Are we all going to get brain tumours?

Fromthetrees

20 years ago the only thing that sent a signal in the house might have been the remote control.

Now we have beams going everywhere.

Wireless router, mobile phone, wireless mouse, wireless keyboard, wireless headphones, wireless PS3 and I can pick up a strong saorview signal from a little aerial placed under the table my tv is on, wireless speakers ect. ect.

Beams all over the place. :eek:

No conspiracy stuff just do we simply not know the long term effect this might be having on us.

In 50 years time will our grandchildren look back the same way we now look back on smokers 50 years ago

and we all know smokers are jokers.

Mobile phones can cause brain tumours, court rules.

kincsem

Run To Da Hills has got some competition at last. He won't be pleased.

Death and Taxes

Wearing a tinfoil hat protects you....keeps the voices at bay as well:D

nocoverart

Doubt it! changing the subject ever so slightly... I always get a tingling sensation on my head. Very annoying!

Captain Chaos

I'd be worried more about all the radiation from cosmic rays while flying long distance flights. That's more proven than radio and wireless waves of causing tumours as cosmic rays over long term really can while the latter has never been proven to do so.

In other words not at all worried.

Turtyturd

I am just glad someone different started a thread.....yay brain tumors.

Fromthetrees

kincsem wrote: »

Run To Da Hills has got some competition at last. He won't be pleased.

WileyCoyote wrote: »

Wearing a tinfoil hat protects you....keeps the voices at bay as well:D

I have all the devices I mentioned above, I'm just wondering about the effects of all these beams/rays in the long term.

Maybe I should take it to personal issues.

*wipes tear, takes off Alex Jones t shirt and throws it in the fire*

Corkfeen

I can't help but doubt the Italian legal system having a landmark case in anything...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/23/italian-scientist-earthquake-condemns-court

I wouldn't say for definite that there isn't potential unknown dangers of mobiles etc but there's no certainty at this point in time(No conclusive evidence in favour of them being cancer causing). Cancer rates are going to increase anyway, we're all living longer lives so more likely to get it at some point in our much longer lifetime. However treatments will also improve over the next 50 years. The benefits of technology will inevitably outweigh any pitfalls.

Where To

Yeah, because there was no electromagnetic radiation before humans invented it.

Biggins

Fromthetrees wrote: »

Are we all going to get brain tumours?

Of course not - the next end of the world date will finish us off first!

Larianne

Biggins wrote: »

Of course not - the next end of the world date will finish us off first!

Or that metorite that's gonna hit us!

3ndahalfof6

We all have brain tumors, it is just a case if they believe them or not.

challengemaster

Beam me up, scotty! :pac:

Sarn

Don't worry OP, the rise of antibacterial resistance will mean you will more than likely die from some type of bacterial infection long before the tumours get you.

3ndahalfof6

challengemaster wrote: »

Beam me up, scotty! :pac:

would that be to induce them, or are you just missing scotty.

Chuck Stone

I heard it gives you AIDS.

3ndahalfof6

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I heard it gives you AIDS.

Me to, I got a prosthetic leg out of it.

Sar_Bear

What a cheerful thread.

Excuse me while I go kill myself.

3ndahalfof6

Sar_Bear wrote: »

What a cheerful thread.

Excuse me while I go kill myself.

You have some nerve to ask to be excused.

carlmango11

OP why are you under the impression that these wireless devices have a medical effect on our brains?

I'm not saying they don't but I've never heard of any research that shows they do.

Solair

There was probably more to worry about I'm the 50s and part of the 60s when atmospheric nuclear weapons tests were very popular!

There's a huge difference between ionising (eg from nuclear sources or xrays etc) and non ionising eg radio waves, microwaves, light rats, infrared etc

Ionising radiation will knock lumps our of your DNA. Non ionising radiation eg coming from your lovely open fire will just warm you up nicely!

Biggins

carlmango11 wrote: »

OP why are you under the impression that these wireless devices have a medical effect on our brains?

I'm not saying they don't but I've never heard of any research that shows they do.

My wireless phone has an effect on me.
If the wife rings me and I don't answer it when out - I get concussion from a frying pan when I get home!

3ndahalfof6

Super solar flares will fook you shiit up, but we never see them feel them, but it is possible we could die from them,

this is the reason I make my misses walk in front of me everywhere we go.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

When Im driving I usually have my phone securely nestled between my legs. Im not sure why but its been that way for the last 11 years.

I better get my balls checked for ball tumours.

Where To

Stealth Recce wrote: »

When Im driving I usually have my phone securely nestled between my legs. Im not sure why but its been that way for the last 11 years.

I better get my balls checked for ball tumours.

And your phone checked for STDs

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Where To wrote: »

And your phone checked for STDs

Too late for that Im afraid.....theres an extra button on it now

Rabies

Fromthetrees wrote: »

20 years ago the only thing that sent a signal in the house might have been the remote control.

Now we have beams going everywhere.

Wireless router, mobile phone, wireless mouse, wireless keyboard, wireless headphones, wireless PS3 and I can pick up a strong saorview signal from a little aerial placed under the table my tv is on, wireless speakers ect. ect.

Beams all over the place. :eek:

No conspiracy stuff just do we simply not know the long term effect this might be having on us.

In 50 years time will our grandchildren look back the same way we now look back on smokers 50 years ago

and we all know smokers are jokers.

Mobile phones can cause brain tumours, court rules.

What happens if they are slowing the growth of tumours down or killing them and saving the future population?

It could also be transmitting Ebola around the world, but who am I to say. Not a doctor.

zenno

Fromthetrees wrote: »

20 years ago the only thing that sent a signal in the house might have been the remote control.

Now we have beams going everywhere.

Wireless router, mobile phone, wireless mouse, wireless keyboard, wireless headphones, wireless PS3 and I can pick up a strong saorview signal from a little aerial placed under the table my tv is on, wireless speakers ect. ect.

Beams all over the place. :eek:

No conspiracy stuff just do we simply not know the long term effect this might be having on us.

In 50 years time will our grandchildren look back the same way we now look back on smokers 50 years ago

and we all know smokers are jokers.

Mobile phones can cause brain tumours, court rules.

Well with the tumors "they say" can take many years to show up in people/especially children from long term exposure to microwave frequencies "they say" but ...after looking at a few video's about this with microwave frequencies transmitted via mobile phone masts and having a phone right on your ear most of the day then i think you might have a problem years down the line but there again more scientific tests need to be done.

zenno

Rabies wrote: »

What happens if they are slowing the growth of tumours down or killing them and saving the future population?

It could also be transmitting Ebola around the world, but who am I to say. Not a doctor.

Do you work for the CDC by any chance ???

Muppet Man

Wireless router, mobile phone, wireless mouse, wireless keyboard, wireless headphones, wireless PS3 and I can pick up a strong saorview signal from a little aerial placed under the table my tv is on, wireless speakers

If you are seriously seriously worried about those devices in your home, just remember there are non wireless options available

Muppet Man

Sinfonia

What if we're all born with a brain tumour that takes 80-90 years to kill us.

*Keanu*

3ndahalfof6

Sinfonia wrote: »

What if we're all born with a brain tumour that takes 80-90 years to kill us.

*Keanu*

so the tumors are protecting us.

seamus

An Italian court also blamed scientists for an earthquake and put them in prison.

Not exactly a bastion of wisdom and reason are the Italian courts

3ndahalfof6

seamus wrote: »

An Italian court also blamed scientists for an earthquake and put them in prison.

Not exactly a bastion of wisdom and reason are the Italian courts

Courting in Italy is not safe theses days (was it ever, everness)

languagenerd

To be honest, it kind of worries me too. We have no idea what sort of effect some modern inventions will have on us in the long run... That's always been the case, but there are so many new inventions/modifications/technological advances these days, and they're all so widespread.

Maybe they won't, maybe they will. We can't say either for sure, because there are no precedents to test em against...

*puts on tinfoil hat, then worries about the effects said hat could have* :pac:

Shryke

languagenerd wrote: »

To be honest, it kind of worries me too. We have no idea what sort of effect some modern inventions will have on us in the long run... That's always been the case, but there are so many new inventions/modifications/technological advances these days, and they're all so widespread.

Maybe they won't, maybe they will. We can't say either for sure, because there are no precedents to test em against...

*puts on tinfoil hat, then worries about the effects said hat could have* :pac:

I'd worry less about technology and more about what's in food and drinks that are being sold.

ctrl-alt-delete

Stealth Recce wrote: »

When Im driving I usually have my phone securely nestled between my legs. Im not sure why but its been that way for the last 11 years.

I better get my balls checked for ball tumours.

Are you even sure they are balls and not tumours?

areyawell

The Radiation is going to make us grow 20 dicks from our foreheads as well.

dd972

Revelation ! - people worldwide with no tv's and mobile phones are dying every day, as we speak !

zenno

Thinking of it on a world wide scale you would come to the conclusion that mobile phone use has saved hundreds of thousands of peoples lives even though some might see it as a harmful radiation dose over years.

The fact i can see is in a situation when you are driving and have an accident on a country road far away from a town/location with bushes and deep ditches on each side of the road and you end up slipping on ice or snow into one of these ditches and the car tumbles over and down into a deep brush as you are hidden and badly damaged physically of which you cannot move but you can move your hand just enough to take out the mobile phone to call an emergency station that will ultimately save your life.

There's good and bad with technology and when it comes to mobile phones i can see a huge benefit to the safety for all. Microwave frequencies are dangerous but this would be not so if you only used a mobile for short periods or used a hands free kit.

Radiofrequency energy is a form of electromagnetic radiation. Electromagnetic radiation can be categorized into two types: ionizing (e.g., x-rays, radon, and cosmic rays) and non-ionizing (e.g., radiofrequency and extremely low-frequency or power frequency).
Exposure to ionizing radiation, such as from radiation therapy, is known to increase the risk of cancer. However, although many studies have examined the potential health effects of non-ionizing radiation from radar, microwave ovens, and other sources, there is currently no consistent evidence that non-ionizing radiation increases cancer risk (1).
The only known biological effect of radiofrequency energy is heating. The ability of microwave ovens to heat food is one example of this effect of radiofrequency energy. Radiofrequency exposure from cell phone use does cause heating; however, it is not sufficient to measurably increase body temperature.
A recent study showed that when people used a cell phone for 50 minutes, brain tissues on the same side of the head as the phone’s antenna metabolized more glucose than did tissues on the opposite side of the brain (2). The researchers noted that the results are preliminary, and possible health outcomes from this increase in glucose metabolism are still unknown.

Source: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/cellphones

It works both ways.

3ndahalfof6

zenno wrote: »

Thinking of it on a world wide scale you would come to the conclusion that mobile phone use has saved hundreds of thousands of peoples lives even though some might see it as a harmful radiation dose over years.

The fact i can see is in a situation when you are driving and have an accident on a country road far away from a town/location with bushes and deep ditches on each side of the road and you end up slipping on ice or snow into one of these ditches and the car tumbles over and down into a deep brush as you are hidden and badly damaged physically of which you cannot move but you can move your hand just enough to take out the mobile phone to call an emergency station that will ultimately save your life.

There's good and bad with technology and when it comes to mobile phones i can see a huge benefit to the safety for all. Microwave frequencies are dangerous but this would be not so if you only used a mobile for short periods or used a hands free kit.




Source: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/cellphones

It works both ways.

I see a movie coming out of this, can I play the farmer that stumbles upon the wreck (I will have a walking stick and a few pints in me of course), and I relieve the vehicle of its tyres

Achtung Maybe

Chaps,

I should begin by saying, I have an inoperable brain tumour and IMHO , it is just the fickle finger of fate rather than any other reason. I reiterate it is just my opinion rather than concrete evidence. Though the following of Liverpool over last 20 years could equally be to blame