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> On 31 May 2011, the World Health Organization stated that mobile phone use may possibly represent a long-term health risk, classifying mobile phone radiation

> On 31 May 2011, the World Health Organization stated that mobile phone use may possibly represent a long-term health risk, classifying mobile phone radiation as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" after a team of scientists reviewed studies on mobile phone safety. The mobile phone is in category 2B, which ranks it alongside coffee and other possibly carcinogenic substances. > Some recent studies have found an association between mobile phone use and certain kinds of brain and salivary gland tumors. Lennart Hardell and other authors of a 2009 meta-analysis of 11 studies from peer-reviewed journals concluded that cell phone usage for at least ten years "approximately doubles the risk of being diagnosed with a brain tumor on the same ('ipsilateral') side of the head as that preferred for cell phone use". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone#Health_effects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone#Health_effects

jnwatson 3y ago
And they just declared aspartame, the most widely studied food additive in the last 40 years, as possibly carcinogenic. When you declare essentially everything to be carcinogenic, then you lose credibility, as WHO has done several times now.
- _sojh 3y ago
  This comment and the one above it glossed right past the second quote where 11 peer reviewed studies were examined and it was concluded that 10 years of cell phone use results in you being twice as likely to develop brain tumors on whichever side you hold the phone against. That doesn’t seem “possibly carcinogenic” to me but maybe I have brain cancer and don’t understand what those words meant.
userbinator 3y ago
As that article pointed out, 2B includes a lot of other things which are possibly carcinogenic but have very little evidence. Incidentally, this item was just here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37160651 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37160651

jnwatson 3y ago

And they just declared aspartame, the most widely studied food additive in the last 40 years, as possibly carcinogenic. When you declare essentially everything to be carcinogenic, then you lose credibility, as WHO has done several times now.

_sojh 3y ago
This comment and the one above it glossed right past the second quote where 11 peer reviewed studies were examined and it was concluded that 10 years of cell phone use results in you being twice as likely to develop brain tumors on whichever side you hold the phone against. That doesn’t seem “possibly carcinogenic” to me but maybe I have brain cancer and don’t understand what those words meant.

userbinator 3y ago

As that article pointed out, 2B includes a lot of other things which are possibly carcinogenic but have very little evidence. Incidentally, this item was just here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37160651 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37160651