Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!killer!vector!telecom-gateway From: miket@brspyr1.brs.com (Mike Trout) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Possible Cancer Risk from Cellular Phones? Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 89 18:14:55 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Organization: BRS Info Technologies, Latham NY Lines: 27 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 102, message 4 of 10 I recently had a discussion with a major electronics guru for a local television station. We were talking about microwave transmitters (radar speed guns, garage door openers, that sort of thing), when he made a dramatic statement that shocked me: he claimed that cellular phones were extremely hazardous and probably highly carcinogenic. This is completely outside my area of expertise, so I can only repeat what he said. He claimed that the frequency wavelengths used for cellular phone radio transmissions were just about equal to the diameter of the human brain cavity. This, he claimed, accelerated by the fact that the receiver is always held up against the human skull, sets up highly dangerous conditions within the human brain. He said that ten years or so from now we're going to see an explosive increase in brain tumors among cellular phone users. He also claimed that some cellular units were far more hazardous than others, but that ALL of them are carcinogenic. He said he won't even work on them, and wouldn't wish a cellular phone on his worst enemy. This guy is rather eccentric at times, but his knowledge of electronics is legendary. His co-workers seemed to share his opinions; one of their technicians was severely injured some years back by climbing on a transmission tower during a high-intensity transmission. Whether this guy knows anything about human physiology is another question. Is this nonsense, an urban myth, or is this actually a matter of risk? -- NSA food: Iran sells Nicaraguan drugs to White House through CIA, SOD & NRO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Michael Trout (miket@brspyr1)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BRS Information Technologies, 1200 Rt. 7, Latham, N.Y. 12110 (518) 783-1161 "God forbid we should ever be 20 years without...a rebellion." Thomas Jefferson