(responding to this awfully late, I know....)
The Fool wrote:
>
> Phone Study: Holey Rat's Brains
>
> By Elisa Batista | Also by this reporter Page 1 of 1
>
> 02:00 AM Jan. 31, 2003 PT
>
> In a study that may shed some light on whether cell-phone use is harmful
> to callers, Swedish scientists found that radiation emitted by the
> world's most common mobile phones burns holes in the brains of rats.
OK, what I'd like to know is, how thick is a rat skull compared to a human
skull? Does the thickness of the human skull provide extra protection from
the radiation? Or is this the equivalent of the study where rats were fed
insane amounts of saccharine (much more for their body weight than any human
would reasonably consume) and then developed cancers?
Rats are useful for figuring out what's likely to harm humans, but if the
study doesn't take into account physiological differences that might have an
impact on the results, there's a limit as to just how useful it's going to
be.
Julia
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