Everyone that has a cell phone doesn't want to do without it. They increase safety margins many times, speed business along and provide nightmares to manage for parents. They have become so popular households do without conventional land lines. I doubt seriously cell phones will ever disappear from the landscape in more ways than one, HOWEVER, just as power lines can cause cancers, will having frequently occurring cell phone towers prove to have the same problem?
I am confident the telecommunication companies need to provide funding for INDEPENDENT investigation to insure the well being of consumers as well the songbirds that greet people every morning.
The concern with cell phone emissions is they use microwaves very similar to the kind microwave ovens use.
At one time, the late Johnnie Cochran was believed to have died of a brain tumor. His daughter, at the time of his death, brought this forward but because this issue is so heavily invested through huge companies, such as Carlyle, the subject is never really discussed in the media.
A link to the CNN interview is here.
I firmly believe this is a subject that should not go away. One way of overcoming an objection to a product or industry is to make it so common place it would be a political nightmare to deal with, but, in this case and if there continues to be more and more cell towers built, the users of cell phones and wireless technology may not be the only victims of choice. There needs to be a legislated agenda in every state as to where cell towers can be built (INCLUDING areas where they don't exist.) whom maintains them and CONTINUES to fund research to insure the safety of the public and public lands such as National and State Parks. There is something to be said for Citizen Band Radio (click here) It operates on a different frequency.
As noted from the link to the title of this entry, there appears to be difficulty in obtaining funds for much needed research. The industry needs to provide it without tacking on still another surcharge to the consumers they should seek to protect.
The American Cancer Society is misleading the public (click here)
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/american_cancer_society.htm
...Further evidence of this was seen two years ago. When renowned California attorney Johnnie Cochran died of a brain tumor that his surgeon, Dr. Keith Black from Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and Johnnie's family believed was caused by his long-time heavy use of cell phones, CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta covered it with a story that attempted to paint Johnnie's family and surgeon as emotional outliers. The industry did not even offer a spokesperson to appear on camera. Instead they offered a doctor from Emory University to say there was no link between brain cancer and cell phones -- a doctor with no history of any work on cell phones and cancer and who was part of the industry's litigation expert team coordinated through a law firm in Atlanta, Georgia where Emory University is located. Further, the industry submitted a written quote that was pasted on the screen: "The American Cancer Society has determined that cell phones and brain cancer is one of the top ten cancer myths". The American Cancer Society for many years now, has been doing the bidding of the mobile phone industry. The question is why. The answer is money....
