Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your Health is a powerful article against the frequent use of cell phones. The article is a bit long, but worth reading. Here are a highlights:
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Interphone researchers reported in 2008 that after a decade of cell-phone use, the chance of getting a brain tumor—specifically on the side of the head where you use the phone—goes up as much as 40 percent for adults.
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This alone will slow down my use of cell phones:
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The only honest way to think of our cell phones is that they are tiny, low-power microwave ovens, without walls, that we hold against the sides of our heads
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Interesting data about cell phone studies:
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Industry-funded studies seem to reflect the result of corporate strong-arming. Lai reviewed 350 studies and found that about half showed bioeffects from EM radiation emitted by cell phones. But when he took into consideration the funding sources for those 350 studies, the results changed dramatically. Only 25 percent of the studies paid for by the industry showed effects, compared with 75 percent of those studies that were independently funded.
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I'm going to use my land line phone more. Janine has a little blue-tooth headset for her cell phone, I probably should get one of those.
(Hat tip: Risks digest)
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