Cell Phones: Communications for the 21st Century or a Road to Medical Armageddon?

The Idaho Observer ^ | April 2002 | Amy Worthington

[handk]

Proud non-cell phone user.

[Poohbah]

First, it's from the Idaho Observer, which makes it suspect.

Second, I'd just love to see those studies that "prove" exposure to electromagnetic energy causes cancer. Care to supply citations from peer-reviewed journals?

[gcruse]

I've never used one either. But not because I am a hair-on-fire aluminum-chapeaued loon. Nothing personal. :)

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Hey, I've always agreed with this.

What about those HiWi wireless networks that are sprouting up everywhere?

[handk]

Do you write to ads in the back of magazines to let them know you won't be buying their product(s)?

[gcruse]

No. Do you?

[handk]

First, it's from the Idaho Observer, which makes it suspect.

Whatever.

Second, I'd just love to see those studies that "prove" exposure to electromagnetic energy causes cancer. Care to supply citations from peer-reviewed journals?

Hey, if you're too lazy to Google the subject matter, fine. Just don't expect me to bring it all to you on a silver platter like you're some fat piece of royalty.

[tubebender]

* Cause headaches and pressure behind the eyes * Induce extreme fatigue * Precipitate cataracts/ eye cancer * Create burning sensation/rash on the skin * Damage nerves in the scalp * Heat the angular gyrus (brain area associated with speech and vision) * Activate heat shock proteins in the brain (cell stress) * Induce ringing in the ears, impair sense of smell, cause sensitivity in teeth * Create joint pain, muscle spasms, tremors * Cause digestive problems and raise bad cholesterol levels * Alter the brain's EEG activity during sleep * Open the blood-brain barrier to virus and toxins (cells leak hemoglobin) * Reduce the number and efficiency of white blood cells * Damage blood lymphocyte cells (immune system) * Cause short term memory loss and difficulty concentrating * Promote development of Alzheimer's disease * Stimulate asthma by producing histamine in mast cells * Stress the endocrine system, especially pancreas, thyroid, ovaries, testes * Damage chromosomes, specifically the DNA strands * Induce new cancers and stimulate pre-existing cancers

I suffer from most of these maladies and am miles from the nearest towers and rarlely use my hands free cellphone. I will take two aspirin and call you in the morning.

[DWSUWF]

"...Proud non-cell phone user..."

Same here.

From the very beginning of this loony fad I've taken the common-sense approach that cell phone radiation can't possibly be a good thing to pump out right next to your brain.

People used to rib me about it.

But I don't take it personally. I know that people hate to face the music when something they enjoy and want isn't good for them, and secretly, on some level, they realize it.

Hell, I'm a sport... I'll even visit them in the hospitals, when they're laying on their deathbeds.

(Those whose brains are still functional enough for them to know I'm visiting them anyway...)

[Pistias]

I'll see what I can't dig up when I make it over to the library (probably not till school starts up again in two weeks).

[Poohbah]

Second, I'd just love to see those studies that "prove" exposure to electromagnetic energy causes cancer. Care to supply citations from peer-reviewed journals?

Hey, if you're too lazy to Google the subject matter, fine. Just don't expect me to bring it all to you on a silver platter like you're some fat piece of royalty.

Sorry, but the rule of debate is that he who asserts must prove--and telling someone to "go to Google" is NOT proof.

Notice that anything can--and is--put up on the web. I'm looking for peer-reviewed studies that show a microwave/cancer link.

[steve-b]

Second, I'd just love to see those studies that "prove" exposure to electromagnetic energy causes cancer.

I'm trying to test this by comparing organisms which are exposed to electromagnetic energy with organisms that are not so exposed. Unfortunately, the control subjects are all frozen stiff, making them difficult to study.

[Pining_4_TX]

Pure baloney. My dad was a researcher in microwave radiation for years, and I can assure you that this is all nonsense. For one thing, the waves emitted by cell phones are too "short" to penetrate the skull. This posting should have come with a tin foil hat alert.

[steve-b]

Cause headaches and pressure behind the eyes

I got those symptoms from listening to the previous president's speeches.

[claptrap]

Frankly, I find it humorous that cell phone transmissions may cause some disturbance in the bodies of the obnoxious users of the stupid things, unfortunately the effects arent readily apparent! I think the truth of this matter lies somewhere in between, though, most people that I am aquainted with that have cell phones are lazy and rather incompetent anyway and their demise wouldnt be any great loss!

[AdA$tra]

If you get out your police scanner (yes I am a geek, and mine is right here) start at the lowest Mhz it can scan. Scan upward to the highest fequency it can scan. You will pick up hundreds and maybe thousands of signals in all ranges of frequencies. I am willing to admit that the source is not as close to your head as cell phones are, but considering the number of signals and their CONSTANT bombardmant of all of our bodies....YIKES. I am going down to my specially constructed, foil-lined room to freep. Darn, my computer and monitor are spewing radiation too. Nowhere to hide.

[SamAdams76]

I'm a proud and healthy cellphone user.

I've had a cell phone near my almost 24/7 since the late 1980s. Since 1998, I've had two cell phones strapped to my belt during working hours. In addition, I have several cell phone towers within a few miles of my house due to the proximity of my home to two major highways.

I've only missed one day of work in 20 years and in fact, the last few years have been the healthiest of my life. My cholesterol has dropped to 185, my blood pressure has dropped to normal and in a recent blood analysis, everything falls within normal ranges, from blood sugars to hemoglobins.

[ZinGirl]

I suffer from most of these maladies

actually, that whole symptom rundown almost falls under the category of "WARNING: staying home with children may cause the following..."

[tubebender]

actually, that whole symptom rundown almost falls under the category of "WARNING: staying home with children may cause the following..."

This is not my problem. I convinced my wife that staying home was the noble cause. HEHEHEHE...

[handk]

See, the thing I detest most about you and your "Tin Foil Hat" police ilk, besides the fact that you never bring anything to the table intellectually, is plain and simple, you're all freakin BORING!

What motivates you people? You flit around from thread to thread saying; "Tin Foil Hat Alert!" -- "Tin Foil Hat Alert!"

Wow! We're all really impressed, truly.

You remind me of a child, who having just learned the "pull my finger" joke from his dad, flits around at his parents' grown-ups party pestering guest after guest after guest to "pull my finguh."

It's "cute" for about two seconds. Of course, if allowed to continue, the pull my finger "tin foil hat alert" little boy could no doubt entertain himself hours on end.

But that's the way children are, the simplest things can engage their minds for hours.