to the frequency multiplied by Planck's constant. It
marked the origin of wave-particle duality and earned Einstein his 1921
Physics Nobel Prize. His theory is verified every time a cell phone
works.
CANCER AND CAUSALITY: EINSTEIN DIDN’T HAVE A CELL-PHONE.
Of the world’s 7 billion people, an incredible 5 billion have cell phones
(“mobiles” in most countries). The safe use of mobiles is therefore a
global health concern. The response of the World Health Organization was to
conduct a huge epidemiologic study aimed at demonstrating a link between
cell-phone radiation and brain cancer. The effort was seriously misguided –
no such link exists. The study served only to raise widespread public
alarm over a nonexistent hazard. Epidemiology, which is the study of
health patterns in populations; is important, but it’s not a substitute for
science. Science is the organization of knowledge into testable laws and
theories. It has been known for more than 100 years that electromagnetic
radiation at frequencies below the ultraviolet is non-ionizing, and thus
cannot create the mutant strands of DNA that constitute incipient cancers.
In 1905, Einstein’s “miracle year,” he theorized that electromagnetic
radiation consists of discrete units of energy, now called “photons,” which
are equal in energy to the frequency multiplied by Planck's constant. It
marked the origin of wave-particle duality and earned Einstein his 1921
Physics Nobel Prize. His theory is verified every time a cell phone
works.
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