Re: [Trisquel-users] off-topic (maybe): petition to re-legalize unlocking cell phones in USA

[onpon4]

I'm not so sure about the "brain cancer" thing. I haven't done any research,  
but I think I read somewhere that that's just overhyped preliminary studies.  
Mainstream media often does this; it makes things sound more exciting than  
they really are.

One huge example of this is the mainstream media on "global cooling" in the  
1970s; at the time, climatologists debated over whether aerosols lowering  
global temperatures would have more of an effect (global dimming) or  
greenhouse gases raising global temperatures would have more of an effect  
(global warming). Mainstream media turned the hypothesis of global dimming  
into "scientists predict ice age!". Of course, when it turned out to be  
incorrect, they never owned up to this because "we misreported on global  
dimming, sorry!" is not a very exciting news story.