Posted on 06/01/2011 2:20:31 PM PDT by neverdem
A World Health Organization panel has concluded that cellphones are “possibly carcinogenic,’’ putting the popular devices in the same category as certain dry cleaning chemicals and pesticides, as a potential threat to human health.
The finding, from the agency’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, adds to concerns among a small but growing group of experts about the health effects of low levels of...
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The group didn’t conduct any new research but reviewed numerous existing studies that focused on the health effects of radio frequency magnetic fields, which are emitted by cellphones. During a news conference, Dr. Samet said the panel’s decision to classify cellphones as “possibly carcinogenic” was based largely on epidemiological data showing an increased risk among heavy cellphone users of a rare type of brain tumor called a glioma.
Last year, a 13-country study called Interphone, the largest and longest study of the link between cellphone use and brain tumors, found no overall increased risk, but reported that participants with the highest level of cellphone use had a 40 percent higher risk of glioma. (Even if the elevated risk is confirmed, gliomas are relatively rare and thus individual risk remains minimal.)...
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This year, The Journal of the American Medical Association reported on research from the National Institutes of Health, which found that less than an hour of cellphone use can speed up brain activity in the area closest to the phone antenna. The study was among the first and largest to document that the weak radio frequency signals from cellphones have a measurable effect on the brain. The research also offers a potential, albeit hypothetical, explanation for how low levels of nonionizing radiation could cause harm without breaking chemical bonds, possibly by triggering the formation of free radicals or an inflammatory response in the brain...
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Who causes cancer ... or is on first base
The dsame risk as drinking coffee they say.
What about the “Second Hand Radiation” that people next to you in bars are receiving LETHAL DOSES OF? Go outside to use that cell phone. Mayor Bloomberg deems it so!
anyone want to bet a buck?
“Cellphone Radiation May Cause Cancer”
Only because so many people walk around/drive around with the cell phone glued to the side of their head.
Take a neon light, like a beer sign, and superglue your head to the side of it. You’ll be dead or insane in a week.
When surfing the net on your computer, be sure to sit as close to the antenna for the wireless connection.
Get a CB radio, and sit on the antenna. Then ask for Radio Checks all day long.
There are many ways to skin a cat.
Cell phone companies are bigger than big tobacco, more money to fleece by hungry gubmints.
Cell phone companies are bigger than big tobacco, more money to fleece by hungry gubmints.
One of these days the health nazis will discover Jack Daniel’s may cause cirrhosis of the liver.
Then it’ll be prohibition all over again.
Considering the source of this claim, I’m wondering whether this report is designed to further injure the U.S. economy through scaring consumers across the world into not buying cell phones??
Of course. Everything causes cancer, including kittens, cupcakes and jingle bells. And the only thing to save us is big, honking, goosestepping fascist government.
Before I die, I want God to send me a NYT “reporter” while I’m operating the tree branch shredder.
And if He thinks that’s not fair, I pray for a sword duel at sunrise.
Amen
The above boom mic headset has a 2.5mm male plug. You will need an adapter like the one below if your smartphone has a 3.5mm socket (acually the adapter made by Blackberry is the best):
Thanks for the link.
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