i guess this belongs here since it deals with scientific studies on them.
http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,57488,00.html

What the hell is it with Sweeds and weird ass research?

Interesting article.
Most of the people that I know would rather think that they are absolutely harmless, than stop walking around with a cell phone sticking out of their ear.

I'm just glad I'm not a 12-26 week old rat.
The article says Salford's study is also one of the first to suggest that cell-phone use causes a malady other than brain cancer.
Interesting that cancer wasn't bad enough for people to switch off. I wonder, is there anyone here who really can't do without their mobile phone?

me, use it everyday, 20-30 times.

me? i don't want one, and don't need one, and i don't need an electronic dog leash. i survvied without one in the past and can still do so just very fine thank you.

I don't have or want a cell phone either. They almost got me when they put a camera on them. Then I just got a real digital camera.

Funny how WHO and the FDAclaim absolutly no negative effects. I assume they are somewhat afraid of being found libel if they said there no proof one way or the other.

Yeah right, putting a high-powered tranceiver next to your brain for an hour everyday isn't harmful...

Don't want one either. I haven't had one for 5 years, and I don't even miss it. I watch my brother get irritated every time his phone rings, (every 30 seconds it seems), and I can't imagine being bothered like that.

There's radiation emitted from microwaves too--no one is gonna stop using them-- but if people are concerned about it they can always just text message all the time-- T9 makes it fast and kinda easy ;) but brain cancer is always an option too

Cell phones are a pain in the rump, I can't stand it when I'm talking to someone and their damn phone goes off and it is something stupid, I walk away. It is the same as that damn call waiting either talk to me or the other person but I will not be put on hold. Of course the list of dumbarse sh** doesn't stop with cell phones it will go on as long as humans do.

If you want to worry about microwaves causing damage, the place to start is the radar at your local airport. The power is much greater. I measured the leakage from microwave ovens for a few months in the army. I was never able to get a reading on the oven in the snack bar at the airfield because every time the radar beam swept by the detector I was using spiked out. That was inside a concrete building.

Cell phones at a funeral...this really takes the cake, eh?
I suppose the rude person on the other end was getting a call from the dearly departed.
I have one, but never use it. It's in my car, for emergencies. I can't think of any other time I would want, or need, to talk on the dang thing.

Originally posted by Imagineer
If you want to worry about microwaves causing damage, the place to start is the radar at your local airport. The power is much greater. I measured the leakage from microwave ovens for a few months in the army. I was never able to get a reading on the oven in the snack bar at the airfield because every time the radar beam swept by the detector I was using spiked out. That was inside a concrete building.

On the other hand, I don't know many people who are constantly checking their mobile radar to see if an airplane raid is imminent.

Originally posted by astrapol2
On the other hand, I don't know many people who are constantly checking their mobile radar to see if an airplane raid is imminent.

All in due time, wait and see...

Originally posted by astrapol2
On the other hand, I don't know many people who are constantly checking their mobile radar to see if an airplane raid is imminent.

I would think it might be a problem mostly for people who live near the airport.

I use my cell phone just about every day. I first got it for work so my office could contact me when I was traveling between sites but since I retired three years ago I use it even more. When I am in Florida for the winter I use my cell phone almost exclusively since there are no long distance charges. I use it to call my answering machine back on Long Island, to keep in touch with my kids and grandkids, for contacting my wife when she is down on the beach, and a host of other little daily communications. I have a hands free model so I am not worried about brain cancer or any other disease holding a cell phone to your ear might cause.

For the last three years I used no regular phone, only my cell phone. I just got a regular phone two weeks ago, the main reason was to cover the times outside my cell phone's unlimited call plan.

It's interesting to see so many people find themselves "have no need for cell phones" because I have for such a long time "had no need for regular phones". :)

pretty wild!

Originally posted by astrapol2
On the other hand, I don't know many people who are constantly checking their mobile radar to see if an airplane raid is imminent.



Originally posted by Evakian
All in due time, wait and see...


One method of detecting stealth aircraft, that I read about several years ago, involved connecting the mobile phone network to computers that analyzed the momentary signal interruptions when the plane passed through the signal of an active phone call. There are many such interruptions, but if you get a pattern of occurences that occur in a line and moving fast, it might be a plane using stealth technology. I understand that this was first developed by the Iraqi military during Saddam Hussein's regime, and was later passed on to the Serbians when the U.S. was contemplating intervening in Kosovo.