"Oh, nothin'. Whut're you doin'?"
Ah, great. Apparently, a study at Landau University has concluded that cell phones are killing honey bees. The radiation near their nests keeps foraging bees from returning to the hive, so it is eventually abandoned and the queen dies
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World J Surg Oncol. 2006 Oct 11;4:74. Hardell L, Mild KH, Carlberg M, Soderqvist F. Department of Oncology, University Hospital, SE-701 85 Orebro and Department of Natural Sciences, Orebro University, SE-701 82 Orebro, Sweden. lennart.hardell@orebroll.se.
[snip] ...CONCLUSION: We found for all studied phone types an increased risk for brain tumours, mainly acoustic neuroma and malignant brain tumours. OR increased with latency period, especially for astrocytoma grade III-IV. No consistent pattern of an increased risk was found for salivary gland tumours, NHL, or testicular cancer.
Conversely:
1: Cell phones don't cause tumors. From the United Kingdom Institute of Cancer Research. Tabrah F. Hawaii Med J. 2006 Jan;65(1):8.
2: Mixed signals on cell phones and cancer. Savitz DA. Epidemiology. 2004 Nov;15(6):651-2.
3: Mobile phones and cancer? Janssens JP. Eur J Cancer Prev. 2005 Apr;14(2):81-2.
So, it looks like the jury is out. From what I read, the problem with answering the questions as to whether or not one is cooking one's brains with mobile phones is that the phones haven't been in widespread use long enough. Some cancers take years to develop, and we don't yet have thousands of people who held MW and RF transmitters up to their brains for 40 years. Kind of like cigarettes - the statistics suggested a connection well before a definitive risk and causal link was made, and it took mass smoking beginning in WW1 and WW2 for it to become clear that lung cancer, previously a rarer cancer, was being caused by something everyone was being exposed to.
Could be that way for cell phones, or perhaps they are largely harmless. How's that for lack of reassurance? :o For this data, I just did a search on PubMed at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed
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