Hello Harvey, I've been a little discombobulated, but am enjoying a little foray into SI again. I read that Belgian item and there wasn't a data in it. A web search couldn't give me a copy of the study either. Who knows what their tests comprised? Might have been a five minute study on a mouse.
Anyway, 1900 MHz DOES cause cancer. The GSM web page discusses cancer causes and claims energy quanta at these wavelengths can't alter molecules. Well, they are wrong. These things are statistical games. If you watch a billion cells, yes, sure enough, almost no molecular alteration. But oooops, look there was one. Oh, it's okay. The wonky cell repair systems have killed it off.
Now if you pop in a random bunch of chemicals from cigarettes and burned sausages, then give the old billion cell 1900 MHz GSM dose, you will find that, gee, there were 10 altered cells that time. But look, one of them seems not to have been killed off and in fact is breeding like bunnies. Well, in a manner of speaking. They actually reproduce by arguing with themself then going their separate ways.
These things are synergistic with cofactors like chemical carcinogens and depend on numbers. The reactions are probablistic. The more attempts at it, the more likely you are to strike it lucky. Or unlucky, depending on your point of view.
Of course, as they say, shorten the wavelength to ultraviolet and you really give cells the hurry up.
The point is, the risk is so low, that the benefits of having cellphones seem to me to be way in excess of any risk. But cdmaOne would be the best way to go. GSM increases your chances of getting that one in a trillion naughty little 1900MHz photon energy bundle in just the wrong place at the wrong time.
Let's see the data if they say it is safe!
Hey, Tero, you understand now that GSM is worse than CDMA don't you? Many more photons fly from GSM handsets.
They used to say that mercury in your teeth and lead in your gasoline were harmless too! Now the harm has been established. Not specially fatal, but definitely detrimental to body and brain function. Same for photons. But I'd rather use a cellphone than have mercury in my teeth, lead in my petrol [NZese] or eat sausages on toast.
Say I!
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