News - New study into mobile phone health risks launched

[HEXUS]

COSMOS will track 250,000 mobile phone users over 20 years to see if there?s a brain cancer risk.

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[nvening]

Its worth nothing that there is no scientific knowledge to suggest how mobile phones could cause cancer as the radio waves are not powerful enough to damage DNA.

[[GSV]Trig]

The last thing I saw about this was going on about how mobile phones heat up the brain.

They did a pretty basic test on a guy and then did the same test while "nuking" his brain with a mobile phone stuck to each ear...


During the test with the mobiles on his reaction times went up suggesting that a warmer brain is a good thing

[aidanjt]

Transmission power aside, the frequencies for GSM aren't even remotely in the same frequency range for cooking things (in fact ieee802.11b/g/n is *much* closer, only off by about 50Mhz). This whole thing is *facepalm*, never mind that this subject matter has already been studied at great length by people who actually understand radioactivity.

[matty-hodgson]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V94shlqPlSI

This tbh.

[aidanjt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V94shlqPlSI

This tbh.

If only that wasn't fake, it'd be such a cool party trick.

[Million]

Its worth nothing that there is no scientific knowledge to suggest how mobile phones could cause cancer as the radio waves are not powerful enough to damage DNA.

You don't have to understand the mechanism to note the effect though. Much important epidemiological research was done without that foundation understanding of mechanism, but still saved lives - see the famous 'Broad street pump' case:

A doctor notices a lot of individuals who live around Broad street getting a diarrhoeal illness and dying. The common factor? The get their water from the same water pump. He has the local council shut off the pump, and people stop dying. It was found that the pump had a crack in its sump where sewerage was entering. Those people were dying from cholera, which is now easily recognized, but as this shows, you didn't need to know the causative organism to stop it killing people.

Bit of a tangent, but i'm just trying to say that population based research is useful.

[aidanjt]

Except in this case there hasn't been any noticeable increase in brain cancer, just some urban myths which flies in the face of physics.

Oh, and this exact same study has been conducted in other countries already, they also say, 'erm, no'.

[usxhe190]

Transmission power aside, the frequencies for GSM aren't even remotely in the same frequency range for cooking things (in fact ieee802.11b/g/n is *much* closer, only off by about 50Mhz). This whole thing is *facepalm*, never mind that this subject matter has already been studied at great length by people who actually understand radioactivity.

Does this mean we should turn off our routers? Presumably the distance is a factor.

[aidanjt]

Does this mean we should turn off our routers? Presumably the distance is a factor.

Naw, again, the radiation is non-ionising, and transmission power is insufficient to cook off the nucleotide bonds of DNA. Although I'm sure the numpties who are waving their pitchforks at mobile phones will turn on wlan equipment soon enough.