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Stop the presses! 5G is safe, experts say
It’s fair to say that there have been concerns about the possible health effects of increased exposure to electromagnetic radiation in the 5G era, but the international body in charge of setting limits on exposure to radiation has issued updated guidelines that, if adhered to, would make 5G services perfectly safe.
The International Commission on Non‐Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) said it hopes the guidelines “will help put people at ease” about 5G technologies. The main change from the previous guidelines is that they now provide improved protection for 5G technologies that use frequencies above 6GHz. BBC News pointed out that the guidelines do impose “more conservative limits” on radiation from handsets when they connect to higher-frequency 5G networks.
The GSMA has, as any industry body representing 5G service providers would, welcomed the report as “good news for 5G,” although the association was keen to point out that the updated guidelines “have been anticipated by the industry for some time and test methods exist to ensure the compliance of 5G devices in the market.”
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The writer of this article obviously didn’t watch the ICNIRP video summarizing their results. Their conclusions are not based on science but on money. Most of what they talked about was already published articles on safety of 5G, which is incredibly biased to ignore safety issues. They also talked about most of their data gathered at frequencies below 100KHz, when we are talking about frequencies of up to 300GHz….apples and oranges. Bottom line is there is still no independent study into 5G frequencies and their effects on the body. As an engineer, I can say with reasonable confidence that these higher frequencies won’t penetrate deep into the body so the types of problems may be skin cancer, eye problems, nervous disorders and reproductive problems. Absolutely no study has been done on these issues to date.