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max_wedge
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I suppose the same argument can be applied to smoking, ie: smoking doesn't cause cancer because there was no proof that it did for many years? (despite the fact that now in hindsight it's quite obvious, AND provable?)  | |
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carkitter
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I'd be a bit worried about any researcher who couldn't find a link between smoking and lung cancer, emphysema, stomach cancer and a host of other side effects of inhaling tar vapour, arsenic, carbon monoxide, lead, etc.
If however you wrappped your k800 in paper, set it alight and inhaled the vapour you might, over several years of repeated exposure develop cancer but it wouldn't be in the brain...
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max_wedge
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On 2008-01-11 09:01:35, carkitter wrote:
I'd be a bit worried about any researcher who couldn't find a link between smoking and lung cancer, emphysema, stomach cancer and a host of other side effects of inhaling tar vapour, arsenic, carbon monoxide, lead, etc.
If however you wrappped your k800 in paper, set it alight and inhaled the vapour you might, over several years of repeated exposure develop cancer but it wouldn't be in the brain...
Researchers denied there was any evidence of a link between cancer and smoking for atleast 30 years before eventually it was just too obvious to ignore. It took 30 years of statistics, and eventual clinical proof, to convince people. Before that the average person, and most respected scientists, poo-poo'd the idea that there might be a link between people who smoke and the cancers they were getting.
Infact, like now with mobiles, they often used the example that most people who smoke don't get cancer, therefore it's unlikely that it's the smoking that's causing the cancers in those smokers who do get cancer. But after 30-40 years, it turned out that most people who smoke DO get cancers (or other really crappy smoking related diseases) rather than the other way around.
I'm NOT arguing that mobiles will cause cancer in every mobile phone user. I'm only arguing that there is enough statistical evidence that some people are getting cancers as a consequence of mobile phone use to warrant continuing to study the issue with an open mind. There is not enough evidence to proove carcinogenic affects, but lack of proof does not proove that there is no link at all. The issue deserves closer attention IMHO.
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Twometre
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Check this out but it says if mobiles can cause cancer? But this site denies that.
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max_wedge
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apparently the danish study wasn't very effectively conducted.
See the section titled "Flawed Danish Study Reports Cell Phones are Safe"
in this link http://www.lef.org/magazine/m[....]ort_cellphone_radiation_01.htm
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Posted: 2008-01-11 08:28
