Everybody knows what a cell phone is, of course, and don’t think of cell phone dangers as being a threat. But what most people don’t realize is that a cell phone isn’t really a phone! They send and receive radio frequency signals from a control tower, and in order to transmit a conversation they have to turn your voice into radio waves. So a cell phone is really a long-distance two-way radio.

It’s the fact that they use radio frequency radiation, or RF, that gives rise to cell phone dangers. I’ve been researching the topic of cell phone safety for years, and I think it’s important to put the debate over dangerous radiation into perspective.

In the course of history, there have been a few very important topics that took a long time for people to even talk about, much less conclude that something was dangerous. You can probably imagine some of the things I’m talking about global warming is a big issue that’s being debated back and forth right now among scientists, even though the government sometimes actively denies it.

Childhood obesity is another big issue lately. For a long time, no one wanted to admit that fast food and lack of exercise can hurt kids’ health, but now even McDonald’s themselves has introduced exercise equipment into their play yards and put healthy kids’ meals on the menu.

And of course, there’s the big one: cigarette smoking. We all know how long it took for the medical community, government, and finally the general public, to accept that smoking was harmful.

Well, folks, there’s yet another issue that science is only just now starting to take seriously, and that is cell phone dangers.

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