Finally, A Definitive Answer On Whether Cell Phones Cause Cancer -- In 20 Or 30 Years
from the long-wait dept
For years, there's been conflicting research on the health risks posed by mobile phones. For every study that found a link between the radiation from phones and cancer, there was another that didn't. Part of the problem is that the health issues that could be caused by phones can take years to emerge, and since mobile phones are relatively new -- and have changed significantly over the past 10 or 15 years -- so definitive research is a long and difficult task. But now, some researchers in Europe are embarking on a large-scale, 20- to 30-year study to examine just how phones affect people's health. They're looking at cancer, but also other issues commonly tied to phones, such as brain diseases, headaches, tinnitus, depression and sleep disorders, and will also be examining radiation emitted by other devices, like baby monitors and cordless phones. It will be great to have some more definitive answers as to exactly what risks we're subjecting ourselves to by putting mobile phones up against our heads, so be sure to check back in a few decades.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Hopefully with a clean bill of health, of course.
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Other EM radiation?
This 20-30 year study will be probably be inconclusive unless they put a control group of people inside a Faraday cage for the period of the study.
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Oh thats right - David Blane already did this. So lets ask him....
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What man made EM transmissions.
"like TV transmissions, radio, etc?"
What's a TV? What's a radio? etc? Wait, what does that mean?
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On Faraday Cages
An example of this is:
"Mismanagement doesn't exist in the entire Wallstreet district of New York, because it exists in a Faraday Cage."
That's a Faraday Cage.
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Heavy cell phone may also be linked to factors which may lead to cancer (example: stress), so it will be interesting to see how they separate causation from correlation.
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Financial Humor is the cancer that kills /B/
People like Dimon, maybe even Pandit who get out of the that faraday cage and maybe even travel coach every once in a while. Some of the best conversations I've ever had were with normal people.
It may take four or five trips before you find that 'one', but when you do, it will make it all worthwhile.
Tips for the non-sociable (Pandit):
1.) Don't give a business card.
2.) Just say "I run a small business in New York" What do you do?
3.) Don't talk about what you do, but instead ask about how the crisis has hurt/helped them.
4.) Pandit: "You know, I ran into the same thing. I had an account that Citibank sent to collections and they started contacting everyone I knew, even people from High School"
5.) Let them talk
6.) Say (Pandit): What really earks me is that Citibank returned to sender my bankruptcy discharge. Now they can claim the bankruptcy never happened, and sell the account to another party.
7.) Let the person beside you say that Citibank is a bad company to do business with.
9.) Agree.
10.) Go home and wallow in the sorrows of the company you run.
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Financial Humor is the cancer that kills /B/
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what are we gonna do tonight BRAIN
try and squeeze out of my cancer cells
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You know, [redacted]... oh nevermind.
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If I Were To Guess
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What happen(n)ed?
cigarettes...
i heard that water or the other water will kill you also. one of which is.... A WITCH!
--faraday cages havent been used for ten years. So what is a faraday cage?
I had something I considered witty, however, I have been watching too much footage of the good mister chapel as of late, and decided that I would not make a comment. Except for the previous and following:
On the tubes of various people (i'm looking at you), I am quite sure that you might find a video of someone on a... wearing a who?
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Since we still use analog...
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Wait another 20 years?
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=06/12/07/223218
I think that if a study of nearly 1/2 million users over a 20 year period was not able to find a correlation, the actual risk is so miniscule that it is just not worth worrying about.
Are they saying that another 20 year study is really required.....or are they touting for a 20 year meal ticket?
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