We have a huge problem on our hands, nobody told us!!!!! Every couple of months scientists decide our favorite device is killing us slowly. Here’s a snippet from the NYT piece:
WARNING: Holding a cellphone against your ear may be hazardous to your health. So may stuffing it in a pocket against your body. ’m paraphrasing here. But the legal departments of cellphone manufacturers slip a warning about holding the phone against your head or body into the fine print of the little slip that you toss aside when unpacking your phone. Apple, for example, doesn’t want iPhones to come closer than 5/8 of an inch; Research In Motion, BlackBerry’s manufacturer, is still more cautious: keep a distance of about an inch.
Are cell phones like cigarettes – cancer or not we just love them to death?
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Very vague… *sigh*
What’s that in his hands? The New Wii?
basically yes. a long term study was done and showed that brain cancer patients tended to have tumors on the same side of the head they hold their phone on (most people prefer one ear to another). the incidence was statistically relevant.
the reason the distance is important is that the strength of the phone’s field strengthens greatly closer the phone is to you – i think it’s cubed if i’m not mistaken.
this is why it makes a lot of sense to use headsets – wired headsets – not bluetooth. bluetooth puts you back and square one re: radiation. or use speakerphone/videoconferencing a lot.
the study showed that cancer risk was dose dependent i.e. the more you speak on your phone the greater the risk and the numbers only became statistically after ten years. so the risk is small but it’s not zero.
for dudes – as far as having your phone in your pocket – it’s a fucked case cuz if it’s close your balls you’re killing sperm – pause. women are winning cuz they can keep their phones in their bag. obviously skinny jeans or tight pants are worse because you deal with the distance issue again. also there are thought of testicular cancer risk.
i audited a tort class and the professor kept saying that cellphones are this generation’s cigarettes from a class action lawsuit standpoint – he thinks there is gonna be a wave of brain cancers and infertility traced back to phones and that hte numbers will dwarf what cig companies had to pay cuz everyone has a phone.
if you wanted to fuck the majority of the human race at once, cellphones would definitely be one way to do it…
funny if it all ends like this… brain tumors and infertility.
life: the time you spend choosing how you want to die.
get a droid and use speaker phone. i dont know WHEN the last time i held a phone to my ear. speaker phone through the car speakers FTW!
Death by Technology.
dayum this made me nervous.. :-/
Well no shit, you really though talking on a phone will make you healthier?wtf were you thinking. That’s why I try not to talk much on the phone and if I have to I prefer text messaging.
After my tech prof said cell phones pump em radiation into the brain, I stopped holding them close to my head altogether. I’m not going to be a guinea pig, the girl next to me in the cafe right now has been talking on her phone against her head for 30+ minutes. I can’t help but lol at ignorance. Just remember, cell phones are using em frequencies in the microwave range, you wouldn’t stick your head in (or even near) a microwave, would you?