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'The short answer is that as far as we know, all types of video monitors being sold in the United States are safe for adults and small children in that they do not emit any hazardous radiation under normal operating conditions. None can be said to be "safer" than others in terms of radiation emissions, based on any of the evidence we have today...Still, as electronic products, all video monitors emit a spectrum of radiation. They all emit light; they have to for people to see the picture but that is not hazardous at the levels emitted. They all emit some RF (radio frequency) radiation from oscillator circuits. That is not hazardous to people in almost all situations but it has the potential for interfering with other electronic circuits which is why people are required to turn off such devices when taking off or landing in an airplane. Any of them that operate off the home electrical power emit some ELF (extremely low frequency) but the scientific studies to date generally indicate that is not hazardous at the levels emitted. Concerning smaller children, none of the radiations emitted by any normally operating video monitor are believed to be hazardous to them.'(Health Physics Society)

As Giggles wrote 'true believers' will believe anyway.

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The results indicated that people who use cell phones have double the chance of developing malignant brain tumors and acoustic neuromas, which are tumors on the hearing nerve. The study also said people under age 20 were more than five times as likely to develop brain cancer.

But Dr. Robert Hoover, director or Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program at the National Cancer Institute, said the study has not yet appeared in a peer-reviewed journal, so has not come under sufficient scrutiny. The evidence for the connection between cell phones and cancer is inconclusive and more research is needed, he said.

"Larger studies are needed to sort out chance and bias," Hoover testified.