Mobile Phone Masts As Safe As TV Or Radio Transmitters

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Article Date: 03 Mar 2006 - 17:00 PDT

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Professor Anthony Barker, who has over 30 years' experience studying the biological effects of electromagnetic fields, says mobile phone masts are not more dangerous than common TV or radio transmitters. Prof. Barker works at the Dept of Medical Physics of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK.

(Mobile Phone = Cell Phone = Cellular Phone)

Prof. Barker believes communities that protest at the construction of mobile masts are misinformed, as the proof that they are dangerous is absent. He was talking at Ulster University, Northern Ireland, UK.

If we have had large TV and radio transmitters in our neighbourhoods for several decades, why should mobile phone masts suddenly cause alarm, he asked. He said a mobile phone mast is also a radio transmitter.

Written by: Christian Nordqvist
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