From what I've known, removing battery/alternator leads has been preached and done by many for donkey years, have all those folk really been wasting their time?
Until someone provides concrete proof that mobile phone technology isn't capable of affecting cells in the human body, I'm kind of on the fence about that.
Simple established physics...
The proof is in the eating. RF is not a new invention, it has been used since the days of Marconi artificially and naturally since the big bang. RF does have the ability to bite and those risks are well known and documented. Generally it requires quite high powers and or super high frequencies above visible light. Microwave ovens run at a specific spot frequency and the efficiency drops off markedly either side. It also requires high power (around 500W plus) in order to show a useful heating effect.
Bear in mind that TV transmitters emit many MEGAWatts of Ultra High Frequency RF. I am unaware that anyone living nearby has had any unexpected heath issue because there aren't any!
People live in Droitwich near the Long Wave transmitter. Those near the aerial field can light up a fluorescent tube just by waving it around. Once again nobody to my knowledge has grown two heads, because it is NON IONISING radiation.
The myth propogates because the word "radiation" is bandied about, deliberately to scaremonger. Radiation takes many forms, the heat from your central heating is radiation. The light from your bulbs is radiation. RF is radiation. None of these are IONISING radiation. To make cancerous changes to organic material requires IONISING rather than NON IONISING radiation. An example of ionising radiation is that emitted by radioactive material. A very different subject.
I remember that I learnt to hold that phone a couple of inches away from my head pretty quickly, thinking that would help to eliminate the feeling of heat on that side of my head, it didn't really.
OK, let's say that the heat aspect I were experiencing were solely down to it being a 'device' that warms up, just like a hair drier, how do you explain the weird sensation on that side of my head that I felt for some time after putting the phone down? What about the people who have experienced headaches etc?? I can't see how you can put that all down to just the device getting warm.
were you talking to your wife ?
The myths arise from those who know a little about electronics which enables them to spout an opinion,