A World Health Organization panel has concluded that Cellphones are “possibly carcinogenic to humans”. Will this change cellphone usage in Korea or elsewhere? . . .(link)
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Any device that emits UHF electromagnetic (not magnetic) radiation, yet uses a 3V battery, simply does not have enough power to cause ill health effects.
The notion of cellphone radiation as cancer-causing is fear-mongering junk science.
The evidence is circumstantial, they don’t cause cancer anymore than coffee does, but children could be more susceptible and you might try holding the phone a tad bit away from your brain if possible.
It is junk science.
In addition to being implausible, the epidemiological study upon which this is based (the Interphone Study) contained serious systemic biases. One of the major flaws, pointed out by one of the researchers involved with the study, was that cell phone users were over-represented, relative to the general population, in the control group because people who didn’t use cell phones refused to be controls. There were also problems with the way people reported their cell phone usage. For instance, some people reported using their cell phones for an improbably long amount of time. Ironically, there was also a 20% decrease in the number of tumors found in cell phone users.
Other large-scale epidemiological studies find either no correlation between cell phone use and cancer or are inclusive, as the Interphone Study was. There’s no measurable increased short term risk from cell phone usage, and cell phones haven’t been around long enough to draw long-term conclusions.
The conclusion here is that the media will run wild with scaremongering headlines that get the basic science wrong while hucksters make a fortune off trinkets and crystals to “protect” you from cell phone (non-ionizing) radiation, but there’s probably nothing to worry about.
The funny thing is those people who use earpieces to avoid this “problem” are possibly worse off as the wire acts as an antenna funnelling radiation into their ear. At least that’s my hope.
I predict this will erradicate cell phone usage in Korea just like smoking and drinking were eliminated.
Wedge, the report I saw said the opposite, that the radiation level at the phone was the greatest. The earphone’s do identify douches pretty effectively and one can hope they will eliminate themselves from the gene pool if women start not liking douches which is pretty unlikely. I place into state’s evidence one Justine Bieber.
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