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3G Waves Causes Headaches, Sharpens Memory
jonknee writes "MobileTracker noted that an interesting study on 3G cellular networks has been released out of Amsterdam. The findings were that exposure to 3G waves can cause headaches and nausea (conventional cellular service doesn't have these effects). It also found that those same subjects had better memory and reaction times (conventional cellular networks have the same effect)!"
Next time I have to take a test, I'll carry an old motorola briefcase phone with me and Make sure it is sending and recieving.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
It also found that those same subjects had better memory and reaction times (conventional cellular networks have the same effect)!"
Now if I could only remember I left my cell phone...
Trolling is a art,
It looks like the idea that using a cell phone is detrimental to driving performance is faulty. Since Reaction times are dramatically improved, I expect that within a few years you will be required to use a cell phone while driving.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
Obviously the writer of this article has never dealt with Verizon (or many other telecomm companies).
"Windows are for cheaters" - Bruce Springsteen
Is yet another symptom of "3g" the munchies?
Hmmm, that's interesting, one would thing the residual IRQ going over the PCI would cancel out the WTF that allows people to RTFM, that being the primary cause of people wondering what the heck others just said.
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> If they can cause headache and nausea,
>I think you can reasonably expect it to have other
>effects such as malignant tumours
Wow. Turning myself upside down for 2 minutes can give me headaches and nausea. So can drinking beer!
I must "reasonably expect" those to give me brain tumours too!
Seriously though, there may or may not be a more serious problem than headaches, but there's precisely no evidence of that being presented, is there? (by the sounds of it, there's so few details no one can definatively say anything)
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A little bigger on the inside than out
http://www.tno.nl/nieuws/archief/documenten/tno_fe l_report_03148mu.pdf
TNO is the Dutch equivalent of the German TUV if I'm not mistaken. A very respected institute in the Netherlands
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Sounds like the movie Phenomenon (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117333/) to me... great powers and whatnot, but then you only get laid once and die of a brain tumor... no thanks.
Yes, you see, it is true the brain is like a herd of buffalo.
You see, a herd of buffalo can only move as fast as its slowest members. When those members are killed the entire herd moves faster. So when (alcohol, 3G RF, other substances) kill off the slower brain cells the entire brain operates more efficiently!
Speaking realistically, however, I occasionally have the opportunity to visit a building roof mounted cell site and when I do I always come away with a very dull headache. This is an 800 MHz primarily but there is some 1900 MHz there too.
You all laughed at me and my tinfoil beanie, but who's laughing now? Eh? Eh?
If I seem short sighted, it is because I stand on the shoulders of midgets
I dont know if being upside down or drinking beer will cause tumors, but if you did either for as long every day as people are subjected to wireless signals you'd fuck yourself up pretty badly.
Cell phone *sharpens* the senses? Seems just a little crazy to me.
Heating the brain a little is how it does it. Some of the body's subsystems work more efficiently when warmer than normal operating temperature (that's what a fever is: your body optimizing for fighting infection). Unfortunately, the optimal temperature is not the same for every subsystem, which is why the normal overall blood temperature is 37C. And there's no feedback between the subsystems: to fight infection, your immune system doesn't care if it damages your brain - that's why we cool the heads of people with fevers. So while one part of your brain may work better when a little warmer, there's no telling what the long term effects might be on other parts.
It also sharpens my memory... I remember why I broke up with them!
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most of us won't be able to afford it.
-- Lemmy
How is this junk science? A reputable institution performed a double-blind test of new equipment, and found it to have statistically meaningful effects. They acknowledged that the old cell towers were not harmfull to people, and even used them as a control (or baseline) to compare these new towers against. They acknowleged that they have no proof of perminant damage, and recomend that indepenant research be done to verify and extend their own. This sounds like a text-book example of good science to me.
These tests were not about handsets, and they made no claims that handsets were dangerous. The only effect that this study might have is in determining the placement of towers, so people don't have to spend large amounts of time in their immediate proximity. For example, in rural area many cell towers have been placed in church steeples because they are high points, and it is less expensive and less ugly than building a tower. Now, it would be nice to know if these new base stations will have an unplesent effect on people before they are installed.
It is really the media, not the institutions, that are to blame for the unjustified hysteria, which resulted in needing to do more work than necissary to quell peoples concerns. But I for one am glad that studies have been done to show that cell phones are safe, and am glad for new studies when new equipment comes out. Emperical data is always good, and assuming that there is no possibility that different RF techniques can have different effects than the ones we are familiar with is almost as bad unbased claims that new technology will cause cancer. (Althogh not as bad as saying that old, tested technology does)