BlackBerry: Keep Our Phones Away From Your Body

Seriously, with all the studies about potential cancer causing exposure from mobile devices the past few years, how is this news to you?

Given the fact the nearly EVERY device transmits some sort of energy signal, how much is too much? Do different frequencies pose differing levels of risk?
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What effect is a couple of decades of holding a cell phone up to our heads going to do regarding the risk for brain cancer?
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Ear bugs for said phones make any difference?
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I’m too old for this to make much of a difference with me but I think the kids MIGHT like to know.

I’ve pretty well come to the conclusion that LIVING today is hazardous to your health.
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So, rather than worrying myself into a coronary over things I have no control over, I’m just going to keep doing the best I can.

“Don’t trust your cell phone companies to actively take care of you.”
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The warning is more of what our society has become with lawyers. There have been warnings on cigarettes for decades and the sue. A woman spills coffee on herself while driving and she sue and now we have a warning on the cup. We have warnings on ladders do not use near electrical wires or on ice. On the inside of liquor bottles to not drink if pregnant.
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It’s not that products are dangerous or people are stupid but we have lawyers who make fortunes from it.

Free,
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Having worked around radios and radar I can tell you that there are dangers associated with radiation of those sorts. They tend to “cook” tissue, albeit vveerrrryyy slowly. Cell phones worry me, too. Something about holding a radiation source up to the side of my head in the same place, over and over.
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Those are things we can’t see to evaluate the danger ourselves. Especially at low dosage levels. Are the exposures cumulative or not? Are the products well-shielded or not? And how would we know?

Michael, are you saying you can’t depend on a corporation to take care of your interests?

“Michael, are you saying you can’t depend on a corporation to take care of your interests?”
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Has the government banned the production of cigarettes, ladders, liquor, cell phones?

No Seems you can’t depend on the government to take care of any interests other than lawyers!

Afguy:

There are dangers and risks with every product. If we wait until there is conclusive evidence one way or another for absolute and complete safety and immunity of any harm to human or environment we would still be living in caves. That’s not to say products should be allowed without any sort of safety requirements.

Sometimes even after years of studies the true affects are a toss-up. Just look at the dust-up going on with vaccinations and autism. Still really inconclusive. Should we ban vaccinations and risk the re-emergence and spread of other deadly diseases?

Of course we could just sit back and blame corpoarations.

Michael, you gotta have balls to write a post about this.

He’s trying to protect them.

@afguy
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I certainly agree that exposure to various kinds radiation is dangerous, especially in large does like those created by RADAR and high powered microwave transmitters (that can literally cook you in seconds) radio’s I don’t know that much about in terms of radiation.
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However, the radiation we pick up from societies techo-marvels is limited compared to the amount of back-ground radiation we pick up from natural sources like the sun and the various waves leftover from the big bang, pulsars etc.
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One day they’ll discover that neutrinos cause cancer, but what can you actually do about it since they pass through the entire earth and in the last 25 years we might have been able to capture a few hundred of them.
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This is stupid. Life will never be 100% risk free, so relax and enjoy it. Besides, are you really worried about thigh cancer?
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Want real advice? Look both ways before you cross the street.

“And if you are a BlackBerry user, take it out of you [sic] pocket.”
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Must. Resist. Blazing Saddles. Reference…

Ok, RIM. I know you’re a Canadian company and thus do your checks using the metric system, but would it really kill you to just say “1in” instead of “0.98 in”. I mean, seriously, that’s a greater distance so there’s no health risk in making it closer and making it an even 25mm instead of 25.4 mm just displays without a shadow of a doubt that you’re not an American company and *insert dumb American joke here*.

@freeinpa
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On the vaccinations/autism thing I’m going to have to disagree with you. Autism is a spectrum neurological disorder that you are born with and it generally presents symptoms between the ages of 3 and 5 years old, though this can happen earlier or later in life. It is strongly associated with genetics.
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There is debate about what sort of birth-defect agents could cause it, like the mother’s exposure to heavy metals or pesticides while the fetus is in the womb.
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There is very nearly zero evidence that vaccines cause autism, and this explanation is impossible because and I stated above you are born with this disorder. You can’t get a neurological disorder you’re born with from something injected or fed to you after you are born; that’s simply not possible. Further, severe cases of autism can be spotted as early as ages 12-16 months, before any vaccines would have been given.
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Autism is though to be caused by either rare and not understood mutations or by a combination of more common genetic factors that combine to produce problems the the development of the brain while the child is yet unborn. Victims of Autism usually have abnormal levels of neurotransmitters including but not limited to serotonin.
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Also those ad’s that claim that 1 in 166 children will be diagnosed with autism are slightly inflated, they only used the extreme high of the range: the real numbers are thought to be 3-6 in every 1000 stated otherwise between 1 in 333 and 1 in 166.
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The problem here is that many children with mild to moderate autism only begin to display symptoms after they are old enough to be vaccinated, the close[ish] proximity in time led some to prognosticate that there might be a causal link, which research has basically proved to be incorrect (though you can’t prove a negative in science).
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For more details visit the NIH Autism Fact Sheet or the links it has on it at: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/autism/detail_autism.htm

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Michael, Did you ever figure out WHY the FCC doesn’t require manufacturers to test the cell phones closer than .6 -1″ from the body? And, by the way, those fine print warnings aren’t corporate legal teams being overly cautious – they are REQUIRED by FCC regulation as a condition for being granted compliance with the SAR emissions testing procedure.

You missed that in your article. How about another article that’s more in depth – and that exposes why the CTIA has known about the fine print warnings for over a year, but done nothing about making them visible to consumers. (And lied to you by saying they knew nothing about them.)

You also missed the implication that cell phones are being sold illegally if they don’t inform end users of those separation distance warnings. This is the industry’s dirty little secret they don’t want us to know about.

There’s a lot more to this story than you exposed in your Oct. article.