Cellphones and Brain Tumors
The health hazards posed by cell phone usage are getting increasingly hard to ignore. They include, but are not exclusive to, an increased risk of brain cancer for people who have been using the phones for more than a decade. Numerous European countries, Israel and Canada are already pursuing guidelines for safer use of cellphones. A year ago a group of surgical neurologists at the University of Pittsburgh called for access to industry data. Even the FCC is beginning to drop hints of a problem.
This alarmist article azspot refers to is, quite frankly, a load of crap. If you go to the actual publication, they state that “Most of these results were based on low numbers.” Translation: They couldn’t get many people to participate. Low numbers in this case means probably between 20 and 100 people participating in each study they analyzed; the subset using cell phones for 10+ years would be even smaller.
The abstract goes on to say that the increased odds of getting cancer, based on these studies, were two percent. Two. Percent. Also note that this was published in 2007. Three years ago. Grasping at straws, Psychology Today? Ok, go back to texting your friend, now that you know your cell phone isn’t going to kill you.
