Mobile phone radiation - microwave health risks - facts about heavy mobile phone use in adults and children. What are the risks of cancer? Summary of recent research into mobile phones.

http://www.globalchange.com/radiation.htm Mobile phone radiation is causing many people to worry - with new research showing direct effects on human cells. However the real risk is likely to be extremely low. Comment by Futurist and physisican Dr Patrick Dixon

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[pjvdixon]

Thanks - this is a short clip within a longer presentation on global trends of many kinds. If you want more have a look at my main site globalchange and add com and you will find articles - some quite long - on the research into mobile phone radiation risks. My overall view having looked closely at evidence is that risks seem to be very small to users (higher in children), but market impact could become significant as people are not always able to be rational about low probability risks.

[mkarnerfors]

"The future is not about science but about emotion"?

And this quack is a physician?! Had he been my doctor I would have switched immediately. The future is *all* about science! The *past* is about emotions! About scares, fears, paranoia and wild unsubstantiated claims.

For a *physician* to stand there and say that the future is not about science is about as dumb as saying that medicine is not about healing people. Someone *please* take away his license!

[pjvdixon]

Hmm you misunderstand me.I wish the future of medicine was just about science but just look at the number of people who spend huge amounts of their own money on treatments for which there is little scientific evidence of benefit. Science, technology, innovation - what decides how actually used, and impact they have, as history shows, is not knowledge itself, but whether people want to use it, how want to use it, willingness to pay etc. Video of course is exaggerating a little to make us think.

[pjvdixon]

I wish that setting a level was as simple as having answers. Easy to set level for exposure. Hard to prove long term impact with short term data. Fact is we have only been using mobiles for short time and new generation mobiles create different patterns of radiation than old (3G) so we need fresh studies which will take up to 20-30 years to full data on 20-30 year exposure risk.I think it will turn out that the risk is very small for say a 60 minutes a day of use, but cannot be 100% certain.

[AdrianMX6]

Note the emphasis on the "heavy" use. All things in moderation. Listen carefully to what the guys says and don't take his comments out of context.

[pjvdixon]

Yes that is what I am saying - very heavy use for a long period. But even then I expect future studies to confirm that the risks are low - compared to many other things we do everyday.

[fuzzbox5150]

if 42 is the meaning of life is 2.4ghz the meaning of death?

[TheDrkKnght1988]

Radiation's harmful to your health. Use a cell phone (or cell for short) for too much time can damage your brain cells- giving you a headache or even more stress.

[88888FORCE]

Experts say cellphones are possibly carcinogenic

May-31-2011-- An international panel of experts says cellphones are possibly carcinogenic to humans after reviewing details from dozens of published studies on the matter.

The statement was issued in Lyon, France, Tuesday by the International Agency for Research on Cancer - the cancer agency of the World Health Organization. The assessment by the cancer panel now goes to WHO and national health agencies for possible guidance on cellphone use.

[ozzycriss]

Anyone stupid enough to put a cell phone to there ear/temporal lobe deserve there brain cancer . Geez people are stupid

[Sailor757SWE]

@Carabin33fr Dr Georg Carlo was the head researcher of the mobilephone industry. He now says that mobilephones causes a lot of disease and even explains how it works. (Cellmambranes have receptors that work like antennas. Low energy or not, these receptors pick up the frequency and interpretes them as toxins outside the cell. Result: some cells stop working and you start to get sick. Even if not everyone get sick, I dont want such a nazi society that accepts making other people sick on purpose.

[Sailor757SWE]

@pjvdixon Those are things you can chose to do. But you need just 50-100 nanowatt to disturb the function of many cells in the body, including braincells and other nerve cells. Mobilephone and mast radiation is much much stronger even if you are a kilometer away from the source. So using a mobilephone is the same as taking away the free choice and health from many many people.

[Sailor757SWE]

@pjvdixon I dont think you know anything about mobile radiation and your topic is completely inappropriate. Because what facts did you present? None.. Just a lot of unsubstantiated rubbish. I know a lot of doctors who says anything just to get some money.. Also, I think you look really weird running around in front of the camera. Take a course in presentation before your next "info" job.

[bengalslash]

small risk to a small number of people with heavy usage; how much vaguer could you be. radio waves and micro waves aren't densely ionizing. They can't cause double stranded breaks in dna, therefore can't cause cancer

[anold130]

Oh so now the government warning the world about personal and home appliances that have radioative material that causes health risks also instant death in contact. What about the young generation of this world, did the F.B.I. warn them not to buy or touch handset mobile phones because it is radioactive. Money-Crooks.

[EMRinformation]

This man in the video is not right and he speaks like people payed by the mobil-industry. The risks of cell phone use are high. If you take brain cancer people who starts before the age of 20 years face a 520% increased risk. Adults 270 %.

Take a look on my video:

INTERPHONE: A reliable study on health risks?

Go to "EMRinformation"