It’s fascinating to me that people are so concerned about cell phones being linked to brain cancer. Cell phones have been around now for 20 years and have been even more common in the past decade. I’m not trying to downplay the risk, but there are certainly things Americans do every day that cause cancer. The state of Maine wants to put warning labels on phones, kind of like cigarettes.
Ignoring the health risks of heavy cell phone use invites a cancer epidemic, supporters of a bill requiring manufacturers to put labels on mobile phones and packaging said Tuesday.”We can do nothing and wait for the body count. That’s what happened with smoking” before warnings on cigarette packs were mandated, David Carpenter, director of the Institute for Health and Environment at the University of Albany, told Maine lawmakers.
There has been no study that definitively links cell phone use to brain tumors. These lawmakers are basically cherry picking studies. Cancer is a major problem and there are many common cancers that are caused by diet and lifestyle choices. Obviously, lawmakers in Maine do not have anything better to do with their time than chase imaginary problems (seems like the perfect case for the Butter Police). David Carpenter should be ashamed of himself and his statement above. To compare cell phones to cigarettes is not only intellectually dishonest it’s a repugnant form of scaremongering. Carpenter is another fine example of academia gone wild.
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