Mobile phone use has been declared safe by a scientist who claims consumers were also initially suspicious of electronics such as microwaves.
Rodney Croft, executive director of the Australian Centre for Radiofrequency Bioeffects Research, says cries over the location of mobile phone receiver towers will die down, and that there is no difference been mobile towers and radio transmitters.
“Radio transmissions have been around for a long, long time and people don’t seem to mind being exposed to that,” he told News.com.au, also remarking that people tend to be suspicious “of all new things”.
“When microwave ovens first came out there was a great deal of suspicion about them, when mains power came out there was a great deal of suspicion about it,” he said. “People do move on… providing, of course, no science comes out showing it is more dangerous. And certainly the centre’s view is that’s not likely to happen.”
Patrick Stafford is a freelance journalist and a former deputy editor of SmartCompany.
