Comments on: SCOTUS denies mobile phone lawsuit

By: mark

mark — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:39:48 +0000

Wow – you guys really think that cancer is the only disease that cell phones can cause? thats pretty narrow minded. autoimmune diseases have increased exponentially in recent years. doctors say they dont know what causes them – maybe the answer is no farther away than the cell phone in our hands. just because they dont cause cancer dosnt make them safe. autoimmune diseases are terrible diseases and can be life threatening. we need to look at the effects of radiation beyond its ability to cause cancer.

By: jafar hussain

jafar hussain — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:07:48 +0000

thanks to all scientist who work 4 the huminity

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:41:04 +0000

Elmar_M (11) said:

Look at the statistics for adult glioma (brain cancer) and you wll see that there has been no, or lamost no real measureable increase in brain cancer since the 1977s. However, since then, the use of cell phones has increased almost exponentially.

I think mobile phone use has increased by an infinite proportion since the 1970s.

IIUC, cellphones were not available at all until the early ’80s.

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:38:29 +0000

Daniel J Andrews (9) said:

Health Canada gets a little proactive in encouraging parents to limit cell phone use for their children just in case.

I kind-of support ideas klike this, but for kids’ mental, not physical, health (and social development).

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:36:59 +0000

@ Ben (5) -
Hah. You beat me to it!

By: VinceRN

VinceRN — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:18:22 +0000

They were asked to decide a technicality, and they did so. It is not the job of the judiciary to say “cell phones do not cause cancer”. The executive branch, specifically the FCC figured that out long ago. SCOTUS just had to say that the FCC superceded the state.

By: flip

flip — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 04:11:05 +0000

One thing that keeps bugging me is a family commenting that they text so much they’ll get thumb cancer. … Sigh… And then they say that texting is better than sticking the phone next to your head because of cancer worries. Double sigh…

By: Elmar_M

Elmar_M — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 22:03:24 +0000

Look at the statistics for adult glioma (brain cancer) and you wll see that there has been no, or lamost no real measureable increase in brain cancer since the 1977s. However, since then, the use of cell phones has increased almost exponentially.
Actually the incidence of some types of glioma has gone down.
Those that showed an increase were only in elderly, which until recently did usually not use cell- phones. Also the increase in elderly can be explained by other facts such as:
- they dont die of other things anymore, so they get old enough to get cancer…
- better detection methods and diagnoses and as such more reports.
- slightly changed classification

Even disregarding all of the above, the increase would be ever so slight that it is almost non existent and then only in the elderly. So again you cant make a direct connection to cell phones at all.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cncr.20621/pdf

By: CraterJoe

CraterJoe — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:35:24 +0000

I think cellphone usages way exceed the dangers. Consider these uses (some requiring serious adjustments and may void warrenty):
GPS Navigation
Faux Light Saber
Handy Gaming Device
Phone (wait, people still talk on them?)
Portible Art Studio
Camera
Video Camera
IED timer or detonator
Personal Massager
UFO spotter
Telescope
Credit Card theft device
Microscope
Television
Web Browser
Motion Detector
Night Vision Device
TV/DVD Remote
Flashlight
Accelerometer
Photo Meter
Compass
Navigation unit for a remote piloted drone
Something to pretend you are talking to avoid a social situation.
Lie Detector
Paper Weight
Source of revenue for telecom companies
Recipe Book
Photo Album
Hoax Generator (for those times when you need to toss together a quick UFO sighting)
Gamma Ray Detector
Door Stop
Audio Recorder
Finger Trap (slide phones only)

By: Daniel J. Andrews

Daniel J. Andrews — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:55:41 +0000

Health Canada gets a little proactive in encouraging parents to limit cell phone use for their children just in case.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/10/04/cellphone-calls.html

By: Arthur Maruyama

Arthur Maruyama — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:59:27 +0000

@ mike burkhart

BA wrote the following on the day of the faster-than-light neutrino release:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/09/22/faster-than-light-travel-discovered-slow-down-folks/

By: Greg in Austin

Greg in Austin — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:55:18 +0000

@mike burkhart,

You can find Phil’s first post about the FTL nutrino findings here:
blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/09/22/faster-than-light-travel-discovered-slow-down-folks/

By: Greg in Austin

Greg in Austin — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:49:03 +0000

@mile burkhart,

“but if some are still woried ,may I sugest buying a BlueTooth head set , most phones work with one and all you have to do is put it over your ear and you can talk on the phone with out holding the phone to your head”

I’m sure cellphones don’t cause brain tumors, but even if they did, wouldn’t putting a wireless device even CLOSER to your brain (i.e. inside your ear instead of outside your ear) be even more dangerous? After all, the cellphones transmit and receive radio frequencies between 800 and 2700 MHz, and the bluetooth devices tx/rx from 2400-2480MHz . So, what would be the difference?

Seems like we would expect a rise instances of ear cancer from all these bluetooth devices!

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:41:40 +0000

PP:>> “So you can use your phone and not worry about brain damage… as long as you use it intelligently”

But that would exclude out about 85% of the American public!

By: mike burkhart

mike burkhart — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:20:19 +0000

I don’t think that cell phones cause brain cancer I use mine a lot (in fact some of my comments come from the internet conection my phone has, I like getting Bad Astronomy no matter where I go) but if some are still woried ,may I sugest buying a BlueTooth head set , most phones work with one and all you have to do is put it over your ear and you can talk on the phone with out holding the phone to your head. Off Topic; Phil I like to know what you think about a discovery in a particle acclerator of a neutrino that apperently went faster then light speed. I’m surprised you didn’t put any thing about it on this blog.

By: Larian LeQuella

Larian LeQuella — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:58:58 +0000

Considering the makeup of the SCOTUS, it’s proably better that they went in on a legal technicality!

By: SkyGazer

SkyGazer — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:37:07 +0000

Ah yes, the old caveat emptor.

@1
That and deathcalls… urbanlegends.about.com/od/medical/a/death_calls.htm

By: QuietDesperation

QuietDesperation — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:08:03 +0000

The real danger of cell phones is getting calls from idiots. The stupid will be injected DIRECTLY INTO YOUR BRAAAAIIIIN! AAAAAAA!!1!!¥!2!!¾!