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| I agree that it's probably safe, but your argument here sucks.
| 1: The microwave frequency is specifically designed to cook meat.
| If you happen to be living in the meat in question, cooking
| it is clearly bad. You can do fairly significant long-term
| dammage to yourself without becoming uncomfortable, by exposing
| yourself to microwaves.
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| The good news is, the levels of such radiation that escape the
| confines of a properly working microwave are so low that, with
| the added defense of the inverse-square law, its's almost impossible
| to get enough of them close enough together to do any damage.

Plus, the dangers are much exaggerated. From a few feet away from the oven
you'd probably just get a slight warming sensation. More people are burned
by heating pads - or boiling water from the oven.

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