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Environment & Energy

OKIsItJustMe

(21,210 posts)

9. I'd worry more about a cell phone or an electric blanket

Reply to Wicked Blue (Reply #7)

Fri Feb 28, 2025, 09:37 PM

Feb 28

When dealing with any sort of radiation, the “inverse square law” applies. A cell phone user typically holds a phone a very short distance from their brain for extended periods of time. (An electric blanket user obviously has an EMF emitter covering their entire body at very close range.)

While you could put your face against the stove’s burner, most people likely will not.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/radiation/electromagnetic-fields-fact-sheet