Sep 30, 2009

Diet soda or Cell Phones - Data and Details are in the numbers...

Bob Parks (always a good read since the 90's) makes a clear stance often for facts and science. In the perpetual world of cancer causing lawsuits... Bob trys this month to bring some clarity to the calamity.
CELL PHONES: "INCONCLUSIVE" MEANS THEY FOUND NOTHING
Last week, Senate hearings were held asking whether cell phones cause brain cancer. Brian Walsh, writing for Time, described the outcome as "inconclusive." A collective groan rose from the nation's physicists. "Not again?" It's been almost 17 years since David Reynard, whose wife died from brain cancer, was on Larry King Live. Reynard was suing the cell phone industry. He said his wife, "held it against her head, and talked on it all the time." That was enough for Larry King. However, all known cancer agent act by breaking chemical bonds, producing mutant strands of DNA. It would be like suing me for hitting someone with a rock thrown across the Potomac River. George Washington is said to have thrown a silver dollar across the Potomac. I can't throw that far, and microwave photons can't break chemical bonds. Not until you get up to the near ultraviolet, about 10,000 times more energetic than microwaves, are photons capable of causing cancer
We know of 1000's of proven cancer causing influences, why look at the obscure when the obvious is pointed at your head?
My vast condolences to Mr. Reynard, on his lose. But all that have had this kind of lose need to look at all data and influence with toxicologists and physicians. And maybe not lawyers seeking "the pockets of least resistance ..." 

Did she drink diet soda? Live within 50miles of a superfund, or EPA regulated facility, well water, work related exposures?
Dose, influence, time... logic.


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