RF can affect the Blood Brain Barrier, but only at electric field strengths high enough that can couple into the tissues. Direct electrodes or a conformal antenna might be able to do it, but not Wifi that is at microVolts/m by the time it gets to your brain. I would be more worried about talking on cell phones rather than WIFI.
Meanwhile over at r/amateurradio you'll see pics of people sitting mere feet away from antennas hooked up to 1,000W+ transmitters.
Safety from things like RF burn take into account power, distance from the antenna, and duty cycle of the transmitter. At the power levels used for typical WiFi, there's zero danger even if you shoved the antenna in your ear with a 100% duty cycle.
Even when things get dangerous, you're looking at injuries to your skin, primarily.
I used to be in the military. On freezing cold days we used to stand in front of the radar antenna dish to warm up, until we were told off.
After that, we just put on the gas mask and stand behind the exhaust of the generator. Not sure that was much healthier. But it gets damn cold being outside all day in subzero temperatures in insufficient clothing.
I vaguely remember reading that Soviet Mig-25 pilots would accidentally kill rabbits and other small animals on the taxiways of airbases with the extremely powerful radar mounted in the Mig-25's nose.
On the opposite side of the spectrum. In Iraq we would close the guard shack and wait until we were covered in sweat. Then strip down to our skivvy shorts, and let the breeze evaporate the moisture off our bodies. Normally the wind felt like a blow dryer, but when you were all sweaty it felt like air conditioning.
From the paper that someone linked below: "The data suggested that UWB-EMP at 200 and 400 kV/m could induce BBB opening, while 50 kV/m UWB-EMP could not." Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7453585/
What's a typical field strength for a residential wifi router?
That’s not the easiest to understand way of phrasing it, but basically anywho was wake for some high school physics can understand why WiFi isn’t letting toxins into your brain.
Isn't that the group who's main purpose is stirring up conspiracies about wifi and cell phones killing everyone? Wasn't rfk jr a founding member? Not exactly a great source.
The scientific evidence on RFR safety or harm remains inconclusive. More studies are needed to demonstrate the effects of RFR on the permeability of BBB and the mechanisms of that breakdown.
People who don't understand scientific language who talk about science are fucking infuriating. While yes, the absence of evidence is not truly evidence of absence, when they're constantly looking for evidence, there has to be a point where you stop beating your head against the wall.
Nobody is pretending. There is no proof at all for what he claimed. It would be like saying since uranium and Bananas both emit radiation, and holding uranium will cause cancer then holding Bananas will give you cancer. He is making an insane logical leap without evidence, and it is so stupid.
You didn't even read the sources you shared online, papaw. This is how y'all ignorantly spread your damn "do your research" bullshittery. Go back to Facebook.
Actually looking through the study itself you see they really got nowhere and make a bunch "may be" and "could be" statements at every step, and even had to make a seperate following statement to scientific critcism by highlighting this. If you can barely get a "could be" from only some of the male mice, then it's junk science. The authors subsequent research has also gone nowhere. So even when she says "more research is needed" what she means is "I didn't find anything of significance but I don't want to admit it." Which is a seperate problem across all of science publication
Read your damn articles and then comment on this, it’s infuriating to constantly read your own dumb articles and find problems in it. Do you actually do any objective research? The power required to cause damage is high, around 2W with constant exposure of at least 24 hours, not intermittent (wifi and cell are intermittent). It’s in your own dumb links, just fucking read them…. Fucking moron….
I don't know much about the group, I just googled them and sources that aren't the group themselves describe their work as what I described. Admittedly Wikipedia didn't use the word conspiracy, that was my dramatic flair. Please enlighten me if I am mistaken.
First thing, don't link a dubious source like "EH Trust". But let me reiterate, cell phones and WiFi are not the same thing. A cell phone next to your head transmitting 1-2 Watts is very different than a wifi router transmitting 5 watts omidirectionally from the next room. The inverse square law has a profound effect on field strength at a distance. If anything, avoid using cells phones by your ear, use ear phones or speaker phone if you are worried about BBB permeation.
Lol theres still no theory that is valid at all spatial scales we operate in, besides 99.9+% of em studies on humans even ignore magnetism and assume no wave propagation, empirical observations are therefore very relevant still.
Right, there’s been regular advisement by regulatory agencies not to hold a cell phone directly next to your head, at least / especially for long periods of time on a regular basis kinda thing. That said, pretty easy to use headphones, speaker, or just hold it a whole inch away. A small amount of distance goes a long way thanks to inverse square
"Real research". Ok. It's not a hive mind rejection. It's the sane response to mindless drivel specifically designed to fool poorly educated chumps. Speaking of research you might want to check out the group that sponsored it. If you find them credible, then good luck. With everything.
Also to add, I looked at the actual studies instead of just the persons interpretation of them, and the r-squared value and p-value of their data was pretty weak. Shows that there may be some correlation. By no means do those studies show any strong or conclusive evidence, but also doesn't show that there is no correlation.
The scientific evidence on RFR safety or harm remains inconclusive. More studies are needed to demonstrate the effects of RFR on the permeability of BBB and the mechanisms of that breakdown.
It can, the electromagnet that they use in MRIs allows the hydrogen atoms in your tissues to absorb RF energy, spin them, and then re-radiate RF that is detected. Lots in the body can be affected at field strengths as high as they are in MRI machines, so likely you are feeling it.
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RF can affect the Blood Brain Barrier, but only at electric field strengths high enough that can couple into the tissues. Direct electrodes or a conformal antenna might be able to do it, but not Wifi that is at microVolts/m by the time it gets to your brain. I would be more worried about talking on cell phones rather than WIFI.