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Comprehensive study: Cellphones don't cause brain cancer
Okay all you fraidycats, you can emerge from your bunkers now, because cellphones aren't going to kill you after all. The Danish Cancer Society studied just about everyone in Scandinavia over 30 years, concluding there is no "clear change in the long term trends in incidence of brain tumors." This is the most conclusive study yet of the imagined link between cancer and cellphones.
We've heard other credible scientists saying that the "radiation" from cell phones is of a wavelength that can't possibly have any effect on brain cells. Our take: if you play on people's fears, you get lots of attention. Attention equals funding. Scare up everybody, profit. Perhaps the same goes for those who dispel fears. Either way, put away your tinfoil hats, hypochondriacs, and be not afraid.
Via CrunchGear
By cell phones at 1:02 PM ON 12/07/09
yes, cellphones don't cause brain cancer.
i have used several years.
my i-phone is low radiation cell phones and accordance with international standards.
i bought from this guy.
By roshinobi at 1:36 PM ON 12/07/09
With the stupid things I've seen people who always have their phones against their face do, brain cancer was probably the least likely thing to kill them anyway. Walking and driving are by far the bigger threats to these people.
By docrings at 7:21 PM ON 12/07/09
@roshinobi: you beat me to the punch! Far more people are killed in activites *while* talking on the cellphone than would ever be killed by any radiation effects.
Americans tend to fret and worry about the million-to-one risks, and don't seem to be concerned at all about texting/talking while driving, smoking, getting drunk, unprotected sex, not maintaining physical fitness and low cholesterol diet.... the consequences of which kill millions a year by accidents, heart attacks and diabetes.
Don't sweat the small stuff!
PS: you're risk of dying in a motor vehicle accident in the USA, on average, is about 1:5000 *every year*! ... but we keep on driving (as we should).
Cheers,
Doc Rings
By charlie at 4:31 PM ON 12/08/09
@docrings
hope all that working out and eating healthy was worth it when you become 1 in 5000. If it's not this year, it'll be the next. Or the next.
By tp at 12:34 AM ON 12/09/09
User "cell phones" - p!ss off, sellout. Take your advertising elsewhere.
The report on CrunchGear seems particularly scant on the details. My mind is in no way made up yet but, in general, studies that find no increased risk of disease from cellphone use are usually funded somewhat by telco/tech companies (even secretly). In general, studies that find negative effects from cellphone use are indipendantly funded.
Coincidence?
By Satan at 7:30 PM ON 12/09/09
Ah, well, they used to say the same thing about radium. I still havea book that suggests that women bath with radium to help keep their skin looking and feeling young and beautiful. In the U.S., it took the government 40 years to admit that they had been releasing thousands of pounds of radioactive material into the atmosphere to see what it did to the people of SE Washington State. What happened? A bunch of people are deformed or dead. PVC anyone? When the chemical industry found out that working with it literally melts the bones in your fingers into a jelly, they hid it to protect themselves from lawsuits and phased it out by using it's derivatives as a propellant in hair products designed for black Americans.
So all this study has is a couple of paragraphs? Lol, suckers.
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