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  • @DXSXDXSXD correction a youtube commentator with an IQ over 30

  • do you mean calling on a cellphone or just using a cellphone? i mean playing games on a cellphone causes cancer? :S

  • .. how about a "Brain Cancer Warning" before watching this.. "show"..

    .....

  • Cellphones DO cause cancer,...when you smoke them..

  • HAHA, you tell an American to talk about that?

    freakin dumb fucks.

  • fuk you america rocks

  • I personally have had pain in my body and head that i strongly believe that have to do with the use of cell phones. do-cell-phones-cause-cancer(do­t)com

  • do they know that bananas are more radio active than cell phones?

  • coca-cola is a known cancer causing agent. and so is 1000 other daily items...

  • Hmmm maybe you guys should get a doctor on your gay little amateur show and ask him. It would probably be better than pretending to know more about the actual subject than you do.

  • The greatest teacher to ever walk the planet got a brain tumor, but I have no idea if it was connected to cell phones at all.

  • have you ever heard of low radiofrequency yea that is what cell phones use and in denmark they studied 420,000 people that have used cell phones for 8.5-20 years and NONE of them showed any risk or increased risk of getting brain cancer there is no natural proof of this not all people that have or had brain cancer got it from cell phones and as cell phones are safisticated the smaller the frequencies soo many people get brain cancer and all of the cases can not be led to using cell phones

  • @skittles01453 The brain cancer wouldn't develop until after 20 years of cell phone usage.

  • People should study physics so that they would be aware that this type of radiation (RF) is considered NOT detrimental to human health. Jahs389 is absolutely correct. The amount of energy it releases during interaction is small enough to cause any possible bioeffect. I would say, let the experts speak the truth. Yes, it is good to be concern and aware of the latest issues but we must, nonetheless, consult those who are experts at this field to give their piece about this. Lots of misleading INFO

  • Yes but radio waves are everywhere laptops, microwaves, television there's no avoiding them

  • Large wavelength equals low frequency, which means low energy. This is why I think every college graduate should be required to take the basic physics series, especially liberal arts majors.

  • @elmore1735 physics FTW

  • RADIOWAVES have lower frequency, therefore energy, than normal visible light. - Cell phone radiation is less likely to enter your skull and give you brain cancer than a 60 watt bulb. 

  • I think little kids with undeveloped brains should talk on cellphones.

  • Cellphones use radio waves. RADIO WAVES.

    Even your frigging microwave oven is more powerful.

    And both are less powerful than visible light. What, are we to run away from lightbulbs now?

    Ignorance is the root of all crap like this.

    PS

    Oh, I LOVE the reference to your clip on Alex Jones! :)

  • I heard that the honeybees in Japan are dying off because of all the cellphone radiation in that country. NO JOKE

  • THERES no evidence for it so

    meh

  • love ur show but u guys are ignorant as fuck

  • If any of you payed attention in physics class, you'd know, that cellphones emit radio waves which are a weaker form of "radiation" than visible light... Their frequency is 4 times smaller than ultraviolet radiation which can cause skin cancer at best...

  • stupid

  • Research shows using a headset or placing the phone on speaker significantly reduces the amout of radiation absorbed.

  • @DXSXDXSXD What're you talking about? Your IQ isn't over 90.

  • @LookAVid And yours isnt too dumbass... "What're..." lol

  • A recent study on cell phones and cancer which the National post reported on Monday May 17 of this year actually shows that cell phone use can reduce the chances of developing cancer. The CBC has also reported on it.

  • @medicboy89

    This is nothing but spin from the telecommunications industry, who finances loads of studies that comes out with "no risk".

  • who really talks on a cell now, everyone texts

  • in this program the woman is opressed

  • The wavelengths of non-ionizing radiation used in cell phone communications are around 10-30 centimeters.

    Can anyone please tell me how these can cause cancer, requiring interference at DNA level, with the diameter of 2*10^-9 meters?

    Pro-tip: Never listen to journalists about topics concerning science. EVER

  • @AtheismandSkepticism There are studies being done into whether certain frequencies of microwave radiation can have a negative affect on the cell membrane, and perhaps even dna. A mobile phone emits up to 2 watts of power. Studies have found it can raise the temperature of your brain by 1 degree. And the diameter of dna is irrelevant. If you speak on the mobile for hours a day, it is inevitable that dna will be affected. Whether or not it causes cancer is another question.

  • @Crozonexz Wavelength has everything to do with it!

    Radio broadcast towers can have outputs of up to 50,000 watts, yet no inverse correlation was found between the distance people lived to the towers and allcause mortality rates back when that was "inevitable" to be found. Yet If you go to a UV tanning bed with 1% of that output you're in big trouble.The battery could probably heat up your brain more than the MWs ever could & why would they penetrate the skull and yet stop at the brain tissue

  • @AtheismandSkepticism No, of coarse no direct correlation was found. 5 employees on the top two floors of RMIT developed brain cancer, which just happened to be right next to a mobile phone tower. 12 women at an ABC broadcasting studio developed breast cancer after being exposed to "non-ionizing" radiation caused by nearby transmission towers.

    But no, it's all a coincidence. Sure, there could have been 100 other mitigating factors. But it does seem a little suss, right?

  • @Crozonexz Although I haven't heard of those cases, it does seem very suspect if that were true. I'll look those up. I'll admit, it does seem plausible for there to be a mechanism for mobile phones to cause adverse consequences. However, there haven't been any real positive correlations found, study after study. Some find a small correlation, some don't find any. It doesn't add up to much; like the studies on homoeopathy. The evidence just isn't that strong.

  • @AtheismandSkepticism

    Not true! Hundreds of studies show negative biological effects and health damage from cell phone radiation.

    Check out the site: powerwatch(org.uk)

  • @Crozonexz

    Plus, those cases seem really circumstantial. It could be asbestos or chemical leaks, and why wouldn't EVERYONE on those top two floors or news studio get cancer if it were truly that dangerous.

    Correlation isn't necessarily causation.

  • My boyfriend just got testicular cancer where he always kept his phone for years. Another person we know has cancer in his stomach and he kept his cell oh his belt right where his cancer formed. Try putting your cell up to your TV or radio when a text is coming in or you`re downloading something and watch the radio or TV`s reaction, That`s what`s going into your body.

  • Shit I just put my phone on speaker lol......

  • i heard phones can give testicular cancer too, us guys gotta put our cells in our ass pockets now lol.

  • My boyfriend got testicular cancer at 28 and it`s on the side where he always left his cell phone. His Doctor`s think it is very possibly from his cell. Put your cell next to a TV or radio when it`s receiving a text or etc. That`s what`s going through you. Set your downloading mail options to where it`s not automatic.

  • I predict in the next 30 years there will be a DRAMATIC increase in brain tumors just like the 60's and present day with Big Tobacco companies and the correlation of lung cancer, throat cancer, etc....

  • @PokrPro21 There's already an increase in autism, etc. which some theories try to link to the 'physical' where more intelligent people are able to meet and have children, therefore creating more children prone to autism -- but what if autism has an energy-related connection whereby intelligence is connected to creativity and to sensitivity, neural sensitivity (neural-networks of the brain) - where people with less redundant neural connections are more prone to autism and the effects of energy?

  • @PokrPro21 Yes and I keep trying to tell people but they act as if I'm a lunatic. They will see.......

  • Cell phones are the new Cigarettes! Ur a clown if u don't think otherwise, watch "Thank You For Smoking" ---excellent movie! However, who gives a shit, people still smoke and people will MOST DEFINITELY still use their cellular devices, including myself, minus the smoking part......

  • How come the tyt camera sometimes looks good on some videos and sometimes it looks crappy on other videos?

  • the thing with mobile phones on planes is that someone could call another mobile attatched to a bomb. that's the main concern i'd have but to be honest, i wouldn't want the air hostesses telling me i might be calling a bomb... do you?

  • @samsamsABC uh no, its bc the microwaves could interfere with the planes controls..

  • isn't microwaves the stuff used to cook food? lol i'm not 100% but i think the frequencies are different, but i'm not denying there's no interference... just i think the whole ohone activated bomb thing is more severe an issue lol

  • Loving the Alex jone impression at 1:00 :P

  • @schneke1

    PT. 4

    Now Im not to blame vaccine companies and cell phone companies for what happened to me and my sister, what I am trying to say is that people need to get informed about the risks associated with these products. People need to be informed because I can say from personal experience that having to deal with autism and brain tumors really sucks and if both conditions can be prevented, than they should be.

  • @schneke1

    PT.3

    The studies say that the risk of brain tumors is higher in young people; I started using a cell phone when I was 13 years old, and at age 16 I was in a hospital bed fighting for my life from a condition caused hydrocephalus which was cause by a tumor in the ventricles of my brain.

  • @schneke1

    PT. 2

    The studies arent the only reason I believe it to be true, my little sister (who is the only one in my family to be born in Canada and the only on who got the vaccine) has autism. And regarding the studies that say that cell phones cause cancer more specifically brain tumors I have to agree with them.

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  • Heres a little way to prevent it..... PUT YOUR PHONE ON SPEAKER!!!

  • what you're referring to is what we in the scientific community call anecdotal evidence which has to be investigated. Where we fail in our education system is that we teach science like its a new religion. One doesn't "believe" in science, it is a method of arriving at conclusions on the basis of investigation and evidence .We have to include logic and reasoning in our school curriculum. I realised this only after passing from Dental School and began reading Academic Papers and research.

  • Use speaker phone

  • cellphones dont cause cancer.

    they have however been shown to slightly interfer with certain instruments on a plane, though not even close to causeing it to crash or anything down that line. different cellphones interfer differently, and new cellphones are constantly produced, so the chance of a cellphone that causes enough interference to crash a plane is there. not probable, but certainly not impossible either. and better safe than sorry (at least if you risk being sued).

  • It's hard to say if they do or don't. I think people will continue to use them if they want. We know that most plane crashes are caused by pilot error, yet many people still entrust their lives to pilots every day.

    It;s the same with cars, bikes, machinery, electric devices, boats etc. All of these items can cause harm, or potentially kill you, yet we still use them without a second thought of what "might" happen.

  • Warning: The Surgon General has determined that smoking your cell phone may be hazardous to your health.

  • this pissed me off a bit but ana...look at the screen when u talk

  • Can cellphones cause cancer?? Yes, but only when swallowed.

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  • Do ipod earphones give you cancer?

  • @DXSXDXSXD hahahahahahaha

  • Simple solution: text message all the time (as I do)!

  • Electromagnetic radiation does not cause ionization, for that you would need a nuclear (aka ionic) radiation, we have been studying this for 60 years, the evidence published in peer-reviewed journals is conclusive. They do not cause brain tumors. (bring on the flames)

  • In addition, you would expect to see concordant cancer in the skin cells and possibly the bone which is nearer the source.

  • One thing is for certain; the paracites making profit cannot be trusted. This could easily be the next 'big tabaco' carry-on.

  • My brother works for Ericsson. He says that planes full of cellphones overload the network. They cause masts to be overload. When the plane flys over the mast all the phones on the plane pushs all the normal connections off the mast and the network. If you have 1,000 planes flying over the network you won't have a network.

  • = Bullshit. "My friend works for...." = lowest level of credibility imaginable.

  • My brother has a masters degree in electrical eingineering. The problem was first located in England when one flight of people from the city of London took a flight to a football match in Manchester. These men were the first concentration of mobile phones on a plane over England. England has a large dense network. The phones on the plane kept linking from tower to tower. When a tower gets overloaded it dumps all other mobile phone connection using an algoritm that predicts which phoones are ...

  • more likley to pick up another tower. When the plane flew overhead it caused the closest tower to dump all its calls. All the land based mobile phones weretransfered to another tower. This tower then became overloaded then the next tower overloaded. imagine the initial cause of this cascade traveling at 500MPH. The network got crippled during the flight. When the plane flew home and crippled the network again the operators realised it must be a plane and not a system failure...

  • Some planes in Europe allow you to use your phone because they are equiped with their own masts that connect to a sattelite.

    My brother is one of the leading engineers on Ericsson networks. He's worked on every continent and spends over eight months of the year abroad imstalling and upgrading networks.

    P.S sorry for shitying on. I spent all day doing sums for an exam. I've many more interesting tales of mobile phone networks going wrong. I have no life.

  • I think TYT should have a warning label " can cause stupidity"

    and as if chubbyness there read labels anyways, fail..

  • This is bullshit. Cell phones don't cause brain tumor, unless you put one on your head for some 20 hours a day.

  • Actually, on radiation, everything and everyone emits a certain amount of radiation. We are constantly being hit by several types. It's the amount that it of concern. Like UV rays, too much will kill you, but you actually are benefited by a certain amount.

  • Most fear is the result of not knowing. I'm not talking about fear of the unknown, but misconceptions of reality and facts.

    I think the crazies on the right are easily manipulated because education and correct thought is not as important as religious dogma perpetrated by some leaders who claim to know what God actually thinks.

  • I never have, and never will, own a cellphone. I just don't care that much about being available to other people and their constant BS.

  • It's very well possible.

    But since there's no conclusive evidence yet maybe we should all just stick to texting unless a phone call is necessary. :P

  • Most people know that you should use the earpiece that have a cord that connects to the phone as oppose to bluetooth devices! No one likes that look anymore, so there is the problem.

  • . . I don't think you got to be a scientist, you ever noticed when you're on your phone for too long the side of your head you got it on starts kinda going numb. I been heard of this for years, and apparently there's a mineral patch you can put on your phone that will neutralize the EMF waves.

  • If this is ever made official, I can already see the conservative skeptics making a video named "cell phone swindle", glen beck crying over how liberals and all main stream scientists are out to get the cell phone industry and the industry paid "skeptic scientists" saying brain tumors are not due to human actions.

  • @parulkarg totally

  • When you enter a hospital there are signs telling you to turn off your cell phone. Why?

  • they dont work well with some of the machines. same reason you cant use em on planes

  • radio waves can mess with hospital and medical equipment

  • @chairde It messes up and distrups the electronics inside the hospital.

  • i'm surprised Cenk is just now finding out about this. I learned about this in science class when i was in 7th grade in 1996

  • The funny thing, what nobody ever talks about, is that wireless phones in your home have a much higher rate of radiation than cell phones.

  • yes, i think they can cause brain tumors. the dude with the brain tumor told me.

    i wouldn't want to fly with cenk. just in case. i'm just saying...

  • This just in!

    YOU ARE GOING TO DIE.

  • 1:13 - 1:45 And indeed corporations do just that sort of thing way more often in many industries than most people often care to know. You can bet your bottom dollar the corporatocracy will either suppress or manipulate contrary science just to protect their own bottom dollar. So I'm honestly willing to venture that the studies were in a long time ago but got brushed aside when enough briefcases of cash were thrown at them.

  • There's mercury in the water and cancers on the phone. And, if the PCB's and DDT's and GMO's and runaway trucks don't get ya, then you get the living shit kicked out of you in a nursing home. Who's planet is this anyway?!!!

  • The chances of you getting cancer off a cell phone is astronomical take a fucking chance you pussy

  • Now I'm told to "take a chance" by someone named "doomsday". This would be like taking advice on sexuality from someone named "syphilis".

  • CENK!!! LOL!!!!!!! HAHAHHAA, that was so random!!!

  • Alex Jones doesnt bother with fluffy news like cell phones

  • for god sakes why are we giving the cell phone companies so much consideration, and keeping our cools, and waiting for peer reviews....

    if the options are maybe nothing and maybe brain tumors, then personally I think we should be a bit more concerned, but maybe that's just me.

  • Yes, cellphones emit electro magnetic radiation THROUGH YOUR HEAD. But, it's about 100 times less radiation then is beeming through you from your comp screen and millions of times less then the radiation your exposed to by going out in the sun.

  • Of course Blutooth emits radiation but of a literally over 100 fold less power then your phone.  If Blutooth devices ever are found to cause a tumor then your cell phone will cause a whole second head to grow out of your ear....literally

  • Cell phones have government chips that send all your conversations to Dick Cheney's dungeon.

  • Nice earrings ana

  • C'mon TYT...

    REALLY WEAK...This is what you do, if your not going to do it well, I'm shuttin it off. YOU know better than anyone about spinning facts, angles and research. Please stop contradicting yourselves, and bringing us this lazy journalism. Too Bad. TUNED OUT!!

  • You'll be missed, I'm sure.

  • ana again is showing her stupidity. government does hide stuff from the public.

  • cenks wrong the planes on the phones dont work and havent for years i no a lot about those phones they used to drop calls and they only worked for about a year before they turned off but they havent worked for years

  • Yeah I've heard this before. I saw some documentary about a study or something showing that people with brain tumors were more likely to have them on the side of the brain where they hold the cell phone.

  • Conspiracy theory: the real reason airlines don't want you on the phone during takeoff and landing is because of the heightened probability of a crash. A-they don't want it recorded, and they really don't want it broadcast on YouTube, and they don't want victims families to have evidence for wrongful death lawsuit.

    B-due to possibility of crash, they want passengers to be somewhat attentive.

    Just saying.

  • the real reason they dont want u to use cells on planes is the same reason u shouldnt have them next to the computer it interfers with it it doesnt interfear as badly with computer it does make a noise but it doesnt delete anything but interesting conspiracy

  • Bottom line, only ionizing radiation causes cancer.

    Phones do not emit ionizing radiation. Not even a tiny bit.

  • i wish representatives spend time to have cigarette companies with similar permanent warnings about lung cancer, those studies have more merit that the cellphone brain cancer thing

  • lol Warnings. First tobacco, then music now cells. Whats next? Billboards all over with warnings telling us the air we breath is bad or the water we drink is polluted? Doing anything in excess probably isn't good for you, so if these goofs who are talking 24/7 on their cells and bluetooths start dropping like flies than so be it, but I doubt having a cellphone stuck to your ear 2+ hours a day is any worse than sitting in front of a pc monitor or bigscreen tv. There is other shit to worry about.

  • It would be so awesome if cell phones killed everyone who used them in the next 20 years. I would be one of the only humans left in america alive.

  • Not using cell phones doesnt actually matter, the tower doesnt broadcast DIRECTLY to your cell phone, its in a circular pattern with a certain radius. So even when you are not using your cell phone the same amount of radio waves are ploughing through your head. Same with radio waves. You think because you turn of your radio the waves are no longer right around you? Anyways this is why i find it hard to believe there would be any difference in brain tumors with heavy cell phone users

  • gas stations blowing up, total bs

    1.How can one be sure that cell phones are the cause when it happens so infrequently?

    2.Millions of people use cell phones everyday right beside gas stations, why dont they blow up?

    3.This is coming from the fact that radio waves can heat up substances, but gasoline needs to be heated to ~250 degrees Celsius / ~500 degrees Fahrenheit to ignite. Thats a lot of radio waves.

    4. Mythbusters tested this, nothing happened, surprise, surprise

  • Gasoline needs 250 C to burn but remember that gasoline fumes only need a spark to ignite a start a fire.

    Depending on the shirt you are wearing, when you get out of the car, if you do not touch a metal object to release the static electricity... You can start a fire and all the gas station can explode.

    Just like this girl -> /watch?v=ufcQd1qoDAs

    And she was lucky.

    A dude from my country wasn't so lucky and was burned to death.

  • @horuseyes

    true but we are talking about waves. I am not the most informed about this topic so i probably shouldnt be blabbering, but show me an example where waves cause a spark under those kinds of conditions.

  • The problem between cellphones and gas stations are not the waves. Waves are related to that cancer issue.

    The problem is again static electricity that a cellphone can accumulate. Also the battery that can be damage and make a spark. Or the wires from the antena can be expose... Cellphone can ignite a gasoline fumes in many differente ways.

  • its not the battery its the waves caz of the radiatition thats what the problem is thats y it gets into the brain its not about the batterys or else everything with batterys in it would have caused cancer but thats not happening its only with cellphones and microwaves can cause health problems if u stand to close to them when they microwave for a long time

  • Bah... Read my post again! I was not even talking about the cancer...

  • opps my badness sorry i reread it took me a few times b4 i understood what u where saying but now i get it

  • It's like the plastic baby bottle crap. Virtually ever independant study shows the plastic chemicals leech into the bottles and then baby's drink them.

    But the government say's the "industry" had studies that show they are safe... so let's accept the ones from the people MAKING the bottles and ignore other good science.

    It's all about the money lebowski.

  • "The early studies do indicate that it is causing a problem"

    Early studies also indicate that it is not causing a problem. We have basically no credible information to go off of here.

  • Most of us carry around the cell phone in our pocket. Does that mean that if we can get brain cancer from having the phone too close to our head, we could also get testicular cancer for having it too close to our BALLS?!

    Remember, phones still send out and receive signals even when we're not using them, or else you wouldn't know your reception until you've made a call.

  • There are videos of static charges from cell phones igniting gas fumes.

    Not a huge stretch. Sparks + Gas fumes....

  • Cell phones are the new cigarettes.

  • I love you all you guys...but could Jayar please speak a little slower and clearer. He has good points and i want to hear them.

  • The study I heard found a significant difference in brain tumor rates between 'heavy users' of cell phones and non-users. These heavy users were using the cell phone many hours a day for many years. *I don't remember the exact number of hours or years but I recall being surprised at how many hours a day and that it was over a period of many years. Something like 10 hrs a day over 20 years.

  • rats don't live more than a few years just so you

  • I'm not exactly sure what you're getting at here. The study I was talking about was a statistical analysis of human cell phone usage. Cell phones have been available now for about 20 years now so they were able to get long term usage statistics from human subjects.

  • you said rats i was asking how you got the 20 years thing but now you said that

  • Rates. Not rats.

    ...brain tumor rates (likeliness of brain tumors)

  • i miss read

  • (Skeptical Inquirer covered this issue in Sept./Oct. 2009.)

    I'd worry more about getting run over by somebody phoning and driving.

  • I think CENK need to You Tube

    "Cellphone starts fire at gas station"

    it's happened plenty of times.

    Now I know why Alex Jones got so pissed at TYT.

    Because they do hardly ANY fact checking on things they know nothing about, yet open up their mouth anyway

    and yes, microwaves are NOT good for the brain.

    It's mostly holding it to your ear that does the most damage.

    a bluetooth adapter uses a VERY LOW frequency, which is much safer

    much safer then the phone to your head

  • @Pv8man

    Lol your citing Alex jones? Ok well everyone knows to write you off as a nut. Thanks for your input.

  • @boorens18

    You really need to stop calling everybody a nut job, because it's really getting old.

    CENK said "cell phones cannot blow up a gas station, otherwise we would have heard about it"

    and I was pointing that was not true.

    you tube - "cell phone starts fire in gas station"

    So does that mean I can categorize every TYT viewer as some generalized stereotype??

    (even though I watch both TYT and AJ, and other sources of internet news?)

  • Bluetooth uses the microwave radio frequency spectrum in the 2.402 GHz to 2.480 GHz range

    Cellphones use GSM which never uses frequencies above 2GHz.

    Idiot. Just wikipedia before you write Bullshit.

  • @P1ranh4

    I am an IT technician. just to let you know, not just some idiot.

    A cellular radio uses MICROWAVES, whereas the bluetooth adapter uses RADIO waves.

    That's the difference, i was saying that the danger with microwaves from a cell phone mostly have to do with putting it next to your head, and for long periods of time.

    Stop trying to simply dismiss everybody's input.

  • I am an electrical engineer so I know my way around frequencies and EM waves.

    The only difference between microwaves and radio waves are not clearly destinguished in science and it's just a matter of the frequency band.

    In general we use higher frequency signals when we communicate short range (bluetooth) while GSM in cellphones use lower frequencies.

    Where I agree: Cellphones use more energy than Bluetooth, so the signals that are pumped through your head are stronger.

  • @P1ranh4

    im not trying to be "Snippy" online

    I'm just trying to be accurate.

  • I'm an electrical engineer too and you're absolutely right, only the power of the signal could be damaging, not the frequency range. That is, until some more studies have been done looking at the effect of different frequencies. Why we're concerned with just cell phone signals makes no sense whatsoever to the argumentt, why not address FM radio, WiFi, bluetooth, GPS signals etc. and a vast array of other EM waves hitting our bodies at all times?? It's all the same thing people.

  • mashmods & friends;

    You're obviously NOT an electrical engineer.

    The problem's not with the tower's signal passing through your body (unless you live next to one), it's with the phones themselves!!

    You are putting, right next to your head, a device that transmits a radio signal several kms. Thanks to the inverse-square law, that power increases exponentially as distance to the phone is decreased... so, having your brain right next to it = probably not a fantastically good idea.

  • sorry you're completely right about that. my comment was wrong, thanks for fixing my mistake.

  • "A cellular radio uses MICROWAVES, whereas the bluetooth adapter uses RADIO waves."

    Ok totally untrue, P1ranh4 was right, both use radio waves, although GSM networks have lower frequencies than bluetooth, as he said, the highest is around 1990 Mhz which is 1.9 Ghz and still lower than any bluetooth device.

    Wavelength = velocity/frequency . Since all electromagnetic waves travel at the same speed, the only thing that effects them is frequency.

  • @givemedafunny

    right, but there still is a difference.

    and Ill just simply post my sources.

    electronics(DOT)howstuffworks(­DOT)com/bluetooth2(DOT)htm

  • @Pv8man

    also, that's why alot of people are protesting these new Airport body scanners.

    because they use Terra hertz waves.

    the higher the frequency, the more potential it has to affect certain things in the body.

  • @Pv8man

    Could you please provide a link to a peer reviewed medical journal on how terra hertz waves are harmful because I cant find any. In fact everything I've found on them say that the effects on tissue is purely thermal.

  • its just saying bluetooth uses less power, so it doesnt go as far... but it still doesnt matter because that doesnt solve our problem, we cant switch to bluetooth type signals because they are weaker, make the GSM signals weaker and they will be better than bluetooth devices.

  • by the way "P1ranh4" you just said bluetooth uses a "Microwave radio frequency"

    Cellullar radio's use Microwaves, and bluetooth devices use Radio waves

    Radiowaves are (theoretically) much safer then microwaves

    so yes, back at you, read a bit more while you wiki something.

    Radio Waves and Microwaves are NOT the same thing.

  • Wow, now you're even inaccurate about what I'm writing! I said that Bluetooth uses higher frequency than GSM cellphones and most people here agree with that. We also all agree that Bluetooth uses less energy than cellphones.

    So WHAT is the difference between micro waves and radio waves? For me those terms are not properly defined. Both are EM waves with various frequencies. The sources I checked do not define the exact frequency range of either wave type.

  • cell phone's have set fires at gas stations

  • cell phones have decreased the profit of payphones at gas stations, until they made up stories about it setting fires