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"Microwaves Are Bad For You: 5 Reasons Why Microwave Oven Cooking Is Harming Your Health" (www.medicaldaily.com)

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[–] falkerie71 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

“When theory and observation collide: Can non-ionizing radiation cause cancer?”

That paper is written by none other than Magda Havas, the person whom your article in question cited and is criticized for pseudo-science. Try linking to another more credible one next time.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

fair, how about this one?

"Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935118300355?via%3Dihub

Repeated Wi-Fi studies show that Wi-Fi causes oxidative stress, sperm/testicular damage, neuropsychiatric effects including EEG changes, apoptosis, cellular DNA damage, endocrine changes, and calcium overload. Each of these effects are also caused by exposures to other microwave frequency EMFs, with each such effect being documented in from 10 to 16 reviews.

[–] falkerie71 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I won't comment too much on this since it's straying further and further away from the original topic, which is microwaving food, not microwaving yourself. I'm also not familiar enough with biology and electromagnetism to give a conclusive argument to the paper. HOWEVER. Just a quick question to you, did you actually read through the paper and its citations, thought through its testing methodologies, and came to your own conclusion, or did you just search for "WiFi bad" and reply with any article or "scientific research" that pops up? Cause there is definitely no shortage of bullshit articles and even scientific studies online, as Abraham Lincoln once famously said:

If you read it on the internet, it must be true.

If you're just going to post whatever pops up in the search engine without thinking through first, I doubt the discussion is going to be any more constructive and would be wasting everyone's time.