Biggest Study On Cellphone Health Effects Launched in Europe 109
An anonymous reader writes "The biggest study to date into the effects of cellphone usage on long-term health was launched today, aiming to track at least a quarter of a million of people in five European countries for up to 30 years. The Cohort Study on Mobile Communications (COSMOS) differs from previous attempts to examine links between mobile phone use and diseases such as cancer and neurological disorders in that it will follow users' behaviour in real time. Most other large-scale studies have centred around asking people already suffering from cancer or other diseases about their previous cellphone use. Researchers said long-term monitoring will provide more time for diseases to develop, since many cancers take 10 or 15 years for symptoms to appear."
permanent mouth movement (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder what mental and dental health effects they find now that most people's mouths never stop moving anymore.
Foil hats (Score:2, Funny)
Foil hats on, chaps!
Re:Cause or effect? (Score:3, Funny)
So...um, if they find brain cancer in the sector of the population who can't ever seem to put their phones down, will that be diagnosed as a cause or an effect?
Whichever use better fits whatever point I am trying to make.
Wow, already? (Score:1, Funny)
What's next? A 45 year study into the health effects of forks?
Who's John Galt?
Re:Control group? (Score:3, Funny)
I manage the same thing with a cellphone and no friends.
Re:Results (Score:4, Funny)
And the cave people will be called Morlocks and the wave-people will be called Eloi...
Re:Foil hats (Score:1, Funny)
These studies give me headaches.
Re:Cause or effect? (Score:4, Funny)
(My bet is that phone related distractions cause more accidents and deaths than phone radiation will ever cause.)
My bet is that there will be more deaths by phone-attracted lightning than by phone radiation.
Re:Control group? (Score:2, Funny)