According to an article in the most recent issue of GQ, Your Cellphone May Be Hazardous To Your Health. The correlation between cellphone use and brain cancer has definitely been confirmed. Microwaves are a Carcinogen of sorts.
The most interesting statement made in the article is one that reminds me of the crap that the Tobacco Industry used to pull. From the article:
The cell-phone industry funds lots of risk studies, and many of them show no effect from cell-phone-related radiation. The industry pointed to those favorable studies when countering Lai’s DNA findings. (In 2004, it should be pointed out, a European Union–funded study carried out by twelve research groups in seven countries found evidence of genotoxic effects resulting from cell-phone radiation—the same kind of DNA damage that Henry Lai uncovered in the 1990s.) But when Jerry Phillips, a scientist with the Veterans Administration whose work was funded by Motorola, replicated Lai’s findings, the company put him under so much pressure not to publish that Phillips abruptly quit microwave research altogether.
Industry-funded studies seem to reflect the result of corporate strong-arming. Lai reviewed 350 studies and found that about half showed bioeffects from EM radiation emitted by cell phones. But when he took into consideration the funding sources for those 350 studies, the results changed dramatically. Only 25 percent of the studies paid for by the industry showed effects, compared with 75 percent of those studies that were independently funded.
The implications of this are truly draconian, if you think it through, ie the pregnant woman who keeps her cellphone in her pocket, near her baby’s head, the skyrocketing instances of brain cancers, and more. What is even more worrying is that the Telecom Corporations seem to be now pushing us to give up our landlines. Maybe they think once we give them up, then we’ll be willing to have our brains fried to stay connected. This Corporate Manipulation for Profit has gotten to be the norm, rather than the exception. It’s time for the lawyers to jump in and have a field day. But considering how little the tobacco class action suits have garnered, I doubt it’ll be much of a disincentive to Telecom.
And people wonder why I’ve been a holdout. No cellphone for this Greenie!
I was in Las Vegas for the rolling out of bluetooth years ago. At the time a group of doctors came forward with serious concerns about the wireless technology transmitting microwaves directly thru your brain. They were hushed pretty quickly and I haven’t seen anything since, but I’ve never used a wireless headset for that reason. It’s frightening how many things are covered up by big business.
Yes, it is frightening, Bonnie. And it’s one of the reasons I keep my life pretty simple.
I think it all started to go wrong with Bernays, and proceeded to deteriorate even worse with the “invention” of Planned Obsolescence. Perceived Obsolescence has been around for millenia, at least among the ruling classes.