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Are Cell Phones Carcinogenic?

Are Cell Phones Carcinogenic?

  • Yes

    Votes: 5 18.5%
  • No

    Votes: 8 29.6%
  • I dunno

    Votes: 14 51.9%

  • Total voters
    27

Alfons

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What do you think, are Cell Phones carcinogenic or not, please vote and explain your choice. It would be good if you share some additional information or probably important links because almost everywhere in the world the amount of brain cancers is increasing since the last twenty years.

Additional question:

Should the prices for Mobil calls fall down because of cancer risk?

Cell Phones Are Possibly Carcinogenic Say WHO Cancer Experts

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I don't know but I guess they are. It's the big guys (the corps that is) again.
DDT was also considered "safe" at the time. :blowup:
 
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Would "cordless phones" used at most homes possibly cause cancer?
 
Most of the studies on cell phones and cancer risk have been inconclusive.
 
I got my first cell phone in 1998, when they were getting small enough to fit in your pocket easily. When I used it for long conversations, over an hour, I got heat as well as a painful sensation on the side of my head n the exact vicinity where I was using it. At first I thought maybe I was pressing it against my ear too hard maybe, but this wasn't it either. Since 1998, I've limited my phone call length and used ear buds. At the time, I knew nothing about the cancer claims, but when I found out there were claims, avoid it's use even more. To this day, the same sensation occurs. I don't know if it causes cancer, I'm not cancer expert. Although, I've heard it is radiation that is emitted and it's the type similar to what we use for microwaves. I've heard from experts before that your brain is being essentially cooked. I know we have a crooked government that obviously is letting the country slide into the ****hole, puts it's people in harm's, so why not? I believe the test mostly likely proves cancer is being caused and big business doesn't want to take the hit, much like the tobacco companions being able to got away with murder for so long.
 
The toxicity of cell phones is negligible.
DDT is safe to use.
Guess what, there is a level of toxicity to everything, many things we use everyday become carcinogens in higher dosages or higher amounts of exposure.

Lesson from this, don't smoke cell phones their bad for your health.
 
:shrug: If you don't want brain cancer, use a head set, this is easily prevented if they do turn out to be carcinogenic, I don't see the big deal.
 
if they do cause brain cancer because you hold them right next to your ear/brain my question is what about carrying them on your hip all day every day will that cause pelvic cancer?
 
:prof There's no evidence it causes arse cancer.

If you carry the phone in your back pocket (like I do often) what cancer do you think you're gonna get? :mrgreen:
 
If you carry the phone in your back pocket (like I do often) what cancer do you think you're gonna get? :mrgreen:

In your case, probably brain cancer :2razz: *bites tongue* Does it send out the malignant radiation when you're not using it to call though?
 
In your case, probably brain cancer :2razz: *bites tongue* Does it send out the malignant radiation when you're not using it to call though?

Well, I don't really know. I bought it in 2004, so it's kind of old but it stays off quite often because I use it mostly as "emergency phone". :wink2:
 

The problem with DDT was that they sprayed it in excessive amounts.
That's where toxicity comes from, the level of exposure based on the amount of material exposed to.

They used to spray it directly on people, most especially during the summer.

On the other hand, it's one of, if not the best effective malaria control agent in the world.
Way more people have died from exposure to malaria, than to exposure to DDT.

Water is toxic to your body is excessive amounts.
 
I know but please read the link that I've given. ;)

I'm already aware of it's potential toxicity.

What your not understanding is that, when DDT was first used, they used it excessively.
Meaning, in far greater amounts than what is necessary to combat malaria carrying insects.
They would literally spray over people, most especially during the summer.

Low to moderate uses of DDT, especially in places like Sub Saharan Africa, would prevent a **** ton of malaria deaths every year.
 
Correlation does not equal causation. These people need to learn physics. Cancer is caused by ionizing radiation. Radio waves are not ionizing. Therefore, cellphones don't cause cancer. Unless they can give some plausible mechanism for lower frequency EM waves to damage DNA, they've got nothing.
 
Correlation does not equal causation. These people need to learn physics. Cancer is caused by ionizing radiation. Radio waves are not ionizing. Therefore, cellphones don't cause cancer. Unless they can give some plausible mechanism for lower frequency EM waves to damage DNA, they've got nothing.

Wait, are you saying UV radiation doesn't cause cancer?

And I believe the carcinogenic effect of phones is from microwave radiation heating brain tissue, but I could be wrong there.
 
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:shrug: If you don't want brain cancer, use a head set, this is easily prevented if they do turn out to be carcinogenic, I don't see the big deal.

Next year they'll prove Bluetooth is dangerous. :lol:
 
Next year they'll prove Bluetooth is dangerous. :lol:

No, it will be wireless routers. ;) But they are dangerous right now. :lol:
 
Wait, are you saying UV radiation doesn't cause cancer?

And I believe the carcinogenic effect of phones is from microwave radiation heating brain tissue, but I could be wrong there.

UV radiation is ionizing, although not as strongly as x-rays or gamma rays. Visible light is somewhat ionizing IIRC. Ionizing means that the photons have enough energy to kick an electron off an atom, which can break up molecules. Microwaves just shake the atoms and heat them up a tiny bit. There's no actual damage.
 
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