Heeft onze media niet veel aandacht voor 'onze' gezondheid?
En onze politici?
Tom Watson van Labour MP brengt de aandacht terug.
Citaat:
We need to get to the bottom of what mobile phones do to our health
As we await more research, phone companies shouldn't shirk from their responsibility to broadcast precautionary messages
Without my iPhone, I'd find it hard to function, to stay in touch with my constituents and check the latest developments in Westminster on the move. Colleagues always joke that my mobile is glued to my ear. And, yes, I've even been known to use it in the bath.
But what does all that talk-time do to your health? Or carrying a phone next to your body for 18 hours a day?
The scientific jury is still out on whether those powerful micro-waves may be causing long-term damage. Thousands of studies have already been published on the subject, especially into the links between brain cancer and radiation. Yet the vast majority have proved inconclusive. Only last year, the World Health Organisation's International Agency for Research on Cancer said further work was crucial into the long-term "heavy" use of mobile phones.
The effects are as unclear as a decade ago. But one fact is indisputable. Brain cancer is on the rise among 20- to 29-year-olds. Imagine if all our worst fears came true? What if mobile phone-related brain cancer in the current generation is like the tobacco and lung cancer scandal for the previous one?
The least the government should do is put ..
Meer.. (guardian.co.uk)
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