U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s push to ban cell phones in schools because they “produce electromagnetic radiation” has sparked backlash online, reports Newsweek.

Kennedy Jr. is pushing the “right policy (get cellphones out of kids hands during the school day)” but has a “wacky reasoning” for it, Ashish K. Jha, a physicist who serves as dean of Brown University School of Public Health, said in a post on X.

“There’s so much actual evidence to support banning phones in schools but RFK chooses the one that’s from a guy on TikTok with sunglasses and 12 followers who ‘did their own research,’” said Carl Hendrick, a professor of education at Academica University of Applied Sciences.

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