I am just asking, but the Independent UK has a report from another award-winning MD that says we are cooking our brains:
Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation.
The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks.
Watch this real quick. I am unsure what to make of it, but there are several YouTube videos showing this "trick".
"It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking," says Professor Khurana, who told the IoS his assessment is partly based on the fact that three billion people now use the phones worldwide, three times as many as smoke. Smoking kills some five million worldwide each year, and exposure to asbestos is responsible for as many deaths in Britain as road accidents.
Tobacco, Alcohol, pharmaceutical chemicals, and now this.
I have long been conflicted about the damned cell phone. I resent having one, but without it I don't work, I can't look for jobs unless I just stay home and sit around.
That is to say it would be grossly inconvenient to do without the damned thing, but I would like - somehow - to get away from it. But my work requires travel and if I cannot be reached in the car (hour and half drives one-way are common) I cannot be reached.
I am NOT one of those folks who lives on the damned thing. I can drive 1000 miles without talking on a phone: most Americans can't drive 400 feet without talking on them.
Cell phone lobbies, of course, are in full denial mode (whether the study is accurate or not):
Late last week, the Mobile Operators Association dismissed Khurana's study as "a selective discussion of scientific literature by one individual". It believes he "does not present a balanced analysis" of the published science, and "reaches opposite conclusions to the WHO and more than 30 other independent expert scientific reviews".
I just recently got a Bluetooth stereo receiver that allows me to stream music from my Samsung Blackjack. Bluetooth is a tiny radio transmitter and represents low-level radiowave activity.
Honestly, I don't really know what to make of this. I rationalize cell use as noted above, but I have always wondered if we have been lied to by Big Corporations - again - to get use hooked on one more technology that is really not good for us.
I just wonder.
It's not like we can get a straight answer to anything anymore....
