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Children and Cell Phones:

Time To Start Talking Sense

Microwave News May 3, 2010

Fifteen years ago Om Gandhi pointed out that children are exposed to higher levels of radiation from cell phones than adults. He was right then and he is right today. Yet, no one could blame you for thinking otherwise.

In an article published in the May issue of Harper’s, Nathaniel Rich uses this putative controversy, among a number of other examples, to make the case that confusion reigns in all aspects of cell-phone research. “The brain of a child absorbs a much greater amount of radiation from a cell phone than does the brain of an adult,” he writes, adding immediately after, “No, it does not.”

The truth is that there should be no controversy. Children do have higher radiation exposures and if cell phones are indeed doing us harm, then children are at greater risk than their parents.

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