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Old January 11th 05, 11:20 PM
Joel Kolstad
 
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It found that people who used cellphones for more than 10 years doubled
their risk of developing the tumor, a benign condition affecting one in
100 000 people. . ."


I bet that driving a car to work every day raises the likelihood of a
multiude of serious health illnesses by an order of magnitude, and those
risks are a lot greater than 1 in 100,000 to begin with!

A lot people don't seem to reailze that lifestyle choices (where you live,
what you eat, etc.) have a vastly greater influence on their likelihood of
coming down with some dreaded disease than most forms of new technology
do...

(Although I am all for continuing research so that appropriate levels for
polluting gases, EM radiation emissions, etc. can be set... but of course
'the appropriate level' is at least as much if not more a political problem
than a technical problem.)