Cell Phones Don't Increase Chances of Brain Cancer 320
mclearn sends in news of "a very large, 30-year study of just about everyone in Scandinavia" that shows no link between mobile phone use and brain tumors. "Even though mobile telephone use soared in the 1990s and afterward, brain tumors did not become any more common during this time, the researchers reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Some activist groups and a few researchers have raised concerns about a link between mobile phones and several kinds of cancer, including brain tumors, although years of research have failed to establish a connection. ... 'From 1974 to 2003, the incidence rate of glioma (a type of brain tumor) increased by 0.5 per cent per year among men and by 0.2 per cent per year among women,' they wrote. Overall, there was no significant pattern."
Re:But they do increase.. (Score:3, Funny)
Second-hand... (Score:3, Funny)
OK, OK, I'm not totally serious with this (it's more a riff on the whole second-hand smoke issue), but still...
Good! (Score:2, Funny)
BAH! EXPERTS! WHAT DO THEY KNOW? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sick and tired of "Experts" telling me how to do things. When you spend your whole life studying one thing, you end up knowing nothing. Common sense is all you need.
Now I'm off to read the horoscope to see if I should buy a lottery ticket.
Well, sure, in Scandanavians (Score:3, Funny)
This study shows Scandinavians don't get any increased tumors. Don't try to pass that off as evidence that Mericans won't. Haven't you heard all the complaints -- do you think people are crazy?
Re:Which is bad? (Score:5, Funny)
The hard white part that surrounds the soft inner parts is bad. It should be removed before eating.
Re:But they do increase.. (Score:1, Funny)
My professional opinion... (Score:2, Funny)
As a loyal slashdotter, I refuse to even hover over the link of TFA, but my absolutely non-educated guess is that although cell phones may not have been around for 30 years (if it weighs over 10 kgs, it's NOT a cell phone in my book), they studied the past 30 years to get a baseline. First 10 years or so as a baseline of how the population was doing in a pre-cellphone era, then 20 years of actual usage.
PS: for those still stuck in non-metric systems, 10 kgs is like a kadzillion ounces.
Re:So what if it did? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Correlation is not causation (Score:3, Funny)
Re:BAH! EXPERTS! WHAT DO THEY KNOW? (Score:4, Funny)
I didn't know Jenny McCarthy had a slashdot account
Re:extremes (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:But they do increase.. (Score:3, Funny)
And when I was a kid, we used to send smoke signals. Of course, we couldn't just light a big fire in a restaurant, so what we'd use were these little paper tubes, filled with dried leaves, and we could control the amount of smoke by sucking on them and then blowing the smoke into the air, sometimes in a stream, sometimes in rings, or if you were really good you could let the smoke come out of your mouth and then re-inhale it through your nose.
Unlike cellphones, this form of communication was banned in restaurants. Also unlike cellphones there was a link to cancer found in people using these things, but c'mon, you want to live forever?
Re:extremes (Score:2, Funny)
Re:extremes (Score:1, Funny)
Next up, are cell phones putting poison in your kids food?