World Health Organization: Mobile phone cancer risk 'possible'

Einstein was right

Cancers are caused by mutant strands of DNA. Electromagnetic radiation can't create mutant strands of DNA unless the frequency is at or higher than the blue limit of the visible spectrum, the near-ultraviolet. The frequency of cell phone radiation is about 1 million times too low. Albert Einstein discovered this in 1905 and received the Nobel Prize in physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1921. The wost mobile phone radiation can do is cause a slight localised heating of the brain, which the flow of blood is very efficient at moderating. Go outside on a sunny day without a hat on and your brain will be heated to a much greater extent. Mobile phone radiation can not cause cancer. If it did, where is the correlation between the huge increase in mobile phones and the vast increase in brain cancer? There is none!

shaver weirdness

if i hold my old nokia next to my philishave and then ring the nokia, the shaver actually starts up and pulses as if you are pressing the power button on and off!

can anyone explain this - should i be worried?!! (i'm not shaving with it at the time btw!)

@stim - thats.....

...one interesting ringtone you have there.

If you don't worry about your morning coffee or that jar of pickles....

...then don't worry about your cell phone.

The WHO lists all three in the same "possible risk" list. Look it up.

***clang***

Hark, I hear the sound of a a point being totally and utterly missed...

You lot probably believe that antidepressants work dont you.... see "the emperors new drugs" by Irving Kirsch for some thought provoking commentary on that.

If you had read the article you would see that they are saying there is 'some evidence'. People who get cancer in the main are predisposed to it any way, through family genetics. The best using a cellphone will do is exacerbate that predisposition. The same with someone who uses carcinogenic chemicals - five will get you the sabacc pot - that of the workers all using that chemical 90% of the people who get some sort of cancer later in life will be genetically predisposed.

And for the love of God, will you stop with the microwave crap. Its utterly irrelevant. A microwave is a large box, about the size of an average human torso. It sits on the side in the kitchen and is used to cook with. It is a large lump of mostly metal. It is not something you carry around with you every day.

A mobile phone is a small device made of plastic or lightweight metal or a mixture of the two. It is constantly on, constantly transmitting and constantly picking up and generating signal traffic. And now for the important part... IT IS RIGHT NEXT TO YOUR SODDING EAR AT THE POINT WHEN ITS CAUSING THE MOST RADIATION. It is a proven fact that running a small electric current across the brain in certain ways can affect intelligence and speed of thought for the better. In the same way, electrical devices implanted in the brain can do the same. It is pretty much a sure thing that a mobile phone will have some effect on the areas of the brain that it is closest to (this in fact has been proven by MRI & CT scans).

Microwave cookers are designed to cook the food inside, using as already mentioned a faraday cage (often otherwise known as a routemaster bus) to make sure all that nice microwave energy stays where it should.

A mobile phone depends on being precisely the opposite - it is the jaywalking slapper to the microwave ovens biblethumpette.

High intensity microwave transmissions, should you get in their path, will poach your eyes and other organs in short order. We can therefore assume that smaller amounts of similar energy have similar but lesser effects. However, we cannot assume that in all people cellphones can cause cancer, because they cant, at least not on their own. Its true that like alot of other things (including of all things smoked fish, yes seriously) they may have carcinogenic effects, but you cant have smoke without fire...

Its most likely that we will find that cellphones have some sort of effect on cancers, which isnt a great thing - but unleaded petrol additives are known to be carcinogenic and I dont see mr average american selling his car on the spot. This is not the important thing. My personal view is that while we will find some evidence for alot of things having carcinogenic effects - it will be the genetic predisposition in a individual that acts as the overbearing reason for a cancer to develop, in the same way as its more likely for someone with heart problems in the family to die of a heart attack.

And I dont know if you have noticed, amongst the wailing and gnashing of dentures, but everyone has death built in - it like the MS BSOD is part of the software. Personally I prefer to live - without worrying about what new thing is going to kill me next week - it has a wonderful calming effect, living in reality...

maybe you should try it...?

Go green to avoid an economical crash

The negative effects mobile phones have on health have been argued and proven by many scientists. Yet, the disastrous economical effect that such information would imply made it impossible for any decision body or government to recognize it.

Meanwhile, the 2W radio power generated by the GSM handsets have been reduced to 0.2W in WCDMA handsets which reduces partly the danger. Also, new technology trends such as offloading mobile communications to fixed-line networks through Femtocell and Wifi and Cloud-driven revolutionary architectures (such as Alu's lightradio) will decrease even more the required radioelectrical power.

In my opinion, the health impact of the mobile handsets is unquestionable. It has bad effects on brain, nervous system, eyes and ears. And the challenge here is to let the regulatory bodies, governments and telcos accelerate to consider more green technology trends before the health impact issue drives to a critical worldwide economical crisis.