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Pittsburgh Cancer Center Warns of Cell Phone Risks
RevWaldo contributes a link to an AP story carried by Google, according to which "The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer. The warning from Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, is contrary to numerous studies that don't find a link between cancer and cell phone use, and a public lack of worry by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration." RevWaldo continues: "One possible solution offered? 'Use a wireless headset.' No risk of EM exposure from one of them, no sirree!"
Sure, cell phone use might give you cancer, but on the bright side there are hundreds of other compounds just in the air in Pittsburgh that will give you cancer much quicker, so there's really no need for concern.
Use a wireless headset and keep the phone in your front pocket. The poor mans vasectomy.
I carry around my landline and have a huge roll of wire. It's worked for me so #$FDaf#$# NO CARRIER
Don't just shut up and drive. Just shut up. And while you're at it - get off my lawn.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that a cell phone transmitter (having to reach from the phone to the tower) is on the order of one watt, while your Bluetooth headset (having to reach only a few feet) is on the order of one milliwatt.
Which would you rather have up to your head?"
Well, having the cell phone to my head makes me look like I'm talking on the phone.
Having a bluetooth headset makes me look like I am talking to the voices in my head, or Dorkutis of Borg, depending on which side is seen.
So I'd rather use the phone, because the risk of brain cancer is probably an order of magnitude less than the damage to my image from using an item that is both dorky and pretentious at the same time.
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
I'm allergic to those :(
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
A gun. No electricity involved at all, so it must be very safe.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
If i had my choice i'd take the gigawatt one with eye lazers and microwave deathbeams please.
Let's see... You make Star Trek references and post on Slashdot.
I don't think you have to worry too much about damaging your Cool Guy image.
Having a bluetooth headset makes me look like I am talking to the voices in my head...
I'm starting a new charity. I call it "Headsets for Schizos." Our objective is to give cell phone headsets to people with schizophrenia. With the headsets we provide them, they cease being crazy people talking to voices in their heads, and simply become normal people talking on the phone.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
HA. This'll never happen for cellphones. If smoking is still legal in public, it'll NEVER fly for cell phone use, since there *IS* absolute proof showing the cause of second hand smoke...
I've got a 1:100 chance of being killed in my car, should I stop driving now too?
Given that risk for most people is about 1:5000, maybe you should stop driving.
Well, my company makes the 12-foot pole, which offers infinitesimally more protection. We're also getting ready to release a 3.5 meter pole for the overseas markets, and a 3.5 metre pole for uppity overseas markets.
If we have sunscreen to avert cancer from the sun, can we get a bottle of phonescreen to avert cancer from a cellphone?
Absolutely - I'll sell it to you. I'll warn you, it's a little pricey, but can you really put a price on your health? Especially when we're talking about something as serious as brain cancer?
And, to take care of any alarm over the expense, I offer a full guarantee. If you use my product, get brain cancer, can prove that it was a result of cell phone usage, and have documentation proving that you properly applied my product immediately before each phone call and intermittently after every 4.3 minutes of conversation, I'll give you your money back.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Thanks for the car analogy. I was waiting for one.
I am not sure if this is a case of causality or correlation, but I do know this - those maniacs hurling tons of metals on the highway WHILE jabbering on their phones definitely have some serious brain damages. Either they damage their brains because of the phones, or they are using the phones because of the brain damage.
Until then, if you reach for your phone while driving, I will ram into you, calling the cops and claiming insurance and all other changes on you.
females carry cell phones in their handbags while males have no choice but putting it in their pockets
Female and male whats? Chimps? Or do you mean women and men, the words for human males and females?
"I zero-index my hamsters" - Willtor (147206)
Hah my phone already has a screen.
I dunno, man, I don't have to worry about this stuff at all. I have a buddy with no balls who carries my cell phone for me, and a guy with no brain takes all my calls. Incidentally, the guy with no balls comes in handy when people want to roshambo me for something.
"Having a bluetooth headset makes me look like I am talking to the voices in my head, or Dorkutis of Borg, depending on which side is seen."
Tooooo funny!!!
Just a couple of months ago I recall mentioning to a friend of mine that I can no longer walk down the city street and know who the crazy talking to themselves homeless people are anymore. As the people talking on their cell phone with the wireless headsets act just like them. LOL
mover your cell phone away from your crotch
Thus making the vibrate mode virtually useless.
I don't know of any study relating ham radio to cancer, but then probably no one has ever studied it.
I don't know about cancer, but I've noticed several effects caused by ham radio usage:
If that's not correlation, I don't know what is.
My God, it's Full of Source!
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