PropertyValue
?:author
?:datePublished
  • 2018-01-10 (xsd:date)
?:headline
  • Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Damage and Create 'Snowflakes and Crybullies'? (en)
?:inLanguage
?:itemReviewed
?:mentions
?:reviewBody
  • On 15 December 2017, junk science site NaturalNews.com published a screed comparing cell phone use to Big Tobacco and arguing the devices should be banned because the radiation they emit is making people insane. The post, written by repeat offender Mike Adams, manages to entwine bigotry and quackery by claiming cell phones cause brain damage that lead to the mental illness of belonging to the LGBT community: There is no scientific evidence that the radio waves emitted from cell phones cause mental illness, and to say members of LGBT communities are lunatics or mentally ill is a bogus line of propaganda employed by hate groups. After maligning these already-marginalized groups, Adams takes the cop-out route by saying he's just raising the question here for future debate. (It's worth noting Adams linked to a web site that equated the Left's ATTACKS on white people with the Holocaust.) Research into the health effects of cell phone use has focused the risk of cancer, although no conclusive evidence that a link between cell phone use and cancer exists. Further, scientific research points to biology determining sexual orientation. According to the World Health Organization, there's no concrete evidence cell phones or towers produce and adverse health effects: According to the National Cancer Institute, Cell phones emit radiofrequency energy (radio waves), a form of non-ionizing radiation, from their antennas. Tissues nearest to the antenna can absorb this energy. But studies have not shown a definitive link to cancer, although research is ongoing. So far, the only consistent physical impact from cell phone usage is localized heating. Natural News regularly traffics in conspiracy theories and nonsense some may call alternative science. Per RationalWiki, Adams is a flat-out opponent of modern medicine, noting: If you cite NaturalNews on any matter whatsoever, you are almost certainly wrong. After a gunman opened fire on a crowd at a country music festival in Las Vegas on 1 October 2017, killing dozens, Adams helped spread the false rumor that there was a second shooter. In recent days Adams has taken time out from his apparent mission of bringing life expectancy back to Dark Age-levels to hawk anti-LGBT hate, fretting in an 8 January 2018 post that the LGBT mafia was indoctrinating children because primary school textbooks in California now include include the contributions of LGBT historical figures. (en)
?:reviewRating
rdf:type
?:url