How mobiles really affect your brain

[Celebration]

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USING a mobile phone is not linked to an increased risk of the most common type of brain tumours, researchers reveal today.

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But Roger Coghill, who runs a laboratory in Pontypool and specialises in research into the risks of mobile phones, said the study, funded in part by the UK's five biggest mobile phone firms, could not be taken seriously.

He said, "I don't value this research too highly. They are looking at the wrong cells in the brain. When you start looking at the neural cells, there is a clear influence from the use of mobile phones.

[Warpy]

1. Not only that, but they make you stupid

Concentrating on listening to an absent person and having no visual clues to go by means one has to concentrate a lot more than one would to a person right there. That's what makes driving while talking on a cell phone more dangerous than driving while drunk (and yes, it was on Mythbusters just the other night). I've seen people in the grocery having animated (and very loud) conversations on their cell phones walk into and knock over displays. I've seen yackers in restaurants spill things all over themselves. I've seen people on the street almost get nailed by traffic because they didn't happen to notice what color the lights were.

If you're going to talk on one of those things, pull off the road, stand still out of everybody else's way, ferkrissakes put that fork down. It's not something you can multitask, I don't care how superior you are. It separates you from your immediate environment, and it can get you into real trouble.

As for the cancer risk, I can see that only as a real concern for those people who look like they've had that cell phone surgically attached to one ear.

[Orrex]

2. Here are two facts

1. No cellphone conversation has ever been carried out at less than a full shout.

2. Fewer than 1 in 1000 cellphone conversations contains information demanding the urgent communication afforded by a cellphone


YMMV.