Non-Ionising Does Not Mean Harmless: Why Cell Phone Radiation Warrants Attention
It’s often claimed: “Unlike high-energy (ionising) radiation, EMFs in the non-ionising part of the electromagnetic spectrum cannot damage DNA or cells directly.”
The catch? That word “directly”. It implies that if damage is not immediate or caused by single-photon hits, it cannot occur at all, an oversimplification that science shows is false.
Professor Denis Henshaw’s commentary, “Cell phone radio waves have insufficient energy to damage DNA and cause serious illness – an enduring fallacy,” explains why this assertion is misleading.
Summary (from Henshaw’s commentary): “The idea that since cell phone radio waves do not have the quantum energy to damage DNA and therefore cannot cause ill health is a fallacy. It is flawed at a number of levels, from the very physics upon which it is supposedly based, to chemistry and biology. Most of all, the idea is not born out by the tens of thousands of peer-reviewed studies reporting biological
effects from exposure to electric, magnetic and electromagnetic fields and electromagnetic
radiation, including those associated with radio wave frequencies used by cell phones.”
— Denis L Henshaw
Henshaw’s work underscores a critical truth: non-ionising EMFs can influence biological systems in ways that matter for serious illness, and the “safe because non-ionising” argument is outdated.
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11th April 2020 – Updated 22nd April 2022 – V5