Mobile Phones = Premature Senility?
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Wouldn’t it be funny if mobile phone use induced senility years before you would normally be affected? Why yes, it would. Professor Leif Salford of Lund University has researched whether this could be the case (“the voluntary exposure of the brain to microwaves from hand-held mobile phones” is “the largest human biological experiment ever”). It’s not a terribly conclusive study by the look of it, but certainly one to watch. Should be interesting to see how it plays out.
Mobiles ‘make you senile’
Geoffrey Lean, Independent.co.ukBut Professor Salford and his team have spent 15 years investigating a different threat. Their previous studies proved radiation could open the blood-brain barrier, allowing a protein called albumin to pass into the brain. Their latest work goes a step further, by showing the process is linked to serious brain damage. Professor Salford said the long-term effects were not proven, and that it was possible the neurons would repair themselves in time. But, he said, neurons that would normally not become “senile” until people reached their 60s may now do so when they were in their 30s.
I love this line: “The study — which warns specifically against ‘the intense use of mobile phones by youngsters’ — comes as research on their health effects is being scaled down, due to industry pressure.” (My italics.)
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Posted to General Rants • 2003.09.15 (Mon) • 20:48
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Posted by lago 2003.09.16, 04:26
From what I’ve seen, mobile phones make people senile upon first use. Symptoms include disorientation, degradation of motor skills, and inordinately loud speech. That seems to fit most mobile phone users here in the US.
Posted by Kristen 2003.09.16, 08:51
I wonder if 20 years from now we’ll see legal action against the mobile vendors, ala the US tobacco lawsuits?
My brain has weird little white spots in it, according to my neurologist, that are usually only seen in old folk. But I’m not a big mobile user…maybe I’ve been done in by “second hand radiation” from all the keitai around me.
Posted by bill 2003.09.17, 15:47
Interesting. I just read an interview with a researcher who concluded pretty much the opposite after years of research.
Posted by Louis Pasteur 2004.01.16, 07:54
This seems to have made the Science News today as well.
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