Is radiation from mobile phones harmful long-term?

Question

I seem to recall early on when cell phones were coming onto the scene, there were warnings and studies surrounding holding the phone close to the head. Is this still the case? Has it been suppressed, or were the claims invalid?

gsatic · Accepted Answer

Even if it is causing harm, the type of likely issues such as brain damage, tumors, deafness etc people are known to some how pull along with for long periods, before walking into hospitals, if at all they do. Which makes working out the effects much harder.

jaggs · Answer

There are a lot of scientific studies which suggest that excessive EMF radiation can be harmful to a body. These studies mostly revolve around heating effects.
But these studies were done when phone were used excessively for calls, which is probably not the case today.
EMF radiation is one of those areas which probably need much more research.
Simple answer, we're not sure.

smt88 · Answer

There's no evidence they're harmful in the long run, and more importantly, we know a lot about radiation and how it affects the body. The radiation surrounding mobile devices is far below any threshold we've seen to affect a human body.

graymatters · Answer

Yes. It is harmful. It is tied to male infertility (low Soren count) as well as colorectal cancer in young females.

mardiyah · Answer

it isnow its harmfulness is in levels, the higher freq. is, ie. higher G, the higher the harmfulness issome believe there's some improvement in its mitigation by H/W design, but most think that can only do littleall we should do is: must absolutely have routine scheduled to go to open clean nature space some hours in a day or weekjust google the detailed correctness in applying it completely

slater · Answer

Recently:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30862227Further search also shows up a metric shedload of usual conspiracy theory stuff, so be aware of that.