Cancer and cellphones: The jury's still out

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Oct 25, 2008, 2:43:27 AM10/25/08

"The jury is still out'. This is a common quote that is used by the
world press when discussing cell phone safety, but it is misleading.
Cell phones use microwave radiation, and research clearly shows that
microwave radiation is extremely dangerous, causes cancer and poses
other harm to human health. The health effects of microwave radiation
have been studied for much longer and more extensively than cell phones.
Any discussion about cell phones and their potential health risks would
be greatly lacking if the writer did not examine vast quantity of
scientific research about the health effects of microwave radiation.

By narrowing the discussion to cell phones only, which have been used
and studied for a relatively short amount of time, the press are failing
to identify the dangers that are already known about microwave
radiation. Microwave illness and the health effects of microwave
radiation must be carefully considered when cellphone health risks are
discussed by scientists and the press!

Martin Weatherall
www.weepinitiative.org <http://www.weepinitiative.org>

*From:* Linda Sepp

Cancer and cellphones: The jury's still out

MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT

From Friday's Globe and Mail

October 24, 2008 at 9:12 AM EDT

Almost everyone who uses a cellphone probably has a secret worry: Is it
safe to place a small radio transmitter right next to my brain?

The most exhaustive study to date investigating whether mobile phones
pose any risk is nearing completion, but the research, under way for
almost eight years, may not settle the question.

The study, known as Interphone and organized by the International Agency
for Research on Cancer, a United Nations watchdog, has investigated
rates of four cancers found in the head and neck area in cellphone users
from 13 countries, including Canada, for clues on whether the technology
is dangerous.

The verdict: There is a hint in the data that cellphones may cause an
elevated rate of brain tumours for long-term users of 10 years or more.