Tom, respectfully a UofPittsburgh professor of Public Health is not a crank, and her claims and arguments were quite reasonable when interviewed on NPR. Flourescent lighting does not broadcast its energy an inch from your brain (actually I doubt the UV doesn't penetrate your skin). Furthermore, I think that after only about 10 years of following the public exposure I have heard of studies (I don't know how large the samples) that cell phone usage increased risk of non-malignant brain tumors. What are we going to see at 20 years.
And just to reiterate,I said I thought Bluetooth was a minimal risk, whereas with cell phones the jury is not in. FYI, one of the criticisms she leveled is that a widely quoted large scale study from Denmark, was designed to exclude people who had the most exposure. The subjects of the study had minutes rather than hours per day of exposure. The public perception (including myself formerly) is that cell have been given a clean bill of health. The truth is no one yet knows the long term effects of moderate to heavy use and that in general no one will until a 20 years long experiment run its course. Unfortunately, the subjects in that experiment are the public. Using the public to test health effects of products is pretty much the American way. -PJM Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If anyone listened to the public health academic who wrote >"The Secret History of the War On Cancer" some of the most >quoted studies >done on cell phone radiation have severe methodological >flaws and even if they were good might been inadequate for >assessing the brain cancer risk 20 or 30 years out (which is >the appropriate scale for the development of brain cancer) This topic and radiation from monitors seems to bring out the cranks. In years past similar vehemence was directed to electrification and telephones. The common theme seems to be fear of invisible forces. >From what I have seen, you are correct to say there have not been any good studies. However, it should be emphasized that there have not been any good studies for either side of the issue: nothing to show that there is or is not a problem. What clinches it for me are the studies that identify the various sources of electromagnetic radiation exposure. In an office environment the #1 source is fluorescent lighting. Nothing else comes close. Another big source is commercial broadasting. So my thinking is that it is not worth stressing over minor sources when I can't do anything about the major sources. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************ Checkout One Laptop Per Child project laptop.org ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
