The World Health Organization is making headlines with the pronouncement that cell phones just might possibly cause cancer. According to the Wall Street Journal, these are the same folks who warned us of the dangers of coconut oil, oral contraceptives, dry cleaners and coffee.
I’ve worked with cell phones since I handled publicity for their first customer trial in 1977. Shortly after cell phones were invented a plaintiff’s lawyer claimed they caused cancer and researchers have been churning out studies ever since. So far no study, including the one cited by the World Health Organization, actually proves that cell phones cause cancer. But because the cell phone industry has been unable to prove conclusively that cell phones DO NOT cause cancer the issue remains fair game for panic-peddling.
I’ve been skeptical of official health pronouncements since the government banned cyclamates, an ingredient of diet cola, in the 1970s. My mother-in-law was drinking diet cola by the case, so I figured she was a goner and began planning for her demise. She lived another 30 years and I stopped believing government health warnings.
If cell phones really do cause cancer, so what? The people most likely to be affected are the extreme compulsives who go through life holding their Nokias to their heads. Removing these idiots from the gene pool would be no great loss, especially if cancer gets them before their inattentive driving causes traffic accidents.
Cell phones cause cancer? So what?
The World Health Organization is making headlines with the pronouncement that cell phones just might possibly cause cancer. According to the Wall Street Journal, these are the same folks who warned us of the dangers of coconut oil, oral contraceptives, dry cleaners and coffee.
I’ve worked with cell phones since I handled publicity for their first customer trial in 1977. Shortly after cell phones were invented a plaintiff’s lawyer claimed they caused cancer and researchers have been churning out studies ever since. So far no study, including the one cited by the World Health Organization, actually proves that cell phones cause cancer. But because the cell phone industry has been unable to prove conclusively that cell phones DO NOT cause cancer the issue remains fair game for panic-peddling.
I’ve been skeptical of official health pronouncements since the government banned cyclamates, an ingredient of diet cola, in the 1970s. My mother-in-law was drinking diet cola by the case, so I figured she was a goner and began planning for her demise. She lived another 30 years and I stopped believing government health warnings.
If cell phones really do cause cancer, so what? The people most likely to be affected are the extreme compulsives who go through life holding their Nokias to their heads. Removing these idiots from the gene pool would be no great loss, especially if cancer gets them before their inattentive driving causes traffic accidents.
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