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The Spectacle Blog
Leading Democrats in the House want to create a whole new multi-million research project to investigate whether cell phone use causes cancer in the wake of an overhyped report from the World Health Organization claiming that the devices “might” be linked to the disease. The report notes there is no evidence of any causal link and that the “risk,” if you can call it that, is the same as drinking coffee. This is what the Democrats worry about rather than Medicare. The risk of brain cancer has declined over the 30 years the cell phone use has exploded. And of course no major media outlet has reported that the absolute risk of brain cancer is nearly one in three million. Or that cell phones have contributed many benefits. Just another example of how pols seeking media attention fuel fear and legitimize lawsuits. The risk of receiving a Weiner tweet is much, much greater.
c. j. acworth| 6.2.11 @ 7:21PM
Mr. Goldberg; You report that "The risk of brain cancer has declined over the thirty years the cell phone use has exploded." So it sounds to me that the research has been done and the conclusion is obvious. Cell phone use prevents brain cancer!
Andy Halloran| 6.2.11 @ 9:14PM
Nineteen people in America choked to death on milk (either white or chocolate) in 2009. Maybe there should be a research project to determine if there is something about milk that causes such deaths. Don't even bring up cider!!
cali| 6.2.11 @ 9:48PM
Liberals/democrats need to create jobs for their lawyers, so they can sue should they find a tiny kernel of cancer causing phones.
Dixie Pixie| 6.2.11 @ 11:23PM
There is a 100% statistical correlation between those that drink water and those that develop brain cancer!
This only proves Mark Twain right when he said “Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.”
Bob K.| 6.2.11 @ 11:52PM
I believe it! Now here's my plan!
Get all the cell phone numbers of all the Leading Democrats in the House and get everybody you know to call one.
Send this to 20 people you know if you love America! If we all get behind this we can help the country rid itself of Leading Democratic Congressmen.
legal smoke | 6.3.11 @ 3:33AM
Let me bang if you are involved to transform as article illustrator for me? I can act $10/article.