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A recent piece in GQ magazine explores a difficult issue for many Americans – many earthlings in fact – to grapple with: the health hazards of cell phones.
To suggest that cell phones pose serious and real health threats to human health, or as the article says, “to suggest it might be a very big public-health problem, is like saying our shoes might be killing us.”
“Except our shoes don’t send microwaves directly into our brains,” the article continues, “And cell phones do—a fact that has increasingly alarmed the rest of the world. Consider, for instance, the following headlines that have appeared in highly reputable international newspapers and journals over the past few years. From summer 2006, in the Hamburg Morgenpost: ARE WE TELEPHONING OURSELVES TO DEATH? That fall, in the Danish journal Dagens Medicin: MOBILE PHONES AFFECT THE BRAIN’S METABOLISM. December 2007, from Agence France-Presse: ISRAELI STUDY SAYS REGULAR MOBILE USE INCREASES TUMOUR RISK. January 2008, in London’s Independent: MOBILE PHONE RADIATION WRECKS YOUR SLEEP. September 2008, in Australia’s The Age: SCIENTISTS WARN OF MOBILE PHONE CANCER RISK.”
See the entire GQ article here.
What do you think? Are cell phones a public health issue? A public health threat?
And if it is, who would pay for the damage to the public good?
Would the cell phone industry pay, or would it be just another example of how, with issues such as tobacco use, junk food, fast food, and automobile use, we privatize the profits and socialize the costs?
