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Big Dane study finds no mobe cancer link

A Danish study has found there is no increased risk of brain cancer from mobile phone usage. Researchers at the Danish Cancer Society examined cancer rates in a sample of over 350,000 long-term mobile contract customers, and compared them against a sample of 3.2 million of the general population. There was no increased instance …

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People who wear clothes no different from general population

"...and compared them against a sample of 3.2 million of the general population." What's the difference people who have phones and the general population? Probably not much today.

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Conflcts of interest

It would appear that Professor Anders Ahlbom has a conflict of interest since he is a director of his brothers firm Gunnar Ahlbom AB which wass established to help clients with "telecom issues" if the website linked below is to be believed. He was dropped from a panel of experts tasked with evaluating the cancer risks of mobile telephones by The International Agency for Research on Cancer.

http://www.microwavenews.com/Ahlbom.html

Can't read the actual study without singing up or possibly paying...

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What

Again?

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WTF?

what

Who says Big Dane? At first I thought it said Big Daddy Kane.

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One question

How are those who are interested in keeping the fear present going to succeed in demolishing the credibility of this study ?

Because they're going to try.

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Ionizing, nonionizing ...

Spot the difference, win a cookie/biscuit.

Or we can all wring our hands and wail "we're all gonna DIE!" ...

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Flip side

There was an interview on BBC4 with one of the "scientists" involved in that research.

She said that bussiness users were NOT included !

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