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- heysuburbia, on 07/24/2008, -4/+46And another medical university in Japan says the opposite:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23013780/
Life gives you cancer, either live in a bubble or die...
ARE YOU SCARED? Because you're on scare tactics! - diggstown, on 07/24/2008, -2/+26FTA: "The question is, do you want to play Russian roulette with your brain," she said in an interview from her cell phone while using the hands-free speaker phone as recommended. "I don't know that cell phones are dangerous. But I don't know that they are safe."
So they have no evidence to prove that there is an adverse effect, there is plenty of research to show that there isn't an adverse effect, but they publish this?
Are you kidding me!?!? They don't know that anything is actually dangerous but they're issuing an official warning?
Clearly someone has an agenda here. - Nono1121, on 07/24/2008, -1/+22everything causes cancer
- mieprowan, on 07/24/2008, -0/+19This is the precautionary principle in action. There is no real way to know what new technologies/drugs/etc. will do to people except for trying them out on large numbers of us. You can choose to be one of the guinea pigs, or not. Unprecedented adverse effects aren't always ones that people could have or did imagine in advance.
- mattdanis, on 07/24/2008, -3/+15I thought the iPhone cured cancer...
- Yambag, on 07/25/2008, -1/+10"Herberman is basing his alarm on early unpublished data."
I bet money that data will not survive peer review. Considering how many billions of people around the world have cell phones, the cancer rate would have skyrocketed by now.
People are so afraid of radiation, but don't even bother to try an understand it. Guess what anything that moves emits radiation. - mugicha, on 07/25/2008, -0/+8I've got my router strapped to my balls. Do you think I'm at risk?
- SHv2, on 07/24/2008, -0/+7What? I couldn't hear you. Can you repeat that?
- Almadiel, on 07/24/2008, -1/+8We have become a society that responds more actively to imagined "possible" threats than we do to real known threats. Apparently science has become too mundane, and can't compete with sensational speculation.
- netneutrality, on 07/24/2008, -1/+8I sleep with my phone. And I never got dain-bramaged.
- Devilboy666, on 07/25/2008, -1/+8wat
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -4/+10We don't really know for sure if the sky is falling or not, but why risk it.
AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111 The sky!!!!!!!!!!!!! it's falling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - inactive, on 07/24/2008, -3/+9IT must be significant, because no one can still explain why so many speed trap police officers ended up getting RF burns in their crotches , then later developing numerous forms of cancer in their crotches.
- Cuchanu, on 07/24/2008, -2/+8My phone is too small and has no vagina. Yours must be from Japan.
- sugarazor, on 07/25/2008, -1/+6"He even warns against using cell phones in public places like a bus because it exposes others to the phone's electromagnetic fields."
Great, now I gotta worry about second-hand cell phones? You're going to die someday, might as well die talking on a cell phone while smoking a cigarette and eating raw hamburger. Seriously though, call me when this has any sort of evidence besides, "well I think there's a possibility that maybe it might cause cancer!!!!" - louiebaur, on 07/24/2008, -0/+5For sure there is an agenda
- tomarocco, on 07/25/2008, -0/+5Duct tape oughta fix that
- PainToad, on 07/25/2008, -1/+6This has been said since the early 90s, and yet I don't see everyone with Brain Tumors.
I call Funding Grab attempt....yet again. - tnoy, on 07/25/2008, -1/+5You're just upset because there isn't much cellphone reception in your parents basement.
- CCSprinter11, on 07/25/2008, -0/+4Yeah, like a little cancer threat is going to convince people that they *don't* need to be constantly connected. What is this, the stone age?
- deadbaby, on 07/25/2008, -1/+5Seems like an evolutionary thing to me. It seems like the people who have to compulsively talk on cell phones hours at a time are generally the type of people who would benefit society if they died of brain cancer. It's a win-win situation.
- rearlgrant, on 07/24/2008, -2/+5The theory that vibrations cause cancer may have some scientific basis, but, as a girlfriend pointed out to me once, just like there are dummies in art, there are dummies in science... http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Odds_for_How_You_ll_Die
The most dangerous thing about a cell phone is the driver talking on it!
As well, it's not even possible to make a false conclusion based on correlation...
"More importantly, there was no evidence of increasing risk with increasing years of use or average minutes of use per day, nor did brain tumors among cellular phone users tend to occur more often than expected on the side of the head on which the person reported using their phone. Specifically, there was no indication of increased risk associated with use of a cell phone for one hour or more per day, for five or more years, or for cumulative use of more than 100 hours. These findings pertain to all three tumor types considered (glioma, meningioma, and acoustic neuroma)." http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/brain ...
Not blogspam. Ok presentation of data. http://www.revolutionhealth.com/conditions/cancer/ ...
Data @: http://www.cbtrus.org/ - tnoy, on 07/25/2008, -2/+5I thought the iPhone cures cancer.
- inactive, on 07/25/2008, -2/+5EVERYONE STAY INSIDE AND DRAW YOUR CURTAINS! Oh wait, I forgot about radon...Mass suicide in 5...4...3...2...1...
- msaleem, on 07/24/2008, -1/+4The best way to go about tackling these studies is to see who they are sponsored by and who is funding them. I bet in a lot of cases that determines what the conclusions are.
That's part of why Google want's to expose all scientific data sets. A lot of times if the results of the study aren't what the sponsor expected, they squash it and you never find out what happened (even proving the hypothesis to be false is very important to science). - akula89, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3nope. causes cancer, cures AIDS.
get your facts straight. - inactive, on 07/25/2008, -2/+5I'm not a hic, I have plenty of friends, and am even mildly important. Habitually talking on your cell phone is akin to chewing gum with your mouth open.
- Lunarbunny, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3There are much scarier forms of electromagnetic radiation in this universe; radio waves aren't even as high energy as visible light; simply the fact that they can penetrate deeper is probably the only reason anybody is scared.
Do cell phones even emit enough energy to ionize atoms with enough regularity to cause a real problem? - inactive, on 07/25/2008, -1/+4No, it only offers eternal salvation...
- kat81, on 07/25/2008, -0/+3I'd like to give you an example to use: Artificial sweeteners. Took a good 20 years of over-using certain ones to notice a generation of people who suddenly had more cancer than the generation brought up before the overuse.
- JasonCox, on 07/25/2008, -1/+4Well, we're *****.
Hmm? Oh, this just in, a new government study so chocolate cures cance- oh, wait, now apparently cell phones plus chocolate equals instant dea- hrm? Ok, just ***** it. Everything is bad for you, we get it. Now go piss off while I stick my head in the microwave so I can glow in the dark. - yourmanstan, on 07/25/2008, -1/+4"we shouldn't wait for a definitive study to come out, but err on the side of being safe" - herberman the idiot
Now i'm not going to do what everyone thinks i'm going to do and just FREAK OUT! - ralphthemagi, on 07/25/2008, -1/+3Damn anti-cellites.
- soldeejay, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2I was in culinary school a while back and someone asked the teacher about non-stick pans, saying something like "I heard that if any of that scratches off and ends up in your food that it may be a cause of cancer, what do you think about them?"
The teacher responded "Well, they have their uses, and in those situations I will continue to use them. There are plenty of things in life that could kill me, I doubt it will be a frying pan." - adamk0310, on 07/27/2008, -0/+21. How many of you know someone who had a car accident while talking on a cell phone?
2. How many of you know someone who died from brain cancer due to talking on a cell phone?
Prioritize, people! - hokie47, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2I sometimes wonder if it is worth the risk. I mean here I have the phone in my pocket next to my balls for around 14 hours a day.
- dnields, on 07/25/2008, -2/+4Except cell phones.
- bjornski, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2Well written, thanks.
The only point I was making was saying "Yeah, but I'm a college student!" doesn't hold a lot of weight.
Your grades and statement show you're not in that camp. Kudos. - sonofinterest, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2How about Wifi? I have my router right next to my head here at my desk. Doomed!
- kat81, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2And yes, this was already on Digg http://digg.com/health/Cancer_center_issues_warnin ...
And I must again remind people of various artificial sweeteners that they no longer use because it took a generation or so of over-use to realize the risk. Sometimes it takes 20-30 years of a generation overusing something to finally see the risks.
We'll know for sure in 20 years, when the teens today are 30-40 and maybe their generation has a 10% increase in the occurrence of brain tumors. - paulhendrixson, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2What is with our Western culture? We can't have anything useful without it being the next big killer or causing some unknown disease. Do we just feel the urge to constantly live in fear of everything?
- quiggibub, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2EVERYTHING has the possibility to make you sick and kill you. No exceptions at all whatsoever. If that scares you, you're better off dying now and letting everyone else live their lives without you shouting at them they're going to catch a disease and die.
- Diggnabbit, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2I've got to say, this is probably not even true as others have pointed out.
But, even if it is true, so what? It's not like we're going to stop using them. There are plenty of technologies that carry a particular risk of death (cars, airplanes, etc.). We still use them because as a society we find them worth the risk/loss. Frnakly, cell phones are the same way. We value them so much that we're not going to give them up over something like this. - bjornski, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2An properly encrypted signal wouldn't affect you any differently.
- LordBoreal51, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2Hey! Just cuz your room is upstairs doesn't mean you're better than those of us stuck in the basement!
- bipolarruledout, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1The public at large IS a test bed for everything the chemical industry has ever produced. While in general these things improve lives they are of questionable value in many products. It comes down to how much convenience you are willing to risk your health for but the problem is that none of these chemicals need to be proven safe before being used in common products unless it's being ingested as a drug or food additive. They are always removed from the market AFTER they start causing problems to human health and the environment.
- bipolarruledout, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1In that case I hope you don't own a laptop or happen to actually USE IT on your lap.
- FireSlash, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Buried. This is just dumb. The article even goes as far as to claim the EM field could harm people near you. Considering the abundance of EM field emitting objects in our day to day lives (Like, oh, I don't know, a CD player), I think your friend's cell phone is the least of your concerns.
- lektroluv, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Damn it! I JUST saw a Penn & Teller episode where they told me I was safe!
- dasamps, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1Yeah, I understand. It's just ridiculous sometimes how people get ideas in their head and are unwilling to hear anything else. I used to believe in global warming at one point....
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