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I know a few hypochondriacs. They spend a lot of time with doctors. I think many doctors see a lot of these. Lots of expensive tests, and worrying.

It's spooky to me because I can't help wondering if hypochondria is contagious, which would be ironic :D
 
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My friend severed with the United States Air Force in radio equipment, and he studied the issue of radiation from radio waves heavily. This was during the Vietnam and Cold War era. I went to him and showed him some posts online about cell phone radiation, and he was laughing the hardest I've seen him in years. He said not only were the effects overstated, but that people have been sucking in much higher doses of radiation on the daily with all the signals that have been transmitted. I highly agree with him. There are so many devices and things transmitting RF waves all around us constantly, that refusing to buy a cell phone in order to avoid sucking up radiation is a moot point. It may speed it up in rare cases, but this is a very small piece of the puzzle.
Well said.
As a former FCC General radiotelephone licensed operator and current amateur radio license holder, a cell phone's RF is so miniscule, that people need to take blinders off their faces....

If you open your eyes, you will see most RF power is being sent from everywhere around you.

From the sky, satellite transmitters pointed to the earth for sat phones, digital satellite radio, video/photo images to the ground are always transmitting.

Rooftop microwave transmitters which operates at much higher frequency than a cell phone (hence MICROWAVE) and if you stand in front of one during a transmission, you will feel the vibrating effects in your head.

On a hilltop, mountaintop or manmade tower, there are many high power (over 50KW) transmitters for multiple AM/FM/digital TV stations, paging, repeaters, cross link, cross band, trunking, 2 Way, VHF, UHF, SHF data/voice/GPS.

Everyday driving, you should know that commercial vehicles, public safety, buses, ham radios, and taxi cars all have mobile RF transmitter where they put out at least 50W of power in the HF, VHF, UHF, and SHF for data, voice, and GPS. Some are transmitting 100% of the time in full duplex!

BTW In my car, I have a 40W VHF & UHF mobile transceiver which I use to communicate on using voice analog as well digital packet transmission. It operates on half duplex.

I'd worry more about these than a 0.3W cellular transceiver.

If you don't want any RF, move to the South Pole (Antarctica), or dig yourself a deep hole.
 
Every phone has a SAR rating. Apple does not give you the rating but they do speak to it in Settings-General-Legal & Regulatory-RF Exposure .. scratch that.. I think it’s new but they give you the SAR ratings by model here.

Talking on the phone occasionally is not likely to give you any issues. IMO, if you spend more than 30 minutes on the phone a day I would not spend it with the phone at my ear. Get headphones. Based on family history there is no way I would hold a phone to my head for any extended period, especially in an area with weak signal.
 
FWIW, SAR is only related to heat generated by microwave radiation.. not non-ionizing. .. IMO, moderation with the phone at your ear.
 
We are all going to get cancer from 5G, wifi and phones its coming just like cigarettes but this time it's going to be worse, wait 15 to 20 more years and all of a sudden big drop in population... but oh well the leaders of this world are saying there's too much people on earth, well this will take care of it.
 
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