The Core of The Matrix is the wireless smart phone. A device as reviled as it is praised. It has brought freedom to our lifestyles while at the same time been the subject of “Hang Up and Drive” bumper stickers.
I installed Facebook on mine today. I’ve never been more connected with more people in more places, from Cedar Rapids to San Francisco; South Minneapolis; Switzerland to Italy.
Save the distraction these devices surely cause to drivers (and apparently walkers alike), the health risk these devices pose whilst pressed to one’s cranium for sometimes hours at a time is not yet clear.
Numerous studies have been conducted, the lion’s share by the wireless industry itself, lending the “all clear” declaration dubious merit at best.
Why Cell-Phone Health Concerns Persist
If putting Garfield in the microwave causes the critter mortal harm (anecdotally speaking of course), it stands to reason, even allowing for the difference in frequency and power, that a cellular telephone likely has some effect on the brain – certainly the side of your head.
Whether that effect is a slight rise in temperature akin to the hysteria-inducing magnitude cited in the Man-Made Global Warming/Cooling/Change movement or tumors the size of golf balls has yet to be conclusively determined. Cell phones have enjoyed societal saturation for about ten years. Brain tumors reportedly have a gestation period that is more often than not at least that.
As for me my approach is as my approach to God and Nutritional Supplements.
I believe in God and Vitamins because I’d rather be wrong and have had faith all the while than the other way around when I’ve written my last blog post.
So I use a headset and forward my cell phone to my desk phone as much as possible. I don’t give my kids cell phones. I use the Bluetooth system in my car and I don’t care if you can’t hear me as well.
I moderate the pressing of the flesh with my Treo 755p.
What say you?
Never understood Facebook. How is it different than a blog?
Actually, most of the research into radio waves & brain cancers is government funded, if my IEEE journals on the subject are any indication. You might be somewhat relieved to know that in researching this for decades, most studies have found ‘insufficient evidence’ that power from cell phones and such causes cancer.
Note; not “it doesn’t do it,” but rather “we don’t have sufficient evidence to conclude this.” The upshot of it all is that the likelihood, whatever it is, is pretty low that you’ll have any problems from your cell phone.
I dont know.If peeve used his cell 24/7 since the day they were release,it would certainly explain a lot.
I get those same IEEE journals and I came to same conclusion: even the government labs can’t come up with something with anything like a moderate bias. But, as with most biological studies, the SNR is very, very low. If you worry then wear that Bluetooth headset for the lower power. Just remember that you’re putting the transmitter close to something that may affect future generations.
Of course, the easiest method to be sure of this is to simply moderate your cellphone use and unplug from the Matrix. Take that redpill and realize that you have control over when and with whom you connect.
Jeff,
Facebook is like a blog only your blog is linked with everyone else on your friends list so that you get updates as to what the others are doing and when they make updates to their pages, pictures, etc.
I get the IEEE journals too, (gota big stack of ’em) but I must admit I am behind in my reading. (Got other things to do) But if memory serves, I recall that in the “old days” when they were finding out the limits and effects of EMR on people and what not, they determined that the damage threshold energy required for the frequencies in question was close to two watts. (1.8 I think) So they opted for less than half of that on handheld cell phones, I believe 600mW or 0.6 watts. (remember the arnings on the 3-4 watt bag phones?) If the energy is under the threshold that much, it should be safe. At least that is the thinking. There is of course a cumulative effect of all EMR in a metro area. Just walk into a Faraday cage and feel the money drop off your back. I love research labs that have one. The last time I got to use one was doing some neurological research.(The test equipment is that sanative) Yummy brains!
If the government is willing to pay, scientists will research anything. Even if they “know” there is nothing to it. Hey, it’s work/income. I miss it.
Faraday cages…
Way back in the 70s I worked in one of the pioneering micro-Kelvin research labs. We kept noticing an oscillation of temperature in our helium-3 fermionic liquid temperatures — things always got colder after midnight and started warming just before dawn. For the longest time we thought it was the building’s heating affecting our measurements. That is, until we put the whole thing in a Faraday cage to measure some subtle spin effects on phonon propagation. That’s when we discovered that liquid He3 has a resonance on Channel 6, one of the local TV stations. And that station went off the air at midnight and came on at 6 am. Doh! Uh, yeah, we meant to do that!
Science: not as pretty as the true believers would tell you.