Link found between the internet and cancer in children - A venture of the Soccer Mum
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[quote]Wireless gadgets emit radiation - study
Differs to WHO's advice of little to no risk
Jury still out on cancer, mobile phone link
EXPERTS have called for internet-connected mobile phones and wireless laptop computers to be banned in schools.
A major new study has found cancer-causing electromagnetic radiation generated by wireless gadgets - including baby monitors and cordless phones - may be harmful for children's developing brain, reports the Herald Sun.
The influential Council of Europe examined evidence that wireless technologies had "potentially harmful" effects on humans and found that immediate action was required to protect children.
The respected body's findings contrast sharply with advice from the World Health Organisation that exposure to electromagnetic fields posed little or no risk to human health.
Glen Iris mother of three, Donna Latter Jones said the news was a concern given our wireless world.
Home-based Ms Latter Jones sells devices such as children's aeroplane safety harnesses through kids travel essentials website [url]www.littlegulliver.com.au[/url].
She said a combination of cordless phone, iPhone, desktop computer and laptop running all day meant her young children - Hayden, 4, Carly, 3 and Matthew, 2 - had grown up running freely through a field of potentially harmful magnetic radiation.
"Both my husband and I have definitely had concerns for a while over mobile phones and radiation, and try not to keep them close to our body," she said.
She said the risks of internet-connected devices such as laptops to children was a cause for concern.
"I wouldn't go as far as to support them being banned from classrooms, but if it turns out there are significant problems, then it should definitely be looked at," she said.
"Parents should be able to make up their own minds based on what is important to their own families, but we are bombarded with so much information these days, it's hard to know what to believe."
After decades of often inconclusive research, the jury is still out on a link between mobile phones and cancer.
Sydney University professor Bruce Armstrong was among an international panel of researchers who participated in a decade-long investigation into the health effects of mobile phones.
Carried out by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, on behalf of the World Health Organisation, the Interphone Project found no clear evidence of mobile phones causing ill-health.
Experts did, however, establish a possible link with brain tumours.[/quote]
If this fucking happened at my school, no joke I would shoot everyone motherfucking one of the people involved. Don't these cunts realise that Microwaves emit radiation? Couldn't that kill me too?
Heaven for soccer moms
Watch as this is used for every single argument against technology
Better start dressing the kids in tinfoil.
Next thing, they'll be requesting microwave towers be brought down...
Ban sun, causes cancer.
*sigh* I wish people would do their research on which wavelengths of radiation are ionising to human cells, because infrared and microwave radiation CERTAINLY are not.
Although, that said, don't stand in an industrial sized microwave oven and turn it on...
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[QUOTE=imadaman;29859581]Ban sun, causes cancer.[/QUOTE]
Ban oxygen! Oxygen radicals cause cancer!
[QUOTE=sltungle;29859583]*sigh* I wish people would do their research on which wavelengths of radiation are ionising to human cells, because infrared and microwave radiation CERTAINLY are not.
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Ionizing radiation isn't the only damaging kind of radiation
[QUOTE=Zeke129;29859615]Ionizing radiation isn't the only damaging kind of radiation[/QUOTE]
Microwave radiation is the only non-ionising radiation that I can think of that would result in any real damage to a person. And even then it's only through heating. If you're gonna say that we should stop using microwave radiation for telecommunications then you might as well 'ban' temperatures above a specific level because they're gonna do the same damage in the end if your exposed to them for long enough.
I doubt a couple of water molecules spinning around rapidly in my body is gonna do any long term damage unless I literally sit in front of a large, point-to-point microwave transmitter consistently for several years.
fuck, what the hell do people consider an "expert" these days, seriously?
Everything causes cancer.
What a joke of an article, typical popular 'science' "reporting".
"Major organization says this, BUT SOME OTHER SMALLER LESS REPUTABLE ORG SAYS THE TOTAL OPPOSITE! WITH PARENTS CONCERNED, COULD YOUR CHILD BE AT RISK OF CANCER?!"
[QUOTE=Psygo;29859688]fuck, what the hell do people consider an "expert" these days, seriously?[/QUOTE]
A mother of three children, apparently.
Shit, my mum's a scientist with degrees (not sure which ones) in Genetics and Cytogenetics, but damn, she can't be an expert because she's only got two kids!
Living is the leading cause of cancer
Major studies about cancers give you cancers.
oh no i'm going to die from radiation poisoning the cables in my pc are leaking
ugh i hate it when people trivialize cancer risks by posting stupid shit like "SUN CAUSES YOU CANCER SO FUCK YOU SCIENTISTS"
it's important to know what can increase your chances of cancer and what cannot. we should be welcoming all studies into the effects of microwave radiation.
No 4chan gives you cancer, not the internet.
The funny thing is, you're exposed to an electromagnetic field from the day you're born.
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That is no matter when you were born.
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Or where.
[QUOTE=thisispain;29860104]ugh i hate it when people trivialize cancer risks by posting stupid shit like "SUN CAUSES YOU CANCER SO FUCK YOU SCIENTISTS"
it's important to know what can increase your chances of cancer and what cannot. we should be welcoming all studies into the effects of microwave radiation.[/QUOTE]
And pretty much every single legitimate study (if not ALL of them) to date has found what's to be expected:
It does essentially bugger all to us as it's currently used in the telecommunications industry.
[QUOTE=sltungle;29860207]And pretty much every single legitimate study (if not ALL of them) to date has found what's to be expected:
It does essentially bugger all to us as it's currently used in the telecommunications industry.[/QUOTE]
yeah but that's not what i'm on about
if we shrug off cancer research by saying "oh everything causes cancer anyway who cares" then we might be ignoring some huge problems
[B]better ban electricity![/B]
[QUOTE=thisispain;29860214]yeah but that's not what i'm on about
if we shrug off cancer research by saying "oh everything causes cancer anyway who cares" then we might be ignoring some huge problems[/QUOTE]
The problem I have with it is that it has been REPEATEDLY demonstrated that certain things aren't dangerous and yet people still insist they are. Sure, there's some things we should definitely be looking into more carefully (like certain food colourings and preservatives that are used widely that could potentially be carcinogenic), but things like microwave radiation have been studied time and time again on different animals, and even on humans (who live near microwave relays) for a long, long time and have turned up no evidence that they're damaging (at least in the way people are insisting they are). Yet... it still isn't enough to convince some people otherwise.
The general public must think that scientists make things up for shits and giggles and that they get some kind of sick, perverted fun out of deluding people into believing something that's not true.
Just :frog:
if i live in a dumpster bin filled with active cell phones for 20 years, fat chance i wont get cancer
there's an increased [i]chance[/i] of cancer, but that's like +0,005% (per example)
[quote]The general public must think that scientists make things up for shits and giggles and that they get some kind of sick, perverted fun out of deluding people into believing something that's not true.[/quote]
Isn't that politicians?
I'd really like a definition for "Major Study" because so many times in recent years "major studies" resulting in "major breakthroughs" have amounted to absolutely nothing and are completely debunked in days.
[QUOTE=Mr. Bleak;29860320]I'd really like a definition for "Major Study" because so many times in recent years "major studies" resulting in "major breakthroughs" have amounted to absolutely nothing and are completely debunked in days.[/QUOTE]
If you put major study at the front, people will believe it.
[QUOTE=sltungle;29859670]Microwave radiation is the only non-ionising radiation that I can think of that would result in any real damage to a person. And even then it's only through heating. If you're gonna say that we should stop using microwave radiation for telecommunications then you might as well 'ban' temperatures above a specific level because they're gonna do the same damage in the end if your exposed to them for long enough.
I doubt a couple of water molecules spinning around rapidly in my body is gonna do any long term damage unless I literally sit in front of a large, point-to-point microwave transmitter consistently for several years.[/QUOTE]
Most UV radiation is non-ionizing yet a significant number of people get skin cancer every year
Surely you're not going to claim "oh they're getting it from something else the sun is 100% safe and besides everything gives you cancer!!"
