The idea that there is something deadly about 5G wireless technology — or for that matter, any wireless technology — has been around for two decades and for the same amount of time, scientists have said there is nothing to the claim.
5G wireless technology will allow people to download giant files of games or movies without delays. The waves of 5G will be shorter and higher frequency than 4G. But these 5G millimeter waves are easily blocked by rain, leaves, and buildings, so they require a lot of antennas close together.
According to the New York Times, popular fear of electromagnetic radiation can be traced to one person, Bill P Curry, a physicist, who did a study for a Florida school system in 2000.
The study claimed that increasingly high frequencies of a wireless signal were absorbed by the brain. He reported that radio waves could thus create brain cancer.
Except Curry was wrong.
Radiology experts say extremely high frequency waves, such as X-rays, do pose a health risk, as has been known since at least the 1940s. But radio waves at 5G high frequencies are shorter waves, and less dangerous, not more.
The reason is that human skin provides a barrier to shield human organs, including the brain, from exposure. It blocks radio waves, including even higher frequencies of sunlight.
Nonetheless, conflicting studies over the decades have raised health concerns. But most of those concerns have been defeated by simple experience. It doesn't appear that cancer rates are rising exponentially, scientists say.