Better penetration through cancer! (Mobile phone safety)

Member Name: threadgill

Product:	Mobile phone safety
Date:	14/07/01 (35 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good for safety of lone women

Disadvantages: Cancer, trivia, waste

I'll explain the title at the end. Prepare to be mildly disturbed.

There are over 200 filed patents waiting to be implemented for devices to make mobile phones safer. The companies are not going to bring them into the marketplace until forced to by law.

This suggests that at the economic level of reality, the level at which oil companies employ dowsers because it's profitable to do so, never mind what you believe, it is recognised that these phones are dangerous.

But who's going to prove it? There was a study in Scandinavia a couple of years ago about microwave ovens. Put simply, the study found that they turned proteins into carcinogens. Admittedly, that's only one study, confirmation would be good. But what happens? The scientists are sued by the manufacturers, no further studies are done and life just carries on. These are the machines we use to heat baby milk in hospitals, for goodness's sake.

And it's the same with mobile phones. People can argue all they like about radio waves and power sources and heat effects and hormone changes, but there are only a few facts which actually influence what happens:

1)People love the illusion of connectedness that a mobile phone gives and are going to carry on usimg them until or unless people start dying of big ugly lumps on the side of their heads.

2) The mobile phone licenses that the government sold were really very expensive, so the mobile phone companies have a lot of investment to recoup and truly do not want to start new manufacturing processes until they have to.


There are lots of spare people. Population is still running wild. We're not all needed for jobs and the rest have to be fed, housed too if elderly or the voters get too upset.

All of this care for the unproductive is expensive, there's no real economic incentive to worry about public health. Smokers already save the go
vernment billions every year by dying fast, dying young and producing lots of revenue, why shouldn't mobile phone users make the same noble sacrifice?

I'm not saying that all the health scares are necessarily true. I'm inclined to believe most of them myself, but I freely admit that's just instinct. I have no evidence. What I am saying is that whatever we the public are told, we'll be told it for economic reasons, which will have nothing to do with any kind of truth.

The title? Oh yes. My friend's boyfriend had to have a testicle removed recently because of cancer. He's not a smoker, has no particularly unhealthy habits, it just came out of nowhere, lucky to catch it so early, blah blah.
She was trying very hard to be bright and chirpy and find a positive way of looking at the whole episode. The only thing she could think of was that it might improve their sex life, since he now seemed to penetrate more deeply into her since there was "less in the way".
As you might imagine, I didn't know quite what to say. The image is still stuck in my head, which could really do without it.
Is this a symbol of humanity for the twenty-first century? A half-empty scrotum pressing ever closer towards physical union to try to produce a closeness that we don't feel before it's too late?

I hope not. But I think we need to start saying what matters to the people we can talk to, rather than being better and better connected to lots of people, to whom we never say anything meaningful.

Bin the mobile. If you're needed, the world will find you.

It's just an opinion.

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