Cell Phones Are Causing cancer?!

[the.sheepdog]

Because the radiation effects accumulate over time. Why add more to it??

Even the sun gives you more radiation than a cell phone. And electromagnetic radiation is a different story than the Japanese nuclear reactor. The isotopes being sent over here now have half lives of hundreds or thousands of years. Depending on where you live you are getting tens or hundreds of miliRems per year.

The Japanese reactors are sending out thousands of times the radiation as Chernobyl did over twenty years. And Chernobyl killed approximately one million souls. You would be safer eating the cell phone than living on the US west coast today.

 

[easyrun99]

Well, no one knows, after he used a headset it went down a lot, but he was too scared to have it checked out.

Wow, not really an effective strategy for just about any problem.

Well, if it went down, it probably wasn't a tumor...

 

[easyrun99]

This is old news. The radiation released by electronic devices causes cancer.

You need to insert a "could" or "may" in the second sentence...

 

[michaelsviews]

Yea OK and the water we drink and the air we breath are pure and will not harm us also.

 

[VulchR]

News flash: scientists report that brain tumors cause mobile phone use.

 

[err404]

Because the radiation effects accumulate over time. Why add more to it??

I think you are confusing the accumulation of radio active materials with exposure to the radiation itself. The hard research so far has shown no effect from cellular radiation on human tissue (it's to weak to interact). If no damage is occurring, there is no accumulated damage over time.

Now, there is some speculation that the research is 'missing' something. Scientists can't even determine conclusively that there is a connection between cellular transmitters and cancer, let alone the mechanism for it.

 

[SPeditor]

World Health Organization Links Cell Phones to Cancer

From the World Health Organization:

"Cell phone use may cause cancer, the World Health Organization announced Tuesday. There is not enough long-term data to link cancer and cell phone use directly, reported a group of 31 scientists from 14 countries. But there is enough information to issue an alert.

With Tuesday's announcement, WHO now groups cell phones in the same hazard category as chloroform, lead, and engine exhaust."

 

[Skika]

30-40 hours without a handsfree device.

And not a single worry was given that day.

 

[QuarterSwede]

What I find interesting is that all this research only focuses on talking on the phone. Personally, I use data on my phone a whole heck of a lot more than I ever talk on it. I'd gather I'm at a higher risk of hand or leg cancer than brain cancer.

 

[SPeditor]

What I find interesting is that all this research only focuses on talking on the phone. Personally, I use data on my phone a whole heck of a lot more than I ever talk on it. I'd gather I'm at a higher risk of hand or leg cancer than brain cancer.

Same here.

 

[Alaerian]

Time to start breaking out the tinfoil hats again.

 

[eljanitor]

Here's something else pretty interesting I wonder of it works.

Cook an egg with two cell phones http://forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?t=23318

 

[Reach9]

i better not keep my phone in my pocket.. it might give radiation to my future kids!

 

[decafjava]

Here's something else pretty interesting I wonder of it works.

Cook an egg with two cell phones http://forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?t=23318

Did you read the thread? It's a hoax!

 

[eljanitor]

Did you read the thread? It's a hoax!

Nope, just looks interesting is all. I guess I'll still have to pay the gas bill to cook my breakfast. And here I thought those roll over minutes were actually good for something too, what a disappointment.

 

[genexrocket]

First they said cellphones cause cancer, then they said it doesn't, and now they're saying it does again? When will the madness end??

 

[CalBoy]

First they said cellphones cause cancer, then they said it doesn't, and now they're saying it does again? When will the madness end??

When we have enough basic scientific literacy to understand that non-ionizing radiation at such a low energy level really can't do anything.

The WHO should really be ashamed. It is basing this classification on a handful of studies finding what is at best an inconclusive link (and ignoring a lot more studies that show no link).

Maybe I missed something, but I think the WHO has more important things to worry about (say HIV, malaria, TB, E Coli outbreaks, the Flu) than a health problem that is relatively rare and can't be conclusively traced to mobile phones in particular.

 

[Bobby Corwen]

It's like peeing in the ocean, it has an insignificant effect.

Scientists are saying: WARNING, if you go in the ocean you might get pee in your mouth.

But should you still go in the Ocean? Probably not. But you will, some might consider a wet suit (Bluetooth), but at the end of the day all that matters is increasing your protein intake and living life while you're alive.

 

[SPeditor]

It's like peeing in the ocean, it has an insignificant effect.

True, until you have a billion people peeing in the ocean over a 100+ years.

Out here in California, beach closings happen all the time from pollution in the water.