Feb262010
Using cell phones causes - if not brain cancer, then drooling
Filed under Telecommunications by david brooks at 8:17 am
The ever-wonderful Improbable Research blog has a post (here it is) pointing to one of the weirdest bits of research I’ve seen in a long time: It claims that use of cell phones over long periods of time correlates with “human parotid gland secretion” - i.e., salivating. It claims that in 50 subjects, there was more salivating from the parotid gland on the side of the head that the subjects regularly used to talk on the cell phone (in research-speak, “MPH [Handheld Mobile Phone] use was on a dominant side of the head”.)
That does it: I’m going back to that old rotary dial Princess phone!
February 26th, 2010 at 10:20 am
Guess one could say, if one was so inclined:
Rotary RULES
Cellular DROOLS
If one were so inclined, that is…
February 26th, 2010 at 10:32 am
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February 28th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
One could do so, but one suspects that one would regret it afterward.