Cellphones are dangerous/not dangerous, cell division edition
So apparently, virtually all existing official limits for radiation emitted by mobiles (FCC, we're looking at you) are based on the assumption that the dangerous effects of that radiation are caused by heating of the brain. Pretty big assumption, eh? A new study by Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science suggest that some "non-thermal" forces are at play, though, noting that chemicals involved in brain cell division were affected in tests on rats after just 10 minutes of exposure to cellphone radiation. Improper cell division goes hand in hand with cancer, so the finding is a rather alarming one. Of course, you know the drill: for every study that suggests phones are dangerous, we can certainly dredge up one that says they aren't -- just be forewarned that a cool brain isn't necessarily a healthy one.[Via CNET]
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eslmatt @ Sep 3rd 2007 10:47AM
Everything in modern society will eventually kill you, it is the price of progress. Whether my cellphone causes brain cancer or the radio signals do. If it's not my phone then it will be the air I breath. We are killing the planet and ourselves... but I don't see an end to my own reliance on technology.
indigomontoya @ Sep 3rd 2007 2:01PM
There is so much science we DONT know about the brain. It is hard to have controlled experiments when you dont know what to keep contast