Testing Cell Phone Radiation on Humans

Palm Addict writes "News.com reports that Finland's radiation watchdog is to study the effects of mobile phones on human proteins by direct tests on people's skin. From the article: 'A pilot study, to be conducted next week, will expose a small area of skin on volunteers' arms to cell phone radiation for the duration of a long phone call, or for one hour, research professor Dariusz Leszczynski said on Friday.'"

Comments

Sounds good, but...

[SlashThat]

Why not test it on living human cells separated from living humans? That way no one would catch cancer as a result of this research, and it may even be easier to study (at least some of) the effects.

Why arm skin?

[Rob T Firefly]

Testing arm skin isn't all that practical, who keeps a cell phone there?

They should find out how the radiation affects the two bodily areas my phone is usually found, which coincidentally are the two areas I'm most worried about irradiating.

This is silly

[radiumhahn]

It's non-ionizing radiation.... people have been putting these things by their heads for hours on a daily basis... show me one potential case of burn via cell signal.

Re:More interesting than the test itself

[Expert Determination]

I know it does more than they say it does. Hell my mom used to get migraines from drinking it, stopped drinking it, migraines gone.

And I know people who get horribly sick from eating wheat products. Does that mean wheat is dangerous? Generalising from a sample size of one is far more dangerous that drinking diet soda.