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Risk, No Matter What California Says. December 2017

The document discusses an article that argues cell phone exposure does not pose a public health risk. It outlines the article's structure, first presenting statements by the CDPH and then providing reasons to disagree. While some believe cell phones cause brain tumors, the author claims scientific consensus says they are safe and no studies have shown increases in brain cancer rates.

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Risk, No Matter What California Says. December 2017

The document discusses an article that argues cell phone exposure does not pose a public health risk. It outlines the article's structure, first presenting statements by the CDPH and then providing reasons to disagree. While some believe cell phones cause brain tumors, the author claims scientific consensus says they are safe and no studies have shown increases in brain cancer rates.

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Kristinelou Marie N.

Reyna March 22, 2018


STEM II – Mendeleev Ms. Ezel G. Jainar
ARTICLE REVIEW

Sara Chodosh. There's No Evidence That Cell Phones Pose A Public Health
Risk, No Matter What California Says. December 2017.

The article There's No Evidence That Cell Phones Pose A Public Health Risk, No
Matter What California Says argues that cellphone exposure doesn’t impose a public
health risk. The author believes that there are no concrete evidences showing that cell
phones have been shown to pose a health risk no matter what the California
Department of Public Health said regarding the issue. The article is structured in an
unusual and in my opinion, an effective manner. It first presents the statements
released by the CDPH and then provides the author’s reasons not to agree with the
idea.

The first part of the article focuses on the idea about the negative health effects
of cell phones. However, the author of the article disagrees with this opinion by arguing
that the scientific consensus claims that cellphones are safe. The author claims that
testicles and brains are both totally unharmed by phone radiation. The cellphone itself
doesn’t pose health risk, not brain cancer, not infertility. People seem convinced that
cell phones cause brain tumors, and if that were true, we would have seen a massive
increase in brain cancer cases over the past decade as cell phone use has shot up. But
in fact, we haven’t seen any increase.

I believe the topic being discussed is pretty much arguable. I would agree with
author of the article since there’s no profound and strong evidences yet that cell phones
causes brain cancer or even damage your DNA, all it might do is heat a small area of
your body, but studies have shown that it is such a minuscule amount of heat that it
would likely have no ill effects. All that being said, cell phones do pose one massive
risk. Thousands of people die every year because a driver decided to text or talk on the
phone. This is the single biggest danger phones pose.

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