I Knew It! Cell Phones Are Bad For Your

I do have a mobile phone, but unlike the majority of people, I don’t live and die by it. In fact I don’t even carry it around most of the times. It is not like I will lose a millionaire deal if people can’t reach me for a couple of hours.

This is my natural behavior, and I was never too worried about the safety risks associated with it (though I suspected!). If you use the mobile phone compulsively, however, now you have some new studies offering stronger evidence that their usage might be connected with brain cancer.

Here is a quote from an article that appeared on The Independent:

Professor Khurana – a top neurosurgeon who has received 14 awards over the past 16 years, has published more than three dozen scientific papers – reviewed more than 100 studies on the effects of mobile phones. He has put the results on a brain surgery website, and a paper based on the research is currently being peer-reviewed for publication in a scientific journal.

He admits that mobiles can save lives in emergencies, but concludes that “there is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours”. He believes this will be “definitively proven” in the next decade.

One point is valid: people started using mobile phones heavily only on the last decade, so the results and evidence of possible health issues will start appearing on the following years.

Will you reduce your mobile phone usage?

Daniel Scocco on April 3, 2008 Subscribe to our RSS Feed

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4 Responses to “I Knew It! Cell Phones Are Bad For Your”

Egonitron on April 3rd, 2008 4:23 pm

A few years ago I got rid of my cell phone because I was sick of being “on call” for people all the time. It was great, and actually reduced stress quite a bit. I’ve had a cell phone for a couple years now because of work, but I don’t really use it that much other than quick “to-the-point” calls.

Even if they prove that using a cell phone a lot causes cancer, I don’t think people will stop, and few will even reduce usage. They’re too concerned with looking cool while driving and talking on the phone, or too busy trying to look important to care.
Cap on April 3rd, 2008 4:35 pm

I have to use my cell phone for work and I won’t use a bluetooth headset. Even though I have a blackberry, I use a wired headset.

Just curious to know if using the wired headset is any better than using a bluetooth headset or having the phone right next to your ear?

This reminds me of the ending to the movie “Thank you for smoking”.
Daniel Scocco on April 3rd, 2008 5:58 pm

Good point, yeah if people don’t quit smoking while would they quite using the mobile .
Gary on April 4th, 2008 2:35 pm

I’ve been in ham radio for 25 years now and in that time, I’ve had a couple personal friends die and have heard much talk on the air of others dying.

The common point was their profession, all microwave techs and all in the the 30-50 age bracket, all from the same disease, leukemia.

When cell phones first came out, I said “not on your life” would I use one. Also cancers may take perhaps 20+ years to become evident.

Cellphones, x-ray machines emit microwaves, all the same thing, they are high frequency radio frequency radio waves that penetrate walls and flesh.

One point, distance to the antenna makes a big difference in the strength of radio waves, going by the inverse square law. Waves from an antenna 4 feet away is far, far less powerful than the antenna two inches from your head.