Mobile Industry Struggling Against Unsupported Warnings
San Francisco lawmakers have passed a bill which would require all retailers to display the radiation levels of wireless devices. This is a down-graded version of a previous attempt to have all phones actually say that they might cause cancer in children, despite a lack of evidence that they do any such thing. It couldn’t be clearer that someone’s either trying to destroy phones or just scared of everything while screaming “think of the children.”
The CTIA (previously the Cellular Telephone Industries Association) is fighting the law, as it fought (and defeated) the previous attempt to have all mobiles branded as dangerous without a speck of evidence. The most recent (of the millions) of studies on mobile radiation health effects was inconclusive. The fact that even the trained scientists performing the actual study refused to support the idea of health risks didn’t stop the SF Board of Supervisors from voting 10-1 in favour of the new law.
Proponents claim that it merely offers information and won’t damage the industry. If phones come with a big legalese warning about how much radiation they put out, this might lead people to assume that there must be some health risk.
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