There are many misconceptions about how radiofrequency radiation penetrates the human body. We know that skin, bone, and muscle are excellent absorbers of RF radiation, which is why they will heat up in a microwave oven. In this simple experiment, we wish to find out how well skin can shield radiofrequency radiation. Due to lack of human donors, we used a piece of fresh chicken skin.

Our simple setup involves an RF meter and an RF source at 2.4 GHz. We found that approximately 99% of the radiation is stopped by the single layer of skin. It can be assumed that thicker skin, and more complete coverage, would result in even greater shielding.