Cecil Moore wrote:
Roy Lewallen wrote:

Cecil Moore wrote:

The IEEE Spectrum reports that cell phone use for ten years
results in a benign tumor that causes hearing loss.


Which issue was that? I'd like to read the article.


December 2004, page 20: "Cellphones Linked To Brain Tumors"
"No tumors were associated with less than 10 years of
cellphone use." There will be about 50 million people with
10 years of cellphone use in 1907. I won't be one of them.

Thanks. Here's what the article really said:

"Researchers at the Karolinska Institute of Environmental Medicine, in
Stockholm, Sweden, have found an association between long-term cellphone
use and a rare, benign tumor, causing concern among radiation
specialists and epidemiologists, though they emphasize that the results
haven't been replicated yet. Scientists now eagerly await results from
other studies under way around the world.

Published in the November issue of the journal _Epidemiology_, the
Swedish study, led by Stefan Lönn of the Karolinska Institute, looked at
148 people who had acoustic neuroma and compared them with 604 healthy
people. 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. . ."

So when you compacted this into the statement that "cell phone use for
ten years results in a benign tumor that causes hearing loss", was it an
emulation of today's journalistic technique, or just the effect of years
spent working with binary circuits?

Looks to me like it said that a single study, yet to be replicated, of a
small group of people indicated that long-term cell phone use caused a
doubling of the risk of a rare benign tumor, raising the odds of getting
one from about 1 in 100,000 to 1 in 50,000.

So when you compacted this into the statement that "cell phone use for
ten years results in a benign tumor that causes hearing loss", was it an
emulation of today's journalistic technique, or just the effect of years
spent working with binary circuits?

Roy Lewallen, W7EL