Mobile Phones Are (Still) Not Giving Your Kids Brain Cancer
Cell phones are still not giving your kids brain cancer. From the Journal of the National Cancer Institute:
Regular users of mobile phones were not statistically significantly more likely to have been diagnosed with brain tumors compared with nonusers…. Children who started to use mobile phones at least 5 years ago were not at increased risk compared with those who had never regularly used mobile phones….The absence of an exposure–response relationship either in terms of the amount of mobile phone use or by localization of the brain tumor argues against a causal association.
Reason on the mobile phone brain cancer panic in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, and 2011 again. Reason on San Francisco cell warning labels.
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But we should regulate the shit out of them anyways. You know, just in case.
Five years don’t mean dick.
Does anyone think that these “panics”–as stupid and moronic as they were–caused even the tiniest number of people to stop using their mobile phones?
No. But I bet it was good for business for manufacturers of hands-free headsets and such.
More that it gets some ratings bumps for the media schmucks.
I doubt it.
It gave the SF Supervisors excuse to ‘act for public safety’.
Why won’t this bullshit die!? The very fact that we are still wasting resources studying this is ridiculous. Mobile phone radiation can’t even penetrate the skin, much less damage any tissue. Any sophomore physics student should be able to tell us this. Why do we need years of peer-reviewed research?
Yes, yes. I know. “Because people are dumb and easily frightened.”
Mobile phone radiation can’t even penetrate the skin
Dunno about that, but the real reason we shouldn’t care is because cellphones emit non-ionizing radiation, i.e. the energy can’t knock DNA out of sequence.
Yes, and even if it did, the mutation could be a positive one, giving us superpowers.
Well, it could.
The non-ionizing part is why it can’t harm tissue; not even skin tissue, which is the only tissue it can interact with. (Well… skin and eyeballs.)
Wrong.
Base Excision Repair proteins in DNA have redox-active FeS clusters – they function by scanning the DNA for electron flow (it’s a molecular wire). If you pass radio waves through DNA, which is supercoiled, you can induce currents -i.e. electron flow – and trick the BER system into thinking that DNA doesn’t need to be repaired at the site of a mutation.
I don’t know if that actually happens, but radiation doesn’t have to be ionizing to have a plausible mechanism for causing mutations.
citations:
http://www.plosbiology.org/art…..io.0060149
http://www.rsc.org/chemistrywo…..011102.asp
etc.
But kids are getting more cancer/autism/diabetes/asthma/allergies and we have no other explanation!
Same bullshit applies.
My cell phone turned me into a newt.
But you got better?
Vaccinations??
It isn’t? Damn.
I want to know what Jenny McCarthy thinks about this issue.
So I guess my new gamma radiation cellphone is right out?
There’s a Dr. Banner here to see you.
Turn him away. I don’t like him when he’s angry.
I think Reason magazine should check a few more sources before publishing “facts”. Here is an article about a WTO study that would indicate otherwise. http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH…..index.html
Welcome to reallity.
From the link:
“When you look at cancer development — particularly brain cancer — it takes a long time to develop. I think it is a good idea to give the public some sort of warning that long-term exposure to radiation from your cell phone could possibly cause cancer,”
Sorry, that’s evidence that no one has any evidence.
Your fantasyland has nothing to do with reality. Tin-foil hats, aisle #6.
CNN has a report about a press release about a study, therefore we can cite it as gospel. Got it.
I don’t really have time for this right now, but the *actual* WHO press release states:
The evidence was reviewed critically, and overall evaluated as being limited2 among users of wireless telephones for glioma and acoustic neuroma, and inadequate3 to draw conclusions for other types of cancers. The evidence from the occupational and environmental exposures mentioned above was similarly judged inadequate. The Working Group did not quantitate the risk; however, one study of past cell phone use (up to the year 2004), showed a 40% increased risk for gliomas in the highest category of heavy users (reported average: 30 minutes per day over a 10?year period).
2 ‘Limited evidence of carcinogenicity’: A positive association has been observed between exposure to the agent and cancer for which a causal interpretation is considered by the Working Group to be credible, but chance, bias or confounding could not be ruled out with reasonable confidence.
3 ‘Inadequate evidence of carcinogenicity’: The available studies are of insufficient quality, consistency or statistical power to permit a conclusion regarding the presence or absence of a causal association between exposure and cancer, or no data on cancer in humans are available.
So, there you go. The study itself is yet to appear.
I see zombies using cell phones all the time. Did the phones turn them into zombies, are are they merely zombies using cell phones? Hard to tell. Somebody please tweet the answer, or at least friend it on Zombook.
http://www.lessemf.com/pamphlet.html
I say, it’s just a ridiculous premise. What would happen if your mobile phone killed you? Why would a mobile phone kill anyone? Doesn’t make sense. How can a mobile phone have an agenda and kill people…
What would happen if your mobile phone killed you?
An uptick in the world intelligence quotient?
Bullshit. Plain and simple. Too much science has piled up. The earth is not flat and cell phones cause cancer, alzheimer’s, blood brain barrier leakage, and other devastating problems especially in children.
you forgot anal leakage.