Hold judgment on cell phone headlines
Long-term mobile phone use raises brain tumor risk: study - Yahoo! News
You can't trust headlines like these. Limited studies say electromagnetic fields (EMFs) coming from cell phones could cause adverse health consequences. Fine. But for every one of those studies, there are many more saying there are no problems with cell phones. Which scientific resource should we believe?
Look around on the street the next time you're out. So many people look like they're glued to their phones. If there is a chance cell phones could raise the risk of bringing on tumors then yes, it's something we should all be worried about.
You do what you want, but I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to sit tight until with my cell phone until the World Health Organization weighs in on this. They've asked 13 countries to take part in the be all and end all of EMF health risk studies. It's called the International EMF Project. We're probably never going to get conclusive proof about the risk, but this international effort will get us pretty darn close. The Canadian epidemiologist from the University of Ottawa who's leading up our country's efforts says they're going to come out with their results within a few months. Just a few weeks ago he said there's no real scientific evidence that we should be worried about our cell phones.
So... I wouldn't bother ditching your cell phone yet just because of headlines like these. Although it might be a good idea to invest in a handsfree system just in case. That way the radio frequency EMFs won't be transmitting right beside your brain, but then you run the risk of damaging your hearing... and so on. and so on.


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