RFK Jr. Justification for the ban on the phone at the Sparks Octash School star-news.press/wp

Health and human services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. It supports cell phone prohibition in schools – an attitude that is harmonized with the attitudes of many Americans when it comes to the limits in the classroom. However, his reasoning caused backfires from some online.

Newsweek He filled out the media form at the Health and Health Services Department (HHS) for comment on Saturday.

Why is it important

Most American adults say they support the ban on high school students and high school students who use their cell phones during teaching, according to research intervention in 2024.

Survey of 5,110 adults spent between 30. and 6. October, she found that 68 percent support the ban on classroom on cell phones, while 36 percent remained a whole prohibition of the school day. Research has a mistake of error plus or minus 1.7 percentage points.

Kennedy Jr., who pledged to “re-do America,” often wider health understanding, including receivables that connect autism vaccines, a relationship widely discredited by scientific research.

What to know

In a Fox & Friends Interview Thursday, Kennedy Jr. He noticed several school health hazards and said: “Mobile Phones also produce electromagnetic radiation, which is perhaps in child damage, while provoking cell damage and even cancer.”

Reviewed studioOrdering by the World Health Organization (WHO), and ended in November 2023. years, it turned out that exposure to radio frequency fields from the use of a mobile phone “probably does not increase the risk of brain cancer.”

National Health Institutes (NIH), which are Kennedy Jr. They are now monitored in their separated role, also found that “previous evidence suggests that the stylish cell phones will not cause a brain or other types of cancer in humans.”

Nih says that radio frequencies are emitted from mobile phones “everything falls in the non-anti-frequency and low energy. Energy is too low to damage DNA … DNA can cause sensation to increase the risk of cancer.”

Video segment Interview Kennedy Jr. He circulated via the Internet, and he received a return plate from some.

Ashish K. Jha, a physicist who served as a dean of brown university health health since 2020 on Saturday. Years that Kennedy Jr. Gura “the right policy (gets cell phones from children during the school day)”, but there is a “wedding reasoning” for it.

Carl Hendrick, professor of education at the Academic University of Applied Sciences, called the explanation of the secretary and wrote X on the XU Saturday X.

Kennedy Jr. He also noticed in his Fox & Friends Interview the connection between the use of social media and depression, a connection that is supported by several studies, especially among adolescents and young adults.

Nine states passed throughout the state that restricts or ban cell phones in schools, according to KFF, including Arkansas, California, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Ohio, South Carolina and Virginia.

What do people say

Arijit Chakravarty, Biologist, wrote on X, on Friday: “The link between electromagnetic radiation in cell phone and brain damage is unproven.”

Danielle d’Souza Gill, author and wife representative of GOP Texas Brandon Gill, wrote in X Post 20. March: “RFK Jr. He just announced that he was working on removing cell phones from schools that damage to child health and even causing cancer. That would be incredibly useful for children! Thanks @Seckennedy!”

Heath Mayo, a lawyer who founded the principles first, wrote on x: “Mobile menu produce low-level radiation that has shown that the study showed completely harmless. RFK or not to know that he would not have heard that he heard a bar once because it is easier than performing homework. Hrparely HHS.”

Gonzalo Monroy, energy expert with over 100,900 followers on X, wrote on Saturday: “Cellphones, smartphones cause cancer. It’s an argument RFK Jr. The worm eaten the good side of his brain.”

Gianmarco Soresi, a comedian and actor, wrote on X on Friday: “There is so much justification to get the phone from schools and just had to choose the one who was the most played *** crazy.”

What happens next?

Kennedy Jr. He has not yet drawn the timeline for the improvement of his proposal for Ban cell phones in schools.