Red alert! The cellphone warning has been issued
July 24th 2008 21:49
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It has been touted for some time but the evidence seemed a little sketchy, although anyone with any brains would have been cautious, especially when it concerns your children.
Modern day parents really frighten me, so many are almost totally irresponsible.
It will be their problem, not mine if they continue to refuse to listen and to educate their children in life skills.
Well, confirmation is out.
Brought to us by the Los Angeles Times:
Now he's done it. Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, has said what no one else would -- no cancer experts anyway. Herberman told his faculty and staff today that they should limit their use of cellphones. Why? They might increase the risk of cancer.
Here's the AP story: Pittsburgh cancer center warns of cellphone risks. In it he says, essentially, that he'd rather be safe than sorry.
Other doctors have been more reluctant to warn against the devices, saying there's just not enough solid evidence to warrant full-fledged alarm.
Here's a recent review of the data from Health reporter Shari Roan: Cancer risk from cellphone use is still a matter of study. This was published just a couple of weeks ago when that pesky new California law took effect.
Ah, well, if you're gonna panic, do it wisely. Here are some tips, which accompanied the earlier story, on how to reduce one's exposure to cellphones' radio-frequency emissions.
* Use cellphones for short conversations or when a conventional phone isn't available.
* Use a hands-free device that will place more distance between the cellphone's antenna and your head. The antenna emits radio-frequency waves. And your brain lies just beyond your ears.
* Limit children's cellphone use -- both to reduce their exposure at a time when their brains are still developing and to reduce their lifetime exposure. (Unlike us, they still have a lot of years left.)
* In the car, use an external antenna mounted outside the vehicle.
* Keep the phone away from your body when it's turned on. Sure, it's adorable, but you don't need to hold it all the time. Nor do you need, if you're the more manly type, to clip it to your belt.
* Check your phone's SAR value at the Federal Communications Commission website. This value, for Specific Absorption Rate, is the amount of radio-frequency absorbed from the phone into the user's tissues.
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So do take care, and get off those pesky phones, do you really need to use them to the extent that you do. Listening to other people's boring conversations is so boring and do you really need to report to anyone that you're on the end of the Supermarket queue or that you'll be home in 2 minutes or fish for your bus fare while rudely holding up the bus driver and thoroughly annoying the other, more sensible passengers, while you're yapping on about 'nothing much' at all. The dumbing of the population, it's called. And you're dumb enough to do it.
Oh, I could go on.
But let's hope you don't.
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