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Microwaves. It's microwaves.
Phones are slightly above FM radio and slightly below microwaves in terms of wavelength.
They're a non-ionizing radiation emitter.
The radiation emitted by phones ain't gonna hurt ya.
That's right! However, remember that bananas have potassium-40 in it, which is radioactive. Not much, though. So be very very mildly careful around bananaphones! /old joke
Back in the early 00s there was this wave of "phones give you cancer" panic and my friends father made them put on this stupid sticker on the back of their phone to "stop the radiation". Anyways it was stupid and your comment reminded me of it xD
RFK Jr. is still making that crazy claim.
I thiiiiiiink this was fear mongering in line with the whole uh... Hannity? Whatever that maniacs name was who has/had the AM station. Basically the pre-fox republican mouthpiece.
Uhhhhhhh I've mostly blocked it out, but maybe? It was just some dude that yelled a lot and I vividly remember being in the car when the soliders or whatever had recently been beheaded (it was on the news cycle?), and he was like "hrrr drrr people are trying to keep the truth away from 'mericans!" so he aired part of the audio clip of them being beheaded???!?!
idk it was fucked.
No this was on AM radio 0: my mom specifically listened to him on AM because idk he was too radical or whatever for FM? lol idk how it works, but they have been at it for a long while.
George Norry?
Someone else suggested Rush Limbaugh in a different comment and it is ringing a bell, I'm thinking it was him?
Ah ok I see. I just remembered he had the coast to coast AM radio station, and he got into some wacky stuff.