Is wireless technology a cause of cancer? Many independent researchers are saying yes.

At least we have our corporate owned government to look out for our best interests.

http://health.yahoo.net/rodale/WH/is-your-health-on-the-line

Unless you've had your cell phone permanently glued to your ear, chances are you've heard the recent health buzz: Mobile devices may cause cancer. While it's true that the National Cancer Institute has ruled them safe, a growing number of independent researchers disagree.

Those experts point out that the FCC wireless regulations on cell phone safety are largely based on something called specific absorption rate (SAR) levels, or the rate at which our bodies absorb radiation. Most phones do comply with the federal standards, but SAR monitors only thermal effects. (In other words, if the radiation from your phone isn't cooking your brain, it's regarded as safe.) But mounting scientific evidence suggests that nonthermal radio frequency radiation (RF)—the invisible energy waves that connect cell phones to cell towers, and power numerous other everyday items—can damage our immune systems and alter our cellular makeup, even at intensities considered safe by the FCC.

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One thing the Interphone study did find? People who chatted via cell for just 30 minutes a day for 10 years saw their risk of glioma (the type of brain tumor that killed Ted Kennedy) rise 40 percent. As a result, many European countries are considering banning cell phones for children under age 6 (RF penetrates little kids' brains more easily), and France has already banned all wireless technology in some schools and many public places, notes physician and epidemiologist Samuel Milham, M.D., a leader in the growing field of electromagnetic research.

All parties agree on this: More studies need to be done. In the meantime, it's best to take easy precautions—and not just with mobile phones. "Never before in human history have we gone from one radiated environment to another," says Crofton. "We're going to wireless offices and living in wireless homes. Even beaches and parks are going wireless. We're exposed everywhere."

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That would be a plus.

1. how many people talk on the phone 30 minutes a day, every single day, for ten years?

2. What are the raw numbers, because a 40 percent increase of a very tiny number is not exactly a health concern. A 40 percent of a large number would be.

3. "May" cause cancer is a big loophole. We don't know fully the mechanisms for many cancers and we've had plenty of studies that said everything from apples to water causes cancer.

Color me skeptical that low powered radio waves cause cancer because our society has been saturated with low power radio waves going back quite awhile, before cell phones.

excellent points all around. :thumbsup:

Sid

I eat meat, breathe oxygen (which I hear is pretty toxic at high levels) and do all sorts of other things guaranteed to wear and tear on my body, possibly cause cancer (although I'm 40 so cancer is probably a decent chance of happening if I live long enough anyways) if not cancer then something else, maybe Alzheimer's or Dementia or something else.

The point is that every time someone says something may cause something bad I don't jump on it.