The cell phone's progress in killing us all
 

I have to ask: Is this all just blown up propaganda or a real concern?

Is that your Nokia or are you just happy to see me? :tpg:

I'm a firm believer that Wireless frequencies cause cancer. I have no actual proof, but the number of studies with half-assed conclusive evidence is enough for me. I don't use wireless internet, and I have a cellphone that I rarely use, due to the fear of cancer.

Everything causes cancer, but cell phones are getting out of control in other ways.

The exploding nokia was likely due to the Li-ion battery. All batteries can do it, though it's incredibly rare (unless you're sony).

I use and carry my phone around with me daily. It might well slightly influence cancer, but so does probably tons of other stuff I come into contact with daily.

I can guarantee you, your cell phone is causing less damage in both the short and long run, than the flourescent lights above your head, the radiation from your microwave oven and your oversized television sets and computer monitors, among other things.

(Can't guarantee, but it seems likely to me after comparing how crappy I feel having sat immobile and talking on a cell phone for 6 hours, to how crappy I feel having sat immobile and staring at a television screen for 6 hours, or sitting at work for 8. And it ain't just my eyes.)

I hate cellphones with a passion, mayby the guy who made up the 'cellphones cause tumors' headline does too.

Honestly, who would use their phones more than 4 hours a day? I don't even think your average chatterbox teen girl demographic talks for that long every day. Plus, for all these articles, the sample sizes seem rather small to be jumping to conclusions.

EVERYBODY PANIC

Also lol.

Why would you possibly choose to live your life in this kind of fear? Can't use a cellphone because you may get cancer? What about all the other waves from everyone else's cellphones, television, satellite, wi-fi, microwaves, transmitters, and Sirius radio that are coursing through your body right now? Better line your house with lead!

Better yet, line it with asbestos.

Cell phones emit microwaves; and prior to the above reports, effects of their use had not been determined to cause any health problems. Now there are scientific studies coming out citing health risks (such as infertility and cancer). Hence why I posed the question in the first post about what you all thought.

And he told you to PANIC. Why are you still here?

MUST NOT SLEEP.
MUST WARN OTHERS.
MUST NOT SLEEP.
MUST WARN OTHERS.
MUST NOT SLEEP.
MUST WARN OTHERS.

Well now really, would you rather Firestone not have to recall their tires because "Hey, it's not like it's widespread yet or anything"?

WOAH...

I wouldn't want my cell phone to explode in my pocket~
I better start wearing 3 pairs of boxers for protection since my
phone is always in my right pocket *_*'''

I believe only PICARDGONK can solve this mystery!

TO THE GONKMOBILE

Fuck. Might as well stay indoors because you could catch cancer from the deadly sun's rays. Well if you stay indoors you might accidently slip and fall in the shower, maybe paralyzing you or killing you. Or you might cut yourself deeply with a butter knife while making a sandwhich.


Just kill yourself if you fear so much.

Double Post:

Note: You have a 45% greater chance of it exploding in your right pocket than left.

You might want to switch pockets.

Or maybe you'll have an aneurysm and die. Best case scenario, of course.

Okay, wait...since sperm production is "below the belt" so to speak, are they somehow magically speaking with the organ in their pants? And is this how the phone blows up?

All I can say is that correlation doesn't guarantee causality. The risks of these people developing cancers could very well be due to radiation coming elsewhere. But I'm not saying that there's no risk involved.

Of course, it's always better to get fresh air and stay healthy rather than stick to your electronic gadgets all the time.

Doesn't everything these days cause cancer? Or did I miss a memo?

I've also heard that cellphones mess with sperm counts. HOW DARE MY CELLPHONE MESS WITH MY MAN ESSENCE!

Serve you right for having phone sex... litarly...

but seriouslly, the only thing I think a cellphone can do these days is get you punched in the face from annoying the crap out of people.

I don't talk on my phone for more than about 10 min a week, but I carry it around always...I wonder...

Lithium-Ion batteries are always (translation: every once in a while) exploding. Poor Dell had a laptop catch on fire due to the battery, during a showcase. Yeah, they ended up losing quite a bit of money and doing all sorts of recalls just so the public would feel more saferer. "zomg lion batry asplode! MY HEAD ASPLODE!"

If we could make ANY technology work absolutely perfectly all the time, we'd find something else to complain about I'm sure, so I really don't care. If my cell phone explodes, I'll have an awesome story to tell people.

"Hay guys, guess what, my phone asplode!"
"NO WAI"
"YA WAI"
"lollercoaster"

Like my cell biology prof said one time after a student was concerned about cancer causing agents. "Ummm hello?...Big, flaming radioactive ball in the sky?...there's your biggest cancer causing agent! Now leave my class and go destroy that damn sun!"

He also stated that, if you live long enough, there is a 99.9% chance your going to die of cancer. I believe it.

I don't believe that cell phones are that bad. First of all, the signals from the cellphones can't even break through the cell walls of your head... can they?

I don't have a cell phone and rarely use one if I borrow one. Something else will probably kill me.... such as my monitor...

I imagine if you manage to not die from anything else, you have a 100% chance of dying from cancer.

I thought radio waves bounce off everything. Not pass through things. Or is that only for certain materials?

Either way, I'm bathed in tons of wireless networks right now. If it's lethal then I should of hunched over awile ago.

I would rather die of cancer when I'm fifty than give up my lighting, artificially flavoured food, and cell phone.

Seriously, wouldn't you?

a major problem is leaving a mobile phone in the front pocket close to your testicles. This part of the body is extremely sensitive to radiation. Radiation was used during ww II to sterilize people.

Radio waves are non-ionizing, meaning they can't alter even basic stable chemical compounds or ions in your body. X-Ray and Gamma are ionizing, and that is why: you wear the lead vest when taking dental x-rays, and people go "POOF" when the Enola Gay comes flying around. Cell phones come into comment about causing cancer because some research suggests that being in the constant presence of electrical power lines (and their oscillating magnetic fields) causes chemical disruptions in the brain that could cause cancer. Therefore, person on street thinks, cellphone + head + energy waves (non-specific) = CANCER. Run minions, run out of the light and throw away your cellphones....cuz the cancer is going to get you!

Most consumer mobile and wireless devices operate anywhere between roughly 700 Mhz and 30 GHz, which is square in the microwave band.

infrared starts at 300 GHz and goes to up to 400 THz (sub-visible).

It's like staring really closely at a microwave then. Ah....

Except cell phones produce only a maximum of 1 to 2 watts of output, while microwave ovens will produce well over 1000 Watts.

Or maybe most people talking 4 hours a day on their cellphones are sitting in their cars all day inhaling traffic fumes.

Not enough evidence their to stop me from carrying my cell.

Half the teenage emo girl population has been notified.


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