diet drinks and cell phones will kill you

On the wider issue, fear of radiation from mobile phones and cancer from artifical sweeteners is largely irrational too because we have such a hard time understanding very very small numbers. The risks of these things are so tiny that the debate is usually as to whether they can be seen to be statistically significant at all. Meanwhile we go about our everyday lives, travel in cars, cross roads, walk up and down flights of stairs - all these things are far, far, far more likely to kill us.

Because we don't understand the numbers involved in almost insignificant dangers we tend to blow them out of all proportion...

 

anyway pm me your mobile number then cant pm you mine as i dont have one

 

Microwaves emit radiation when faulty. Infact the emit radiation into our foods. Yet, we are comfortable to feed our children, Iceland chiken curry ready meal. I know Amanda likes curry.

I think further study is needed before we can really say mobile phones fry braincells.

 

Microwaves don't emit radiation when they're faulty, only when they're working correctly, since that's what they're for...

 

I dont like the GM stuff. Its irreversible... If it all mixes up then NOTHING is organic anymore.

 

If a certain GM product were proven to be harmful in some way, then this would be a problem. But as it is, it's just a difference. Is something that's organic inherently better than something that's genetically modified? And if it is, I'd like to see proof of that as well. Lithium pointed to vitamin enriched bananas that could be hugely beneficial to people with deficient diets. Leaving aside whether a multinational corporation would ever, by its nature, act for the benefit of mankind rather than for profits (I somehow doubt it would), the banana produced by GM would seem to me to be observably better than the natural, non-enriched banana and if it isn't, if it is somehow harmful, then only evidence is going to convince me, not a devotion to natural for the sake of natural....

 

I do everything wrong

I dribk too much caffine, i smoke, I have done drugs, I drink too much, I hardly ever wear a seat belt, i eat to much meat no doubt, im over weight (according to the goverment)

But i've had a fucking wicked life so far so meh if a mobile and a diet coke is going to knock me off good on it!!

 

A few years ago I did physics A level in a local college and they had a radiation source for some reason, and by law they had to keep it in a lead box, and we did tests and found that our mobile phones were giving off more radiation, but we put them next to our ears and dont store them in lead boxes .

last night I said to sal dont use mobiles and make a tinfoil cover for your bed and I was partly joking but not totally because I think you should limit the amount you use mobiles and you can see that being close to cell phone towers or powerlines are dangerous because of the increased numbers of cases of cancer .
cell phones have not been tested properly and I think their dangerous , I wouldnt like to live to close to a powerline or microwave tower
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7025

 

I don't doubt mobile phones give off a more powerful signal, but it depends entirely on what kind of radiation we're talking about, not all 'radiation' is the same, we can use the term to talk about visible light, tv signals, micro-waves x-rays and gamma rays, we are constantly bombarded by strong radiation all the time... What kind of detector did you use and what was the radiation source?

 

well your unlikely to see proof that their dangerous until lots of people start dieing because the multi-nationals released them without testing them and when tests have been done and they have come up as being dangerous people get fired .

 

There are extremely strict controls on the testing of GM foods, far more rigorous than on foods which are sold without GM ingredients... A non-GM food is, frankly, much more likely to be toxic and harmful than a food containing GM.

 

lithium cant remember my wrist watch at the time was also radioactive but it was a wartime flying omega with bomb grade uranium 222 paint

 

and I remember the physics teacher being suprised that phones were giving off so much radiation, she said she limited her exposure to mobiles because she thought they were dangerous, and she wasnt anti technology taught physics in university and had been a research scientist .

 

Ionising particles from a decaying lump of uranium are a very different matter from the kind of micro-wave range radiation you get from mobile phones; the harmfulness depends entirely on the type of radiation you're talking about, it's not comparing like with like.

Microwaves have little or no effect on the human body and cannot pass through bone, the most harm you will get from using a mobile phone or the leakage from a microwave oven is that it might heat your skin up by a fraction of a degree, any rise in disease or death caused by this kind of radiation would be practically invisible statistically speaking across a population. It's really not something one ought to worry about, arguably the increase in stress caused by worrying about such things will have a far greater chance of causing something to go wrong in your body and is much more likely to kill you than actually just using your mobile phone.

High power antennae might well be a different matter with statistically increased chances of certain kinds of cancers among those spending a very long time within very close range of the transmitters, but firm evidence of a link still needs to be established.