Cell Phone Use Study Sees Increased Cancer Risk 222
Dotnaught writes "Frequent cell phone users face a 50% greater risk of developing tumors in the salivary glands than those who don't use cell phones, according to a recently published study. The study, led by Tel Aviv University epidemiologist Dr. Siegal Sadetzki, appeared last December in the American Journal of Epidemiology 'Sadetzki's findings are sure to add to confusion surrounding the already contentious debate about the health effects of cell phone radiation. Many other studies in recent years have found no increased risk of cancer due to mobile phone use, but a few have stopped short of ruling the possibility out and a few have said increased risk of cancer is small but real.'. Even with the increased risk, however, you're still about three times more likely to die in a car crash in a given year."
Good! (Score:2, Funny)
Cage match (Score:5, Funny)
and one can't help but recall the Steven Wright joke about getting a humidifier
and a de-humidifier for Christmas. So he put them in one room and let them
fight it out.
Maybe there could be some kind of academic cage match between the two camps,
wherein they have to explain their research publicly, and get to critique the
methodology of the opposing camp.
The match ends when intellectual honesty compels one camp to admit that their
work is an absolut waste of human time, at which point enter John Cleese to issue
a Wensleydale [wikipedia.org].
Talk less (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Skeptic (Score:2, Funny)
Sounds like another one of those liberal lies... Like global warming.
So what if my cell phone melted to my neck goiter while I was using it outdoors in the middle of January? It's totally coincidental.
3x more likely (Score:5, Funny)
Particularly if you are talking on your cell phone at the time.
Re:Margin of error (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Effectively Zero Risk (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I wonder... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hmm... (Score:2, Funny)
I mean, you read my journals right?
Re:Contridicting Studies (Score:2, Funny)
Doesn't anyone think of the children anymore???
Re:if you can pry it from my cold dead fingers... (Score:3, Funny)
You poor, poor man. I don't care how much money you have or make, you are still poverty stricken.
Re:I wonder... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:if you can pry it from my cold dead fingers... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:if you can pry it from my cold dead fingers... (Score:1, Funny)
I Can Hear It Now..... (Score:2, Funny)
In this corner, with combined revenue of over 220 billion.....CELL PHONE MANUFACTURERS! In the other corner, already salivating like half-starved rabid dogs, PERSONAL INJURY LAWYERS!
"LETS GET READY TO RRRUUUMMMBLLLE!
(CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!)
(sounds of lawyers shuffling papers and shouting as lawyers demand settlements)
Re:I wonder... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I wonder... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:if you can pry it from my cold dead fingers... (Score:3, Funny)
No, I don't know what my point was.
Re:I wonder... (Score:5, Funny)
I felt sure it was going to funny, but I don't see it
Feel cheated.
Re:I wonder... (Score:3, Funny)