In a message dated 6/26/2006 5:56:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
EM radiation DOES cause cancer and cell damage and physical trauma. Go lie out naked in the sun for a while, you'll see. It's whether *these frequencies* at *this power* can cause damage that is in question, and whether there are cumulative effects. Like I said in another post, I think the balance of evidence is that the risk is negligable compared to other risks. I'm certainly far more worried about skin cancer than I am about brain tumours. Once again the key has to be whether the em radiation from cell phones is powerful enough to cause DNA damage in the brain. My point is that the brain is bathed in em all the time and unless the cell phones produce a different or more powerful type of radiation the brain should have no trouble dealing with this. By the way there is no evidence of increased cancer risks in adults who have undergone CT scan even multiple scans where the radiation exposure is orders of magnitudes greater than that from a cell phone. Even radiation therapy to the brain does not cause a significant increase in additional cancers. Radiation at therapeutic doses is bad. it damages the blood vessels in the brain and leads to chronic ischemia but not to an increase in second primary tumors. By the way the reason that exposure to the sun leads to increase in cancer is not as far as I understand directly due to direct damage to DNA. Rather the sun causes tissue damage and the response to this damage is cellular proliferation. Proliferating cells are much more likely to undergo mutations leading to cancer. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
