Cell phone exposure may protect against and reverse Alzheimer's disease

[DavidDvorkin]

Florida Alzheimer's Disease Research Center study in mice indicates long-term exposure to cell phone signals may even boost normal memory.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-01/uosf-cpe010510.php

[Mika]

1. And there is such a thing as "clean coal". n/t

[slackmaster]

2. I love the photo of the lead author!!!

[DavidDvorkin]

4. He's just surprised by the discovery.

[kenny blankenship]

9. Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it.

Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense. Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too

[OnyxCollie]

22. Otto?

[NoGOPZone]

11. He resembles a younger James Cromwell. nt

[dkf]

18. Hahahahaha!

Oh gosh I almost peed

[frazzled]

3. Except the mice couldn't remember any actual phone numbers

They were all stored in the contacts.

Anyone else have this problem? I don't know anybody's numbers anymore. It sure feels like cell-phone related Alzheimer's.

[Moosepoop]

10. LOL! Yes, I have that very same problem

For instance, I can never remember my own daughters' phone numbers as I rarely have to actually dial them. If someone else needs their numbers, I have to look them up in my contact list -- pretty embarrassing!!!

[Raine]

5. Problem is mice don't use cell phones

what a ridiculous study probably paid for the cell phone companies. x(

[DavidDvorkin]

6. That argument is used against any study that someone

disagrees with.

It's common to start by studying the effect of something on mice. These results are intriguing and should lead to studies designed to show whether people react the same way.

[Raine]

7. I'm very skeptical of this

supposed outcome my father had a cell phone going back to the early 90's when they were the size of a small suitcase and he used it all the time. He died from alzheimers a year and a half ago.

[DavidDvorkin]

12. I'm sorry about your father

But medical studies are always a matter of statistics, about the correlation between cause and effect. It's never 100%.

[seeinfweggos]

8. what's reverse alzheimer's? - super-enhanced memory?

[DavidDvorkin]

13. Unrecd?

How bizarre.

[emilyg]

14. Who paid for this study?

[ShortnFiery]

19. Here's a hint: Can you hear me now?

:spray: ;)

[emilyg]

20. My first thought.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

21. From the article:

"The study was supported by funds from the Florida Alzheimers Disease Research Center, a statewide project sponsored by the National Institute on Aging, and the USF Health Byrd Alzheimer's Institute."

[Fuzz]

15. Oh good grief

[Po_d Mainiac]

16. Shit, fegut what I was gonna post, maybe..I think Huh? Me? n/t

[dkf]

17. Is this from the onion?