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Cell Phone Use May Be Bad For Your Sperm
imaginaryelf writes, "WebMD reports that researchers have found a link between hours of cell phone use and sperm quality. 'In a study led by researchers from The Cleveland Clinic, men who used their cell phones the most had poorer sperm quality than those who used them the least.' We Slashdotters know that correlation does not equal causation, so further research is needed to understand the link, but just in case, maybe men should cut back on the hours of cell phone use?"
Hey, what I lack in quality, I make up for in quantity.
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I'll just not let my sperm use the phone.
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We'd need girlfriends/wives before it really mattered!
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I think the kind of jerk who is always on a cell phone is the kind of jerk with low quality sperm to begin with.
My sperm are the size of M&M's and they have teeth and can't be killed by conventional weapons. Do I use a cell phone all day?
Hell no. If I want someone to know something, I punch it in Morse code right on their forehead.
A lack of quality sperm causes high cell phone usage!
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
I'm just afraid that teenage boys will read this and try using their cell phone as a contraceptive device. "Come on, babe, it's safe... you know I'm on the cell at least an hour a day..."
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Bender: "What should we point it at first?"
Fry: "I dunno. Try it on me!" *zap* "Ow! My sperm!"
Bender: "Wow! Neat! Mind if I try that again?" *zap*
Fry: "Huh, didn't hurt that time."
I know it'll be bad for the one obnoxious cellphone dude who takes the same bus as me, since I'm just three more 50 Cent ringtones away from kicking him sqare in the junk.
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The data also comes from a fertility clinic. They took a group of patients and asked them about their cell phone use. What are the chances that there is a correlation between the people showing up having good jobs? I'm guessing if you can afford to go to a fertility clinic, you're probably not poor. If you're not poor, you have job responsibilities. If you have job responsibilities, you may have a phone for it. And if the phone gives you stress.. then the phone is indirectly causing your problem.
Is it something that correlates like that? Is it keeping your cellphone in your pocket? Is it just the fact that EVERYONE is using phones more and more theses days (and counts are dropping)?
While interesting, this study is nothing but a "Isn't this weird? We should test this more."
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