[ale] OT: Study: cell phones burn holes in brains

[Kilroy, Chris]

1. the journal that it was published in, though peer-reviewed, is a pretty obscure journal.  i bring this up because it is possible that their experimental approach wasn't that great, keeping them out of a major journal.  That being said, it is totally possible this is top calibre science, just these people shot too low in journal submission =).

2.  i'm not sure what correlation you can make between adolescent rodents and adult humans.  If it is developmental processes that this interferes with, there may not be any mechanisms at work that are still around in an adult human brain (developmentally, not evolutionarily).  on the other hand, there are neuroregenerative processes in the brain that may have similar cellular underpinnings to developmental processes that could be adversely effected.

interesting to keep an eye how this plays out though.


->-----Original Message-----
->From: Fulton Green [mailto:ale at FultonGreen.com]
->Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 1:24 PM
->To: ale at ale.org
->Subject: [ale] OT: Study: cell phones burn holes in brains
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->Before it shows up in /. ...
->
->http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,57488,00.html
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->Right now, it's only rat brains, but still potentially disturbing
->nonetheless.
->
->I'm posting this as a followup to the discussion a few weeks 
->ago voicing
->concerns over the (I think "non-ionizing") radiation emitted 
->by cell phones
->and (more to the point)
->WiFi cards.
->
->And mad props to Jim Kinney, who applied his knowledge of 
->physics and gave
->some valuable insights regarding the facts and myths of the 
->radiation issue.
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