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Cell Phones & Brain Cancer: An Announcement by the WHO
Today the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a part of the World Health Organization (WHO), announced that cell phone use may be carcinogenic to humans. After a week-long meeting in France, during which 31 scientists from 14 countries reviewed the available data, the group assigned radiofrequency EMF a “2B” classification. Prior to today’s announcement, the WHO’s position was that…
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Cell Phones, Brain Tumors, and Cost/Benefit Analysis
I’ve always been lazy about using my earpiece, but I decided to start using it regularly today. Even though there are no conclusive studies linking cell phone usage to brain tumors. Yet. We’ve talked about this before. Cell phones emit microwaves that don’t cause the same damage that other sources of radiation, like X-rays, do. Studies have found little to no correllation between…
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Bees, CCD, and Cellphones: Still no Link
Once again, the media is going bonkers over a bee paper, and making claims way out of proportion to any actual results. OMG RADIATIONS IN MAI BEEZ!!! Here are some sample headlines: Cellphones cause bees to swarm and die Phone signals confuse bees and cause them to fly erratically before suddenly dying It’s official–cell phones are killing bees I do…
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