On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 11:48:01 -0700, "Bill Bonde, one of many Fair and
Balanced Conservatives, AKA Spike, currently brunching on extra juicy
ortolans, where do you put the beaks again?" <stderr2 at backpacker.com>
wrote:
>>>Charlie Wilkes wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 05:59:54 GMT, "torresD" <torresD30 at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> >
>> >The study - which warns specifically against
>> > "the intense use of mobile phones by youngsters" -
>> >comes as research on their health effects is
>> > being scaled down, due to industry pressure.
>> >
>> >http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=443248>> >Mobiles 'make you senile'
>> >By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor.
>> >14 September 2003
>> >
>> >
>> >Mobile phones and the new wireless technology
>> >could cause a "whole generation" of today's
>> >teenagers to go senile in the prime of their lives,
>> >new research suggests
>> >
>> >The study - which warns specifically against
>> > "the intense use of mobile phones by youngsters" -
>> >comes as research on their health effects is
>> > being scaled down, due to industry pressure.
>> >
>> >It is likely to galvanise concern about the almost
>> >universal exposure to microwaves in Western
>> >countries, by revealing a new way in which they
>> >may seriously damage health.
>> >
>> >Professor Leif Salford, who headed the research at Sweden's prestigious Lund
>> >University, says "the voluntary exposure of the brain to microwaves from
>> >hand-held mobile phones" is "the largest human biological experiment ever".
>> >And he is concerned that, as new wireless technology spreads, people may
>> >"drown in a sea of microwaves".
>> >
>> >The study - financed by the Swedish Council for Work Life Research, and
>> >published by the US government's National Institute of Environmental Health
>> >Sciences - breaks new ground by looking at how low levels of microwaves
>> >cause proteins to leak across the blood-brain barrier.
>> >
>> >Previous concerns about mobile phones have concentrated on the possibility
>> >that the devices may heat the brain, or cause cancer. But the heating is
>> >thought to be too minor to have an effect and hundreds of cancer studies
>> >have been inconclusive.
>> >
>> >As a result, the US mobile phone industry has succeeded in cutting research
>> >into the health effects, and the World Health Organisation is unlikely to
>> >continue its studies.
>> >
>> >Mays Swicord, a scientific adviser to Motorola told New Scientist magazine
>> >that governments and industry should "stop wasting money" by looking for
>> >health damage.
>> >
>> >But Professor Salford and his team have spent 15 years investigating a
>> >different threat. Their previous studies proved radiation could open the
>> >blood-brain barrier, allowing a protein called albumin to pass into the
>> >brain. Their latest work goes a step further, by showing the process is
>> >linked to serious brain damage. Professor Salford said the long-term effects
>> >were not proven, and that it was possible the neurons would repair
>> >themselves in time. But, he said, neurons that would normally not become
>> >"senile" until people reached their 60s may now do so when they were in
>> >their 30s.
>> >
>> >He says he deliberately refrained from publicising his work to avoid alarm,
>> >and acknowledges that mobile phones can save lives.
>> > 14 September 2003 01:54
>> >
>> This is pernicious cargo-cult science!
>>>Da plane! Da plane! Where the hell is the plane! We built a coconut
>radio.
This is no joke, Bonde. Esteemed scientists such as Matthew Kirkaldie
and r. norman have tried the evidence and found it wanting.
Charlie
