Mobile Phones Will Not Give You Cancer December 6, 2006
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This has been a hot potato for some time and, still is. I’ve always wanted to be able to blame phones – and not cigarettes, poor genes and a scummy lifestyle – for any cancer down the line but, sadly, they are no longer a scapegoat – well, at least according to this week’s research. That said, a survey with 420,000 subjects is not to be sniffed at.
The Danish Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen, examined data from people using phones for as long as 10 years – more than 56,000 in this case. At the end of the day, they found zero evidence that using mobile phones resulted in a higher rate of nasty diseases, including eye, brain, or salivary gland tumours or leukaemia.
Even so, no one is advocating strapping your mobile to the side of your head and they warn against giving mobiles to kids [as in the above photo]. –Martin Lynch
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They don't give you cancer? That's nice. But how about not killing your brain cells? Do they do that too? :P
Of course they don't give you cancer by themselves. Some things favor cancer while some things seem to prevent it up to some point. Anyway, what I mean is... It's not only cancer that we should worry about when using our mobile phones. They kill brain cells.
It's no use, the flat-earthers have decided phones are bad, and no amount of scientific evidence will overcome their hysteria.
It may be ture but we don't ignore mobile phones today.