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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 177.78-2.2%Jan 9 9:30 AM EST
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To: John Biddle who wrote (15220)9/25/2001 5:59:30 PM
From: Art Bechhoefer  Read Replies (1) of 197157
 
These studies claiming some causal connection between cell phones and headaches, tumors, etc. are full of major flaws. A causal relationship is extremely difficult to establish because of numerous factors that may be entirely irrelevant to a modern CDMA based handset.

To give just one example, one cannot generalize data from analog phones to all phones, including digital, and especially CDMA, since the current drawn by analog phones is so much greater than for digital. Also, large studies have been done over the past 10 years, and none of them establish a statistically significant relationship between radiation from cell phones (especially digital phones) and ANY type of disease, even a headache.

What really gets me is that some publications regard this type of garbage as newsworthy, and that apparently a lot of people who read this stuff have no concept of statistics, and how easy it is to misuse the discipline.

What we should be worrying about, regarding tumors, is the continuing impact from smoking and from environmental insults. The recognized statistically significant relationships between these factors and cancer are about 10,000 times stronger than any perceived relationships involving cell phone transmissions.

And as investors, what we should be worrying about is whether a large power structure politically committed to the furtherance of GSM technology can adversely affect the acceptance of CDMAOne and CDMA2000 as the least cost solutions.

Art
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