Here’s why you shouldn’t freak out about that ‘cell phones cause cancer’ study

Yahoo Tech ^ | May 27, 2016 | Kevin Loria, Tech Insider

[Swordmaker]

It’s scary to hear that cellphones — devices that most of us have with us all the time — have been linked to cancer by a government study.

But despite any headlines you may have seen, there’s still not enough information or evidence for the average person to be concerned by these findings.

“I’m not going to stop using my mobile phone in the light of this,” Kevin McConway, emeritus professor of applied statistics at The Open University, said in a statement to the Australian and UK Science Media Centre.

Here’s why you shouldn’t panic

The latest results that we have access to are very preliminary findings from a peer-reviewed study conducted by the US National Toxicology Program (NTP). That experiment looked at the effects of cell phone radiation on a number of rats, and we won’t see the full findings until at least later on this year.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Your microwave oven puts out 1000X the radiation that your cell phone or WiFi does. If your cell phone was giving you cancer, you wouldn’t last 10 seconds outside in the sun.