popsci.com - 12/24/2008
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Nearly five decades ago, Americans learned that one of their most treasured habits—smoking—was lethal. This year, we could get more scary news, when scientists announce the results from Interphone, the largest-ever study to investigate whether cellphones cause cancer. Interphone researchers are ...
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Early Results from Largest Ever Cellphone Cancer Study Are Horribly Depressing [Cellphones]
Gizmodo —
... Interphone researchers are conducting the largest-ever study investigating if cellphones cause cancer, examining studies from 6,400 tumors in patients from 13 countries. Final results are expected in early 2009, but the preliminary ones are badbadbad. ...
New Study Indicates Cell Phone Use Is A Cancer Risk
GadgetReview —
... not the scary part. The thing that caused me to flinch was their definition of “regular” cell phone use, which is one call per week. Now, I consider myself an under average cell phone user but I still use it several times a day. Could it be that they’re grossly underestimating the risk?
Remember folks, as disturbing as it may seem, this is only one study. We’ll have to wait for further results.
[Popular Science via Gizmodo]
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