[Arm_Bears]

Here we go, again.

[tje]

If this is true, eventually the roads will be safer..

[A CA Guy]

Let's all form big lawsuits. Ack...

[xcamel]

This has been debunked more times than the "trailers attract tornadoes" myth

[Cicero]

There may possibly be a link. Who knows?

What's curious about this article is that surely it's important HOW MUCH someone uses their cell phone, as well as for how many years.

Those who use cell phones for 10 years or longer may be at risk. But how often did they talk on the phone every day?

I'm curious, because one of my daughters uses a cell phone, but only occasionally for brief calls. I should think that would be very different from walking around all day with a phone glued to the side of your head, as some people seem to do.

[Clara Lou]

There's a difference between "mobile" phones and cell phones, isn't there?

[umgud]

They are at least responsible for evolution. Lately I've seen former cell phone users who now have funny plastic things growing right out of their ears. They can even use these things to make phone calls.

[FoxInSocks]

Wouldn't it be easier to simply hang up the phones and talk, since they're all standing next to each other?

[metmom]

Again? We've been hearing both reports for years.

[D-Chivas]

Good, I hope they all die so we can have our roads, movie theaters, and restaurants back.

[Vinnie]

I'm smart, I put the cell phone on speaker and drive with it in my lap.

Uh-oh

[RunningWolf]

Well this may be only one data point of anecdotal evidence, but I know of a man who had brain cancer on the side of the head he always used his phone on.

This was during the transition from the 900mhz phone to the ones we have now.

I do not use the cell phone nearly as much as he did, but the way I see it, is it is just one area I would rather not test.

IOW I will make the call on a cell phone with no ear-mike piece, but if I have one I will use it.

W.

[Old Professer]

Grant shopping.

[razorback-bert]

This is one for "Mythbusters" since they did cell phones and gasoline already.

[Pontiac]

Prof Challis, who is negotiating funding for a long-term international study, said last night: "I agree with the authors that this is a hint that needs further exploration. It's further reason why a long-term study is necessary."

Could it be that he agrees with this study because he wants to get paid to confirm this study.

Follow the money as always.

[RVN Airplane Driver]

No wonder the young female drivers in Dallas are so loony...they all have tumors and the phone is still stuck in their ear!!

[metesky]

However when they looked only at people who had used a mobile for 10 years or more, they found that they were 39 per cent more likely than average to get a glioma on the side of their head where they held their handset.

Never once in an article of this type have I seen the baseline given. What is the average chance? .0001%? 30%? So one can't know from this whether ones chances go to .000139% or 41.7%.

Scare mongering at its best.

[KoRn]

I recall when I first started using a cell phone, I had a strange headache on the side of my head where I held the phone. After a few days it went away. I suppose I should have kept my tin foil hat on while I was using it.