Cellphones are dangerous/not dangerous, Swedish edition
We all know those Swedes have been toting cellphones a bit longer than your average user. Therefore, it makes sense to run a study on their brain cancer victims since they've been soaking up the most radiation since the introduction of the mobile phone in the 80's. To our untrained eyes the results don't seem incredibly conclusive, but the Swedish National Institute for Working Life, which conducted the study, says their findings show that among heave phone users there's a 240 percent increased risk of a malignant tumor on the side of the head the phone is used. They also mention the indecipherable stat that of the 905 people studied, all of whom had malignant brain tumors, 85 of them were heavy mobile phone users. We're actually surprised the number is that low in a country with a near one to one ratio of phones and people, but that's probably just the large lump in our head talking. As usual, the study recommends using a handsfree device, but we're not exactly quaking in our aluminum foil-lined boots.
[Thanks, Alex]
