Cellphone Update
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Cellphones are causing more and more cancer!
Update on Cell Phones and Cancer
This article is a follow-up to Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer?
; you may wish to read that article
first.
May 20, 2008
As mentioned in the main article, the BBC show Panorama reported that Wi-Fi signals are similar to cell phone signals and are everywhere! Expect people to drop like flies after an explosion at the Budweiser plant.July 12, 2008
The CBC reports that Toronto's Department of Public Health wants teenagers to limit their cell phone use to less than 10 minutes per day. Loren Vanderlinden, the health department supervisor cites anemerging patternin studies suggesting greater risk of brain tumors from long term cell phone use. And what is Vanderlinden's expertise you ask? She is an anthropologist.
July 23, 2008
Dr. Ronald Herberman, head of the UPMC Cancer Center and the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute has issued an internal memorandum warning staff members of the health risks of cell phones. This is getting serious! So serious the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Post-Gazette picked up the story. NPR followed shortly after.Dr. Herberman wisely says
Wait. That's the reason? By this logic we should also stop chewing gum because we might have an epidemic of lockjaw on our hands. Egad!We shouldn't wait until definitive information comes out. By then, we might have a virtual epidemic on our hands.
Thankfully, other reasons are quoted. For example, Dr. Herberman mentions that the Toronto Department of Public Health has issued an advisory. Hmm, that sound familiar, ah yes, the advisory issued by the anthropologist, now I remember. Could it be that the Cell Phone Repudiators are starting to reference each other in lieu of actual science?
We also find that Herberman's warning was pushed by Devra Lee Davis, who is the director of the Center for Environmental Oncology. Now we're getting somewhere! An expert like Davis will surely straighten out this mess. Or not.
It's our old friend, the argumentum ad ignorantiam again! Well I suppose recycled nonsense is better than original nonsense.The question is do you want to play Russian roulette with your brain? I don't know that cell phones are dangerous. But I don't know that they are safe.
