Dec212009
Maine eyes cancer warnings on cell phones
Filed under Medicine by david brooks at 3:07 pm
Actually, one Maine legislator wants the state to require cell phones to carry warnings that they might cause brain cancer, reports the Portland Press-Herald.
The article does a good job emphasizing the fact that the issue has been studied fairly well and has found no danger. To reduce it to sayings/cliches, we have “better safe than sorry” vs. “the boy who cried wolf.” I side with the latter; there are enough real worries in life not to clutter it up with very very very very unlikely possiblities.
What I’d really like to do is bribe a research office to fake a study saying that using a cell phone while driving caused a five-bazillion-percent increase in brain tumors. That would be science serving society.
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