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Many of us use mobile telephones to a greater or lesser extent. Because mobile phones emit radio frequencies that can penetrate several centimetres into the human brain, it has been hypothesised that their use could possibly lead to tumours of the head and neck.
This possibility has led to a number of 'scare' stories in the popular press. Typically, debunking the scare involves trying to prove a negative, never an easy thing at the best of times. About the only way to prove a negative is to have very large amounts of data, but also demonstrating the lack of any sort of dose-response as well as no biological plausibility. A large Danish study goes most of the... |
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