[OT] "It is 10:00. Do you know where your children are"

[Fyron]

There are no health risks with cellular phones. They do not transmit any radiation with enough energy to cause any mutations of DNA at all. It is simply not the right wavelength of EM radiation to be cabaple of doing so. People in general are stupid and worry about everything.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

It is simply not the right wavelength of EM radiation to be cabaple of doing so.

as far as we know.

[Fyron]

Which we do know for a fact. EM radiation has to be in the x-ray or smaller range of wavelength, or be operating at many orders of magnitude greater in energy than cell phones operate at, to even have a chance of mutating DNA.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

what about prolonged exposure?

besides, we don't know everything that can go on in a cell, how do we know it can't?

but all that is beside the point. simply study the incidentes of brain cancer in cell-phone user's versus non.

[Atrocities]

I don't know if cell phones cause cancer, but I do know that they do cause retardation in drivers who use them while driving.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
I don't know if cell phones cause cancer, but I do know that they do cause retardation in drivers who use them while driving.

Well that is from distraction, not from anything harmful from the cell phone itself.

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
what about prolonged exposure?

Prolonged exposure to something that can never induce mutations does not matter. It will not cause mutations over a long period either.

[ January 02, 2004, 20:13: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Prolonged exposure to something that can never induce mutations does not matter. It will not cause mutations over a long period either.

i say we hold a kangaroo court and charge you with overuse of the definitive article.

yeah, i know the word 'radiation' tends to induce paranoa. but a study wouldn't hurt. like i said, we don't know everything about cells.