{"id":699,"date":"2013-05-09T15:10:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T20:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=699"},"modified":"2013-05-09T15:10:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T20:10:17","slug":"san-francisco-gets-smart-over-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2013\/05\/san-francisco-gets-smart-over-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco gets smart over phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRsk1IWdf80d_Gp9fFuuAWf7fyBIW_aTUN2AO6W0ShXeNlmX-qm\" width=\"178\" height=\"200\" \/>Is good to see <a title=\"San Francisco surrenders in fight over cell-phone warnings\" href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/05\/08\/18124057-san-francisco-surrenders-in-fight-over-cell-phone-warnings\">public policy not peddling pseudoscience<\/a>\u00a0and fear-mongering:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>San Francisco city leaders, after losing a key round in court against the cell phone industry, have agreed to <strong>revoke an ordinance that would have been the first in the United States to require retailers to warn consumers about potentially dangerous radiation levels<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The 2011 ordinance mandated <strong>warnings that cellular phones, including smartphone devices, emit potentially cancer-causing radiation<\/strong>. The statute, which a judge blocked before it took effect, also would have required retailers of the devices to post notices stating that World Health Organization cancer experts have deemed mobile phones &#8220;possibly carcinogenic.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s too bad the NBC news site tries to make the case for the warning, when <a title=\"World Health Organisation verdict on mobile phones and cancer\" href=\"http:\/\/scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org\/2011\/05\/31\/who-verdict-on-mobile-phones-and-cancer\/\">there&#8217;s no evidence linking cell-phones radiation and cancer<\/a> of any sort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is good to see public policy not peddling pseudoscience\u00a0and fear-mongering:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[222,223,17,97],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cancer","tag-cell-phones","tag-pseudoscience-antiscience","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}