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Dear Daniel,
I am a 6th grade and I am doing a project on cellphone and bluetooth radiation. I was wondering if you can answer these questions. Does bluetooth radiation cause brain damage or any sympton and the same question for cell phone radiation.
Hi,
Bluetooth or any other radio-frequency radiation does not cause brain damage. At least there has not been a single study that would be scientific enough and would actually give any evidence of a damage related to cell phones or similar.
Remember that the radio has been around for 100 years now and over the century the life expectancy of people has only grown. Its radiative intensities are comparable to those of cell phones at your ear.
By the way, how are you going to do a project on this??? Asking experts is not science, you should do an experiment and demonstrate. How about having a living cell culture under a microscope next to a wireless device? You can show that he cells survive or die and this way make a claim about the radiation effects.
Cheers,
Daniel
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