Is this the same "Mack the Knife" who scoffed at Al Gore and global
warming?
Now you accept "Brain Tumors" because you read about some obscure
character
who said so?
You are a real scientist "Mack the Knife" !
"Mack the Knife" <bulldog101750@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking'
>
> Brain expert warns of huge rise in tumours and calls on industry to
> take immediate steps to reduce radiation
>
> Young people are at particular risk from exposure to radiation
>
> Geoffrey Lean
> Sunday, 30 March 2008
>
>
> Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a
> study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says
> people
> should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and
> the
> mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure
> to their radiation.
>
>
> The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment
> yet
> published of the health risks.
>
> It draws on growing evidence - exclusively re****ted in the IoS in
> October - that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the
> risk
> of brain cancer. Cancers take at least a decade to develop,
> invalidating official safety assurances based on earlier studies
> which
> included few, if any, people who had used the phones for that long.
>
> Earlier this year, the French government warned against the use of
> mobile phones, especially by children. Germany also advises its
> people
> to minimise handset use, and the European Environment Agency has
> called for exposures to be reduced.
>
> Professor Khurana - a top neurosurgeon who has received 14 awards
> over
> the past 16 years, has published more than three dozen scientific
> papers - reviewed more than 100 studies on the effects of mobile
> phones. He has put the results on a brain surgery website, and a
> paper
> based on the research is currently being peer-reviewed for
> publication
> in a scientific journal.
>
> He admits that mobiles can save lives in emergencies, but concludes
> that "there is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a
> link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours". He
> believes this will be "definitively proven" in the next decade.
>
> Noting that malignant brain tumours represent "a life-ending
> diagnosis", he adds: "We are currently experiencing a reactively
> unchecked and dangerous situation." He fears that "unless the
> industry
> and governments take immediate and decisive steps", the incidence of
> malignant brain tumours and associated death rate will be observed
> to
> rise globally within a decade from now, by which time it may be far
> too late to intervene medically.
>
> "It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health
> ramifications than asbestos and smoking," says Professor Khurana,
> who
> told the IoS his *****sment is partly based on the fact that three
> billion people now use the phones worldwide, three times as many as
> smoke. Smoking kills some five million worldwide each year, and
> exposure to asbestos is responsible for as many deaths in Britain as
> road accidents.
>
> Late last week, the Mobile Operators Association dismissed Khurana's
> study as "a selective discussion of scientific literature by one
> individual". It believes he "does not present a balanced analysis"
> of
> the published science, and "reaches opposite conclusions to the WHO
> and more than 30 other independent expert scientific reviews".
>
>
> (I told ya so)
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