Is the Mobile phone Safe (Mobile phone safety)

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Product:	Mobile phone safety
Date:	20/07/02 (46 review reads)
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I'm actually hoping that the mobile phone will prove to be a sort of Darwinian force in society - i.e., after the excessive mobile phone users' brains have all melted and run out of their ears, the survivors will all be a bit better off.

Example of why this scare should be true: I'm in a cinema on Friday night watching a film ('The Yards', excellent by the way), and towards the end, some complete loser's tinkly small-penis-indicator ring-tone echoes through the auditorium. And aforementioned mentally challenged user doesn't switch it off, or hastily kill off the conversation. He just starts gabbing. And as soon as he sees the consternation he's causing, he actually makes a call or two, just to show everyone that he's got a mobile phone.

Does anybody really know the truth about mobile phone safety? Scientists say that they are safe, and radiation levels are so low you would have to have to have a phone stuck to the side of your face permanently to do any damage (and even then, you are at more danger from the glue that sticks the phone to your face rather than the phone itself). Yey the major mobile phone companies are all busy patenting radiation shields for their phones.

So who is telling the truth? Are the mobile phone companies just covering their own backs? Well, I think yes, they are just covering their backs. To them, the cost of developing a little lead shield for the phone is probably a lot cheaper than stumping up millions of pounds and dollars in court should their ever be a problem.

Scientists have nothing to lose either way. they are just reporting their findings, so what do they have to lose by saying the phones could be harmful? None? Exactly, so they are probably not covering anything up. The question is, are the media covering up what the scientists are saying?

The answer is 'who knows!'. And that is very true; who does know? Unless you are a scientist, you wo
n't know. And if you are, you've probably received a pay-off to keep your findings quiet.

The idea of placing a transmitter next to your head doesn't sound like too smart a notion. But I guess those people for whom a mobile is a useful tool, a way of calling home to say you're late, or calling the AA when you break down are probably OK. It's the girl who sat behind me on a bus just filling half-an-hour with conversations of mind-numbing inanity who's doomed. Or the people who are at one end of Simsbury’s, asking the person who is evidently at the other end of Simsbury’s what sandwiches to buy. Or the pair of clowns I watched using their mobiles to navigate towards each other in the Trafford Centre. I'm not making, this up, it was hypnotic to watch.

You don't need a reassuring bubble of babble to surround you, it is actually possible to traverse the world either with another human beside you, or alone, rather than carrying around this haze of shouted conversation about absolutely nothing.

Or is the radiation already doing its work? Is the fact that you never overhear a mobile conversation with even the remotest hint of coherence or thought in it because the users are already succumbing to a mobile-induced version of Alzheimer’s?

I guess I don't really want hordes of dopey phone addicts to start dropping like flies.... no really, I don't, but whether the brain cells are being zapped or not, I really hope the chance might start putting people off using the damn things.

In my view, I don't think there is a significant problem with mobile phones and the radiation that is supposed to be so harmful to us. Yes, mobile phone use is growing exponentially, but that in it self does not cause a problem. People are using phones for longer and longer, which could cause problems if the radiation levels are too high. But, more and more people are just using their phones for
SMS messaging, so the radiation they emit, if any, is far away from your body anyway.

I don't think we have anything to worry about here. It is all just scare-mongering on the part of the media yet again. They are famous for making something out of nothing, and I think this is no different.

By the way, for all mobile phone users, who have found this discourse confusing because I haven't made gratuitous reference to where I am, I'm in the spare room. NO, THE SPARE ROOM.... THE SPARE ROOM...

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