{"id":3987,"date":"2016-05-28T09:12:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T01:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/28\/cellphone-radiation-is-still-safer-than-viral-science-stories\/"},"modified":"2016-05-28T09:12:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T01:12:34","slug":"cellphone-radiation-is-still-safer-than-viral-science-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/28\/cellphone-radiation-is-still-safer-than-viral-science-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Cellphone radiation is still safer than viral science stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f100170%2fcomputer_brain\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/oAyw6hnxzZsebQuC2yZNHEmDV-I=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F100170%2FComputer_brain.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Cellphone+radiation+is+still+safer+than+viral+science+stories&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F27%2Fmedia-freakout-cellphone-study%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F27%2Fmedia-freakout-cellphone-study%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>You are almost definitely slowly killing yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Eating poorly, smoking, riding motorcycles, watching <i>The Bachelor<\/i> \u2014 they&#8217;re all statistically proven to shorten the average life span (except maybe that last one).<\/p>\n<p>As for using your cellphone? Not so much. The World Health Organization has said that cellphone radiation is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/about-cancer\/causes-prevention\/risk\/radiation\/cell-phones-fact-sheet\">possibly carcinogenic to humans<\/a>,&#8221; putting it in the same category as drinking coffee.\u00a0In other words, we have no proof of an established causal link, but we can&#8217;t rule it out either.<\/p>\n<p>That kind delineation is quickly trampled when it comes to new studies, one of which came out Friday, resulting in the usual freak out. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/27\/media-freakout-cellphone-study\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/business\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Business<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/media\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Media<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/science\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Science<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href='http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?iu=\/6692\/mash.to\/rss&amp;pos=atf&amp;tag=ad&amp;mtype=standard&amp;type=rss&amp;sz=300x250&amp;c=1464393739' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?iu=\/6692\/mash.to\/rss&amp;pos=atf&amp;tag=ad&amp;mtype=standard&amp;type=rss&amp;sz=300x250&amp;c=1464393739'><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/6CLmbzv-i7s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are almost definitely slowly killing yourself. Eating poorly, smoking, riding motorcycles, watching The Bachelor \u2014 they&#8217;re all statistically proven to shorten the average life span (except maybe that last one). As for using your cellphone? Not so much. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/28\/cellphone-radiation-is-still-safer-than-viral-science-stories\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[768,901,960],"class_list":["post-3987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-business","tag-media","tag-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}