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Cell Phone Use Study Sees Increased Cancer Risk
Dotnaught writes "Frequent cell phone users face a 50% greater risk of developing tumors in the salivary glands than those who don't use cell phones, according to a recently published study. The study, led by Tel Aviv University epidemiologist Dr. Siegal Sadetzki, appeared last December in the American Journal of Epidemiology 'Sadetzki's findings are sure to add to confusion surrounding the already contentious debate about the health effects of cell phone radiation. Many other studies in recent years have found no increased risk of cancer due to mobile phone use, but a few have stopped short of ruling the possibility out and a few have said increased risk of cancer is small but real.'. Even with the increased risk, however, you're still about three times more likely to die in a car crash in a given year."
Good, their constant chattering gets on my nerves!
I will have a sig when the market demands it.
One sees these duelling studies, some for, some against cellular phone usage,
and one can't help but recall the Steven Wright joke about getting a humidifier
and a de-humidifier for Christmas. So he put them in one room and let them
fight it out.
Maybe there could be some kind of academic cage match between the two camps,
wherein they have to explain their research publicly, and get to critique the
methodology of the opposing camp.
The match ends when intellectual honesty compels one camp to admit that their
work is an absolut waste of human time, at which point enter John Cleese to issue
a Wensleydale.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Maybe its because they are talking all the time, drying out their mount and their salivary glands are stress to compensate.
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati
One radio next to your head, and one next to your balls? Are you sure that's a good idea?
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
Cell phones cause cancer?
Sounds like another one of those liberal lies... Like global warming.
So what if my cell phone melted to my neck goiter while I was using it outdoors in the middle of January? It's totally coincidental.
Particularly if you are talking on your cell phone at the time.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
oops I've been writing in \LaTeX{} all day. That's what you get for not using preview.
But what about the children?
How does talking on a mobile compare to having a friend in the car next to you, while talking? - well, you only get cancer from the mobile. Friend close enough to be in one car with you may end up in bed with your wife. It's not a difficult choice.
You can't handle the truth.
I'm 55. I have two grown kids. I fervently hope that at my age I don't have any more kids, but I'm too cowardly to let a surgeon close enough to my balls with a knife to get a vasectomy. So for me, a radio transmitter next to my balls wouldn't be such a bad isea. And as to my head, well, if it affects my brain, who's gonna know?
I mean, you read my journals right?
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
"2 (best) Place your cell phone on your belt, and use a headset. Remember, the energy waves' strength falls off rapidly with distance; having the cell phone even a short distance away from your head reduces exposure significantly."
Doesn't anyone think of the children anymore???
I work for a web startup I need to be constantly available
You poor, poor man. I don't care how much money you have or make, you are still poverty stricken.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
Or female?
--
"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
At the bottom of the
"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.... WELCOME TO THE MAIN EVENT!
In this corner, with combined revenue of over 220 billion.....CELL PHONE MANUFACTURERS! In the other corner, already salivating like half-starved rabid dogs, PERSONAL INJURY LAWYERS!
"LETS GET READY TO RRRUUUMMMBLLLE!
(CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!)
(sounds of lawyers shuffling papers and shouting as lawyers demand settlements)
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
If it was a slashdotter driving, that would be a very hypotetical question.
Some passengers, yes. My girlfriend, not so much.
So did Smallpox.
:)
No, I don't know what my point was.
Get your own free personal location tracker
hrm. Comment involving wife...
:(
I felt sure it was going to funny, but I don't see it
Feel cheated.
Max.
"Hold on a sec, something fell out of the truck ahead of me and I need to swerve out of the--" *This call has been disconnected*
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -- Carl Sagan