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by dredmorbius 5028 days ago
The question isn't whether or not they're ionizing. The question is whether or not they have adverse biological actions.
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Its highly likely that those are in fact the same question.
Not when asked by me.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=physiological+effects+of...

My general sense: any health effects are likely to be weak at levels typically encountered, but I'm holding as plausible that thee may be some effects.

Microwave oven radio waves are non-ionizing 2.4 Ghz and I suspect they cause several health issues to any living organism exposed to them, even for a short time.
They aren't, unless you're in the oven. And that's different.
For some people, there's a risk on the outside as well. Pacemakers.

Less so these days, but still.

My understanding is that there's a possibility of creating induced current in the pacemaker. Which is to say, the non-ionizing radiation has an effect at a distance, albeit in a manufactured artifact, not (in this case) organic tissue.

It is not the 2.4Ghz radiation that causes the trouble with pacemakers. Its the plain old magnetic field generated by the inductive inrush from the giant coils that convert the power to feed to the magnetron tube in the microwave. Any large inductive load poses the same risk.