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NYC Subway Cell Service, No Cell-Related Cancer
Luke PiWalker wrote to mention a CNN article discussing a bid process for offering cell phone service to NYC subway stations. The contract is only to wire up stations; moving trains will not have service. Those New Yorkers will also be safe from their phones, as the BBC reports on a study indicating cell phones don't cause cancer. From that article, submitted to us by Dan Hope: "She acknowledged that there appeared to be an increased risk among brain cancer sufferers on the side of the head where they held the phone. The team, however, did not put this down to a causal link, because almost exactly the same decreased risk was seen on the other side of the head, leaving no overall increase risk of tumours for mobile phone users. Instead, they blamed biased reporting from brain tumour sufferers who knew what side of the head their tumours were on."
Don't stop with making sure terrorists can't use cell phones to set off bombs on the subway. Why don't we just shoot every Muslim in the United States? Sure, over 99% of them are peaceful, law-abiding folks, but that fraction of a percentage might be terrorists. We can't be too safe!
...So what you're telling me is, the one place in New York City where I'm guaranteed NOT to be aggravated by some yuppie asshole yelling into his phone at the top of his lungs is soon to be a cell-friendly environment? You're telling me that I can't avoid these people by hiding out thirty feet underground?
Sometimes I hate technology.