I know that this is old, but I had to chime in. ALL radiation has been proven to cause cellular damage in animals. Even low frequency RF. The studies on humans is very conflicting with some for and some against. No study provides enough evidence to definitively determine one way or the other.
There are some facts about radiation that stay true regardless.
It would cost the world billions to back track now.
The closer you are to the radiation, the more damage it does. This includes watches, phones etc.
Cellular (Cell) Phones (cancer.org)
Large studies published in 2018 by the US National Toxicology Program (NTP) and by the Ramazzini Institute in Italy exposed groups of lab rats (as well as mice, in the case of the NTP study) to RF waves over their entire bodies for many hours a day, starting before birth and continuing for most or all of their natural lives. Both studies found an increased risk of uncommon heart tumors called malignant schwannomas in male rats, but not in female rats (nor in male or female mice, in the NTP study). The NTP study also reported possible increased risks of certain types of tumors in the brain and in the adrenal glands.
There are more studies on the page I linked as well as more all over the internet on what studies that have been done. Not a single one of them can count out the possibility that radiation from phones, watches or other devices cause tumors, cancer etc.
Bottom line. Animals do indeed take damage from RF, ionizing, none ionizing, etc radiation. Humans don't have enough studies to determine, but all studies done do not come to the conclusion that they do or do not.
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