[QuarianRex]

Originally posted by Arkcon:
It's right up there with EMF health risks.

Don't laugh at the possibility of EMF health risks. I attended a masters thesis defense a while back. They were exposing prenatal (unborn) rats to an EMF field of a particular pattern for @20 min a day for the entire gestation period. ALL of the rats were born with the symptoms of a particular genetic disorder (the rat Version of MS IIRC) but without actually having the malfunctioning genes. I was quite astounded by the results. The next step is to find out when during the gestation period the fetus is most receptive to such things, which part of the signal is having the effect, etc.

Now this isn't to say that you'll have flipper babies if you live by powerlines or somesuch. It seems to be the pattern of the signal, not the signal itself, that can cause the effects. This does mean that I would think twice before allowing my (ficticious) pregnant wife to excessively use a cellphone (especially one of those hands-free headset ones that clip onto your belt, right next to the kid).

When you hear something strange don't dismiss it out of hand. Take a look at the supporting data and make an educated decision based on that. Serious findings are often distorted by a sensationalist media. I urge you to look further than that before you decide what is true and what isn't.