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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-20-09 12:04 PM
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8. about that proximity factor
Edited on Tue Oct-20-09 12:49 PM by sui generis
or rather, dispersion?

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that scientists don't usually petition anything unless they're getting paid to do it.

I don't disagree with any of the facts, just the absence of mitigating circumstance. For instance, I don't normally put the microwave up to my ear or carry it around while on in my front pocket next to my gonads.

I understand that there are some pretty basic physics calculations that basically mean that a single cell phone transmitting in the 800 mW (corrected sp) power level isn't as crazy as 1000 cell phones doing that and also that if it those physics are wrong we probably only need single cell phone tower for anywhere on the planet.

This OP is a tactic, and is itself junk science, moreover the flavor of "common sense" junk science that we see underwriting creationism; pay no attention to the speed of light in a vacuum and everything else will make perfect sense.

Really. Science takes into a account a lot more than important sounding numbers, by the way. Observations, correlation is not causation, but if it's repeatable, is indeed correlation, that's a lot more important than blathering about microwave ovens.
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