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a while ago we did a video on whether smartphones could actually cause cancer

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from the radiation that they give off in the form of cellular and wi-fi signals

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you can check it out up here but the main takeaway is no you don't

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have anything to worry about but here we are in 2019 and some of the same

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concerns are getting raised yet again this time about 5g

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although 5g promises to deliver faster speeds to our phones and there are even

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home-based internet solutions that use 5g

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the fact that 5g travels over higher frequency radio waves has led to

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speculation that it might be riskier to use than older generation wireless

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standards so how much truth is there to this and why are people concerned in the

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first place well to start with 5g uses what's often

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called millimeter wave frequencies which are shorter than the typical frequencies

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used by 4g and wi-fi signals and

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therefore higher in energy in fact while lte can use frequencies of

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around 2.5 gigahertz and wi-fi often

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works on the 5 gigahertz band millimeter wave frequencies used by 5g can be up to

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300 gigahertz so we're not talking about

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like a small incremental leap here so then could all this extra energy end

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up being harmful in ways we haven't seen before well some of the folks and

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advocacy groups that believe it is point to actions taken by the

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international agency for research on cancer or iarc specifically the fact

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that they've classified rf electromagnetic fields in short radio

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waves as possibly carcinogenic to humans

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as evidence that it is well that sounds pretty alarming doesn't it

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well it might until you consider that

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many things that most of us find innocuous like a cup of coffee actually

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fall under exactly the same category you see if you dig into what the iarc's

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definition of possibly carcinogenic is

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they mean that there's only a limited amount of evidence that an agent might

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cause cancer so there might be some kind of weak

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correlation that's been observed in studies but that is a very far cry from

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there being any kind of real causal link that's been found

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so irc's approach is to err on the safe

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side with anything that it classifies a bit like how

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everything that you buy has a label on it saying the state of california thinks

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this thing might cause cancer but this hasn't stopped people from

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hearing the words possibly carcinogenic and running with it in fact a couple

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places in europe were hesitant to test new 5g infrastructure

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citing health concerns and there were even rumors that there were widespread

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bird deaths in the netherlands due to 5g trials

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well turned out those birds were just eating poisonous plants i guess there's

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a reason that bird brain is an expression

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anyway the reason that we have nothing to fear from 5g is that radiation has to

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be much higher frequency to be what's called ionizing

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ionizing radiation can mess with the molecular structure of your dna and

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cause cancer the thing is the threshold for this is around a million gigahertz

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much higher than the 300 or so that can be used by 5g

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and at that point you're not even dealing with radio waves anymore you're

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dealing with ultraviolet light which is why sunscreen bottles talk about uv

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protection on the label now with all of that said we're not

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claiming that 5g or any other piece of technology that we

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use can't cause cancer or other health

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problems by some mechanism that we haven't yet discovered or don't fully

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understand yet the thing is though my advice would be

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to go forward live your life without too much fear

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and pick up that hot new 5g phone if you're into it now if you'll excuse me i

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have to go pick up a large sack of cash that the mobile phone industry left for

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