Stop Smoking Your Cell Phones!

Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking'

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/mobile-phones-more-dangerous-than-smoking-or-asbestos-802602.html?r=RSS

Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded.

“Could.” Not “will.” This is the same slippery phrasing that brought you Anthropogenetic Global Warming and Death by Secondhand Smoke. Prepare for your local bar to become “No Cell” zones.

He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation.

What the hell can a government do other than enact cumbersome, ineffective laws that do nothing but drive up the costs through higher taxes and insurance premiums?

[The study] draws on growing evidence…that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer.

What about hand cancers? A lot of people text as much or more than they call.

He believes this will be "definitively proven" in the next decade.

Just like that Global Warming film from Al Gore? The one he’s been showing for fifteen years?

Noting that malignant brain tumours represent "a life-ending diagnosis", he adds: "We are currently experiencing a reactively unchecked and dangerous situation."

Guess what? Life is a life-ending diagnosis, and it’s unchecked and dangerous.

He fears that "unless the industry and governments take immediate and decisive steps", the incidence of malignant brain tumours and associated death rate will be observed to rise globally within a decade from now, by which time it may be far too late to intervene medically.

Just replace “malignant brain tumours” with “global warming”. It’s the exact same panic-inducing jargon. There’s a “problem” that can’t be quantified, but needs to have lots of money thrown at it right now, because in ten years it will be TOO LATE!!! AIIIEEEEEEEE!!!

"It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking," says Professor Khurana, who told the IoS his assessment is partly based on the fact that three billion people now use the phones worldwide, three times as many as smoke.

I bet more people use cotton balls than drink sulfuric acid. Therefore, cotton balls are evidently more dangerous than ingesting H2SO4. Do they not teach correlation vs. causation anymore?

Look, cell phones use RF (radio frequency) waves, which are relatively long waves of radiation. Your microwave oven uses shorter waves (that’s why we call them microwaves), the visible spectrum of light is even shorter, and X-rays and Gamma rays still shorter. We know that the shorter the wave, the more likely it is to do Bad Things to your body, hence the lead apron you wear at the dentist (not to mention David Banner’s issues). That black light you used at your last Halloween party did more damage to you than your cell phone.

It’s just more fear-mongering from junk science adherents hoping to get more control over our lives, and making us pay for it, to boot. It’s the same formula used to sue the tobacco industry, and now the fast food industry.

1. Identify a popular, profitable business.
2. Demonize it.
3. Milk it with punitive taxes and lawsuits until it collapses.
4. Identify a popular, profitable business.

I’d call ‘em on it, but I’m afraid to use my phone now.