Posted on 05/06/2016 11:39:23 PM PDT by Swordmaker
A 29-Year Study Has Found No Link Between Brain Cancer and Cellphones If, and by how much cellphones increase the risk of brain cancer is a long and disputed argument. No one study is going to settle anything, but one statistical analysis of data in Australia hints at cellphones being reasonably safe.
The study examines the incidence of brain cancer in the Australian population between 1982 to 2013. The study pitted the prevalence of mobile phones among the population—starting at 0 percent—against brain cancer rates, using data from national cancer registration data.
The results showed a very slight increase in brain cancer rates among males, but a stable level among females. There were significant increases in over-70s, but began in 1982, before cellphones were even a thing.
The data matches up with other studies conducted in other countries, but Australia is a particularly excellent example—all diagnosed cases of cancer have to be registered by law, creating consistent data to work with.
By the nature of the multiple variables, large samples and very long lead-time for cancer to show up, the cellphone-brain cancer conversation is always going to be contentious. But studies like this are increasingly showing that if you really want to be safer, forget your cellphones, and look both ways crossing the road.
Kind of like global warming...somebody thought it and somebody believed it.
Cell phones are a major reason the glaciers are melting.
Birth will result in death!
We need to fund a government program to assist Planned Parenthood in minimizing the risk of birth!
Why go back to 1982? Seems it would skew results to when cell phones were not carried on person.
I pull over to dial the number, then set the phone in my lap and continue to drive again. I need a phone holder on the door--sometimes, it slips off my lap.
There are multitudes of studies like that, and, in general, they are not very helpful. For one thing, at the threshold of significance--P-value < 0.05--one out of twenty statistically significant findings is just plain false. For another thing, those studies only look at statistical correlations; I think we are all aware by now that correlation is not causation. For example, if a study finds that obesity correlates with the incidence of a specific kind of arthritis, does it mean that obesity causes arthritis, that arthritis causes obesity, or that some underlying condition causes both?
Although many many physicians conduct correlative studies such as you described, they really are very poor science. While physicians love to publish these studies as if they are definitive, they are, at best, indications that there may be something worth researching further.
Not one of the test dummies developed cancer.
“Brain cancer rates had not in Australia. Tough fact”
The bottom line is that there is no known biological mechanism by which RF energy from a cell phone can cleave DNA and hence cause an increase in cancer. The only observable impact RF energy has on people is tissue heating, which can happen through other, normal biological mechanisms as well. Doesn’t mean they should stop looking, but it does mean they aren’t likely to find anything.
Like the anti-vaxers and global warming - correlation is not causation, even if the data is fudged to show a correlation that isn’t really there.
It’s about politics, money, and sociopathic regulators, not science or a search for truth.
I thought leftism was brain cancer.
LOL!
That’s because the 57 year old author of the study died from brain cancer before he could complete his findings while phoning them in from home. /s
Simple, to see what the brain cancer rate was when people were NOT exposed to ionizing radiation from cell phones held up against the head. Since there were none in 1982 to 1992 or so, it is a good control period to examine the rate of brain cancer rates against for similar periods later where people DID hold ionizing devices up against their heads. If the rates of brain cancer development are the same between a period when they did not hold ionizing radiation emitting devices against their heads and when they did, then it is most likely the ionizing radiation devices are not causing any increase in brain cancer.
What ionizing radiation is being emitted by cellphones?
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