Comments on: Cell Phone Towers Cleared: Study Finds No Link to Childhood Cancer

By: phone dock

phone dock — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 04:00:28 +0000

[...] recent news on mobile phones leaking cancer causing microwaves has led to [...]

By: Cliff Maurer

Cliff Maurer — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:08:27 +0000

Why do research scientists waste time and money on uncontrolled observational studies that do not have the sensitivity to meaningfully infer anything about the health effects of low intensity microwave radiation exposure?
The problem is manifold:
What are the full range of possible health effects, given that it has been established from animal studies that there are behavioural effects at exposure levels much lower than the recommended maximum exposure levels based on tissue heating?;
Plausible effects such as brain cancers have very long latency periods, have very low incidence, are difficult to detect, and are consequentially not amenable to observational studies.
Until recently Radiation Safety Authorities have given false assurances of no known physical basis for concern about microwave exposure other than heating effects. Now they generally concede that the false assurances were based on the erroneous assumption that microwave absorption was analogous to infrared absorption in human tissues.

By: YouRang

YouRang — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:03:16 +0000

Who screwed up the report? How can a TOTAL exposure be in kilowatts (not kilowatt-hrs). Kilowatts are a measure of instantaneous power.

By: nick

nick — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:15:20 +0000

No amount of scientific evidence will ever convince the people that are willing to move away from cell phone towers over this kinda thing

By: Sukumar

Sukumar — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:46:29 +0000

Findings are real or extention of a preconceived idea?