We are turning our populace into brainless slaves.

Don't carry a cell phone. For fucks sake, don't watch television either.

AND its OBAMA's fault? His MARXIST ass is just a symptom.

"We are turning our populace into brainless slaves.
#1 | Posted by wurster"

Exhibit "A"

The same WHO that said swine flu is an international disaster???? Cell phones cause tumors and global warming.....will kill us ALL if democracy is not eliminated.
OMG! We are doomed unless we fund the "best and brightest" so they can rule by fear.

Actually, WHO said "all of humanity is at risk". Of getting the sniffles.

Oh yes, Diablo, that's exactly what the global warming believers say--we MUST DESTROY DEMOCRACY TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING.

AAAAAAHHHH.

Jesus, but you live in a paranoid state. Do you have a support group?

"Jesus, but you live in a paranoid state. "

Pretty much sums up New Jersey in a nutshell.

Welcome back, LUP.

Thanks Chrissy!

so they can rule by fear.

#3 | Posted by Diablo

I need the government to come give me a big old teet because i'm scared.

But, OTOH, it does kind of make sense that if you hold a high-frequency radio transmitter (that can get hot too) within 1/2" of your brain.....

"Pretty much sums up New Jersey in a nutshell."

Nice job! : ) I knew someone was gonna bite on "state."

The devil is in the paranoia...

Since when did the WHO start researching health problems?

It won't make any difference if they found out it caused blindness and shriveled your privates to the size of a gnat. Most Americans would have nothing left to live for if it wasn't for their ego toys.

I understand the WHO is about to release a report on those who spend an exorbitant amount of their time on "Drudge Retort"-- they've found they have an increase incidence of macular degeneration and Raynaud's syndrome of the fingertips.

?radio frequency waves-- multiple studies have shown in the past no cancer link.

Whatever brain damage it might do would have to be based on the way microwaves act. Microwaves heat food by exciting water molecules.

?radio frequency waves

Cell phones work by microwaves.

Anyone still holding a cell phone to their heads in these days of free wired headsets and insanely cheap bluetooth headsets is asking for trouble.

#16---- Just read the comments by Dr. Cardis, evidently the author of the study and she referred to radiofreqency irradiation.

Why CoomonSense?? It's nostalgic to hold a receiver upto Your ear and talk to Your sweetie. Hands free is too sci fi for people like Me.

Larry

Why CoomonSense??

Because it can cause brain tumors, larry. Read the article.

If I remember my chemistry studies, radiofrequency waves are on the low end of the radiation spectrum (versus gamma and other forms of radiation). Also, I think I remember that it is very common in our surrounding environment.

#16---- Ray, radiofrequency waves, not microwaves. If it was microwaves, then I could understand some of the postings by unnamed individuals on this blog.

I need to get a headset, though I'm not talking on my celly every day; texting, otoh...

I'm already getting cancer from 6 years of being a Ground Radio technician. The curse of the 2E153.

I still don't understand how RF can cause tumors when visible light is closer to the ionizing end of the EM spectrum.

#16---- Ray, radiofrequency waves, not microwaves. If it was microwaves, then I could understand some of the postings by unnamed individuals on this blog.

we MUST DESTROY DEMOCRACY TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING.

#5 | Posted by pragmatist

More like the rest of us must live environment friendly lives so Al Gore and company can live the highlife in huge climate controlled houses, have fleets of gas guzzling SUV's and engage corporate jetting everywhere in the world on a whim

Can you hear me now?

"More like the rest of us must live environment friendly lives so Al Gore and company can live the highlife in huge climate controlled houses, have fleets of gas guzzling SUV's and engage corporate jetting everywhere in the world on a whim"

I'm not going to doubt the reality that some people are hypocrites (though the argument about Gore's "house" is dumb, and you didn't bring it up--his estate is a business, so one can't compare it to our lives).

But how is that destroying democracy? I believe the person who said that was hinting at the Kyoto accords and similar treaties, in which people claim we are ceding sovereignty. But you know, we sign treaties all the time. The age of empires should go, if you ask me, which you didn't. Or only sort of did. : )

?radio frequency waves

Cell phones work by microwaves.

#17 | Posted by wurster at 2009-10-27 10:14 PM

Microwaves are radio frequency waves.

At frequencies from 1 GHz to 300 GHz are considered microwave radiation.

The studies that are conducted, use cadavers to measure cellular heating when exposed to a particular radio signal. By studying how much heating happens at certain frequencies, and power levels.

I work for a television station in Chicago, and when we go up on the rooftop of Sears Tower (I'll never call it Willis), to work on any of our antennas, we wear RF radiation suits, otherwise our safe exposure time is about 3 minutes.

There's lots of VHF, UHF, and Microwave radiators up there, running at very high power levels.

I don't understand how a headset solves your problem unless you don't put the phone in your pocket. You're just transferring a brain tumor to a leg/groin tumor.

Upcoming joint commercial by Johnson and Johnson and Nokia.

Pretty girl dressed in sharp business suit striding purposefully down busy street, smiling confidently, cell phone to ear.

"My busy schedule means I'm constantly in touch with clients on my cell phone. Headaches mean lost opportunities to me, so I take two Tylenol daily".

(Cut to shot of sky, sun breaking through cloud cover, Nokia and Tylenol logos discreetly and tastefully illuminated)

(Small print health warnings at bottom of screen read at warp speed)

#33 Brock -- now that's funny!

#31 Roy_Batty> There's lots of VHF, UHF, and Microwave radiators up there, running at very high power levels.

Isn't it the higher power levels that we are supposed to be wary of? I know a former Russian soldier who said they were told decades ago that cell phones would or were going to cause brain problems. He said it was due to RF so close to the brain. He was a radio operator and trained to listen to U.S. military stuff at remote listening stations. I always wondered if there was any truth to what he was taught.

Isn't it the higher power levels that we are supposed to be wary of? I know a former Russian soldier who said they were told decades ago that cell phones would or were going to cause brain problems. He said it was due to RF so close to the brain. He was a radio operator and trained to listen to U.S. military stuff at remote listening stations. I always wondered if there was any truth to what he was taught.

#35 | Posted by AKat at 2009-10-28 11:30 AM

RF exposure limits are set by measuring cellular heating over time, for a given frequency and power level.

Think of it this way. Your microwave oven is nothing more than a radio transmitter with a power output somewhere around 1500 Watts, at a frequency around 2.5 GHz.

If you put a hamburger patty in the microwave for 5 seconds, you'll see there is almost no heating. But when you put it in for 5 minutes, it becomes extremely hot.

Actually when we are up on Sears Tower, you need to give good clearance to the FM broadcast antennas.
the wavelength of a 98MHz radio signal is about 120 inches, so a 1/2 wave antenna is 60 inches.
Someone of average height is somewhere in the 5 foot range, so you are resonant and couple a lot of energy from those transmitters.

?radio frequency waves

Cell phones work by microwaves.

#17 | Posted by wurster

ummm Cell phone towers operate in microwaves.

Cell phones use UHF radio frequencies.

Both are "frequencies" however.

WHO.......... Bath tubs can kill you.
WHO.......... Life causes death!!

I still don't understand how RF can cause tumors when visible light is closer to the ionizing end of the EM spectrum.

#26 | Posted by goatman at 2009-10-27 10:47 PM | Reply | Flag:

Don't you remember the ET's who worked in Radio Transmitter?

I hung around with several of them and they were all losing their hair. They all had normal hair before getting to the ship but started losing it slowly (not in clumps) after working in Transmitter.

I kept in touch with all of them and they all said that they stopped losing their hair after no longer working in the space.

I remember being in their and you could feel the energy when they qued up a transmitter. You felt it in the hairs on the back of your neck.

This has been known and suppressed for years. I had a girl that worked for me that fell out of her chair at work and started convulsing. I gave her cpr till an ambulance arrived and took her to the hospital. She had a quarter sized brain tumor direclty behind her ear on the side of her head she always held her cell phone.

WHO.......... Bath tubs can kill you.
WHO.......... Life causes death!!

Thank's sniper. I'll keep the nugget of commonsense right next to my copy of the Farmers Almanac in the ol' outdoor shitter.

#40--- If she survived, because of the location described she probably had an acoustic neuroma-- the cancers supposedly caused by cell phones are very rare ones

#42 | POSTED BY MATSOP

Upon further research, it appears as if a vestibular schwannoma may arise in the cochlea, and progress toward the brain stem if not treated (opposite the progression I'd assumed).

However, the usual symptoms associated with v.s. are inconsistent with a "sudden attack" as described by Prolix. The symptoms for v.s. include tinnitus, loss of balance, and dizziness..."creeping" symptoms, if you will. Not something that suddenly presents with an overwhelming attack of health maladies, apparently...