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jamroom on July 14, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cancer and mobile phones

This is true if you believe in the LNT (Linear No Threshold) model:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model

Then check out the idea of Radiation Hormesis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis

It's an interesting idea.

Analemma_ on July 14, 2018 [–]

Both LNT and hormesis are talking about ionizing radiation and so don’t apply here. Hormesis is unlikely to be true anyway though.

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