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by gorkish 700 days ago
You are exposed to greater than 1000W/m^2 of broadband EM every time you go outside; the sun shines WAY outside the visible spectrum, you know. Have you ever ridden in an electric or hybrid electric vehicle? Have you been on a train or ship? Have you walked near a power transformer or driven past a substation? These all produce field effect many many orders of magnitude stronger than we are discussing here.

You are pulling out every logical fallacy in the book in your approach to this question. EM exposure is rigorously studied and safety standards have existed almost as long as we have known about electromagnetism! About the only time that a normal person even comes close to needing to worry about them is when getting an MRI or climbing a radio tower.

Johnny Mnemonic was a work of fiction, not a documentary.

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Careful there. In your haste to make your point you're dragging in proven causes of various health issues. The fields coming off of high voltage transmission equipment have been comprehensively proven to cause negative health effects. As to safety standards, MSDS standards have been around since 1983 and somehow they didn't prevent literally the entire surface of the planet from being contaminated with PFAS. You're not going to make a lot of headway here if your chosen tack is to advance coy notions that industry safety standards are rigorous.

To be absolutely clear, I'm not convinced low power EM causes problems. I'm also not convinced it doesn't. What I am absolutely certain of is that given the global scope of the industries that are implicated here, there isn't a legislative body on the planet that would so much as inconvenience them if there was a problem and it was know.