When it was announced that 5G was coming to Australia, there were loads of people who were worried that their insides were going to be cooked from the radiation.
There have been fears for some time that the next internet speed instalment carried super high-frequency radio airwaves which could be harmful to human health.
Well, Australia's favourite human encyclopedia has revealed that we shouldn't be concerned at all.
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, known around the country as Dr Karl from Triple J and the ABC, says we have nothing to be worried about because the science just doesn't stack up.
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Whether you think it's a military weapon or something that's going to drive up cancer rates, Dr Karl says: "X-rays and gamma rays have higher frequencies and carry even more energy, so if they come in contact with our cells they can also cause cancer.
"But the energy from visible light, AM and FM radio, TV, microwaves, mobile phones and power lines is just too low to damage atoms."
He says while there were two studies that tried to link electromagnetic radiation to increased cancer rates in rats, the explanation of the information wasn't really conclusive.
"In both cases they delivered the radiation at a very high level (much greater than a phone would emit), right across the rodents' bodies for nine hours a day, seven days a week for two continuous years," Dr Karl wrote.
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"One study found the male rats that were exposed to the radiation actually lived longer than the non-exposed rats, but the male rats did have more cancers of the heart and brain. The female rats showed no clear difference."
While rats are used all the time to simulate effects on humans, our phones certainly aren't exposing us to high-levels of radiation for that length of time every day.
Dr Karl zeroed in on the Russian state news agency RT for promoting these alleged risks of introducing 5G.
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He was supported by Guardian reporter Tim Dowling, who said RT routinely gets 'testimony from experts you have never heard of, representing institutions you have never heard of' to continue the 5G scare campaign.
While it might take some time for people to jump on board with the fact that 5G is definitely coming to Australia, you can't really argue with download speeds of a gigabyte a second in some cases. Knowing Australia's internet speeds that's like a completely different world.
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