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Are cell phones really dangerous?
We all heard that cell phones can be dangerous for people who talk with the phone next to their ear all day. Is there any other ways to reduce the risk? My phone has a SAR under 1.0. I started just using speaker phone. Any other ideas? I know tons of people, and I have a very long time ago, that used to sleep with their phones under their pillows. Obviously that's something you shouldn't do. Anything else? Is texting as dangerous as phone calls? If I text a lot and restrict calls, will that help? Any ideas? Thanks!
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There is no conclusive evidence that cell phones cause cancer.
Quotes from John E. Moulder, PhD, Professor of Radiation Oncology
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Dr. Moulder said: "The epidemiological evidence for an association between radiofrequency radiation and cancer is weak and inconsistent, the laboratory studies generally do not suggest that cell phone radiation has genotoxic or epigenetic activity, and the connection between a cell phone's radiofrequency radiation and cancer appears to be physically implausible."
Quoted from the The American Cancer Society
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"... none of the studies showed a "dose-response relationship" -- a tendency for the risk of brain cancer to increase with increasing cell phone use, which would be expected if cell phone use caused brain cancer."
Quoted from the FDA's Cell phone facts: Consumer information on mobile phones, 2003:
"Three large epidemiology studies have been published since December 2000. Between them, the studies investigated any possible association between the use of wireless phones and primary brain cancer, glioma, meningioma, or acoustic neuroma, tumors of the brain or salivary gland, leukemia, or other cancers. None of the studies demonstrated the existence of any harmful health effects from wireless phone RF exposures. However, none of the studies can answer questions about long-term exposures, since the average period of phone use in these studies was around three years."
Time and research might prove me wrong, but for the time being I'm calling the 'Cell Phone Causes Cancer' fear mongering, not scientific fact.
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