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Take off your tinfoil hat: Exposure to 5G doesn’t alter your genes, new study finds
The result of the peer-reviewed study should put the conspiracy theory to rest — but it probably won't.
- A new study found no genetic changes in human cells exposed to 5G radiation, even at high intensities.
- Researchers ruled out heating effects, confirming previous claims of harm were likely due to temperature, not EMF.
- 5G waves can’t penetrate deep into the skin, and aren’t scrambling your DNA.
The 5G conspiracy crowd has been banging their drum for years, but scientists have now directly tested their central claims. In a useful but unsurprising result, a new 5G study found that blasting human skin cells with the radiation doesn’t do anything to your genes.
The peer-reviewed study, published in PNAS Nexus via Oxford Academic, exposed cultured human skin cells to 5G electromagnetic fields at two common frequencies: 27 GHz and 40.5 GHz. The cells were subjected to this radiation at intensities up to 10 times the current safety limits for both two-hour and 48-hour periods. The result was no changes in gene expression or alterations in DNA methylation — in other words, nothing.
