Mobile phones are bad for your health, mobile phones can make you stronger, faster and more beautiful, mobile phones won’t do anything to change a single hair on your head. Confusing isn’t it? What it is, is our attempt at giving a one sentence cross-section of the scientific community’s most recent findings on the effects of mobile phones on human health.
Just days after a group of Israeli scientists published a report in New Scientist declaring that there are possible links between mobiles and cancer, an exhaustive Finnish study claims to have found no evidence that mobiles pose a health risk. Ok so we lied about the mobiles can make stronger, faster etc bit but it is still a little confusing.
Well, at least the scientific community has moved on from bees (not that we don’t care about bees) for now.
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The New Scientist article (which can be purchased here) is at pains to stress that the study does *not* show a link to cancer - it only shows that electromagnetic radiation at some cell phone like frequencies may have an effect on cells. It doesn’t show whether that effect is good, bad or simply insignificant. It is only a single jigsaw piece from which the shape of the rest of the jigsaw can’t be inferred!
Describing it as finding “identifiable links between mobile and cancer” is inaccurate. This may turn out to be the case; but this is not what this research shows.
A Finnish study finds no health impact from mobile phone use…that would be from Finland then… 25% of whose exports are of Nokia products…and where 3.5% of the total GDP is just made up of Nokia…