Cell Phones Don't Increase Chances of Brain Cancer

mclearn sends in news of "a very large, 30-year study of just about everyone in Scandinavia" that shows no link between mobile phone use and brain tumors. "Even though mobile telephone use soared in the 1990s and afterward, brain tumors did not become any more common during this time, the researchers reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Some activist groups and a few researchers have raised concerns about a link between mobile phones and several kinds of cancer, including brain tumors, although years of research have failed to establish a connection. ... 'From 1974 to 2003, the incidence rate of glioma (a type of brain tumor) increased by 0.5 per cent per year among men and by 0.2 per cent per year among women,' they wrote. Overall, there was no significant pattern."

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Re:Correlation is not causation

[NiteShaed]

It was a friendly jab at the fact that the US is a bit behind in mobile phone technology, but you seem to be taking it awfully hard.

And I was just doing the same. Oddly, instead of either just laughing and moving on, or making your own comeback, you decided to take it seriously. Interesting.
I was just taking a friendly jab at the fact that major Scandinavian innovation ended with the Viking longboat, unless you count their breakthroughs in the field of inexpensive, but tasteful, modular home furnishings.