The Blog of Hans Eisenman

Cell Phone Use, Brain Cancer

Cell phone use, brain cancer...these are two words you don't really want to hear in the same sentence.

Here's my problem with this topic (see quote at end from Mercola.com, the popular health website).  On the one hand, it seems sensible enough that cell phone use could be causing a rise in brain tumors/cancer.  You get surgeons who are "reporting more cases of brain tumors/cancer than before", cell phone use is on the rise, peer-reviewed journals and all sorts of really credible sounding stuff.

However, there's one piece of information that doesn't seem to match up and I think it's an important one. 

If cell phones have been going up and up in use since, let's say 1992 or so (when I purchased my first cell phone-pictured above), shouldn't the rate of cancer be climbing as well, even if it's on a 10 year delay?  

Well, according to the Cancer Institute, it's dropping!

Sinister Soul-Sapper

We have been conducting a grand experiment at home.  Actually, the test is about over. 

Turns out, we had something in our home which was sucking the life out of our kids.  The worst thing about it was its ability to stay out of view and gradually infect  our kids without anyone really seeing it happening to the degree it was, least of all them.  Well, that and the fact that it also had this addictive quality which made them crave it, despite its sapping their energy and leaving them with less than when they started.  Less what?  Less energy, less life, less enthusiasm, less creativity.  (No, I'm not talking about sugar, but that would have been a great guess.)
            

Nanotech Restores Vision in Hamsters - Yahoo! News

Nano-plumbers fix brain gaps in hamsters.  Microfilm at 11...

Link: Nanotech Restores Vision in Hamsters - Yahoo! News.

Scientists partially restored the vision in blinded hamsters by plugging gaps in their injured brains with a synthetic substance that allowed brain cells to reconnect with one another, a new study reports.