Children under 8 should not use cell phones - new study shows tumor development

[Analog]

Mobile phones tumour risk to young children
By Sam Coates, Nigel Hawkes and Alexandra Blair

CHILDREN under the age of eight should not use mobile phones, parents were advised last night after an authoritative report linked heavy use to ear and brain tumours and concluded that the risks had been underestimated by most scientists.

Professor Sir William Stewart, chairman of the National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB), said that evidence of potentially harmful effects had become more persuasive over the past five years.

The news prompted calls for phones to carry health warnings and panic in parts of the industry. One British manufacturer immediately suspended a model aimed at four to eight-year-olds.

The number of mobiles in Britain has doubled to 50 million since the first government-sponsored report in 2000. The number of children aged between five and nine using mobiles has increased fivefold in the same period.

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[Wanescotting]

WTF would an eight year old need with a cell phone anyway?

 

[BaboonGuy]

Does this only pertain to children under 8? Or are we (adults) at risk too...?

 

[So]

Children under 8 should not have cell phones for many, more obvious, reasons.

 

[DurocShark]

There are kids in elementary school with phones. I couldn't believe it.

Some parents obviously have too much money...

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

hahahaha, one of hte reasons I hate them is because it has long been known the the microwaves they emit warm yourskull as you hold hte transmitter next to your face.

I find it gratifying that most morons an't think for themselves. Please add this to the motorcycle melmet law covnersation 😉

 

[Analog]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
hahahaha, one of hte reasons I hate them is because it has long been known the the microwaves they emit warm yourskull as you hold hte transmitter next to your face.

I find it gratifying that most morons an't think for themselves. Please add this to the motorcycle melmet law covnersation 😉

😕

 

[Amused]

Folks, this is unproven HYPE.

?All of these studies have yet to be replicated and are of varying quality but we can?t dismiss them out of hand,? Sir William said. If there was a health risk ? which remained unproven ? it would have a greater effect on the young than on older people, he added.

Not a single study has been replicated. The MOST important part of scientific proof is being able to replicate the findings of a study with another, independent study. No one has been able to do so.

And NO study has shown any increased risk with kids. They are merely recycling the old, unproven stories and jumping to conclusions not found... in studies no one has been able to replicate.

Anyone remember the Michael Crichton lecture?

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
hahahaha, one of hte reasons I hate them is because it has long been known the the microwaves they emit warm yourskull as you hold hte transmitter next to your face.

I find it gratifying that most morons an't think for themselves. Please add this to the motorcycle melmet law covnersation 😉

Please add yourself to that list.

?All of these studies have yet to be replicated and are of varying quality but we can?t dismiss them out of hand,? Sir William said. If there was a health risk ? which remained unproven ? it would have a greater effect on the young than on older people, he added.

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: Amused
Folks, this is unproven HYPE.

?All of these studies have yet to be replicated and are of varying quality but we can?t dismiss them out of hand,? Sir William said. If there was a health risk ? which remained unproven ? it would have a greater effect on the young than on older people, he added.

Not a single study has been replicated. The MOST important part of scientific proof is being able to replicate the findings of a study with another, independent study. No one has been able to do so.

And NO study has shown any increased risk with kids. They are merely recycling the old, unproven stories and jumping to conclusions not found... in studies no one has been able to replicate.

Anyone remember the Michael Crichton lecture?

So, you're saying that for it to be science that it has to be rreproducible?!?!?! Come on. The smoking nazis have been using unreproducible studies for decades now. LoL!!!

 

[SagaLore]

I wasn't even allowed to talk on a POTS line phone at that age.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
hahahaha, one of hte reasons I hate them is because it has long been known the the microwaves they emit warm yourskull as you hold hte transmitter next to your face.

I find it gratifying that most morons an't think for themselves. Please add this to the motorcycle melmet law covnersation 😉

Spelling is not your friend, is it.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: DurocShark
There are kids in elementary school with phones. I couldn't believe it.

Some parents obviously have too much money...

If one of the spouses weren't working, they could stay home with the kids, whom would no longer require the cell phones and incur the additional expense. It's a vicious cycle...

 

[arcas]

One British manufacturer immediately suspended a model aimed at four to eight-year-olds.

WTF? Are 4-year-olds really a target market for cell phone manufacturers?