Posted on 03/31/2006 3:41:55 PM PST by rocksblues
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The use of mobile phones over a long period of time can raise the risk for brain tumors, a new Swedish study said on Friday, contradicting the conclusions of other researchers. The Dutch Health Council, in an overview of research from around the world, last year found no evidence radiation from mobile phones and TV towers was harmful. A four-year British survey released in January showed no link between regular, long-term use of cell phones and the most common type of tumor. However, researchers at the Swedish National Institute for Working Life said they looked at the mobile phone use of 905 people between the age of 20 and 80 who had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor and found a link.
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I get a terrible headache being on a cell phone for more than twenty minutes.
Hmmm...there is justice after all.
People who overuse cell phones already have brain damage to begin with.
MY GAWD, I've been watching television for years!
I'll bet I die someday.
Brain Cancer?
THAT explains the inattention to traffic!
I use the speaker function whenever I can.
As long as it is that soccer mom driving in front of me...
Not this crap again. For the last freaking time, electromagnetic fields in the cell phone range of 800 mhz to 3 Ghz cannot cause genetic damage.
I find it ridiculous that they always come up with a finding that repeated exposure to electro magnetic fields doesn't cause cancer yet exposure to second hand tobacco smoke will kill you.
I don't think hours long conversations are good. I have a cellphone with speaker too. If someone is going to keep it on their hip, they should turn it off. Yes it's counterproductive BUT when it's on, that's a lot of radiation going into one's hip (where the bone marrow is).
And political Polls.
That photo is actually two jokes in one. The Aw Jeez guy has a headache.... probably from talking on his cell phone too long. :)
So if I get brain cancer it's all your fault ;-)
Breathing also eventually leads to death. I say we all stop it for a while.
There is really nothing to worry about, the cell phone is producing non-ionizing radiation and will not damage any part of your DNA. If you want a cause for concern, be sure to stay out of the sun. Unlike the cell phones, the gamma radiation coming through the atmosphere IS proven to be dangerous and can cause genetic damage. The national cancer institute has more info about EMF research at:
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/magnetic-fields
I did some work with a microwave guy a few years back, and his thoughts were: cell phones raise the temperature in the water of the brain 1 degree near where the phone meets the ear. Whether or not that's dangerous, I have no f*#@ing idea!
I think it might be more accurate to say that it hasn't been proven that they can and there is currently no known mechanism for the fields emitted by cell phones to cause genetic damage.
That doesn't mean that it is not worth doing long-term experiments to see if cell phones are associated with cancer or any other problems. Our knowledge of what might cause genetic damage is certainly incomplete.
" Studies indicate that the temperature rise is probably <0.2°F."
Source:http://www.evaluationengineering.com/archive/articles/0501deal.htm
Likewise, repeated use of telephone booths increase the risk of being run over by a semi running into your phone booth.
No matter what the rise, wouldn't it cause an unnatural convection eddy of brain fluid? Bwaahaahaa!
So don't use them.
Good one.
I'm just waiting for the complaints about something like carpal tunnel syndrome in the arm or shoulder from holding the thing up to the ear.
Barbara Streisand! See http://www.mcw.edu/gcrc/cop.html Tagline for the willful or invincibly ignorant...
I wonder if this also applies to cordless phones. They also receive and emit radio frequency waves.
Even before the widespread use of cell technology, there was exhaustive research done by many agencies on the effects of non-ionizing radiation. There has yet to be produced a definitive study that links the use of those fields and cancer. And based on our knowledge of what non-ionizing radiation is capable of doing, there may never will be a link because the radiation is incapable of the damage it is alleged of doing. But I welcome the research, perhaps other circumstances and mechanisms yet untested can affect the incidents of cancer. I seriously doubt that it has anything to with EMF based on the current body of research, but that’s why we continue looking.
Several years ago a local news reporterette snagged some researcher at Argonne National Labs who had an electronic gizmo to measure RF output.
She proclaimed that according to this device radio waves were strongest near the cellphone and "especially near the antenna".
I felt sorry for the researcher as I'm sure this didn't help his career any ;-)
Memo to cell phone users in restaurants/movie theaters:
"Shuuuuuuuuuuuuut Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuppppppp!!!!!!!"
Hmmm...
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/Michael%20Fumento/2006/01/26/183883.html
Maybe there is a link. Maybe there's a need to sell accessories.
Any amateur radio operator can tell you RF is dangerous when close to human tissue and has a cumulative effect over time. Folks at church have laughed at my warnings.
I've noticed that the more vehement deniers of EMF effects are assuming that the only possible mechanisms for damage to DNA are ionization and heating, and the only possible method of causing cancer is through damage to DNA.
As the whole process of how genes are switched on and off is unbelievably complex, and not yet fully understood, it seems to me that one cannot rule out the possibility that one player in this biochemical mechanism is in some way sensitive to EMF, perhaps in a way that does not involve damage to this player.
Way back in the day when I was studying for my FCC license, a radio engineer told the class that people in his field end up with bad eyesight from being around RF all the time. Keep in mind that we're talking about kilowatts of RF power.
I've noticed lately that all the technogeeks at work are walking around with Bluetooth (wireless) earpieces. They seem to be all the rage now. The public eventually weighs the risks and benefits of any new technology and makes the final decision (until the lawyers make the truly final decision with a class-action lawsuit, of course).
Does power corrupt?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605674/posts
Yes, all radio operators learned to keep RF away from the head. However, someone is making a LOT of money selling cell phones and they're not going to tolerate anyone slowing that down...kind of like tobacco.
Why is Cingular so bad?
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