The European Parliamentary Assembly (EPA) has been making much ado about nothing when it comes to the dangers of cellphones on children, according to a new report which found no link between mobile phones and child cancer.
The paper – Mobile Phone Use and Brain Tumors in Children and Adolescents: A Multicenter Case–Control Study – published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute says, “Regular users of mobile phones were not statistically significantly more likely to have been diagnosed with brain tumors compared with nonusers.”
It went on to say “Children who started to use mobile phones at least five years ago were not at increased risk compared with those who had never regularly used mobile phones.”
The EPA had previously recommended that EU member states take precautionary measures in terms of mobile phones and cellular signals, including revising regulations on current threshold values of absorption, banning Wi-Fi in schools and setting up cellular free zones.
More hysterical still, the organization went on to compare cell signals to the highly carcinogenic substance, Asbestos, though it reluctantly admitted more scientific proof was needed to bear this fact out.
The fact has now been borne out, and proved wrong, after scientists found that their 1000 test subjects showed “no increased risk of brain tumors,” even to “brain areas receiving the highest amount of exposure.
“The absence of an exposure–response relationship either in terms of the amount of mobile phone use or by localization of the brain tumor argues against a causal association,” scientists argued.
In the past, boffins had feared children were more at risk to cellular radiation due to their still developing bodies and maturing nervous systems, coupled with reports citing increases in brain activity near cellular antennas. Other studies claim to have shown that a child’s outer brain is twice as susceptible to radiation absorption as an adult’s, but the effects do not appear linked to cancer.
Good try EPA, but no cigar. Good thing too, because those things ARE carcinogenic.
