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If they're called microwaves can't they cook me?

Actually no. The term microwave is simply an easy way for us to refer to all radio wave frequencies between 300MHz and 300GHz. A microwave oven (which people assume is the same thing as any microwave radio frequency) can only cook things because of dielectric heating of water atoms. Radio waves from a mobile phone, TV or radio tower that transmit in the microwave range do not cause dielectric heating and anyone who tells you they do doesn't understand basic physics.