RSSEU Study: Cell Phones Damage DNA
By Ed Oswald | Published December 21, 2004, 1:13 PM
The radio waves from mobile phones harm body cells and damage DNA according to findings by a study commissioned by the European Union. The study was conducted by 12 groups in seven countries across Europe, but was inconclusive as to whether or not mobile phones are dangerous to human health.
DNA subjected to radio waves showed signs of damage that cells could not repair on their own. In addition, "there was remaining damage for future generation of cells," said project leader Franz Adlkofer, meaning the cells were mutating. None of the world's top six mobile phone vendors could immediately respond to the results of the study.
I remember the fifties and sixties when the authorities assured us that DDT was not harmful to human health and look at the panic the truth caused when it eventually came out.
There had been many reports earlier that had warned of the truth and these were belittled and dismissed by so called experts.
I am very concerned about all the reports prior to this one, that have warned of the dangers of mobile phones (cell phones) and have been dismissed too.
There may be nothing to worry about - BUT what if .......
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|Yeah... remember DDT.
And particularly remember the surge of malaria as a direct result of the ban on DDT.
DDT is the typical example of (mostly) white healthy and wealthy activists striking fear among the general public by lobbying successfully against a Western industry product... At the expense of thousands of death in the Third World. (as a reference, their current acronym target is 'GMO' with the same death results on the fieldd).
But then, we're just talking about 'brown people dying in distant countries', so why should the benevolent souls at Greenpeace or Attac care? They have to save Mother Earth, so don't you 'brown people' interfere!
Now I'm quite sure Jose Bove won't go after mobile phones, since it only damages *human* DNA.
And it's such a big hit in emergent economies of 'distant countries full of brown people' that he might see that as an added benefit anyway.
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|Sounds like you have a big chip on your shoulder but why should I be surprised.
Frankly, I would rather die of Malaria than a long lingering death through cancer - oh and don't forget, DDT not only hit those walking about, it also hit unborn children.
At the end of the day, it doesn't make any difference what colour you are, how tall or small you are, what sex you are etc etc Capitalism couldn't give a toss about the vast majority of people - its profits first, second third, fourth and on and on and on!
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|The whole point is that it's indeed easy for you to say "I'd rather die of malaria" - knowing perfectly that you won't. Typical.
Oh and, please, spare me the craptalk on capitalism, particularly utterly stupid remarks such as 'it's profits first' -- indeed, it takes an idiot to imagine that you can make profits by killing your customers. If you see what I mean.
I could point at the fact that Capitalism is the only reason why the worlds standards of living have been consistently rising in ALL respects since the Industrial Revolution, but I recently got tired of losing my time with (mostly) white healthy, wealthy -- and more importantly *clueless* -- activists.
I'd rather engage into business, and get a chance to be as wealthy and healthy as the aforementioned stupid white men, thank you very much.
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|"The radio waves from mobile phones harm body cells and damage DNA..."
WTF? So I destroy my DNA, which I personally believe falls under the "human health" category, and:
"DNA subjected to radio waves showed signs of damage that cells could not repair on their own. 'In addition, there was remaining damage for future generation of cells,' said project leader Franz Adlkofer, meaning the cells were mutating."
Yet "...[the study] was inconclusive as to whether or not mobile phones are dangerous to human health."
Apparently nobody considers DNA degeneration to be a "human health" factor. Not that this is really any new information anyway, and it really doesn't matter since the cell phone towers broadcast the microwaves anyway--so unless you live away from the signal strength aof a cell phone tower, whether or not you use a cell phone should have little to do with whether these microwaves hurt you or not.
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|I have a bit of skepticism here. The article doesn't mention the duration of cell exposure to the radio waves, the magnitude/power of the waves, nor the degree of mutation in the cells/DNA. If I recall correctly, radio waves are on the same relative frequency as TV waves, etc, so would it follow that waves emitted from those devices damage cells as well?
There's a lot of unanswered questions, but this all sounds like a lot of silly media hooplah to me. And bourgeoisdude, the mutation of DNA may not be a human health risk because minor mutations (I think) won't do much to a human's systems. But I'm not a Bio Major, so I can't confirm that.
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|Link was added to the full study report:
http://www.verum-foundat...l%20Report_Part%201.pdf
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|... I mean, like others have stated here, anything created since man started thinking has a good and a foul use.
What I want to remind is that if all you do is type on a keyboard 10 hours a day you will damage your wrists or if you play the violin 10 hours a day you will damage your neck, right? So, let's try to understand that a mobile phone device is a tool that has to be used in its own way, trying not to fall in the category of abuse.
In a few words, if the time comes when doctors suggest that people that use their phone more than 2 hours a day have a larger possibility of developing cancer, we will just have to cope with the fact of talking less than 2 hours per day in order to preserve our health.
Let's not transform anything into the Devil until we look more into it and have the first statistically-based facts. Until then, we only have to take our own risks...
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