IT’S possible that cell phones and the rest might be dangerous to humans but the recent letter in the SNJ was pseudoscience and won’t help anyone.

(1) It says: “This technology [“wireless radiation”] has come so fast we haven’t had time to ask: ‘Is it safe?’”

Yes we have had time, and here is some evidence that it is: https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-cell-phones-a-possible-carcinogen-an-update-on-the-iarc-report/.

The trouble with reading websites that only promote your point of view is that, of course, you only hear about your point of view.

But then, as someone once said, “Most people don’t really want the truth, they just want a constant reassurance that what they believe is the truth”.

(2) “Mobiles and wi-fi have never been tested for safety...”

Not true, unless you count dubious products imported from the Far East.

(3) “...no insurance company will underwrite the mobile industry.”

Really?

Evidence that no insurance company has ever underwritten any part of the “mobile industry”, please.

(4) “Microwaves were developed... by the Russians and Americans as weapons...”: (a) Attempted guilt by association, rockets were developed by the Germans to deliver bombs, now they are used to launch communication satellites.

(b) “Microwaves” refers to electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength between 1 and 0.001 metre.

Microwaves have been around since the beginning of the universe.

(5) “In 2011, the World Health Organisation classified this [which?] non-ionising radiation as a class 2B possible carcinogen”: (a) The word “possible” in that sentence has the same meaning as in “Fred is a possible shoplifter because he was in the shop when the watch was stolen”.

(b) Coffee, talcum powder and pickled vegetables are also on this list.

(c) The word “this” seems to refer back to “wireless technology”.

Yet is it is ionising radiation that can alter DNA molecules.

Non-ionising radiation, as the name implies, doesn’t.

Jeremy Marchant

Stroud