Questions tagged [radiation]
A process in which energetic particles or energetic waves travel through a medium or space.
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Do mineral glass lenses on sunglasses block 100% of harmful UV radiations?
I have also come across sunglasses fitted with "mineral glass lenses" which claim to filter 100% of UVA and UVB without the need for a UV coating, e.g.:
Otis:
OTIS standard lenses are all ...
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Does a coal plant "kill more in a few weeks than nuclear has ever killed"?
Director Oliver Stone and Prof. Joshua Goldstein have created a film named "Nuclear Now", arguing in favor of installing more (modern) nuclear power plants to combat climate change and ...
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Does keeping phone in the front pocket cause male infertility?
According to this article supposedly keeping your smartphone in the front pocket can cause infertility in men.
According to Lilly Friedman, MD, this is actually the worst place to
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Has non-TSI solar output increased over the past century in ways the IPCC climate models ignore?
Prof. Nir Shaviv, an American-Israeli astrophysicist, who argues against Anthropomorphic Global Warming, wrote (6 years ago):
As an astrophysicist, I see that the scope of solar effects considered by ...
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Are nano diamond batteries a breakthrough in battery technology?
Recently, for some reason, this story first published in January 2020 was again trending on social media (this appeared on my YouTube feed)But for a more quotable version, this version from The ...
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On the impact of (non ionising, non visible) EMF radiation on the human body: should we be worried about widespread 5G implementation? [duplicate]
I decided to do some research on the topic and found these two articles listed on google scholar (i have the PDFs, and can share them if you tell me how to!).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/...
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Are Australia's 5G radiation safety standards at least one hundred times laxer than of 6 other listed countries?
I saw this poster on the Facebook wall of a friend. The earliest I traced it was to Electrosensitivity Australia's Facebook wall where it was shared over 1700 times.
RADIATION LEVEL SAFETY STANDARDS
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Could 5G make weather satellites less effective?
I've seen a few articles pop up in sources stating that 5G signals will run too close to the 23.8 MHz signal that weather satellites need in order to accurately produce weather forecasts.
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Is Radio Frequency Radiation carcinogenic at the FCC's 1996 exposure limits?
A 2019 Scientific American blog article, We Have No Reason to Believe 5G Is Safe, by Joel M. Moskowitz, warns about the safety of 5G wireless technology.
Yet, since [the 1980s], the preponderance of ...
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Do crystals protect against EMF
There is no shortage of claims that certain crystals block/absorb electromagnetic fields (EMF). Independent of whether EMF is actually harmful, does a crystal on a necklace protect a significant part ...
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Does 5G pose health risks?
Among others, the website RadiationHealthRisks claims:
Second, according to experts, because of the shorter length of
millimeter waves (MMV) required by 5G to support the bandwidth, these
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Did hundreds of birds die in a park the Netherlands? What caused it?
About a week ago at The Hague, many birds died spontaneously, falling
dead in a park. You likely haven’t heard a lot about this because it
seems keeping it quiet was the plan all along. However, ...
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Is the illegal nuclear waste at the Coldwater Creek Nuclear Landfill a risk to public health?
NOTE: This is not a copy of: Is the illegal nuclear waste at The Westlake Nuclear Landfill a risk to public health? which is a different nearby nuclear landfill that has a different issue of a ...
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Is the illegal nuclear waste at The Westlake Nuclear Landfill a risk to public health?
This Question refers to the 1 of 3 the nuclear landfill sites in residential/commercial areas in the St. Louis, MO area. These landfills are a result of the leftovers from the Manhattan Project
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Did the fallout from American nuclear tests kill hundreds of thousands of American civilians?
A recent paper has been making the social media rounds, that estimates the number of American deaths due to radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing to be between 340,000 and 690,000 between ...
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