probably because of the recent successful lawsuit to release some research that suggested that perhaps cell phone radiation, though it is a different type from ionizing radiation, may cause cancer and that levels of radiation were much higher than tested when you are actually touching your phone, something a lot of people do.

Driving and texting is much more likely to kill you than cell phone radiation. Nine people a day die from it. So why are we talking about cell phone radiation?

Because we have no idea how many people die a day from cell phone radiation because the cell phone industry has suppressed it. Basically unless a phone gets so hot it will literally burn you then it is not emitting dangerous radiation according to the government in the US. It's not that cell phones have been shown to be safe, they just have not been proven conclusively to be unsafe and those are not the same thing. This is like when the cigarette companies were still denying smoking was deadly because they had suppressed all the studies that showed it was.