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Cellphones Deemed "Possibly Carcinogenic" by World's Leading Cancer Experts

Posted June 01, 2011 7:53 AM

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The back and forth brawl between studies suggesting that cell phones do and don't cause cancer just took a bold step toward the former camp today, with the World Health Organisation classifying cellphones as potential links to brain cancer.

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06/01/2011 10:26 AM

Yeah... everything is 'possibly carcinogenic'
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06/01/2011 12:00 PM

I'm not an "expert", but could those who develop brain cancer also be suceptable to other carcinogenics? The same rationale being smokers who live a very long life and those who don't. My grandmother lived into her 80's and smoked 2 packs of non-filtered cigarettes a day. Her death was of natural causes. Then I had a good friend who smoked less than half of what my grandmother did and he died in his 50's of lung cancer. Go figure.

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06/01/2011 2:55 PM

I just love that "Official Risk", "possibly", "suggesting". Chicken Little would be proud.

What a load of unsubstantiated, "Danger Will Robinson" crap!

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06/01/2011 7:48 PM

Well the short answer is that you shouldn't eat mobile phones. Especially the ones made by Apple....

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06/01/2011 11:22 PM

What--do they have Alar in them?

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06/02/2011 5:36 AM

And?

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06/02/2011 10:35 AM

The WHO are a bunch of bozos. And I'm not referring to Roger Daltry et al. Just further proof of the general uselessness of the UN.

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06/02/2011 10:42 AM

I'm not referring to Roger Daltry et al..
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06/03/2011 10:25 AM

Nope wouldn't dis them. Maybe I'll go dig out my vinyls of Tommy and Who's Next and spin them on my Technics turntable.

Actually, I guess what has me most ticked off is there are so many more important and useful things the WHO could be doing for people in dire straits (Money for Nothing ?) instead of probing into something with such a weak connection to these gliomas or other maladies.

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