Tech If It Ain’t One Thing…
posted by March 31 at 14:14 PM
onA study by an award-winning cancer expert shows that cell phone use could kill more people than smoking, it is reported.According to the U.K.’s Independent newspaper, the study, headed by Dr. Vini Khurana, shows that there is a growing body of evidence that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer.
Khurana — one of the world’s top neurosurgeons — based his assessment on the fact that three billion people now use the phones worldwide. That is three times higher than people who smoke. Smoking kills some five million globally each year.
Yes, but what’s the risk of using a cell phone while smoking and driving?
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even if this is true (which I doubt), doubling the risk of brain cancer (which is extremely rare) hardly makes cell phones "more dangerous" than smoking.
Yes, and the entire second half of the article is devoted to what a kook this is. But you couldn't say that, of course, because that wouldn't be sensational.
Crank.
http://www.brain-surgery.us/mobph.pdf
Fucking crank.
well great...here I quit smoking and now i get a brain tumor instead...maybe I can smoke my cell phone.
I refuse to believe that my sweet little Blackberry would ever do anything to hurt me. He just sits over there looking so adorable and blinks his cute little red light so I know to come over and read another dirty text message... That little guy wouldn't harm a fly!
I love you little Blackberry :)
"Yes, but what’s the risk of using a cell phone while smoking and driving?"
You forgot to add obesity to the equation.
One of my 3 friends (seriously, ages 45, 38, and 37) recently diagnosed with brain cancer was told by his doc to never, ever, hold his phone to his head again. Instead he said use the headset (not bluetooth either).
Your BlackBerry blinks? Wow, you must have one of the older ones.
There's no risk.
Until you try to turn and break while your cigarette falls out into your lap as you try to use your Crackberry ...
It less than two weeks old, FYI... Hence my passionate love affair with it. And as far as I know they all blink unless you tell them not too. My Pearl blinked too, but he got old and kicked to the curb... Cuz thats what happens when you get old. Hehehe. Personally I like the friendly little blinking. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
Confidential to Will:
Driving while crackberrying is dangerous... Irresistable... But dangerous :)
Yes, but what’s the risk of using a cell phone while smoking and driving?
I dunno. Singed earlobe?
Here, calm down/
thanks, gabriel @12. summed it up nicely. i also noticed how "unscientific" the bolds looked. even though i am unqualified to judge many of the claims in the original paper--THAT was a red flag.
@10 - I know. Even if you're stopped in traffic on I-90 ...
After giving this some consideration, I find that I'm not at all disturbed by the thought of heavy cell-phone users dying early.
Nicely done Gabriel. This article reminds me of one I read some years back in the nytimes. So I searched their now free archives, yay free archives, and found this:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E5DA1438F932A35753C1A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print
Fox News!
We report *Sensationalist headlines without one fucking second of fact checking* You decide *to stop reading Fox*
Thanks for posting, that Adam. I just came here to scream "This is non-ionizing radiation, people!" but you beat me to it, and in a much more intelligent manner.
There is no known mechanism by which cell phone radiation could cause brain cancer. Hell, it's more plausible that chemicals in the phone's plastic case are leeching through your skin and skull, causing brain cancer. If you're worried about that, never touch anything plastic again.
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