A statistically significant increase in the incidence of heart Schwannomas was observed in treated male rats at the highest dose (50 V/m). Furthermore, an increase in the incidence of heart Schwann cells hyperplasia was observed in treated male and female rats at the highest dose (50 V/m), although this was not statistically significant. An increase in the incidence of malignant glial tumors was observed in treated female rats at the highest dose (50 V/m), although not statistically significant.
One statistically significant result and two non-statistically significant results.
Does anyone know if 50 V/m is what a human gets exposed to when around cell towers?
I don’t know anything near enough about wireless to make any legitimate claims about this, but I looked at some random youtube videos (1, 2) and have some guesses. I think person 1 measured a cell tower at ~0.7 V/m, and person 2 measured one at ~800 µw/m^2. According to this site I found and did not make any attempt to vet, that’s ~0.55 V/m.
These towers also kind of look small and remote, so maybe they aren’t as powerful as other towers in deployment? For the amount I know about the subject, I’m not prepared to say towers 100 times stronger are implausible.
Also apparently the US maximum legal exposure is 61 V/m? Maybe, don’t cite me on it.
Again, I know nothing about this, just how to Google stuff. My electrical knowledge is limited to V=IR.
It’d be cool to have an actual domain expert chime in, I don’t like making claims about stuff I don’t know anything about, and I’d also like to know the answer to this question.
There are rats everywhere, could this be backed-up by trapping rats in and around cell-towers? Supposed you placed a batied trap right at the base of a bunch of cell towers, and more traps in places removed from the towers. Assuming rats collected at the base of a cell tower live nearby to it, I would imagine you might see something in the autopsies?
Maybe. But you’d need to control for any environmental factors that would be correlated with presence of cell towers. The sample size for that would be much larger.
For these studies you really need controlled conditions in order to say something meaningful. Maybe you got cell towers that are broken and emitting way more radiation, maybe the rats are nibbling on plastic bits in the cell tower and that gives them cancer, etc etc.
One statistically significant result and two non-statistically significant results.
Does anyone know if 50 V/m is what a human gets exposed to when around cell towers?
I don’t know anything near enough about wireless to make any legitimate claims about this, but I looked at some random youtube videos (1, 2) and have some guesses. I think person 1 measured a cell tower at ~0.7 V/m, and person 2 measured one at ~800 µw/m^2. According to this site I found and did not make any attempt to vet, that’s ~0.55 V/m.
These towers also kind of look small and remote, so maybe they aren’t as powerful as other towers in deployment? For the amount I know about the subject, I’m not prepared to say towers 100 times stronger are implausible.
Also apparently the US maximum legal exposure is 61 V/m? Maybe, don’t cite me on it.
Again, I know nothing about this, just how to Google stuff. My electrical knowledge is limited to V=IR.
It’d be cool to have an actual domain expert chime in, I don’t like making claims about stuff I don’t know anything about, and I’d also like to know the answer to this question.
Edit: this short paper I found on the internet provides some interesting numbers.
There are rats everywhere, could this be backed-up by trapping rats in and around cell-towers? Supposed you placed a batied trap right at the base of a bunch of cell towers, and more traps in places removed from the towers. Assuming rats collected at the base of a cell tower live nearby to it, I would imagine you might see something in the autopsies?
Maybe. But you’d need to control for any environmental factors that would be correlated with presence of cell towers. The sample size for that would be much larger.
For these studies you really need controlled conditions in order to say something meaningful. Maybe you got cell towers that are broken and emitting way more radiation, maybe the rats are nibbling on plastic bits in the cell tower and that gives them cancer, etc etc.
The latest episode of SGU covers this:
https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu/665
And companion blog post (although the blog post is a lot about The Nation than the study):
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-nation-indulges-in-some-particularly-egregious-fear-mongering-about-cell-phones-and-cancer/
And blog post discussion the study:
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/cell-phones-and-cancer-random-chance-in-clinical-trials/
Conclusion: