[dennisw]

I am not saying yea or nay. Just posting this. BTW they are installing 5G on cell towers where I live.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

+Swordmaker

[JimRed]

The tiny wireless Bluetooth headphones fit into the ear canal The close proximity of AirPods to the brain and inner ear may raise cancer risks

My hearing aids do the same thing. Am I at risk too?

[Moltke]

More like a reflection on the UNidiots and WHOdiots...

(no Apple partisan here, mind you)

Standing outside in daylight may increase your cancer risk as well...

[BitWielder1]

Bluetooth devices are operating in the milliwatt range.
It's not ionizing radiation like radioactivity.
They went through the same alarmism with cellphones and there was a much stronger signal from the old analog phones than what they use today.
So no cancer risk in my unscientific opinion.
You are more likely to get sick from the signal content than the signal itself.

[montag813]

I have 3 patents with Bluetooth tech. The range is a mere 30 feet, up to 300 feet max with extended range. Compare this to cell towers MILES away. There’s no appreciable risk.

[discostu]

Yea more junk science.

[EEGator]

I can’t wait until America has no electricity and no vaccinated people.
The future is bright...

[Dave Wright]

Cell phones, wifi, and wireless headphones have be widely used by literally billions of people in the last 10 years. If there was any statistical increase in the incidence of brain tumors due to these new radio sources it would have shown up years ago. The wavelengths are much longer than visible light and we aren’t getting brain tumors from electric lights as far as I can tell. Only publicity hungry quacks would continue to propagate this nonsense.

[bigbob]

RF energy is inversely proportional to the square root of the distance, so sticking little transmitters IN your ears is going to produce a much higher field strength in the brain than the same device even an inch further away.

[Enlightened1]

I still use a wire headset just in case.

[GOP Poet]

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[pepsi_junkie]

250 scientists? Wow that’s a lot. Like, is that maybe even all of the scientists in the world?

[Yaelle]

My friends have these and can listen to music and podcasts with ease. I haven’t afforded them yet but was going to. Maybe not.

[Dandy]

Keep all that junk out of your ears. Pay attention to what is going on around you instead of acting like some zombie and being totally disconnected from your surroundings. When you get home turn on the stereo and listen to music from real speakers.

[higgmeister]

...may pose cancer risks to wearers, according to a United Nations and World Health Organization petition.

And where is it that monkeys may fly out of?

And if anyone ever gets a cancer, how would it be determined to be from Airpods as opposed to a vast number of other causes in our modern lives?

I have despised Apple products from the very first elitist hype that came with its unveiling, but this is a stupid leftist attack on a stupid leftist corporation.

It's so wrong that I feel compelled to defend Apple, when I have nothing good to say about them.

[dfwgator]

Life will kill you.

[Yogafist]

I have been wearing hearing aids that can communicate wirelessly, and receive bluetooth for almost 30 years, when an I supposed to die?

[RansomOttawa]

Pshaw. Pseudoscience.

According to Google, Bluetooth operates at 2.45 GHz. This is the same frequency as cordless phones and (older) Wi-Fi, in the microwave range.

Ionizing radiation - UV, X-rays, gamma rays, etc. - are on the opposite side of visible light on the E-M spectrum. Microwaves aren’t energetic enough to do the tissue damage that would cause cancer. And the wattage of a pair of wireless earphones isn’t even going to heat up your skin.