Amber Kocher
“Mobile phone brain cancer link rejected”
A study was done in Denmark that was testing the relationship between long-term cell phone use and brain/nervous system cancers. Most people know or have heard someone say that if you use your cell phone too much, you could risk getting cancer. The Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Denmark tested this theory over an 18 year time period. They tested a group of 350,000 subjects over this period and found out that there is no greater risk of developing any kind of cancer when using a cell phone. The World Health Organization has not ruled out cell phones as a carcinogenic risk, so they categorized it in the same area as coffee, which means that the theory hasn’t been proved or disapproved yet, so you should still use caution. The Department of health still maintains that people under 16 should only use a phone when necessary and to keep usage and calls short. A few doctors and professors were quoted about the report done on this research, and one point they made was that this study wasn’t specified by how much each of these individuals used their phones, such as business people using it more than the average person.
Cell phones in my opinion are the best and worst piece of technology we have today. It’s fast, easy and keeps us connected to everything going on through text, email, internet and so on. But it is disconnecting us from the actual people standing 3 feet away from us. Technology like phones and the internet are keeping people from interacting in person and its changing the way people relate and communicate on a daily basis. This is a social problem because people don’t know how to interact anymore, and its not just affecting the social aspect but is affecting employers, doctors, therapists, and families. People are staying connected to tons of people spread all over the place, but can’t interact with people right in front of them. It’s disconnecting us and preventing us from having daily human interactions.
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/SuperModels/CellPhonesAreTheNewCigarettes.aspx
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