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kudos:1 | Just CNN Going for Shock and Sensationalism I read that CNN article this morning. I wrote it off as nothing more than CNN's new regular attempts at sensationalism rather than good reporting. Sadly, most news organizations are quickly going down hill. | |
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|  dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
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kudos:4 | said by thegeek:I read that CNN article this morning. I wrote it off as nothing more than CNN's new regular attempts at sensationalism rather than good reporting. Sadly, most news organizations are quickly going down hill.
good reporting doesn't get users eyeballs on the site or viewers on the channel.
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| | That whould be "WHO" That should be "WHO" with all caps, not "Who" which can be confused with the pronoun "who" as in "who dit this?" | |
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|  SnakeoilIgnore Button. The coward's feature.Premium
join:2000-08-05
Mentor, OH
kudos:1 | Re: That whould be "WHO" Also The famous Rock band The Who. | |
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| |  Rogue WolfAte Your Homework, And Framed The Dog
join:2003-08-12
Troy, NY | Re: That whould be "WHO" Considering how long the band has been around, I'm almost more inclined to take health advice from The Who than from the WHO.  | |
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 EdrickI aspire to tell the story of a lifetimePremium
join:2004-09-11
Woburn, MA | Shoot now all the nuts will run with this story and demand we ban all wireless communications! | |
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| | | Re: Shoot I hear if you wear your tinfoil hat a little tighter that helps keep those nasty death rays out! 
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 Romney2012Defeat Obama 2012-Chg we can believe inPremium
join:2002-03-03
USA
kudos:4 |  And now begins the lawsuits & sin taxes on cellphones.
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"The biggest problem we have is that we know most environmental factors take several decades of exposure before we really see the consequences," said Dr. Keith Black, chairman of neurology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
The type of radiation coming out of a cell phone is called non-ionizing. It is not like an X-ray, but more like a very low-powered microwave oven.
"What microwave radiation does in most simplistic terms is similar to what happens to food in microwaves, essentially cooking the brain," Black said. "So in addition to leading to a development of cancer and tumors, there could be a whole host of other effects like cognitive memory function, since the memory temporal lobes are where we hold our cell phones."
So this doc says the phones are cooking your brain near your ear. So now begins the multi-decade lawsuits with everyone ever getting a brain tumor suing; until the EPA regulates warnings; and pols tax phones as a danger and the cost of a cellphone goes up by 10x. But because cellphones will never be banned, the costs will just escalate.
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|  FBGuyyippee ki yayPremium
join:2005-03-19 | Re: And now begins the lawsuits & sin taxes on cellphones. more reason to not buy retail. | |
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join:2004-07-11
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kudos:3 | I bet the BlueTooth industry loves it. "keep those nasty RF waves away from your head"
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|  joebarnhartPaxio evangelist
join:2005-12-15
Santa Clara, CA | Re: I bet the BlueTooth Except bluetooth is RF too. It's back to earpieces with cords, I guess. | |
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| | | | Re: I bet the BlueTooth Or more people using speakerphone... in presence of others, ugh.
I admit I use my speakerphone when I can, but not in front of others. | |
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| | Romney2012Defeat Obama 2012-Chg we can believe inPremium
join:2002-03-03
USA
kudos:4 | said by joebarnhart:Except bluetooth is RF too. It's back to earpieces with cords, I guess.
Or all users using their cellphones as speakerphones. Think it is annoying now in restaurants with people on their phones. Just wait until they are all using speakerphone capability in order to keep phone away from their heads.
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| | |  tshirtPremium,MVM
join:2004-07-11
Snohomish, WA
kudos:3
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| Re: I bet the BlueTooth That's what air horns are for, for best results hold it close to the offenders ear, so that he/she can hear it over the sound of the speaker phone. | |
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| | Radiation scare ... I hope that most folks one day understand just about everything we do or interact with on daily basis is radioactive to some degree. Like the sun or even bananas ... »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
Nothing new to see here folks, just a slow news day at CNN. | |
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| | | Re: Radiation scare ... I'll see if I can find the source... the amount of man-made radiation we receive is about the same as natural ambient radiation. But put another way, we receive double the radiation we did before earthlings started creating it. That's probably a faster rate than humanoids can adapt to, which takes generations.
There's also a major difference between ambient radiation and concentrated radiation and cellphones clearly generate the latter. Given that it's _plausible_ that cellphones could cause cancer over many years, it's not something to reject as a conspiracy or not possible. The onus is on the makers to show that it doesn't methinks.
I accept that it might and am OK with that... just as smokers accept that they might get cancer... not all do. | |
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| | | | Re: Radiation scare ... I too think that cell phones present real risk for brain injuries, but you have to hurl them real hard and aim well ... | |
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| |  amarryatVerizon FiOS
join:2005-05-02
Marshfield, MA
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| said by xenophon:But put another way, we receive double the radiation we did before earthlings started creating it.
There is more than one kind of "radiation". The usual cancer causing scary radiation that we think of is the ionizing radiation nuclear power, atomic bomb, etc. Then there is heat coming from your baseboards - that's radiation too. And there is also the non-ionizing radiation that comes from radio waves. | |
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join:2005-05-02
Marshfield, MA Reviews:
·Verizon FiOS
| Re: Radiation scare ... said by xenophon:I was of course of speaking about radiation that generates 'rems'.
And rems are used to measure ionizing radiation, not the kind of "radiation" coming from a radio transmitter. | |
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| | | | | | | Re: Radiation scare ... yeah, understood.. was just talking natural vs manmade radiation comparison in rems, not cellphone. on cellphones though, even though non-ionizing so are microwave ovens. ok with putting that up to your head? i'm not buying into the cellphone scare but is plausible they can be damaging to some degree and is pretty foolish to confirm it's not possible. | |
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join:2005-05-02
Marshfield, MA Reviews:
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| Re: Radiation scare ... said by xenophon:i'm not buying into the cellphone scare but is plausible they can be damaging to some degree and is pretty foolish to confirm it's not possible.
I agree, but the problem with this non-news (get back to me when they have proof), is that people hear "radiation" and will equate it to Chernobyl to a lesser degree. And these are two completely different animals. | |
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| | cell phones If they did cause cancer you would hear millions dying each day. | |
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| | | Re: cell phones cancer is NOT a instant killer  | |
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| FBGuyyippee ki yayPremium
join:2005-03-19 | you'll hear about them several decades down the road probably. | |
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|  BHNtechXpertBHN StaffPremium,VIP
join:2006-02-16
Saint Petersburg, FL
kudos:32
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| said by brianiscool:If they did cause cancer you would hear millions dying each day.
Oh goody then there is hope. All those idiots with cell phones glued to their heads driving down the road, in stores, theatres and virtually every other public place should start to drop like flies any day now. I'd say this is a win for the world...not a disaster.
Now for effect if we could just get their heads to explode in the process...perfection.
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| | | But who has lived long enough to experience the long term effect of cell phone brain injury?
And how does cell phone radiation effect other body organs?
We are being used as guinee pigs!
These companies KNEW the dangers when the whole cell phone industry started. Yet they NEVER TOLD US. They Continue NOT TO TELL US!
Here's another cell phone company conspiracy that noone thinks about:
Can you 'turn off' your voicemail with the touch of a button?
No? Then why are we essentially 'forced' to receive voice messages?
I do NOT want to receive messages ALL the time. Sometimes I want to: "let it ring , let it ring, let it ring...."
Hey cell phone companies, How about some Warning Labels on your product box ??? | |
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kudos:32 Reviews:
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| Brought to you by the same people who botched Swine Flu... Apparently this must be a slow year as they can't conjur up an "epidemic" to scare people with. Before you read anything into this consider the source. Once you do that it becomes real easy to say "yawn...nothing to see here...move along".
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 RoboticsSee You On The Dark SidePremium
join:2003-10-23
Louisa, VA
·Verizon Wireless..
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| Duh The fact is, it has to be doing something. (don't fool yourself)
And I could care less. Anyone that understands radio waves at different frequencies knows there has to be something happening.
Its a fact you can count on.
But no one cares, and neither do I. We will all continue to use our cell phones.
This crap is everywhere, and always will be. The fact you have it up against your head makes it worse......so what!
If the interwebs wont screw us all for life, the cell phones will if you are a very heavy user and up to your head all the time.
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|  SLDPremium
join:2002-04-17
San Francisco, CA | Re: Duh Don't assume that *your* opinions represent all of us. | |
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| |  tubbynetreminds me of the danse russePremium,MVM
join:2008-01-16
Chandler, AZ | Re: Duh you're free to stop using your cellphone at any time...
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| | | SLDPremium
join:2002-04-17
San Francisco, CA | Re: Duh Why do people insist on telling others what they are "free to do"? | |
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| | data so now we all need data plans (vs voice plans) or annoying earbuds so we can keep the phone as far away as possible from our heads and reproductive organs etc. Perfect. did ATT pay for this study? This was like the "dont drive and talk" campaign engineered by the cell industry to increase blue tooth sales. Yet people are still distracted driving? how can that be? Unintended acceleration? | |
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FBGuyyippee ki yayPremium
join:2005-03-19 | this article is based on... NO DATA WHATSOEVER! | |
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| | Investment time I think I need to invest into the aluminum foil making companies. Gonna be selling a lot of aluminum foil to people that need their hat. | |
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| BHNtechXpertBHN StaffPremium,VIP
join:2006-02-16
Saint Petersburg, FL
kudos:32 Reviews:
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| Re: Investment time said by XknightHawkX:I think I need to invest into the aluminum foil making companies. Gonna be selling a lot of aluminum foil to people that need their hat.
Shssssh let them cook their brains...we'll finally get silence back in public and sanity returned to the streets once they are gone.  This has been the plan all along...let the idiots get addicted to talking on cell phones and the shallow minds who can't control themselves with the things will cook their brains...population control and culling of the brainless herd all at the same time - yay! This gets better by the second...
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| |  aaronwtPremium
join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA
·Verizon FiOS
| Re: Investment time Why would anyone want a cellphone pressed up against their ear all day anyway? They should be using a handsfree device. I'm still amazed at the number of people holding a phone up to their ear while driving. It's much easier using a handsfree device, whether a speaker phone, earbud etc.
I've been using cellphones for over 17 years now. I've been using handsfree devices for most of that time since it's just makes no sense to always stick a phone up to your ear. | |
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| | patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | Lead suits are better. They protect you from extraterrestrial radiation, and radiation from the firey center of earth. | |
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| | | but in fact,i will feel discomfortable after using the cell phone for a little longer!
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MrHappy316Wish I had my tankPremium
join:2003-01-02
Summerville, SC | Don't forget breathing I believe breathing also causes cancer. Especially in CA everything causes cancer. | |
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| SLDPremium
join:2002-04-17
San Francisco, CA | Re: Don't forget breathing Try living out here before commenting on California business. We don't call you a bunch of Nascar idiots! Oh wait... | |
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| | MrHappy316Wish I had my tankPremium
join:2003-01-02
Summerville, SC | Re: Don't forget breathing I actually have lived out there what I was refering to was the warning labels on things nowadays with "In the state of CA this is know to cause cancer" | |
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join:2004-03-11
Fort Lauderdale, FL | So you won't even consider that it could be true? Do you guys who scoff at this do so just because there's no evidence, or would you scoff even if there was a smoking gun? I get the feeling most of you think its BS regardless of evidence or lack thereof. I'm not saying I believe, but I'm at least willing to consider that its actually true.
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| SLDPremium
join:2002-04-17
San Francisco, CA | Re: So you won't even consider that it could be true? I'll even take it a step further - I'm concerned that it is a health risk. I like Karl, but he seems to crack a whip of me-too's in these articles. | |
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| ncbillPremium
join:2007-01-23
Winston Salem, NC Reviews:
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| We scoff because there's not even a theoretical mechanism as to how using cellphones could affect brain tissue
the RF energy emitted can't do anything but heat the outer layer of skin a miniscule amount (so little it can't be felt)
but a few minutes in full sunshine (which you can feel instantly) is far more energy than even a year's worth of using a cellphone. | |
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| | | | Re: So you won't even consider that it could be true? said by ncbill:We scoff because there's not even a theoretical mechanism as to how using cellphones could affect brain tissue
the RF energy emitted can't do anything but heat the outer layer of skin a miniscule amount (so little it can't be felt)
but a few minutes in full sunshine (which you can feel instantly) is far more energy than even a year's worth of using a cellphone.
"There are several layers of tissue that separate your brain from the outside world. First, there is your skin (scalp). Beneath the skin is bone (your skull). Below the skull are three special coverings called the meninges. You may have heard of the illness called meningitis. Meningitis is an infection of the meninges.
The outer layer of the meninges is called the dura mater or just the dura. The dura is tough and thick and it can restrict the movement of the brain within the skull. This protects the brain from movements that may stretch and break brain blood vessels.
The middle layer of the meninges is called the arachnoid. The inner layer, the one closest to the brain, is called the pia mater or just the pia." so, it's probably impossible!. | |
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| | Drop Kick Your Cell Phone !!! But who has lived long enough to experience the long term effect of cell phone brain injury?
And how does cell phone radiation effect other body organs?
We are being used as guinea pigs!
These companies KNEW the dangers when the whole cell phone industry started. Yet they NEVER TOLD US. They Continue NOT TO TELL US!
Here's another cell phone company conspiracy that noone thinks about:
Can you 'turn off' your voicemail with the touch of a button?
No? Then why are we essentially 'forced' to receive voice messages?
I do NOT want to receive messages ALL the time. Sometimes I want to: "let it ring , let it ring, let it ring...."
Hey cell phone companies, How about some Warning Labels on your product box ??? | |
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| | OK, OK, I give up! Who acknowledges "possible" cell phone cancer risk? | |
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