Readers of The New York Times stirred one recent article titled "Can wearable computers to be as harmful as cigarettes?". After criticism from readers, it was renamed to "health Problems and wearable electronics", but the main message of the material isn't gone: the author was trying to prove that wearable electronics unsafe for human health. Is this true?

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Readers of The New York Times stirred one recent article titled "Can wearable computers to be as harmful as cigarettes?". After criticism from readers, it was renamed to "health Problems and wearable electronics", but the main message of the material isn't gone: the author was trying to prove that wearable electronics unsafe for human health. Is this true?

to Understand this question tried the online resource The Verge. According to this source, the author of the NYT too focused on the fact that wearable gadgets can contribute to the emergence of people cancers. To confirm this regard, he appealed to not quite competent opinions: for example, specialized in alternative medicine doctor Joseph Mercola, which has its own business selling homeopathic products. In addition, Dr. Mercola it was repeatedly convicted Management on sanitary inspection behind quality of foodstuff and medicines of the USA in the incorrect labelling of goods and unfair advertising of medicines, which gave untrue properties.

However, the most authoritative evidence, the author considered the study of the International Agency for research on cancer 2011, during which she investigated the effects of cell phones on the human body. However, the author of the NYT did not take into account that this study was not scientific in nature, and based on the information that can be found in the literature. Moreover, the results of its research, the Agency clarified that simply "does not exclude carcinogenic effects on the human body from using cellular communication.

Thus, resource the Verge emphasizes that sensational article has absolutely no reason to consider the use of smart watches and cell phones are harmful to health.