"Prometheus" <Prometheus@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:E0BbIbcXAI2GFwRX@spam.newbrain.demon.co.uk...
> In article <fb8k89$5eg$2@news.datemas.de>, lenny <lenny@say.no.wifi>
> writes
>>On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:08:14 +0200, xxy wrote:
>>
>>> In article <i7WPM0Ancz1GFw9j@ntlworld.com>, mike.swift@yeton.co.uk
>>> says...
>>>> In article <fb79k5$ls4$1@pc-news.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, Richard Tobin
>>>> <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> writes
>>>> >>Only ten minutes on a mobile could trigger cancer, scientists believe
>>>> >
>>>> >No, that is not what scientists believe. Either you or the Daily Mail
>>>> >is making it up.
>>>>
>>>> This is bad for you, that is bad for you, perhaps at birth we should be
>>>> sealed in an airtight box pumped with scrubbed oxygen and fed with safe
>>>> irradiated nutrients intravenously.
>>>>
>>> A better plan would be to never read some of the absurd shite that is
>>> printed in the Daily Mail.
>>
>>If you were to read a bit more you'd realise that it was a New Scientist
>>story reported in the Daily Mail and I would not be surprised if it wasn't
>>carried in other papers (Telegraph for example).
>
> The New Scientist article (1 Sept. 2007 P18) reported research by the
> Wiezmann Institute of Science in Rehovot that showed low levels of 875MHz
> caused activation of the ERK1/2 pathways in cell cultures, the power level
> was too low for them to measure a thermal effect. It was stated that
> mutations in these pathways had been linked to certain cancers, although
> there is no evidence that these mutations cause the cancer. It was also
> stated that transient activation of these pathways is a normal cell
> physiology.
>
> A far better plan would be to read the original article and learn what the
> words mean, relying on the scribbling of a jobbing reporter summing a page
> of science with a populist paragraph is not wise.

Shh.. its more fun when Lenny posts links that actually disprove all his
claims.. and he doesn't even know.
I bet he wonders what all the sniggering behind his back is.