Sure they do. Cellphones have been in wide circulation for at least 15 years. And every day I see people in the street just collapse from brain tumors. The government should do something.
My sister died from brain cancer and she was convinced that it was caused by her cell phone. She got the tumor on the same side of her head where she held the phone to her ear.
Probably not, but you can get "Aids-of-the-ear" from listening to too many Ass-holes.
MIke
Inventions were everywhere.
One of them, X-ray, was used as attraction at fairs.
People had no qualms about putting their hands into machine to see how their hands look. Hey, it's novelty, it's breaktrough technology, it can not be wrong.
In 1903 Marie Currie got a Nobel prize for radiation research. At that time, NOTHING has been known about biological effects of the radiation. She died of aplastic anemia.
Today, nobody would touch radioactive material with bare hands, nor would stick his hand into X-ray machine just out of curiosity.
Even twenty years ago, low level radiation from CRT monitors was considered to be almost superstition. Now, it is measurable fact.
Brick mobile phones, analog cell phones, and your latest IPHONE are not the same technology, nor they have the same microwave output. The newest technology is the worst offender.
There is something else. Microwave is not coming from microwaves alone.
Average condo dweller is exposed to more than 20 wireless routers, cordless phones, microwaves, security cameras and so on, his or neighbor's.
Increasingly kids at school are exposed to microwaves as if they work on a Radar facility.
I am positive that 30 years down the road people will look at us the same way we look at the people who put their perfectly good hands into X-ray machines.
Geez! My uncle and a number of other relatives died of brain cancer, long before cell phones. People across the world continue to die of brain cancer who have never held a cell phone. There is little more causal evidence here than if you made a case for the fact that most people who get cancer regularly drink milk.
This is as faulty as the recurring, discredited study that links aluminum (as in coffee brewers) to brain cancer. That link is now a perennial caution that is trotted out.
No, but working for the NYT causes other brain problems.
As with any poison or harmful substance:
Dosage (how much)
Exposure period (how long)
Repetition (how often)
Toxicity (how lethal)
Susceptibility (based on individual)
I’m guessing that early cell phones had higher dosage and that those who developed these had higher susceptibility and/or higher exposure and repetition rates.
1989? Adjust for technology. Those old analog phones had an output power of over 3 watts. Modern phones are generally less than a watt.
But even then, every major study of the issue I’ve ever seen said there is no strong correlation between cell phone use and cancer, much less actual causation. Probably the main reason is that cell phones produce non-ionizing radiation, the kind that doesn’t cause cancer. It’s like a microwave (it’s in the same frequency range), it may warm things up, but it’s not going to give them cancer.
OMA... btw: That’s why we text :) l8r
lol...here we go again. Someone should photoshop the “Not this **** again” guy with a cellphone into his hand...
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