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UK Report Suggests Dangers In Cell Phone Use
The next shot has been fired in the battle over whether cell phone use is harmful: yorktimsson writes "The Times Online is reporting (along with most UK press) that 'Professor Sir William Stewart, chairman of the National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB), said that evidence of potentially harmful effects had become more persuasive over the past five years.'" In particular, the NRPB's report lists four studies suggesting negative consequences of cell phone use, from tumors to reduced cognitive function.
Is that the same as "reduced ability to stay in the same f#$@'ing lane?" or reduced ability to realize a blinker might have helped" The study probably won't tell us much. The control group probably didn't include a bunch of obnoxiously loud cell-talkers, who's cognitive abilities were in question to begin with
What about phones with the Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator?
Are they safe?
In particular, the NRPB's report lists four studies suggesting negative consequences of cell phone use, from tumors to reduced cognitive function.
But tumors make you smarter, and are a great source of protein....
"All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
Symptoms include:
- Permanently crooked neck
- Both ears flattened to skull
- The inability to keep from shouting "Can you hear me?" in public.
- Frequent facial contusions and other signs of fisticuffs
- Increased risk of winding up with your Camry under a bus
Raise your children as if you were teaching them to raise your grandchildren, because you are.
It's bad for you. Yes it's bad, no wait, it might be bad, no it's ok, really it is, we think, or not. Nope it really is bad. Or maybe not or it's good or it's ok in moderation. We think that it's, no it's bad. Really bad, really really bad. Oh edit that, it's probably ok, we think, yeah definitely.
Where in the HELL do you hold your phone when you talk man?!?
But as long as I have that little gold antenna-boosting-harmful-wave-deflecting sticker on my phone, I'll never have to worry either way.
Didn't you see the scientific looking animation?
"to reduced cognitive function"
No no no! The study has it all wrong! Reduced cognitive function observed in cell phone users isn't the the result of the harmful effects of cell phones. It's just a reflection of the general aptitude of people who have these bits of hard plastic glued to their ears all day.
I sincerely hope that you are holding a British torch (flashlight) to your ear, rather than an American torch (burning stick) to your head!