MQ + X = 2C
M = microwave radiation
Q-factor = quality factor of microwaves
X = ionizing x-rays
C = how many brain tumours form
Useless Medical study too small and poor quality to detect the low level of MQ effect on brain tumours.
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They counted only 469 people with brain tumours and compared them with 422 people who use cellphones who didn't have brain tumours.
If one of those people with a brain tumour had it because of their use of a cellphone, this study would not find them. If there were 4.69 million people with brain tumours, that would be 10,000 people with brain tumours due to cellphones. That is a LOT of tumours.
Since there are about 4.6 billion people who will be using cellphones in a few years, and 1:1000 with brain tumours is a reasonable sort of approximation to how many people get brain tumours, [that's a wild guess and I suspect it's more than that since I know of a couple of people] then we could expect about, need calculator...um... 9808 people to get brain tumours due to cellphones.
Maybe those 10,000 people don't matter in the grand scheme of things, but they will if you are one of them. People get excited about far fewer people than that dying in commercial aeroplane crashes. They don't fly!
Since the numbers could be much bigger - maybe 10 of those 479 had tumours from cellphones and that might be possible within the margin of error of that study. And if 1:100 people get a brain tumour in their life, then we are dealing with much, much bigger numbers of people with brain tumours due to cellphones. So, I guess we need the study, because the report sure doesn't prove to me that there are no brain tumours from cellphones or even that the numbers are trivial [which is what I think the case will be when they actually know the effects].
Regarding the comment "There is no evidence...blah, blah, blah"> That calls for the old reply; Absence of evidence is NOT evidence of absence. Which always bears repeating.
Mqurice
planetit.com
<Study: No Link Between Cell Phones, Cancer
by Kim Renay Anderson
[ December 21, 2000 ]
Cell Phone use does not cause brain cancer, according to a new report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The study compared cell phone use of 469 brain-cancer patients to 422 cancer-free cellular users and found found that there was no increased risk of developing tumors, said Joshua E. Muscat, research scientist at the American Health Foundation, the lab that conducted the study.
AMF's findings agree with those of a U.S. radiation expert who last year said there was no evidence of a link between mobile phone use and cancer.
Muscat noted that longer studies must be done from the moment a person begins using a cell phone to the moment actual symptoms of cancer show up, especially for cancers with certain characteristics.
The International Association for Research on Cancer is conducting a continuous study, and future tests are in the planning stages at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, he said.
Funding for the study was provided by the National Cancer Institute's public health grants and the Wireless Technology Research LLC, Washington, D.C., a group supported by the wireless industry.
On the other side of the Atlantic, a group of researchers have warned against cellular use.
A British consumer group recently reported that hands-free mobile phones could actually more than triple the brain's exposure to radiation.
In the United States, headset use by motorists has already been legally mandated in some cities, including Brookline, Mass. Some observers expect the rest of the state to follow suit.
"In the future, an increased number of cell phone users will be using headsets, but right now most cell phones don't have this capability," said Tole Hart, analyst at the Gartner Group in Stamford, Conn.
But the latest report is unlikely to comfort the skeptics, said Larry Swasey, analyst at Allied Business Intelligence, Oyster Bay, N.Y.
"If a connection is found between wireless and cancer, the public will claim that the industry knew it and covered it up," said Swasey.
Reuters contributed to this report. > |
