I don’t know how long this news link will remain viable, but there’s a story on The Sunday Times site, Scientists link eye cancer to mobile phones, that certainly jingle jangles.
The link of mobile phone usage to brain tumors surfaced a few years ago, and now there’s litigation afoot in that regard. The common wisdom seems to have taken the view that it’s malarkey until someone proves something. I’ll hazard a guess that view is colored a bit by the bad rap silicon breast implants took several years ago.
The story claims that people who exhibit a high usage of cellular phones experience eye cancer at a rate triple that of the non-cell phone using public.
The first question I’d ask is did they examine the test population for any other lifestyle commonalities between the phoners and the non-phoners? Diet? Type As?
And the second question that comes to mind, that I do not know where to start on, and is relevant to the tumor bugaboo as well, is just what sort of microwave transmission does a cell phone put out? I’m sure there’s a limited frequency range, velocity (air transmission) is locked and wavelengths will be limited by the frequency range.
Awright, dopers, educate me.