Danger of Wi-Fi waves: WHO has ruled
It's official: exposure to radio emissions from wireless technologies is safe for human health © Mino Surkala/Shutterstock
This is an urban legend that has been around for a long time despite numerous unanimous scientific denials over the years: radio waves from wireless technologies such as WiFi are bad for human health. In particular, there is often talk of a connection between intensive use of smartphones and brain cancer. The World Health Organization has decided to put an end to this once and for all.
WHO gives strong opinion on radio waves
The WHO has commissioned a team of specialists led by Australian researcher Ken Karipidis a massive systematic review of more than 5,000 publications on the subject, produced between 1994 and 2022. By analyzing these studies, and more specifically around sixty that are longer and more complete than the others, their finding is clear: “Exposure to radio emissions from wireless technologies is not harmful to human health.“
Neither smartphones nor cell towers pose a health risk © Maksim Safaniuk/Shutterstock
Previous studies have indeed been able to classify radio waves as potentially carcinogenic, but these were based on much less data (often biased, moreover) than the one that interests us here. This is for the moment the most serious and complete study on the subject of waves and human health.
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More precisely, no association has been found between cell phone use and brain cancer, or any other head or neck cancer. The frequency of use of one's device also makes no difference. In addition, radio waves from relay antennas or stations, or regular exposure to radio waves, do not increase the risk of brain cancer either. So you can continue to live peacefully amidst the waves, especially since it is probably the microplastics in our bodies that will kill us first.
