Are cell phones dangerous? About the Larry King Shows

Unfortunately my earlier postings and risk assessments are becoming confirmed.

Please, watch the following Larry King Show about health risk and cell phones.

Part Two , Part Three , Part Four, Part Five

Short remarks:

- The highlights can also be found at the CNN site.

- All experts recommend to use hands-free or speaker phone

- Corded phones are recommended for children

- The comment on the video about Sweden's use of cell phones was not exact: The earlier NMT signal was continuous, not pulsed like GSM and 3G. Additionally, 3G (UMTS) cell phones and base stations are utilising a mechanism called QPSK (Quadrature Phase Shift Keying) which makes the signal form even riskier, according to the REFLEX project leader Franz Adlkofer and researcher Igor Belyaev. These effects to humans are demonstrated in the TNO experiment and to animals in Thomas Thillman's ITEM experiment. There is a big difference from safety perspective, human brain (or cells) may "recognise" pulsed signal. Please, check also Hyland's legendary paper "Physics and biology of mobile telephone". Update 2nd July 2008: Carl Raleigh provides a thorough  signal modulation overview. 

- Doctor Vini Khurana on the video has produced an interesting risk analysis report.

- Modern phones come with built in antenna. Older phones had an external antenna and your head/body was not used for that :-\

- Many laboratory experiments do not simulate the magnetic field enough. When the phone is pressed against the head, the magnetic field is something like 8 microTesla in 1 cm distance.

- Who is the first manufacturer and the first carrier to advise customers about safe ways to use their mobile phone? It's about time!

- The future of mobile business is cloudy. Earlier I tried to foresee the future.

- Update 6th August 2008: Larry King had another session related to University of Pittsburg Cancer Institute's warning. Full show can be found here and Higlights here.

Any comments on the videos or the topic?

Comments

[YackieSafe]

I have seen several products that combat these harmful effects. I think they should work. The technology makes sense. Check one out at yackiesafe.com and see for yourself. Can’t hurt to be proactive, right?

[Mikko Ahonen]

We-ll, another advertisement, this time from Yackie Safe.

There are similar products like BioPro and DerGoldenePunkt.

I am a little bit sceptical about these. OK, they most likely reduce both the electric field and magnetic field. If I would use these product, I might attach them to my monitor.

But do these products make it safe to use your pulsing mobile phone?

I am not the only one who is sceptical:

http://www.radiationresearch.org/ScienceandPublicPolicyInstitute.doc

I hope that these "harmonising" products are tested by many instances. Some of these product may be beneficial, some not.