Cancer warning adds wrinkle to parenting debate

No amount of studies will ever be enough as they can't show definitively that the risk is exactly equal to zero. Because that's the case some people will never be satisfied; they just raise the bar a notch with "what if the cancer risk is smaller than you can measure" and resume bleating about a possible cancer risk with renewed vigour.

Don't let your kids have cell phones and don't let them go on educational field trips that require them.

What? They couldn't convince the adults that they were dangerous so now they start on "well it'll kill your kids"???

Who is pushing this? Who's agenda is being satisfied by restricting cell phone use?

There is definably large risk of tumor associated with the long term use of cell phones..

Even more so for young children because they are more sensitive to disruptions in their endocrine system.

There is definably large risk of tumor associated with the long term use of cell phones.

Studies following hundreds of thousands of people for years and years. Studies following people working with high-powered radar system in RF and microwaves. No known mechanism by which non-ionizing radiation could cause cancer.

If there is a cancer risk it's small enough that we haven't been able to measure it.

... course... that isn't to say that the dye used in the cell phone can't give you cancer, or the plastic used to make the phone — but that's no different than anything else.

What amazes me is that people like brant scream and yell about cell phones, but they'll eat food prepared in Teflon frying pans, they'll sit on a couch or walk on a carpet that has been made fire resistant, they'll eat fried/deepfried/BBQed food (charcoal of any type, even in tiny quantities, is highly carcinogenic, as is *any* fried food - in fact, the only food that it is completely safe to eat is food that has been boiled in purified water. Yum:P), and they'll eat Splenda like it is going out of style (the jury is still out on that one...), and Stevia too (dunno about everyone else, but I've tried to eat that stuff 4 times, and each time it has given me heart palpitations. I'm not trying again, no matter what anyone says).

Not only that, but they will actually get in their and *drive* to work. At the *dangerously* unsafe speed of 50 kilometres per hour. *shudders* Have you seen the stats on vehicle death?

Some people have an extremely skewed risk assessment process.

ALL electron radiation is a potential cancer hazzard! X-ray is the worst (proven!), Cosmic ray is next, cathode rays next, radio transmitters next. Power lines and cell phones least, but who listens?