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To: Richard Belanger who wrote (2091)	9/11/2000 9:18:06 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 12231

<font color=crimson>X + M = 2C continued...10rem and M? Science should do whatever they [scientists] are curious to do or they are paid to do. Since there is a lot of Luddite concern about flying phragmented photons frying brains and causing tumours, any self-respecting scientist should be happy to offer some causal investigations to see just what is going on. If people want to look for needles in haystacks, some clever scientist might as well swing a big electromagnetic over the stack [for a suitable fee]. Any self-respecting investor should promote their low radiation cellphone if that's what people want to buy when they buy a cellphone. A sales person should not lie to customers but neither should they try to tell them what values the customer should adopt. They should say "We really don't think that cellphones cause brain tumours - here are the graphs showing our and FCC/FDA investigations - but if you want a low radiation cellphone, this CDMA EarCell[TM] model is the lowest in the business, with a handy Bluetooth-linked box complete with million-pixel colour screen and 10 Megabit per second WWeb link so you can swoop around the Web while listening in high-fidelity stereophonic sound. It connects via Globalstar too, so you can use it nearly everywhere." Back to X + M = 2C If 10 rem is the lower limit of shown causal relationship, then I guess background radiation is higher than that, [since we know we get heaps of mutations from background radiation and presumably some brain tumours are one of the cancers which background radiation causes]. I don't recall chewing lead sinkers, but I used to boil lead [smelting it] and made a LOT of sinkers. I used to do it in a smallish garage [doors shut]. I had a chemistry set too used to get lead oxide all over the place! I recall my fater mixing read and white lead powder into paint [as a 4 year old] and him telling me to not breathe it in. He used to spray lead naphthenate onto apple trees to kill Codlin Moth. We used to drink water off [groan] a lead-painted corrugated iron roof. It shows that humans are somewhat resilient and mostly survive minor damage. Which doesn't mean the damage should be accepted if there's no countervailing benefit. I've seen X-ray blistering [skin all peeled off] on the neck of my oldest child after 40 Grays which I imagine is so much more than 10 rems that this discussion would seem wacky to some! I can tell you that I have near-zero worry about cellphone radiation [I guess you know that]. It's scientific and marketing purity which makes me pursue it. BS [not Bernie Schwartz of course] really offends me and Associated Octel who sold lead additives for fuels were a company for BS [by misquoting a sentence which I went and checked and found the context from which they'd taken it in a scientific study did NOT support what they were trying to show - they were lying!]. Also, I'm curious. A Nobel Prize will be fun too. People are rightfully very, very mistrustful of scientists and businesses. There should be no puzzlement that they remain suspicious of cellphone radiation when they see $100 billion for spectrum and read about polio vaccine research in Africa decades ago maybe being the vector for AIDS into humans. Thalidomide was safe for pregnant women too. The litany of 'scientific' blunders is long. Mqurice

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