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UK Report Suggests Dangers In Cell Phone Use

Posted by timothy on from the cell-phone-drivers-deserve-a-few-tumors dept.

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.

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  1. Re:it won't change anything by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ..says the person who posts on slashdot.

  2. you're an idiot. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck sakes, did you ever think the rash might be due to chafing, not cell phone death rays? Pin head!

    1. Re:you're an idiot. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      you're the idiot. you can't even respond to the correct poster. and the chafing thing is bullshit. i carry a wallet which is bigger and heavier in my pocket and never have that happen. neither the cell phone nor the wallet slide around, either.

  3. Re:Only in children by TintinX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Timothy, please stop being so sensational.

    I think the word you're looking for is sensationalist

    Unless you're intentionally complimenting him! ;-)

  4. Re:What types of phones? by jacksonj04 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    why is it always dit dit-di-dit dit-di-dit dit-di-dit?

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  5. Nose bleeds ;-) by Scrameustache · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    If used during a movie, it also increases the chances of me kicking you ass!
    You've been warned.

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    1. Re:Nose bleeds ;-) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      shut up. you're posting on slashdot. everyone knows you're either a 98 lb geek that couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag or a 300 lb oaf that can barely lift himself out of his computer chair.

  6. Re:No Actually by SenseiLeNoir · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Breast milk makes your baby smarter?

    *looks at own family*

    Ok, i have never been breast fed (I was premature by nearly two months, so was put on a special SMA compound instead). Yet, I became pretty smart in both intellect, and street-smarts. I was able to argue a case with the Profs at uni, and also with the bozos (Chavs) down at the local shopping centre. And did a Phd too to boot.

    My sister was breast fed until quite late. Yet screwballed her studies, with only 1 GCSE pass (now two). Even in streetsmarts she is not so smart.

    I think it has nothign to do with breast feeding itself, but more to do with other factors.

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  7. Re:Only in children by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    TIMMAYYYY!!!!

  8. Re:So if it affects children by jwdb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mr. Ventura? Is that you?

  9. Re:Read the article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I was going to submit this story but then I read a few copies of it, realized it was meaningless and didn't. I guess the editors thought better ;)

    dude that is SO FUNNY. you used editors and thought in the same sentence! These are the people that won't accept stories on revolutionary scientific finds but on the same day put up a story on how a certain desktop icon turned 8 yrs old today. The moderation system is broken, the editors don't even read articles (we know because of all the dupes so close together), and we are being overrun by people with 12 yr old IQs of making assumptions and going off on someone for something they never said (but they miraculously assumed based on what they DIDN'T say). I hate drama but some of the "guys" on here dig so hard for it I wonder about them....