Skeptic Check: 5G (rebroadcast)

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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5G, the latest mobile network standard, is coming. As new cell towers sprout around the world, do we know enough to confidently claim that this new technology is safe? After all, older networking standards relied on microwaves, radiation which has wavelengths of inches to a foot or so. 5G operates at much higher frequencies, with millimeter wavelengths. Some are worried that being subjected to millimeter radiation could cause cancers. But what does science say? 5G: the promise and the perils. Guests: Jon Samet – Pulmonary physician, epidemiologist, and dean of the Colorado School of Public Health. Claire Parkinson – Scientist, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Bob Berman – Astronomer, regular contributor to Astronomy Magazine, and author of “Zapped: From Infrared to X-Rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light” David Ropeik – Retired Harvard instructor and author of several books about the psychology of risk perception. Originally aired February 28, 2022 Featuring music by Dewey Dellay and Jun Miyake Big Picture Science is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Please contact [email protected] to inquire about advertising on Big Picture Science. You can get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.0	For born in that swirling inferno of radioactive dust, were things so horrible, so terrifying, so hideous. There is no word to describe them.
1:30.0	The ants threaten this city of angels after being irradiated in the desert by an
1:37.8	atomic bomb test and they mutated to enormous size. The movie then was one of the first creature features that
1:44.6	tap into our fear of their harmful effects of radiation. Now of course those
1:48.6	ants were the victims of nuclear radiation, not radiation from radio waves, but even so, the fears have stayed with us.
1:57.0	You could say that they too have mutated.
2:00.0	So as telecommunications companies roll out 5G cellular service, there's some public confusion about the upgrade.
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