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4 CommentsFrom the Clip Cancer Center: Cell Phone Risk posted by Tyme:
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.
Adults should keep the phone away from the head and use the speakerphone or a wireless headset, he says. He even warns against using cell phones in public places like a bus because it exposes others to the phone's electromagnetic fields.
I heard it on the local news a couple of times today and thought I would share. Not using a phone in public places sort of contradicts the "keep the phone aware from your head" advice. One sentence makes it seem as if keeping the phone away from the head lessens the exposure and the second sentence basically negates that by implying using it at all (or someone else using it) can harm you - like second hand smoke.
I wonder how much this would have impacted the iPhone's (or any other's) success it this was released a couple of weeks earlier.
Scrivs
Written Jul. 24, 2008 / Report /
In 2008 we are still having this cell phone causes cancer issue? There has to be a definitive answer to it and I don't want to sound like the people in the 1950s who said smoking doesn't cause cancer, but it seems silly to think that any type of phone will bring about cancer in your head.
Oh well, I text anyways.
Ozone42
Written Jul. 24, 2008 / Report /
There have been a lot of studies on this that have come up negative. What is it about this one that invalidates them?
Also... I really have to question these people. They suggest using a wireless headset. That still gives you a big dose of EM in your head. It's not the same, it could be more, it could be less, depends on the brand and design.
A wired headset would reduce the affect quite a lot.
Tyme
Written Jul. 24, 2008 / Report /
This is the part that gets me:
So throw everyone into a panic but don't allow us to see what the data says. I understand the urgency with kids but perhaps the system needs an overhaul if it takes so long for findings to be published (legitimate ones) that millions of people would be effected.
Scrivs
Written Jul. 24, 2008 / Report /
This along with the 4 day week for schools makes me wonder about people.