It’s now official: Everything that the Federal Communications Commission has ever told us about the safety of cellphones is almost certainly wrong. When the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse recently reported that simply holding a turned-on cellphone next to the ear for 50 minutes caused significant changes to brain chemistry, many stalwarts in the scientific community were stunned. After all, cellphones were not even tested for safety before being introduced, because it was thought that they had to be safe. Not anymore.
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Cellphones and the Brain: Faith, Hope and Calamity
Posted by: Devra Lee Davis March 29, 2011 05:00 AMIt’s now official: Everything that the Federal Communications Commission has ever told us about the safety of cellphones is almost certainly wrong. When the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse recently reported that simply holding a turned-on cellphone next to the ear for 50 minutes caused significant changes to brain chemistry, many stalwarts in the scientific community were stunned. After all, cellphones were not even tested for safety before being introduced, because it was thought that they had to be safe. Not anymore.