Well there are lot of things that cause me to lose sleep at night (the
diagnosis I made yesterday that will cause someone to lose a limb, my
teenage daughter starting to drive, etc.), but dying from cell phone
induced cancer is not one of them. For a number of reasons:
1. the lowest energy ionizing radiation (ultraviolet light) known to
cause DNA damage is about one and a half orders of magnitude more energetic
than cell phone emanations.
2. the very fact that they have had to look so hard for so long and
have still found no increased risk tells me that if there is an increased
risk it is so small as to be negligible; i.e. the increased risk is likely
multiple orders of magnitude below your risk of dying every time you take
your car out into traffic.
3. if there is a risk, you would think that after 20 some odd years of
widespread cell phone usage we would be seeing an increase in the rate of
brain tumors, salivary gland tumors, etc. There has been no increase.
Rest easy,
Charlie
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I agree, Brian. Landlines remain my main telephone, although my mobile
> number is one that I most often give to people. There appears to be more
> research into the effects of mobile phones on the body and I suspect that
> it will not be fantastic news when the report is published.
>
> Chris
>
> On 5 Jun 14, at 12:40, <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I'm with Mike on this one, but for a different reason. Whenever there;s
> a power cut, all the cordless landline phones in this house are useless.
> With my desk phone, the power comes down the phone line :-)
> >
> > Personally, I object to having a transmitter ( cordless phone,
> cell-phone) so close to what brain I have left ... I'd rather not use one -
> that sort of phone, that is ... :-)
>
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