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That's not too far fetched. CNN has taken to reviving the long debunked fear of cell phones causing cancer. (To put it clearly, cell phones use microwaves, which are below the energy level needed to break apart the bonds of DNA. Breaking apart DNA is the only known mechanism for causing cancer with radiation. Visible light is more energetic than microwaves. The second claim, of "literally cooking" the brain, is simply false. That's not something that metasticizes over years, cooking takes place pretty much immediately. If that was happening, people would be dropping dead all over the place. Put a hot pocket next to your cell phone and leave it on over night, and a few feet away put a hot pocket without a phone. See if either one cooks. Fact is, working in the noon sun cooks your brain much more than the weak level of microwaves that a cell phone releases, and most brains seem to cope with that okay. It is downright stupid that people are panicking over this nonsense. If there is no possible mechanism, then there's no cause for believing it.)

CNN didn't revive it, the WHO did, and it's because it was absolutely not ever debunked. CNN was just reporting the WHO decision. Sure, lots of industry-funded studies showed no link, but non-industry-funded ones were much more likely to show one. I know which I'd first believe.

It's definitely not nonsense.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/31/who...index.html

Also, microwaves aren't dangerous? What? That's ridiculous...

Of course it's true that these things take time -- they're talking here about cancers that develop over decades -- but still, the cause is the same, and calling it "cooking" isn't wrong if that's what's happening, even if the time it takes to cause noticeable harm is fairly long.