Is the cell phone scare finally over? (Michael Fumento)

Townhall.com ^ | January 26, 2006 | Michael Fumento

[Stoat]

I hadn't previously been aware that Larry King was involved with the start of this scare, but in retrospect it makes perfect sense that he was.....

[RadioAstronomer]

bttt for later read.

[ElectricStrawberry]

Dunno....my old phone had an external antenna to let the RF energy out. My new phone has an internal antenna....wonder if it just shoots the RF energy straight into my ear.....

HA!!

[Revolting cat!]

The cell phone scare is over just like the abortion breast cancer scare is over. Economics and convenience dictate what's over or not over in this country, let's not kid ourselves. Let's go back to our dream worlds now.

[proxy_user]

There are many cases in the past of something that was assumed to be safe, that turned out not to be.

It is really impossible to say what the consequences of prolonged exposure will be in a large population except by actual experience.

If it turns out that in 20 years there are many middle-aged women with poor memory and short attention spans, people will start to wonder again.

[JennysCool]

I don't know. I'm hearing about WAY more brain tumor cases than ever before, including someone very close to me.

When I was in radio, and we were doing transmitter readings, we were always told to limit our exposure to RF.

Now people are putting RF to their heads. Some of them constantly.

Let's face it -- if there WAS a link, there would be a rather huge lobby devoted to keeping it quiet. It would certainly make for the largest class action suit in world history.

[ElectricStrawberry]

Dunno....I spent 8 years in the army with much more RF energy coming out of my radio. Of course, it was 3-6 inches from my head. Let's see. Intensity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance.....

I ain't buyin it without cold scientific proof that the pathetically small amounts of cellphone RF energy CAN cause cancer, let alone that it DOES cause cancer.

[Bigh4u2]

"If it turns out that in 20 years there are many middle-aged women with poor memory and short attention spans, people will start to wonder again."

Not if they're liberals.

Just 'status quo'.

[JamesP81]

When I was in radio, and we were doing transmitter readings, we were always told to limit our exposure to RF.

If that's true, then we are all dead. Think about the EM emissions a modern civilization puts out as a matter of course: AM and FM radio, microwave communications towers, cell phone towers, satellite transmissions, shortwave radio, radar, VHF and UHF signals, and wireless networks just to name a few. All this artificial EM energy is floating around pretty much all the time.

[JoeSixPack1]

Morse Code makes you stutter.
CB Radio makes you speak with a southern drawl.
TV makes you look fat.
Cell phones make your brain tilt.
Microwave ovens make you sterile.
AM radio makes you speak Spanish.
The Internet forces you to view porno.
Bluetooth wireless forces creative passwords.

[KarlInOhio]

and often enough seem to turn users into obnoxious cretins.

I'm an obnoxious cretin. Can I sue?

[ZinGirl]

and FreeRepublic makes you....?

;)

[proxy_user]

That's what will make the lawsuits interesting.

The phone companies' lawyers will claim they were just a bunch of airheads already, and that's why they talked on cell phones so much, rather than the other way around.

[dirtboy]

and FreeRepublic makes you....?

Annoy liberals without trying.

[Stoat]

I'm an obnoxious cretin. Can I sue?

Yes.  The ACLU specializes in representing people exactly like you in endless, expensive litigations.  They have an army of obnoxious cretin trial lawyers who will be at your doorstep in a matter of moments.

[VOA]

bump

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

1.8 ghz next to one's head WILL have a cumulative effect. RF always has a cumulative effect and more so at that frequency. For that reason, I always use a headset to keep the antenna away from my head. Best wishes to all.

[Straight Vermonter]

Let's count how many luddite posts we get in the first hundred, shall we?

[Just another Joe]

PUFF

Yet no other reporter bothered to look for these numbers, either because they didn't have the ability or they didn't have the integrity to dig up the evidence they knew would kill their own stories.

Sound like anyone we know?

After all, there’s so much more scary pseudoscience in need of media attention.

Ain't THAT the truth?

[Ditto]

When it comes to science reporting, the MSM is probably even less reliable than the tabloids.