Terry Blanton wrote:
Do you tweet?
Hey, do I look like a canary?
I don't honestly know what tweeting is, other than the avian variety.
Based on Doonsbury comics I gather tweets are dull . . .
Yes, I confirm that. I just clicked on
http://twitter.com/jeffkooistra and the messages are not only dull, I
have no idea what he is talking about. This looks like yet another
high tech fad I shall skip, like cellphones and dot-com investments.
Incidentally, after all that back and forth brouhaha about cell
phones and cancer, it looks like they may indeed be carcinogenic when
used for many hours a day. As I recall several prominent public
skeptics, including maybe Robert Park (I don't recall), pooh-poohing
the notion that they cause cancer. The case studies probably looked
at people who use them for an hour or two. Apparently exposure for
many hours a day over many years can cause cancer, and the causality
seems well established because the tumors are found at the location
on the head where the patient holds a cell phone.
I would not be surprised if they eventually discover that power lines
are also deleterious. That is another thing that skeptics have
dismissed. It is foolish to imagine that we understand biology in any
depth. Cancer has increased in all age groups despite the "war on
cancer." Something has to be causing it. Probably, many different things are.
- Jed
