[HN Gopher] A radio frequency exposure test finds an iPhone 11 P... ___________________________________________________________________ A radio frequency exposure test finds an iPhone 11 Pro exceeds the FCC's limit Author : acdanger Score : 249 points Date : 2020-02-14 15:38 UTC (7 hours ago) (HTM) web link (spectrum.ieee.org) (TXT) w3m dump (spectrum.ieee.org) | remote_phone wrote: | If the phone has a strong wifi signal but a very poor cell | signal, will it emit a lot of RF still? | chillingeffect wrote: | my father occupationally used to measure RF output from | mountaintop cell repeaters. he was always pushing back on | operators for pushing just a little outside the limits so they | could pick up more calls. | nomel wrote: | I always assumed the phone to tower path would be the limit, | not the tower to phone. | moftz wrote: | Right, in most cases, whatever side of a comms link that is | hooked up to mains power isn't going that much about power | usage. But there are limits on broadcasting power from the | towers so as not to cause problems with farther away towers | that want operate on the same frequencies. It's like how you | usually want to not be on the same Wifi channel as your | neighbor. It's going to take either more RF power to overcome | their signal or take more time getting data through due to a | less than perfect signal quality. Cell towers occupy a | certain geographic cell so you want some overlap in signal | between neighbors but you don't want it to extend much | further than what it takes to leave enough time for someone | in a car, for example, to have their conversation handed off | to the neighboring tower. Cell tower operators might want to | boost their signal power if they are bordering an area with | low coverage but it's going to begin to interfere with cells | outside their intended range. The FCC sets these limits for | different applications and frequencies. An FM radio tower is | going to have a massive output power as compared to a | personal FM transmitter for your car and for good reason, no | else one wants to hear your shitty music. | pentae wrote: | I suspect this has something to do with the inferior intel modem | that was used during the Qualcomm debacle. One of the main | advantages of the next iPhone will be returning to a Qualcomm | modem that isn't rubbish. | swiley wrote: | While I'm not a fan of what apple did it's a bit disturbing | that there's literally just one company making cellular modems | for US devices and that this company is really very hostile to | users and device manufacturers. | apodysophilia wrote: | This is the result of patents. | phonon wrote: | https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/302712-mediatek- | announce... | ksec wrote: | They made the best modem for a price where many cant refuse. | Or you could choose other modem from Mediatek, while it is | stable enough, they often come very late in the cycle. | mfer wrote: | > That said, while the Tribune and Penumbra both used off-the- | shelf phones, the FCC largely tested phones supplied by the | manufacturers, including Apple. | | This speaks to a method that can be used to game the system. What | prevents manufacturers from providing phones that are somehow | different from the off the shelf versions? I'm not suggesting | that's happening here. Just that the testing process is easily | hacked. | 1123581321 wrote: | The manufacturer needs the phone certified in advance of shelf | stocking. | | There is nothing stopping the FCC from confirming their test | results with retail units. Plus, the risk from cheating is | enormous. It's a lot easier in the long run to just design | properly working phones. | ngcc_hk wrote: | There is a German example. | hurricanetc wrote: | Not quite the same. VW wasn't making special vehicles just | for testing. It was software on every vehicle designed to | trick a dyno. | | I guess it could be theoretically possible for Apple to | software cheat the FCC but it really does seem easier to | just make a phone that meets the specifications. | preinheimer wrote: | It didn't turn out to be easier to design a clean burning | diesel. | toast0 wrote: | VW (and others, historically) didn't make special vehicles | to pass the test; all of their vehicles would be expected | to pass the test as administered on a dynamometer and fail | the test if administered on a road. | | Designing to the test is different than carefully selecting | (or altering) a sample that passes the test. | topspin wrote: | > What prevents manufacturers from providing phones that are | somehow different from the off the shelf versions? | | Nothing, I imagine. The only certain foil for this is random | sampling of retail products. No reliance on manufacturer | probity required. Post VW dieselgate the need for this is self | evident. At least to anyone that isn't a lawyer in a government | bureaucracy. | zitterbewegung wrote: | This an advertisement for their RF phone cases. In the article | the premise is refuted. | apodysophilia wrote: | The relevant quote: | | > Penumbra was conducting the test, which also included testing | an iPhone 7, to study its Alara phone cases, which the company | says are designed to reduce RF exposure in a person | jolmg wrote: | > This an advertisement for their RF phone cases | | This is on ieee.org. The article mentioned this[1] other test | by the Chicago Tribune. This isn't purely an advertisement | though it serves that purpose a bit. | | It's disputed because they only tested 2 iPhones. | | > There are reasons to take the results with a grain of salt, | however. McCaughey clarified that Penumbra supplied RF Exposure | Labs with one iPhone 7 and one iPhone 11 Pro for the tests-- | phones the company had purchased off the shelf. He attributed | not testing more phones to the cost of purchasing multiple | iPhones | | This is also important: | | > More notably, when the FCC conducted a follow-up | investigation after the Tribune published its story, the agency | did not find evidence that any of the phones exceeded SAR | limits. That said, while the Tribune and Penumbra both used | off-the-shelf phones, the FCC largely tested phones supplied by | the manufacturers, including Apple. | | It raises the question whether Apple and others supplied the | FCC with phones that are different from what they sell. | | [1] https://www.chicagotribune.com/investigations/ct-cell- | phone-... | oefrha wrote: | > the FCC largely tested phones supplied by the | manufacturers, including Apple. | | That weasel word "largely" isn't helpful. They either only | tested supplied phones, which may raise suspicions; or they | also tested phones sourced from other channels, however | insignificantly, suggesting problems with the third-party | tests, or they would have noticed the anomaly. "Largely" | ostensibly points to the latter, but it could also mean "we | don't know". | zitterbewegung wrote: | This story isn't strictly a submarine story but pg has stated | a PR agency is a great marketing investment . I also saw at | least a dozen articles that were similar using DuckDuckGo. | http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html | swiley wrote: | A lot of these smartphones go through imperical tests in an | anechoic chamber managed by a third party lab to see if | they're bellow the allowed levels in each band. That sounds | hackish but (IMO) isn't the end of the world. | | What weirds me out is that they'll send them to these third | party labs and repeatedly test some small number (possibly | one) of devices until it's right up against what's allowed. | _That_ feels less than scientific and probably wrong although | I'm not sure what I'd change. | deftnerd wrote: | The "conspiracy" portion of my brain makes me wonder if | it's possible that Apple phones have lower power levels if | the location services determines that the phone is in a | location with a known anechoic chamber. There can't be that | many of them. | | Such behavior has already been shown by automobile | manufacturers during the "diesel-gate" incidents. | TaylorAlexander wrote: | I'm sure Apple has their own test chambers. | xondono wrote: | The main problem with all this kind of testing is how | little precision there is. | | "Double the energy limit" sounds a lot, but for a lot of | these labs that's _inside_ of the error range of their | equipment. | FireBeyond wrote: | The premise isn't refuted at all. The IEEE calls out things to | be aware of, on both sides of the coin, and says as with all | things, take limited sample tests with a grain of salt. | dieselerator wrote: | In my case the phone has never been in my pocket while in use. | The phone may occasionally ping the cell tower. Otherwise it is | just listening in standby mode, in plain words, not transmitting. | The premise of the article is weak. In my opinion the article was | not suitably vetted by _Spectrum_. | kube-system wrote: | Plenty of people use hand-free devices with their phones in | their pockets. Many others hold the phone against their head | when talking on it. Additionally, there are many network- | intensive applications which can be used while the phone is in | your pocket, i.e. mobile hotspot. | | Probably the least common scenario is for a phone to be | transmitting at full power when it's _not_ in close contact | with a human. | jws wrote: | _Testing phones from 5 millimeters away from the body may seem | close, but for anyone carrying their phone in a pocket, the | distance is closer to 2 millimeters. Because wireless power falls | off exponentially with distance, what might be a safe amount of | RF exposure at 5 millimeters could be much higher at 2 | millimeters._ | | They mean to say that you should expect a power about 6 times | higher, (5^2 / 2^2). This is rubbish. | | The square of the distance model is for a pair of points. Phones | in pockets at such closed distances are more closely modeled by a | pair of infinite planes where the power falls off not at all. The | real result will be in between, but very much closer to 1 than 6. | doubleunplussed wrote: | FWIW when you're closer to an antenna than the wavelength, | you're not just seeing normal Gauss's law drop off, you can be | looking an an evanescent wave [1], which does indeed fall off | exponentially (well, depends on the exact shape of the | antenna). | | I've designed a short-range 'antenna' that is intentionally not | impedance matched to the vacuum, and radiates very poorly - but | the RF intensity close to the antenna is very high because of | this effect. | | [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evanescent_field | madengr wrote: | Well you are in the reactive near-field, so the antenna will | de-tune, hence the power amplifier won't see it's ideal match, | and not deliver as much power. All depends on antenna design | and orientation, assuming they don't use active impedance | tuning. | | The base station also tells the phone to back-off. If the TX | were running at full power, the battery will die quickly. Leave | your phone in a metal, security cubby and your battery will die | quickly; no power control and worse-case antenna loading. | | Also the highly asymmetric data usage these days. Very little | energy on the uplink. | | FWIW I design antennas and amplifiers for a living. The only | time I'd worry about RF exposure is to the cornea; that is a | proven hazard. RF burns are a right of passage for PA | designers, and are harmless as it's the outer skin layers. | johnr2 wrote: | > RF burns are a right of passage for PA designers, and are | harmless as it's the outer skin layers. | | A literal example of skin effect? | madengr wrote: | Yep. Put your finger on the corner of the output coupling | cap on a 50 Watt S-band PA. It will turn your skin black | from the charring, but doesn't penetrate into the live | tissue. Just don't leave it on too long. | | Could probably gives non-permanent tattoos with this | method. | krastanov wrote: | So it is doubly incorrect... They are completely misusing the | word exponential to mean quadratic which is already incredibly | annoying, but it is not even quadratic, it is constant. | [deleted] | whatshisface wrote: | Not squared, inverse square. That's faster than exponential. | krastanov wrote: | No. All polynomials and rational functions fall off | drastically slower than exponential. | whatshisface wrote: | We're talking about the rise in power as you get closer. | 1/x2 has a singularity, I doubt exp(x) can beat that... | tomrod wrote: | Good point! -ln(x) may (would have to check), but exp(0) | = 1 and 1/0 __2 is defined as positive infinity (the Real | numbers are not closed under division). | enedil wrote: | No, division just isn't a total function. | tomrod wrote: | I think these may be the same thing in this case. | AnimalMuppet wrote: | You may need to check your math. Inverse square does _not_ | fall off faster than exponential. | whatshisface wrote: | 1/x2 has a singularity and rises faster than exponential | as you approach it. We're talking about getting closer to | the source, not further. | AnimalMuppet wrote: | Ah, I see. In that direction, you are correct. | theseadroid wrote: | I wonder if we shall take exposure density into consideration? | If RF is emitted in all directions, the closer the phone to the | body, the same amount of RF will be received by a smaller area | of skin? | oefrha wrote: | You're still thinking about a point source, where the actual | scenario is closer to two parallel plates, in which case the | non-normal components cancel out, leaving only the normal | component, except at the edges. | | The most basic example from electrostatics: | http://hyperphysics.phy- | astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/elesht.h... | cdelsolar wrote: | I don't think the phone emits radiation from its entire | body | RL_Quine wrote: | That's what the cuts around the metal band of the iPhone | are for, to segment the edge into different tuned | antennas. | klodolph wrote: | If you try to make an antenna too small compared to | wavelength, it will become less efficient and more | difficult to design. 900 MHz is the 33 cm band, so if you | have a more standard size antenna on the order of | quarter-wavelength size, you get an antenna that's about | 8cm. | tyingq wrote: | _" Phones in pockets..."_ | | The somewhat related study mentioned in the article was much | more interesting in terms of _" phones in pockets"_. | | https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/tjem/248/3/248_169/_art... | meekstro wrote: | Why isn't it tested at 2mm if that is the standard useage? | | Why rely on a model? | | 20,000 phones are being sold an hour. Why not buy 200 phone's | off 200 shelves and test them comprehensively at 0 mm, 1mm, | 2mm, 3mm ..... The cost to volume sold is completely negligible | and it is useful consumer information as 3 percent of the | population is electrosensitive. | | An estimated 30 million people suffer from Myalgic | Encephalomyelitis (chronic fatigue) in the world and the | average diagnosis takes seven years. Chronic health conditions | are increasing exponentially. Healthy people aren't sensitive | to environmental stimuli but unhealthy people are and the | number of chronically unhealthy people grows by the day as | livers strain under the stressors and weakening of modernity. | | Turn your wifi off in your house at night and see if you sleep | any better. Pretty simple anecdotal experiment. A house without | the wifi on or excess electrical componentry on has a nicer | feel. We did not evolve with this electromagnetic radiation and | the cost of testing is negilible given the global population's | growing exposure to it and something interesting may fall out | of the research. | | The risk of Apple having to make slight design modifications if | research raises an issue is not a huge concern of mine. One | hours phone sales should cover it and then they could further | differentiate their products and raise prices. | | How many electrical engineering schools are there in the world? | Sounds like a great way for a university to get their staff | free Iphones with a research grant. | mopsi wrote: | > _Turn your wifi off in your house at night and see if you | sleep any better._ | | This needs to be a blind test, e.g. you track your sleep | quality over a longer period of time while a script turns | wifi off on random nights. | wizzwizz4 wrote: | And make sure that phones aren't getting messages and | bleeping during the night when wifi is on. | meekstro wrote: | You could just try it. Turn off the electrical stuff before | you go to bed but hey everyone has freedom of choice. | jjoonathan wrote: | Placebos work. If that's what you want, cool. If you want | to figure out if RF affects sleep, that's cool too, but | you'll need to double blind the experiment. Because | placebos work. | meekstro wrote: | Yes but so does human intuition and its a heck of a lot | faster. | | A healthy person can endure a toxic environment. An | unhealthy person becomes more unhealthy from increased | toxicity. | | I'm not saying electromagnetic radiation makes a healthy | person unwell i'm saying it delays or worsens recovery of | some unhealthy people and there are million different | subsets of unhealthy people so which subset are you going | to run the double blind placebo on before you decide | reduce electromagnetic radiation while you sleep. | | It's a simple experiment anyone can try. Two weeks of | camping is an effective insomnia treatment as per | research which eliminates electromagnetic radiation from | the equation. I think its a zeitgeber in subsets sick | people but there's no profit in researching that so the | only tools you have are existing research, intuition, | self observation and logic. | | People figure out how to sex chickens without a causative | mechanism. It isn't a placebo effect or a double blind | trial. Electrochemical gradients as per Michael Levins | research affect genetic expression. Much like hedging | one's bet by believing in a creator just in case reducing | your exposure to RF at zero cost is the smartest thing | someone can do with the available evidence. | jjoonathan wrote: | Placebos in truth's clothing are toxins of human society. | Please verify placebo vs truth before spreading, k? | Thanks. | | > Two weeks of camping is an effective insomnia treatment | | Or two weeks away from the grind reduces stress. Or | getting away from artificial lights/schedules reduces | stress. Or it selects for people+times with less | stressed. Or more healthy. Or higher SES. Or you're | getting away from pollution. Or you need temperature | variation to feel healthy. Or any two of those. Or three! | Many plausible explanatory factors compete with RF, and | you'd have to control for them in order to point the | finger at RF. That's not impossible, and not even | particularly difficult, but it does mean that you can't | go on a camping trip, get better sleep, and then use that | as proof that RF was to blame for your insomnia. | | > People figure out how to sex chickens without a | causative mechanism. It isn't a placebo effect or a | double blind trial. | | The double blind trial is how you establish whether or | not something is a placebo. | | > Electrochemical gradients as per Michael Levins | research affect genetic expression. | | You need to blind you studies whether or not you have a | plausible mechanistic explanation. You don't need a | plausible mechanistic explanation to blind your studies. | | > Much like hedging one's bet by believing in a creator | just in case | | Which one(s)? | | > reducing your exposure to RF at zero cost | | Foregoing the advantages of technology is not zero cost. | If you mean that turning your router off at night is zero | cost, go ahead! I don't take issue with that. | | I _do_ take issue with spreading unblinded anecdata, | because whether or not RF-induced-insomnia is real, RF- | anxiety-induced-insomnia is definitely real, and anecdata | like your own definetly spread it. If RF-induced-insomnia | is real, that 's for the best, but if what you | experienced was a placebo (and I'd bet a substantial sum | of money that it was), then _unblinded anecdata literally | are the problem._ And that 's not cool. | | In the privacy of your own home: do what works and ignore | the haters! | | In society: please apply good experimental technique | before causing anxiety in others. It's only polite. | meekstro wrote: | I think you are uncomfortable that some phenomena | particularly biological don't fit in a scientific | experiment neatly and are more comfortable labelling 3% | of the population hypochondriacs to alleviate your own | anxiety. | | What I've stated is that I experienced increased fatigue | from exposure to ER while I was seriously ill and had | elevated serum ferritin. | | Each ferritin molecule has 4500 iron atoms and serrin | ferritin increases with acute or chronic viral | infections. A healthy level is less than fifty. So a 1150 | times increase in iron atoms in someone's blood could | plausibly cause fatigue when it absorbs er. | | Who does this cause anxiety in exactly? | | How is turning off electronic devices going to cause | anxiety? | | People can turn them off. If it helps great. If it | doesn't don't bother. | | No anxiety necessary. | | You might be better educated than me, better connected | than me and more intelligent but there's something to be | said for original thought. I'd love to take you up on | your bet where you impolitely just called me a whinger. I | think I'm smarter than you are just sayin there wasn't | one insightful thing in your comment as you tried to | apply a method that doesn't really fit the situation. How | do we do this? Let's bet our hacker News anonymous | reputations on it. | ceejayoz wrote: | > Yes but so does human intuition and its a heck of a lot | faster. | | It's also frequently incorrect. | function_seven wrote: | Right, but you wouldn't know if your sleep improved | because the wi-fi is off, or if it improved because you | have greater peace of mind just knowing that the wi-fi is | off. | | These are different things. A blinded test would | eliminate the peace of mind component and allow you to | determine if there's a physical effect from the wi-fi | being on or not. | jjoonathan wrote: | Furthermore, if your peace of mind is the true reason why | you sleep better with RF off, note that by talking of | your experience you could actually be creating the | problem that you were trying to solve (difficulty | sleeping due to worrying about RF). If RF is really to | blame as determined by a blinded test, it's worth talking | about, but if not, please exercise restraint. | JshWright wrote: | Does scientific rigor really seem like something the parent | comment is concerned with? | gus_massa wrote: | And you cover the green leds with tape mask, or get version | with an accurate fake blinking patterns. | pbhjpbhj wrote: | My ISP supplied router has an option to turn the lights | off, which is great as otherwise it illuminates the whole | hallway. I don't get why electronics makers think their | product needs to have such bright lights. | moftz wrote: | In college, all of my electronics were in my bedroom as | well as the communal router. I taped off as many LEDs as | I could (even the router wall wart had a big blue light) | and disconnected any LEDs that had leads (like inside a | PC case). There were only a few instances of LEDs that I | actually needed so those got white electrical tape over | them to diffuse the light or swapped to red if the tape | diffused it too much to see. | | I don't mind having a nightlight on when I sleep, I think | it helps me fall asleep quicker rather than pitch black | but bright blue lights that fill the fucking room with | light are the devil. I have much less electronics in my | bedroom now since I now have personal space other than my | bedroom to put stuff. | dboreham wrote: | The worst design is where the light is initially off but | turns on when some condition arises (e.g. battery fully | charged). You fall asleep in total darkness only to be | woken up at 3am by the brilliant light of "your phone is | charged now". | HeyLaughingBoy wrote: | Simple. The engineers are working on the product during | the day in well-lit spaces. Since the lights are always | on, it never occurs to anyone that the LEDs might be too | bright at night. | Shikadi wrote: | Alternatively, engineers point it out, and product | managers don't listen | deftnerd wrote: | In a bright environment, a bright LED is useful. Instead | they should also have a light sensor used to determine | the ambient light level, and then adjust the status LED | display accordingly. My Samsung TV does this with its | "powered on" light. | | Of course, that adds to the BOM and manufacturers love | shaving off fractions of a penny. Asking them to add an | extra 50 cents of parts for something consumers don't | think about prior to purchase is a lost cause. | im3w1l wrote: | Old LEDs are fine in both bright and dark environments, | too-bright LEDs are a recent (5y? 10y?) thing. I wonder | if LCD could be even nicer... I don't think I've ever | seen single-pixel LCD status indicator. | Marsymars wrote: | > I don't think I've ever seen single-pixel LCD status | indicator. | | I approximate that by using a pin to poke a hole in the | electrical or gaffer tape that I use to cover the lights. | heavenlyblue wrote: | It's much easier to turn off the other lights than to | brighten the environment enough not to see the blue | lights of your router | bananabreakfast wrote: | Electrosensitivity is not a thing. | | It's a disorder made up by hypochondriacs. If you said 3 | percent of the population are hypochondriacs then I would | believe you. | meekstro wrote: | Electrosensitivity is denied by intelligent healthy people | who have never dealt with unexplainable fatigue relying on | statistics and body system diagnosis that is inadequate for | explaining chronic complex health conditions. | | They're all just whinging man. Not one of them ever hoped | it was all in their head and they could think their way out | of it. | | Hacker News is a perfect subset of people lacking the | perspective to consider exploring the possibility that | electrosensitivity is a thing that occurs with declining | health. | | Why so much negativity about researching something so | ubiquitous? Let's discuss inverse power laws and quadratic | functions, maybe we can build a machine learning model with | our deficient statistics instead of taking two hundred | phones out of two billion and testing their electromagnetic | radiation at multiple distances and angles so we actually | have a reliable model. | meekstro wrote: | Here's the reason. | | Serum ferritin is an accute phase reactant that elevates | due to inflammation from acute and sometimes chronic | illness or heritable genetic mutation. | | When someone is ill and inflamed and fatigued and they | have excess serum ferritin circulating in their blood | which contains 4500 iron atoms per molecule and absorbs | electromagnetic radiation it interferes with their | biochemistry. | | Why people scoff at investigating the prevalence of | electromagnetic radiation exposure when there is a | causative mechanism for elevated risk in sick people is | because of either arrogance or ignorance. Maybe if the | doctors listened to patients instead of diagnosing | hypochondria when dealing with edge cases health outcomes | would begin to actually you know improve. | | This is Iranian research. So what. They have brilliant | scientists. Serum ferritin absorbs and is affected by | electromagnetic radiation and is highly elevated in sick | people. As my serum ferritin has reduced from 1200 to | under 310 through venesection and lifestyle I have | gradually been able tolerate exposure to electromagnetic | radiation without being fatigued by it for extended | periods. People running a daily energy budget become | pretty adept at working out what burns through their | energy and electromagnetic radiation exposure definitely | does and bored sick people definitely want to use | wireless devices but can't. The hypochondria diagnosis is | illogical when it comes to electrosensititivity. | | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3662108/ | blowski wrote: | Against your one paper supporting the idea, there have | been 100s of studies that do not. I'm all for science | doing investigations, but we can't accept a premise | because it feels right. | meekstro wrote: | What's the fastest way to figure out the average existing | fatigue levels and serum ferritin levels in the hundred | studies so that I can quickly disprove my hypothesis? | | I'm not saying it causes an illness I'm saying if you | have a certain subset of illness it increases your | fatigue. It also hurts your hands but you aint never | gonna believe that ha ha. Iphone 7s are the worst. | | I'm getting better and so is my tolerance to er so I'm | not overly concerned about myself. | | It's the millions of other edge cases wrongly labelled as | whingers by the medical system that I feel for. | | ER doesn't cause fatigue it exacerbates it in certain | people. I better look at those hundreds of studies to | figure out why I'm so wrong about this. | | I don't want to sell anyone a tinfoil hat or phone case | and reducing exposure to er at night is great for sleep | and CO2 emissions so why wouldn't you. | microtherion wrote: | I'm very much in favor of researching electrosensitivity. | Whatever the cause, it's undeniable that certain illness | patterns are becoming increasingly prevalent. | | But I'm not really seeing research from | electrosensitivity proponents, and especially not double | blind studies. Instead, I'm seeing requests for fairly | massive accommodations (along the lines of eliminating | all Wifi and Cell phone radiation within a certain radius | of a person), backed by not a whole lot of scientific | evidence (unless one counts "Rudolf Steiner would have | said so" as scientific evidence). | | And I'm not even seeing many reports of such | accommodations working to the long term benefit of the | sufferers. Instead, once the Wifi is gone, they seem to | develop MCS, etc. To me, that would support the prior | that the suffering (which itself is undoubtedly real) is | likely to have endogenous rather than environmental | causes. | meekstro wrote: | I agree. It's a very small component of the overall | health picture. But it is a component and should be | researched. | | Once the wifis gone the MCS patients spend more time | sitting in front of wired digital display devices | activating their central cortexes burning through their | constrained glutamate supplies (which is also the most | probable reason blind people don't develop | schizophrenia)which depletes their glutathione which | increases their pathogenic load and inflammation while | their spinal column is degenerating and inflaming from | the sitting and those two things have a larger negative | effect on them than the positive effect of the reduction | in wifi exposure. | | The disappointment at their failed remedy further | aggravates their condition and nobody is interested in | their next bright idea for alleviating their condition. | So they live their life out labelled as a whinger and | their negative emotions contribute further to their | health decline. | | They won't recover while exposed to er but because | removing er won't cure them this is not a reason for not | benefiting from minimising exposure. | | Spinal function and glutathione production is as or more | important for MCS suffers than a reduction in ER exposure | which is important but nobody tells them that and I've no | idea how to prove it but at least Im thinking about it | while recovering from ME which has more utility than | telling them to just get on with it. | | The end of back pain book by surgeon Patrick Roth will | gradually fix anyone's spinal function with a kettle bell | and exercise ball. | | Diet and sleep will gradually fix glutathione production. | | No one will make money from researching this so Dr's are | forced to ask patients to just harden up. There's a lot | of benefit in hardening up as well but it won't recover | spinal function or increase glutathione production or | decrease er or chemical sensitivity. | wizzwizz4 wrote: | > _Why so much negativity about researching something so | ubiquitous?_ | | There's nothing wrong with researching electrosensitivity | to see if it's real, and to what extent. Heck, I've | designed studies to test it (never carried out). The | problem is _not_ researching it, yet continuing to insist | that _it_ is the reason for people 's "unexplainable" | chronic pain / fatigue when there's currently zero non- | anecdotal evidence for it. | kempbellt wrote: | I don't doubt that psychosoma and hypochondria play a role | in many cases, but I will posit a couple of scenarios for | you to ponder. | | You can sense heat, can't you? If your phone is really warm | in your pocket, will you notice? Higher output from the | radios = more electricity flowing = more heat generation. | You will likely notice this. | | On another note, do you have eyes? They are sensitive to | various frequencies of electromagnetic radiation (i.e, the | visible spectrum). Some people are more attuned to the | outer edges of this (infrared, and ultra-violet). | | Seems a bit aggressive to dismiss all electrosensitivity as | "not a thing", considering people are obviously very | sensitive to different forms of EMR. | | If you disagree, try standing in a fire, or sleeping with a | spotlight on your face. | vel0city wrote: | The maximum amount of power emitted from a WiFi radio in | the US as regulated by the FCC is 0.071W. You're not | realistically going to notice much heating from WiFi. | Have you ever tried to cook something on the antenna of | your WiFi? Try putting a cup of water next to your WiFi | router and measure the temperature difference. You'd need | massively super-human levels of sensitivity to begin to | notice any warming effects. Sure, if you crank the output | up to a few dozen watts you'll definitely start feeling | the effects of RF. Get it a few dozen watts higher and | you'll be at risk of getting RF burns after some | prolonged exposure. Get it several _hundred_ watts higher | and you 're cooking a dinner in the metal box. | | As for possibly almost seeing things like WiFi, that's | also pretty preposterous. WiFi operates at 2.4 or 5.8GHz. | Your eyes start to get sensitive EM waves at about | 4000000000GHz (lower end of what is commonly called | visible spectrum). Even if you were at the ultra extreme | low end of sensitivity, you still wouldn't really be | anywhere near the frequency range required. | | So for your example of standing in a fire or having a | spotlight on your face, you'd need for it to be a | practically room temperature fire or a millionth of a | candle spotlight. The scales you're comparing to are just | silly to the point of being meaningless. | jradd wrote: | One will become electrosensitive in a dryer climate. | | capacitive touch is derived by galvanic response that can | be impacted by pH balance and electrochemistry. | | potassium is used to reduce the impacts of gamma radiation | (wrong band, but not irrelevent) | | microwaves can be lethal from a distance of 1 km (death | ray) | | there is so much radiation in the air, to study the affects | of one wave length i'd suppose you'd need multiple band | pass filters to narrow the band in question and a noise | generator for controlled results. | alfanick wrote: | Missing "References" section, the formatting of your | paper could also be improved. /s | grecy wrote: | It's interesting how certain you are. What you mean to say | is "we've never seen scientific evidence that | Electrosensitivity is real, therefore as we currently | understand it can't be". | | Much like the Earth going around the sun, bacon causing | cancer, BPA in plastic being bad (and now the substitutes | too) etc. etc. | | It's always not true until we discover it is. | georgeburdell wrote: | Exactly. Near field electromagnetic variations are not inverse | square. | zwieback wrote: | Are they talking about the radiation from the Wi-Fi or cell | radios? I would think that modern phones have very low duty | cycles on those radios. The other radiation, e.g. from the | clocking of the circuits should be extremely low, otherwise our | batteries wouldn't last so long. | [deleted] | landont wrote: | > The SAR limit is primarily concerned with a phone's thermal | effects--essentially, the power is limited to 1.6 W/kg to ensure | that no one is burned by using their phone. | | I should be worried about the heat generated from my phone? I | thought maybe there was some issue with RF and my cells, but this | seems like a complete nonissue to me. Am I being foolish for | writing this off? The only time my phone is going to burn me is | if the battery explodes, which doesn't seem to be a pervasive | issue. So probably not. As someone else pointed out this is a | marketing ploy. | derefr wrote: | If you've ever been in an area where your phone is _just | barely_ connected to a tower, and is struggling to keep a | connection (and has no better tower to switch to), you 'll | notice your phone will get _quite_ hot--hotter than it would | normally let itself get before thermal-throttling. (Because it | 's not the CPU getting that hot; it's the antenna+baseband.) | | Often, this heat will be localized to where the antenna is | located--I've noticed that my iPhone 8 will sometimes feel | burning hot along its right edge, for example, and no amount of | closing applications or disabling radios will cool it down. The | only thing for it, usually, is to turn it off entirely, such | that the baseband stops receiving power. (For some reason, upon | turning it back on, it doesn't heat back up, even if I haven't | moved--perhaps because the baseband's criteria for connecting | to towers is stricter than its criteria for _staying_ connected | to towers.) | RL_Quine wrote: | The total energy capacity of your phones battery is clearly the | limit of the output of the device. It's not much. | | The iPhone 11 is 7 watt hours, so 25 kilojoule. Wolfram alpha | helpfully tells me this is about the same energy as burning | 0.64 grams of coal or 0.66 grams of human fat. | MagnumOpus wrote: | 7 watt hours is an insanely damaging amount! Basically a 7 | watt bulb next to you for an hour, or exposure to a 70 watt | bulb (that would cause third degree burns in seconds) for six | minutes. Yes the peak output of a phone is less than 70 watt | but you can do a lot of damage with that much energy. | driverdan wrote: | > Basically a 7 watt bulb next to you for an hour, or | exposure to a 70 watt bulb (that would cause third degree | burns in seconds) for six minutes. | | I downvoted you because this is incorrect. You're ignoring | the skin's ability to dissipate heat. Brief exposure to | high heat does not have the same effect as extended | exposure to low heat. | zaroth wrote: | Please explain, how is the total energy capacity of the | whole battery in any way relevant to this discussion? | testvox wrote: | Some people do believe that non ionizing radiation has effects | other than those produced by the added thermal energy (or that | the thermal effects are in some way significant). The actual | scientific evidence for this is minimal though. | _sbrk wrote: | > Some people do believe that non ionizing radiation has | effects other than those produced by the added thermal energy | | Some people believe vaccines cause Down's Syndrome. | | "Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to | do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. | Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who | happens to be right, which means that he or she has results | that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In | science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is | reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are | great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There | is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it | isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period." | - Michael Crichton (https://tinyurl.com/vcxj2ex) | triceratops wrote: | "If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it | isn't consensus." | | Appears to contradict | | "What is relevant is reproducible results." | | Aren't reproducible results a form of consensus? | ColanR wrote: | > Aren't reproducible results a form of consensus? | | Not in the least. "Reproducible results" represents the | technical and methodological ability to confirm that an | effect is real. "Consensus" is whether a political body | is willing to admit that the effect is real. | | And we all know politics finds truth to be... | Shikadi wrote: | I think this is a semantic argument... If 100 independent | scientists reproduce results, those results themselves | are a scientific consensus, are they not? | ColanR wrote: | Insofar as it's a semantic argument, it's irrelevant. | | > If 100 independent scientists reproduce results, those | results themselves are a scientific consensus | | Not in any sense that's relevant to the discovery of new | information or its verification. | jeffdavis wrote: | Maybe in some degenerate form of consensus, like | consensus on raw observations. If one person sees a rise | in temperature during a reaction, someone else can say | "nuh-uh, la la la". | | Other forms of scientific disagreement happen, but those | disagreements imply different predictions, and can be | resolved with more experiments. | | Science is a process that bootstraps broad agreements | (scientific laws) from very tiny agreements | (observations). The fact that a broad agreement | (consensus) exists carries no weight if one lone wacky | scientist can show reproducible observations that | contradict it. | jcims wrote: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4676010/ | | Essentially EM fields alternating in the low to medium | frequency bands (~100khz-1mhz) can disrupt cell processes by | physically jiggling the polar molecules that make up portions | of miotic spindles/microtubules. Among presumably other | things this effect is being investigated as a cancer fighting | mechanism called 'tumor treating fields'. | | The carrier frequency of mobile phones is obviously far | beyond the range in question, but there could be signal | modulation components that alternate RF power levels in this | frequency range. | cududa wrote: | Oh bull. There is no way to prove RF modifies microtubules. | avian wrote: | If your phone emits any non-trivial amounts of RF power at | 100 kHz-1MHz frequencies, regardless of whether this comes | from intermodulation products or something else, it doesn't | pass existing EMC regulations and can't be legally sold to | consumers. | | This is something that is already (or should be, in theory) | rigorously tested for everything that's put on the consumer | market (from your cheapest USB charger to your iPhone). | lima wrote: | Not a given if said USB charger is cheaply produced in | China. | avian wrote: | Yes, you can debate how much imported (or for that | matter, domestically produced) stuff is actually tested, | but the fact remains that existing laws and regulations | do cover this, even if enforcement is maybe lacking. | lima wrote: | I'm an ham radio operator, and shortwave spectrum | pollution is sadly a big problem despite very strict | regulations. | | The unfortunate reality is that the market is flooded | with noisy devices, often cheaply produces overseas, that | vastly exceed legal limits (chargers and other | rectifiers, plasma televisions, powerline adapters, and | much more). | | Enforcement is difficult due to how widespread these | devices are. | | In many places, the noise floor is to high that long- | range shortwave radio communications all but impossible. | jcims wrote: | But we're talking about what happens after that GHz RF is | absorbed by the tissues/fluids in the body. That becomes | much more complex. It's not unlike the laser attack on | MEMS microphones or a crystal radio powering a speaker in | the audio range after receiving AM RF at 1Mhz. | | Realistically we've been beaming our brains for decades | now without a glut of brain tumors, but we might just be | getting lucky, and if we don't know what to look for it | could bite us later. | [deleted] | droopyEyelids wrote: | Radio waves, like microwaves, are both infrared photon | radiation. | | They both carry energy that is turned into heat when absorbed | by your body. | | https://cdn.instructables.com/FF5/5DDL/GLL4ZIC0/FF55DDLGLL4Z... | | This is in contrast with ionizing radiation, which causes | chemical changes to the materials of your body when it hits | you. That kind of radiation is above the visible spectrum when | made of photons, or made of different atomic particles | Robotbeat wrote: | Sunlight shining on one side of a cube-shaped liter of flesh | would be 10W/kg or so on average (and about 100W/kg if we | consider the top 1cm). | | 1.6W/kg is a conservative limit. | ploxolo wrote: | Yeah, but it is important to consider the wavelength. Did our | cells evolve to handle constant RF exposure? | apodysophilia wrote: | On the upper end of the RF spectrum, the thermal radiation | given off by us and everything around is is ever present. | Robotbeat wrote: | It's not really relevant for non-ionizing radiation such as | RF, as the primary impact on our cells from RF is just | heat. | | And the thing to know about evolution and life is that life | evolved to be robust in the face of changes and different | environments. | kube-system wrote: | I'd sure hope the exposure is orders of magnitude less than | sunlight, considering how clear the dangers of sunlight are. | Dylan16807 wrote: | Why? The danger of sunlight is ultraviolet. That's only | about 4% of sunlight. | | Oh and it's worth mentioning that everything around you at | room temperature is emitting 400 watts per square meter of | infrared. That's almost as much infrared as you get from | the sun (1kW total, roughly 4% ultraviolet, 53% infrared, | 43% visible). | kube-system wrote: | You're absolutely right, different wavelengths of EMR | have wildly different effects on humans, so the | comparison falls short that way as well. | Dylan16807 wrote: | Most of them just heat, though. And in terms of heat, you | don't need to be "orders of magnitude" below sunlight. | It's not exactly hard to have two walls in the same room | differ by 100 watts per square meter. | moftz wrote: | Radiowaves are non-ionizing radiation. Your DNA isn't going | to be destroyed from anything below UV. Local heating from | RF absorbtion might cause issues for certain biological | functions but local heating can come from things like a | warm laptop sitting above your crotch and reducing sperm | count via heat. You need a lot of RF power to cause local | heating though, think on the order of a microwave oven, not | what a typical phone puts out. | rini17 wrote: | To everyone who keeps repeating "it's non-ionizing radiation, so | any other effect than thermal is impossible": | | 1. saying something is impossible is not a scientific statement | | 2. RF is capable of specifically affecting enzyme reactions, | random example: | https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/nr/c4nr0... | beeschlenker wrote: | Part II: Impeachment Is A Diversion And Delay - Blocking of the | "impeachment" witnesses was collusion planned before the new | year. Listen to an FBI agent's disclosure from Jan 1, 2O2O here. | President was to resign late summer securing election for DNC. | See latest updates. ||Here is the zip file, which was also made | available in the 3Jan2O2O update. The file within is | VID_20200101_201948.mp3. Turn up the volume and put on | headphones. | | BB10Mp3Footage31Dec1Jan.zip 122.4mb | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IXOOhQhHybwky8Z5pGdr9ZXhWpI... | | The dialogue about the impeachment starts near the beginning. | Having Biden in the White House is as good as Trump or anyone | else in their organization. Obviously Schiff and Nadler pledged | their allegiance to the organization by raping boys on the | record, with their task being to drag out an impeachment designed | to obstruct and delay any real efforts to remove the President, | thus keeping Trump in power. The witness blocking was to cause an | apparent uproar delaying things with legal actions until late | Summer. Soon after, the President would resign, leaving any other | candidate with not enough time or support to compete with an | opportunistic Biden, who is as good as Trump or any other | Illuminati friendly politician in the Presidency. | | 162 page PDF [last updated: February|4|2O2O]: | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S7T_kDv48E40eHzus6CTXHxcm0W... | | Previously reported: | | \Wag The Dog: first was feigned impeachment hearings meant to | obstruct, now an attack on Iranians in Iraq. Here is what they | are trying to distract from & cover up to retain power. $100+ | billion in bribes to the highest offices in this country. 815+ | deaths from child rapes to prove loyalty! | | See the latest PDF updates: FBI Director Wray, AG Barr, SoD | Shanahan, & SoS Pompeo each raped boys and were paid billions in | bribes for a Soros & Koch funded child rape org. So did Trump & | his "impeachment" team Nadler,Schiff,Mueller.So did media moguls | Redstone,Murdoch,Moonves. What are they trying to set up? Who can | arrest them since they are all bribed and in on it ? | | Their strategy to stay in every office and obstruct until forced | to leave no matter what. Feigning impeachment: see page 13O. | erppmpoerwvfewq. ver verwbvoltwb. | | \\\if;Download the video/audio file, put on headphones and turn | up the volume. You will hear these people committing these | crimes. Audio was broadcast into my apartment by outdated | surveillance equipment illegally embedded within my walls. This | very same technology was being used to broadcast me to the | internet for five years without my consent. I own this footage. | Please use this to prosecute all found within. Note:: I am | obliviously speaking throughout the video, and it can be quite | loud at times relative to the desired content. The are dozens | more links, including these, that can be found in this PDF last | updated 4 FEB 2O2O: | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S7T_kDv48E40eHzus6CTXHxcm0W... | | All members of the "Illuminati"; "....an underground organization | of homosexuals and child rapists..." (from pg 26: Barack Obama | with Jack Dorsey). | | President Donald Trump: | | Demands a $4 billion dollar bribe here at 10:18am 4thJan2019: | | 3JanCh3_900-1100.avi | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Grdr8xF2psKNsuYlEnl9dIRV-77... | | 3JanCh2_900-1100-avi | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LUmVygl_q0XVs8h2cWr8jZl-24f... | | 3JanCh4_1000-1100.mp3 | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZpP1pJbJakBgg-y-MWNozTxp3wJ... | | President Trump rapes and kills twelve boys, including five boys | in a "who can rape five boys to death the fastest" game: | | 14JanCh3_600.mp3 | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ufPmglde9Mep0m6xYMJ9c4TWTjj... | | 14JanCh2_600-700.mp3 | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/136qLJdEn8eCs9tI4QtIxl4opW_L... | | Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi: | | Accepting a $3 billion dollar bribe at 1033 am on the 17 Jan 2019 | to ensure Asian boys can get through the border at "Monterrey" | undocumented to be raped: | | 17JanCh3_949-1100.avi | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eodHu4o5Cm3xEWhDqipSuTj-M1C... | | 17JanCh4_1017-1100.avi | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y-nWEQbempkVZSz230j9wTyduZN... | | Speaker Nancy Pelosi also "preps" boys with First Lady Melania | Trump, defined as in she performs oral sex on the boys' penis and | anus, as a child rapist like Henry Porter would, while trying to | remove fecal matter from the boy prior to handing them over to be | raped and then subsequently murdered, for Supreme Court Justice | Samuel Alito, who apparently decides he would rather just have | ten billion dollars instead. US Attorney for Western New York | James Kennedy rapes these boys instead: | | 12JanCh3_1533-1638.mp3 | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AgFkDsbPbI4b5Xd3Wbz2EVNNx25... | | Attorney General William Barr with FBI Deputy Director | Christopher Wray raped and killed boys for billions in bribes in | Buffalo, NY on the 17Jan2019 at 7:50am: | | 18JanCh4_700mp3 | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UIdZkS5ZVksZdHYsnHk2t5losi0... | | 18JanCh2_700.mp3 gorepqkberqaoper,bqpo,rfbv. | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DFK8IAxm5pQVqZv9L518nfgP7_o... | | 18JanCh3_725-.mp3 | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DG5ej59Ic8RT9UhbyMdwT0BDcKI... | | Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Secretary of Defense | Patrick Shanahan each raped and killed boys on 5thJan'19 at 17:39 | for billions in bribes: pxoimnerher;l,yt ,.tyey jnytr ntr/. | | 5JanCh3_1600 1800.mp3 | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ghgmNrQvJ8WfJ2TsDVx1ruDU36h... | | 5JanCh2_1721-1818.mp3 | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eSlD4otX4KZqWXboQM92Mu-6J02... | | Leaders of the "impeachment" effort Jerrold Nadler, Robert | Mueller, and Adam Schiff all rape and kill boys between 11:20pm | and 1:10am: | | 14JanCh4_2300-0000.mp3 Nadler starts at about 20mins in- | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kuvv2Zmbw5Jw7onbRI2hCZ0M8FU... | | 14JanCh2_2304-2359.mp3 | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nofp5xF-aXXcCSgQVwj30KlzE9W... | | Mueller at 12:25am, next is Schiff who starts 12:55-ish: | | 15JanCh2_000-100.mp3 | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EsmHfguwBuo2PbavJ1WYyhiML62... | | 15JanCh2_100-200.mp3 | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZnWRnBryalNQu2yJmfJUdS2pA_... | | 15JanCh4_000-100.mp3 | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZEDJR6jb6ARpcNnWJTokBUKb2J2... | | 15JanCh4_100-200.mp3 | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/173aYWvWHH4VGht1h_2nM0IMdw74... | | Complete Media Protection: Lester Holt, of NBC NightlyNews, | apparently a member of the Illuminati since the 1980's, along | with ABC Nightly News lead anchor David Muir, stop over to the | Porter studio in Buffalo, New York on 14Jan2019 at 5:00 am. They | both rape and kill about two dozen boys by 6:00 am. Muir starts | around 5.15am, then Holt about 5:38 am. Multi-billionaire Rupert | Murdoch, owner of News Corp and also Fox Corporation, takes his | turn after Holt. Video links below: | | 14JanCh3_500-601.avi zijnoijrpotmebr | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i7NKepeyG_FfdQRrM7KsnFOZOOX... | | 14JanCh2_530-600.avi | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZzgN5ilI7ToroU5cfqMaL4o2u1... | | Adding to the media protection and reason this is not picked up | by the media, CBS and Viacom owner Sumner Redstone and Leslie | Moonves rape and kill boys following the President. | | 14JanCh3_700.avi | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/10XDw6x3ldnnQiq7oIjpdYVENyXa... | | 14JanCh2_700-800.avi | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NS_e6AzEZ05wnfljkGMETGU5CWY... | | 161p PDF [last updated: Feb|4|2O2O]: | | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S7T_kDv48E40eHzus6CTXHxcm0W... | | \\\\. Please repost in USA! Post gets censored in US | | Recently more relevant: | | From page 49, Senator Mitch McConnell: | | At 1632 Senator Mitch McConnell checks into the Porter camera | system inquiring if he can be part of the "eviction" for $10 | million dollars. He is informed by group members that there are | enough people for the event already and his participation is not | necessary. At 1634 McConnell states "I fucked 15 kids, how am I | not getting paid by you?" He is dismissed by Donald Reeves with | "I think that will be all Mr. McConnell." | | 13JanCh3_1600-1700.avi | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L7bqOpvaEWmLiJpMhJNQDrfsQAH... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-02-14 23:00 UTC)