On livescience.com, there is an interesting article that I thought might appeal to most people in the school, since most of us have cell phones. DO cell phones really cause brain tumors? Well, scientists say, "NO!" This topic is one of the most over talked about, over hyped topics there is in the news today. There are magazines, such as the Healthday that says, "...no overall link..." Even thought they have this in the magazine, they have a header that goes with it that says, "Study Suggests Link Between Cell Phones and Brain Tumors." Smooth move Healthday magazine!
This whole thing started when the director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute told his faculty that cell phones might cause a risk for cancer. Evidently, science has proven him wrong. According to a columnist for the Bad Medicine article, Christopher Wanjek, he says, "There's no convincing evidence that cell phone radiation can cause cancer. Nor is there a plausible biological and physical reason for it to cause cancer." Though, there are some scientists that do ask, if you are talking on the phone, that you use a headset. Unless people are driving, I highly doubt they are going to wear a headset.
Right on cue, the cell phone companies STRONGLY disagree with that. One cell phone company told the L.A. times that whether the answer is cell phones can cause a risk of a brain tumor is the matter of who you ask, or they said something to that extent. The truth to this rumor, is that more people are susceptible to it than others.
In My Opinion:
No one should be afraid of getting a brain tumor from your cell phone. There are many people who say that you will get one from using your cell phones, but chances are, you aren't. Quite personally, I think this was a rumor written by a mom who wants her child to stop talking on his or her cell phone because he or she talks too much. As for the Heathday magazine, I think they should try to start making sure what is in the article and what is in the header, more cohesive. All and all, I think this is a very interesting article for a person like me, who loves to talk, to read about. I found this article at: http://www.livescience.com/technology/091014-cell-phone-cancer-tumors.html
I got the picture from:http://caise07.idi.ntnu.no/gifs/cellphone.gif
