<font color=green>The Causal Chain to Brain Tumours from cellphones.
Epidemiologists have a hard time finding any association at all with brain tumours or any other biological activity from cellphone use, even looking at cells under magnifying glasses after in-vitro pummeling as shown here: radres.org
But suppose there was one person in a million each year getting a brain tumour from cellphone death rays, would that show up in the epidemiology? That would be 5,000 people a year if everyone on earth was yakking on them.
That is 10 x Boeing 747s going down! That's newsworthy. Sure, it's acceptable in the interests of enjoying worldwide untethered communication, but maybe those statistical losers should be compensated [or their families since they won't get to spend the money]. Then again, since the tumours are self-inflicted, it would be reasonable to not compensate them. They should carry insurance if they conduct risky activity such as mountain climbing or cellphone talking.
It's not like lead in petrol where innocent bystanders got the lead from the user's exhaust! They should be compensated from petrol taxes. Probably impractical, but you see the point. Petrol lead should have been taxed rather than incomes as an impost on a community-damaging activity.
My guess is that the [less than] 0.1% of the bond energy which cellphone photons provide to a DNA molecule is the straw that breaks the camel's back.
Yes, the 0.1% is a thousandth of the energy needed to bust the bond and start the long road to cancer.
But as we know, [because brain tumours do form], those bonds are busting from other activities such as gamma rays, xrays, benzene reactions [or whatever chemicals react with brain DNA to cause tumours]. For benzene to cause myeloid leukaemia for example, it has to climb up the energy barrier needed for the chemical reaction to take place. Anything boosting that energy level helps to precipitate the chemical reaction of the benzene with the cell, soon to become a leukaemia cell.
If the bond is not broken, no cancer forms.
So the question is, can the puny, pitiful, low-energy 2GHz phragmented photons from CDMA cause the bond to break.
Well, there are a lot of bonds, so which one are we thinking of? Let's suppose there are a thousand bonds teetering on breaking at any one time because they have just been hit by a bolt of lightning, a gamma ray or a brain-tumour causing chemical which is almost, but not quite, over the reaction threshold. I have no idea how many bonds there are under stress - maybe it's not a thousand at a time... maybe only one a day. Either way, it doesn't matter to the argument. The bonds do break and the tumours do form.
So there is the bond about to bust but about to cool down due to heat dissipation across the molecule. Then, along comes our trouble-making 2GHz phragmented photon compliments of the CDMA aerial a few centimetres away, with it's less than 0.1% of the bond energy and it just happens to score a bullseye on that particular bond by interfering with the wave function of the shaky atom at one end of that bond. The shaky atom gets a micro bit more shake and lets go. The benzene [or whatever mechanism it is which causes the cancer cell to start operations] says "Thanks Mate!" and clips on in there!
Hey presto! A cancer cell begins the long and winding road. Maybe that one gets nowhere because the relevant bond was not a good one for forming a viable cancer cell. Maybe it was a start and that cell then gets got a few days later with another variation which DOES help it on the road to avoiding T-lymphocytes, apoptosis and the other risks to life and limb of a hopeful young cancer cell.
Pretty soon, there is a lump forming in the person's brain and we have another epidemiological statistic.
Sure, the 2GHz by itself is a puny joke. But maybe it adds to the energy and tips the balance ever so slightly in the direction of a few more bonds being broken, which in the end, causes just a very few extra tumours which would not otherwise have started out.
It's a bit like killing cancer. Treatments are mostly singly applied, though the trend is increasingly to a multiple array of attacks. To surgery has been added radiation. Then cyclophosphamide, vincristine, adriamycin and prednisone. To those is now added Rituxan. Soon they will add Zevalin [for some hotstuff close-up cell-killing radiation]. Then they'll figure that other antigens should simultaneously be attacked. How about some vascular permeation agent? Dendritic cell vaccines coming in from the side!!! Then they'll add cod liver oil [because the Vitamin D makes life tough for sun-related cancer cells = another theory of mine, unproven and maybe it's the Vitamin A which is good].
No one attack is sufficient to kill the cancer. But the last little one might just be the one which tips the balance and kills off the very last, lingering bond-holding cancer cell and leaves it dead and gone!! Just as 2GHz is the very last, teeny little bond-busting impact which started it off.
Life is complex, but causal, with a probability of 0 or 1.
So, cellphones cause brain tumours, but not enough to worry about. Except that it would be best to buy a CDMA whispering phone with low power output. Dump the analogue high-power phones! Ditch the pulsed, high energy TDMA phones. Wear very low power in-the-ear hearing aid type cellphones, Earcell[TM], with a BlueTooth link to the control box and aerial which could be in a pocket or somewhere nearby.
Mqurice
PS: Other brain tumour causes...
Sitting in a sauna [get hot, raise bond vibrations]
Having a fever [can't do much about normal body temperature]
Neutrinos [though not many of them land and I'm not sure that they have even a billionth of a bond energy]
Eating tumour forming chemicals
Or breathing them
Lack of lymphocytes
Lack of dietary needs to supply defences
Catching viruses which maybe cause brain tumours
Getting old [with immune system giving up]
Getting AIDs [with immune system giving up]
Flying in aircraft [more gamma rays]
Sitting outside [more gamma rays]
Having a wood instead of steel roof [more gamma rays - plus xrays etc which also applies to those others]
Not wearing a steel hat when playing golf [which is also good to keep golf balls from hitting your brain]
Supermarkets [which are full of dodgy dietary inputs] |
