How Satvic Movement SCARES You | Pseudoscience Police

if you are someone who scrolls through  the wild wild world of instagram and has looked at anything related to health or  fitness then there's a good chance that these guys have popped up on your explore  page satvic movement they are apparently a health education platform that does not seem  to shy away from making extravagant claims like radiation from household gadgets can give you  cancer every time you use your devices while they are charging all the dirty radiation and  the electricity flo

ws through you and creates cancer inside your body today we're gonna look  at if there's any truth behind that claim or not hi my name's pranav and you're watching science is dope for all those fortunate folks who didn't have a mini scare because of these guys and their  content let me introduce you to satvic movement they are youtube slash instagram influencers  with over 4 million people following them looking to them for health fitness and lifestyle  advice they usually post content around yo

ga detox and weight loss regimes and although some of  it is questionable content at first glance they do look harmless but then you get to post like  these that say radiation from mobile phones are cancerous microwave ovens are not safe for you  and wired devices are safer than wireless devices and boy these things just instantly trigger my  misinformation radar and so here we are let's first figure out how exactly radiation works is  that harmful and if so what can it do to your body people ha

ve been skeptical about accepting  something new throughout history during the era when radio was reached headlines like these were  common throughout the front page of newspapers and this created an unnecessary fear in people's  minds that radio waves can have an adverse effect on one's health microwave ovens and mobile  phones also met the same feat anyway even if we keep these technologies aside the history of fear  goes way back for instance Socrates warned people against writing because he

feared that it would  create forgetfulness in the souls of learners because they would not use their memories and  when vaccines were first invented back in 1798 by edward jenner people were afraid of deformities  and religious repercussions from those vaccines and there are several anti-bags notions that haunt  us even today if you want to learn more about anti-wax movements and claims around autism and  code 19 you can check out my previous videos the fact is all these things that people were 

afraid of in the beginning turned out not to be dangerous i'm not saying that everything that's  new is safe or that it's dangerous if they are dangerous or safe they have to have convincing  evidence showing that the key word here is convincing someone holding an instrument showing  you some numbers or even saying that it's harmful isn't enough they have to show you why it's  harmful and if they're not gonna answer that question then i will is it harmful or not and  if so why or why not let's

start from the basics let's look at what this word radiation actually  means see this light bulb let me turn this on okay so if i keep my hand here i can see a shadow on  the wall keep it here i can block it from your view basically the light is coming out from this  bulb and going in all the different directions if you imagine a sphere around this bulb when the  light source is at its center then the light is coming out of that sphere along the radius in all  the different directions in other w

ords radially outward and that's where the term comes from  radiation in fact you can technically use this any time there's a source radiating something  outward like a sprinkler radiating water or or you might go to the doctor and say there's  a pain radiating from this point my shoulder but generally we tend not to use the term  radiation in those contexts we reserve the term radiation to mean electromagnetic radiations  and light is a form of electromagnetic radiation but why they called elec

tromagnetic because  they're made up of electric and magnetic fields or emfs going up and down in a wave format and these  waves have a frequency that's simply the count of how many times the wave is going up and down  in a second and this frequency is what we use to classify different kinds of electromagnetic  radiations and this is called the e m spectrum and radiations of all these different frequencies  exist but we can't see them because our eyes are sensitive only to this tiny band of freq

uencies  and we call that visible light radiation of different frequencies are used for all kinds  of things mobile phones wi-fi bluetooth x-rays microwave ovens etc and they all use light of  all these different frequencies that we can't see here i'll give you an example take any kind  of remote control and you'll see that there's a bulb at the end and as a kid i used to  wonder what's the purpose of that light bulb if it doesn't give off any light but today i know  that even though my eyes can

't see them a camera can our mobile phones are just like this they  are constantly flashing light that we can't see and when we refer to radiation from phones  this is what we mean but to understand if that radiation is harmful we have to understand  the energy of this light of these waves and for this we come back again to the frequency of these  waves it tells you how much energy the waves have by this equation e equals h nu as the frequency  increases the energy also increases and so here in

this diagram on the left we have all these  higher energy radiations and on the right we have all the lower energy radiations now what does  it mean when we say radiation has higher energy let's look at this experiment by the action lab  link in the description he's got a piece of zinc metal connected to an electroscope that's just  a device that indicates when there's charge on something he put some negative charges on  the piece of zinc the electroscope deflects from its normal position indica

ting that  there's charge and watch what he does next he shines light on it in an attempt to remove  that charge but no matter how bright he makes it it does not remove the charge but the moment  he uses a not so bright ultra violet light watch what happens the charge slowly gets  released from the light what you're watching is called the photoelectric effect and his work in  understanding this behavior of light is what won albert einstein his nobel prize so what exactly  happens here inside the

atoms of the material there are electrons which are negative charge  carriers and the photons or particles of light are hitting them the electrons get the energy from  the photons hitting them and can jump out of the atom only if the photons have that minimum energy  required to make the electron jump out or the minimum frequency required to do that and that's  why in this case only ultraviolet light which had that minimum frequency was able to do that to  the electrons not the visible light no

matter how bright the light was the photoelectric effect  is something that's seen in metals but if you have radiation of high enough energy high enough  frequency then they can cause electrons to eject out of atoms of carbon that our bodies are made  up of and this is where radiation can be harmful a bright ball of light that's the last thing  many people saw on the morning of 6th august 1945 in the city of hiroshima japan the united  states had just dropped the most destructive bomb ever used

in a war over the city the bomb had  nuclear material the uncontrolled reaction of which released unimaginable amounts of energy more  than 90 000 people lost their lives instantly and over the next few days many thousands more would  succumb to their injuries and something that accompanies such nuclear bombs radiation exposure  a tragic day for humanity but it was also a tragic day for the word radiation because it was  after this event that the word radiation started getting this negative con

notation  radiation can kill people radiation can cause cancer people started becoming cautious of this  world but they were missing one little detail the nucleus of uranium splits into fragments and  this is the chain reaction that occurred when that bomb exploded over hiroshima that day this  sort of a reaction is usually accompanied by the production of gamma rays even the end products of  this reaction continue to give off gamma rays in other words they were radioactive and it's these  gamma

rays that were dangerous why let's look at the photoelectric effect experiment i showed you  earlier when an atom loses an electron it gets charged and becomes an ion and the photon which  made that atom an ion is called the ionizing photon and it was able to do so because it was of  high enough frequency and therefore high enough energy since all chemical bonds are basically an  interaction between charges in atoms when an atom becomes a charged ion its chemical nature that has  its capacity t

o form bonds with other atoms and ions changes and when this happens to atoms inside  our bodies in our dna it can lead to diseases like cancer this is exactly what happened to those  people in hiroshima the gamma rays emitted by the nuclear material in the bomb were such powerful  ionizing radiations that humans being in their presence nearly destroyed them now we've learned  that ionizing radiations can be harmful to us so where do they line the spectrum on this left  end of the spectrum highe

r frequency than visible light and if it has low frequency than visible  light then it cannot ionize any atom not only in our bodies but any atom in the world so then what  type of radiations are emitted by mobile phones microwaves even 5g radiation lies in the  microwave part of the spectrum 5g spectrum is around 3.5 gigahertz and 4g is around 2  gigahertz in fact all wireless technologies that we use like wi-fi bluetooth radio they all  use non-ionizing radiations they cannot ionize the atoms

of our bodies and cause cancer that  way i'll give you something else to think about this light that's shining on my face right  now those radiations are higher frequency than any of the wireless technologies that we use  visible light has a frequency that's one lakh or a hundred thousand times higher than 5g radiations  yet i'm not afraid of this light on my face possibly giving me cancer am i no nobody is  you have to go into the uv part of the spectrum to find radiations that have the minimum

  amount of energy to cause cancer and that too it can't easily cause cancer on  minimal exposure it only causes sunburns you need prolonged exposure for it to cause  cancer i might have convinced some of you but for those of you that are still skeptical you might  think hey microwave ovens can heat above food so why can't they heat above body tissues doing  mobile phones also produce microwave radiation so can't they cause the same kind of harm for example  you might have noticed how your phone

gets really hot when you make calls so isn't that because of  radiation and isn't that harmful okay let's look at all these one by one first of all a microwave  has a thousand times the power of a mobile phone comparing the two would be like comparing stadium  floodlights with the light in your house second it's not the radiations from the microwave that  heat up the food what they do is they make the molecules of water in the food vibrate faster  this vibration of molecules causes friction and

that's what causes the food to heat up that's why  when you heat food in a microwave it's hotter on the inside unlike when you cook something over  the stove where it's hotter on the outside okay pronounced fine no water no heating but a body  contains water right so can these radiations heat up our body yeah sure if you cut up some  part of the body so that it fits in the microwave and put in a microwave and close the door  yeah sure you can heat it up but you would never do that unless you're

some serial killer  plus these microwaves are designed to be safe one it doesn't work unless you close the door and  two there's a grill a mesh that prevents these radiations from even coming out how does that work  this is an idea from physics called a Faraday Cage i'm not gonna go into it in detail here but  you can check it out yourself but basically an electric field cannot exist inside a metal  so this means no electromagnetic radiation can pass through a Faraday cage like this so unless 

your microwave is faulty or broken you're safe from these radiations there are movements about a  microwave like it destroys the nutrition and food i'm not gonna tackle them in this video maybe a  future video now let's come to mobile phones if your phone heats up when you make a call or when  you're playing some games on your phone that's because those are processes that draw a large  amount of current from the battery and whenever current flows that heats up the battery and other  circuitry an

d that heat is what you can feel on your hand i can assure you that the radiation  from your phone cannot significantly heat up body tissue i can also assure you that by this  mechanism of ionization mobile phones cannot cause cancer okay Pranav what if they cause cancer  by some other mechanism and why do governments prescribe these maximum allowed radiation levels  from mobile phones that's for our safety right and what about this who describes mobile phones  as possibly carcinogenic how do yo

u explain that okay let's go one by one who in 2014  classified radiations from mobile phones as possibly carcinogenic to humans and a lot of  pages that focus on radiation fear mongering if they cite sources at all use this as a source  to say that mobile phones cause cancer so let's talk about this who declaration this happened  in the wake of a study from sweden that found links between mobile phone radiations and brain  cancer and another study on rats that developed cancer when exposed to r

adiations okay let's  talk about that first research paper which found a relative increase in risk of brain cancer among  cell phone users this was a case control study and the results from such studies cannot be accepted  with certainty because of certain errors and biases that tend to creep in because the way  in which the study is conducted here are some of the things that made the study prone to error  one self-entry of data the participants of that particular study and most such studies are

asked  to enter details of their mobile phone usage and their health status by themselves without any  expert supervision and this makes the data entered by them kind of unreliable and easily biased  for example people might give more importance to recent health events that they can recall  and that makes the data biased to small duration if you look at the study you'll notice that it  was conducted over just two years which is not long enough time period to study the occurrence  of brain cance

r a study that was conducted over a decade or two would be more reliable if it made  such conclusions three small sample size brain tumor or cancer is something quite rare and occurs  in less than one percent of the population during their lifetime so finding a large enough sample  size to make your research results reliable can be quite tricky you can see this study covers only  a small sample of like a few thousand people which is not enough we cannot make broad conclusions  from the study all

we can do is say that hey there may be something here we need a more thorough  investigation if we want to confidently conclude that mobile phone usage do indeed cause brain  cancer then we need a different kind of study a randomized control trial i've spoken about how  that's done over on this video find a group of people that don't use mobile phones give half of  them phones and the other half nothing and monitor their health status over 10 to 15 years you can  see how this would be completel

y impractical given that pretty much all of us have a mobile  phone and given the extreme rarity of brain cancer another thing that you could do is get  the mobile phone usage data of a large sample of people and get their health records  from hospitals or insurance companies and see if there is a relationship between the  two that data would be much more reliable wait you know what such a study was done in  denmark and you know what a phone no increased risk of brain cancer this study was condu

cted  over the the entire population of denmark and it saw no increased risk of brain cancer here's  another study of one million people in the uk and again it found no increased risk of brain  cancer there's a simple way to settle this debate we know that practically everyone has a mobile  phone so over the past two decades mobile phone usage has gone way up so if they do cause cancer  then the cancer rates across the world should also go up right is there a study that looked at this  yes there

is a study published in the us in 2012 looked at exactly this it looked at mobile  phone adoption and cancer rates from 1997 to 2008 and you know what they found the cancer rates  remained unchanged over those 10 years they found no increased risk of brain cancer associated  with mobile phone usage so now the question is why did the who say that let's look at that who  page again it talks about a formal assessment that will be conducted in 2016 but the page itself  has not been updated since 20

14. that's pretty irresponsible of them if you ask me but at least  we know that we should not go by what's written on this page that's not the latest information  what about the other paper i was talking about the study where rats got cancer when exposed  to radiation okay unless you're a male rat watching this video you need not worry because the  scientists from the study themselves emphasized that these findings don't apply to human  here's the problem with statements like these one piece of

evidence is enough to say that this  is true but there is no one piece of evidence that can say it's false we have to look at a case where  it could be true and make sure it isn't true just like all these studies have done and technically  we have to keep doing it forever because there where it could be too but so far no such research  has come and because we can't say for sure that radiation cannot cause cancer governments have set  standards for maximum allowed exposure levels that these gadg

ets can have and these exposure levels  are tested to make sure they're safe these are called SAR ratings stands for standard absorption  rate i'm gonna call them SAR for ease throughout this video every wireless device has to get a  SAR rating before it can go into the market so if you're using a gadget that has a SAR rating which  is every major mobile company out in the market then know that you're safe now despite all  this assurance that wireless gadgets are safe we have channels like Satvi

c movement spreading  fear among their viewers let's see what they say Satvic movement promotes ideas like radiation  from your phones and laptops can cause cancer emfs from gadgets can shorten your  lifespan a child's body can absorb up to 60 % more radiation per pound of body weight than  an adult and radiation increases your risk of brain cancer by 3 percent i try to look  for the source of such highly specific information but oh wait they don't cite any  sources but unlike them i'm gonna cit

e all my sources in the description for you guys to check  out later okay pranav they might not have cited sources but they give us demos where they show  that microwaves can give off a lot of radiation just look at this post this doesn't even make  sense 400 of what where is the unit 400 volts 400 kilometers 400 idlis? they don't even mention you  can only see the unit clearly over here in this frame of the video they posted and the instrument  they're using it's called an emf meter it supposed

ly comes in handy when measuring emf pollution or when ghost hunting because apparently ghosts give off emfs so you can see that there is  a clear overlap between the kind of people that not only believe in but hunt ghosts and the kind  of people that are involved in 5g fear mongering before i digress let's look at this value 400  volts per meter i know how they managed to get that reading on the instrument because according  to scientific literature if you're standing even five centimeters away

from the oven the reading  can only go up to some 55 volts per meter so unless your microwave is broken or is leaking  radiation somehow you can never get such high values and in this other post which is apparently  a demonstration one person gets a shock from the other person who's using a laptop while charging  okay getting a slight shock when you touch the metal surface of a laptop while it's charging is a  common occurrence it's called a tingle current and it can lead to a low level harmles

s electric shock  caused by like residual charges in the body of the laptop particularly those that are charging and  they only have two pronged charges this happens due to grounding issues and has nothing to do with  radiations radiations cannot give you an electric shock and they do all these charades to intimidate  people and get a reaction like oh my god 300 such a high value okay you know what else creates  such high values so maybe even higher than that the earth yep depending on where you

are on  the planet you could be experiencing fields electric fields of 100 to 300 volts per meter  between your head and your toes even if you're walking somewhere in the middle of nowhere in  a park away from all sorts of radiation gadgets etc so these values clearly aren't proof that  these radiations are dangerous they have to resort to gimmicks like these because they can't try and  convince you that or show convincing evidence why it is dangerous and the things they do look like  poorly do

ne magic tricks to deceive their audience for example did you notice how the camera is very  far away from the screen of the instrument and this shot and then they have to cut and before  they zoom in and show a close-up shot of the instrument i have no idea what happened  between those two shots and neither do you and i wouldn't be surprised if these values were  faked for the camera and this is how they validate what they saying by having conversations with an  expert there's a live stream on

their instagram page with nicholas pineault hope i'm saying that  right who wrote a book on the dangers of emfs the book has some questionable reviews so i had  to find out more about him not only was i unable to find relevant qualifications but one look at  the social media and he seems to be just another 5g fearmongering person he's got ridiculous claims  like putting a phone on airplane mode can make you feel gears younger and make unexplained symptoms  vanish etc again but little to no scien

tific evidence if you look at their live stream with mr  nicholas then you'll notice that they conveniently skip the part where you introduce your guest and  tell people about their uh qualifications and credentials and whatnot look i'm not sitting here  and saying that you have to be a scientist or have a phd for you to be an expert but if you are one  then show us convincing evidence of whatever you're claiming we live in an age where we have  more information at our fingertips than we ever ha

d before so why is this so hard for you like i  always say in this channel extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence posting opinions  is fact are cherry picking research and data to create unnecessary fear among people not cool  guys not cool social media like any other industry thrives on what it wants and it wants your  attention if we tell people that there is something to fear over here then people will want  to see it and so this kind of fear mongering tends to spread fast on soc

ial media this is where you  as the content creator have the responsibility to first understand what you're talking about and  not spread fear among your viewers and that too on this terribly researched wrong information and if  you are consumers of such content then it is also your responsibility to be better aware and better  equipped to differentiate fact from friction and my whole mission is to equip people to be able  to do exactly that if you like what i do subscribe and i'll see you in th

e next one  till then remember science is dope