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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2080)	9/10/2000 8:05:57 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12231

<font color=HotPink>The British Pound is down to about $1.41 or $1.42. I guess we should all fly over to London, buy a cashmere sweater, eat lunch, and fly home. Jon.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2080)	9/11/2000 5:15:32 PM
From: Richard Belanger	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

Maurice - <So, cellphones cause brain tumours, but not enough to worry about.> As for your theory, I don’t believe your arguments support this conclusion. You have merely postulated a mechanism, and a way to test it. Speaking of which: <. . . what they should do is irradiate the cells with xrays, which DO cause breaks> This of course has been done about a zillion times, and yes they do cause DNA breaks. Heaps of breaks, as you would say. Mostly single-stranded (still potentially harmful) and a few double-stranded (relatively nastier). <. . . and then xrays plus radiowaves [giving a total higher energy input] and see if there is an increase in breaks when the radiowave energy is added. That's what is happening in the real world. We have a background of ionizing radiation, then we plug a cellphone into the side of our head to boost the energy by a very tiny amount.> But then you would be testing whether x-rays, at levels above background and in combination with radiowaves, cause excess breakage. You are not shedding any light on the cell phone radiation issue. Alas, not only will you not get the ‘Prize’, I’m afraid the referees at ‘Nature’ wouldn’t even accept your manuscript. At least we agree on the "not enough to worry about" part of the issue. Rich