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REAL LIFE NEWS: IT’S OFFICIAL – MOBILE PHONES DON’T DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH

by Hazed

From the department of things we knew all along... a major safety review carried out by the UK’s Health Protection Agency (HPA) has found no evidence that mobile phones harm human health.

Scientists trawled through hundreds of studies of mobile exposure and found no conclusive links to cancer risk, brain function or infertility.

So that’s good news. We can all stop worrying. Well... the HPA is hedging its bets by saying that children should still avoid excessive use of mobiles, and that monitoring should continue because little was known about long-term effects. That’ll keep them in jobs for a while longer.

Hang on – mobile phones have been around for over thirty years now, isn’t that long-term enough? Apparently not.

Those who are prone to panic about this kind of thing will, of course, point out that absence of evidence doesn’t mean evidence of absence... just because the scientists haven’t found anything yet, doesn’t mean they won’t find something if they keep on looking.

Just as I have never, ever seen elves in my kitchen: but just because I haven’t seen them, it doesn’t mean they are not there. They could just be very, very good at hiding.

Anyway, click on the source link below to find out the details of this latest report.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17843953

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