Public health warning for cellulites
Published by Becky S November 17th, 2004 in newsy
I admit that I’m one of those annoying people who rails against the use of cell phones. But now I have solid evidence–hot off the soulless office park fax machine–that these devices are harmful. Thanks to IT security dude for finding this warning and bringing it to my attention:
SAFETY ALERT! We’ve seen it before. Big Business and Powerful Government Interests Colluding in a High Stakes Conspiracy to Confuse, Mislead and Obfuscate in a Game of Deceit to Protect Multi-Billion Dollar Corporate Profiteering. Asbestos, Agent Orange, Silicon Breast Implants, the Tobacco Industry, and most recently, Vioxx and the Greed of Giant Corporate Drug Makers have Violated the Trust and Health of the American Public. But even as you read this, Lines are being Drawn in a New Battleground over a Public Health Scandal that may Rock the Consumer Electronics Industry to the Core in a way that would even have Big Tobacco Running Scared. However this Battle plays out, the Most Important thing you can do today is Protect yourself from the Undisclosed Dangers of Cancer Causing Radiation being Emitted by and Important but Hazardous Tool you use everyday Your Cellular Phone!
Cellulites beware!
Very interesting….I think we should talk about this. Give me a call on my cell sometime.
I don’t hate cell phones (because I have one), as much as I hate people who use their cell phones in inappropriate ways or places.
Examples include:
Answering your cell phone while you’re making out with someone. (Not from personal experience, but I know people this happened to.)
Answering your cell phone while having a meal with someone else.
Talking on the phone while waiting in line in a public place and / or in traffic merely because you’re bored. (I have a friend who calls me every day between 5-7 because she’s stuck in traffic. I no longer answer the phone because it’s not my fault she chooses to live in the suburbs.)
Sorry to rant. I should have included this in the I LOVE YOU I HATE YOU post.
Becky–this is a stock pick recommendation–and I am not going to read the fine print. The way to avoid the hazards of cell phone usage (besides being attacked for the inappropriate usages Jen outlines–and I’m in agreement with her on all 3 points, and would like to add talking on trains while someone next to you is trying to read) is to use a headset, so the phone isn’t right next to your head.
If the warning is true, then I am totally screwed. I must have tumors the size of grapefruit in my head by now. Damn.
Personally, I hate it when people talk in elevators. Where the cell phone reception (if that is the correct word) is not very good.
So I have to listen to this pretty much every day:
“O my God! I think I just lost you”
“Can you hear me now?”
“Can you repeat that, your words were a garble and I am in the elevator”
“Can you hear me now *giggle* *giggle*”
I have to admit that I’ve done the stuck in traffic cell phone call.
Usually to my Mom. The reasoning behind this is my mom complains if I don’t call her, yet I would much rather listen to her recite everything she bought at the grocery store the day before when I am sitting in traffic, rather than at home where there is the possibilty that I could actually be doing something interesting.
Oh, and I call people I haven’t spoken to in a while as well - but I try and mix it up a bit and not always call the same person around the same time.
Of course it’s a stock pick recommendation. Why else would unsolicited health advice show up on the fax?
I want people to call because they want to talk to me, not because they’re stuck in traffic or waiting in line and don’t have anything better to do.
Or am I just being too sensitive?
Glenn, I hope your mom doesn’t read this blog.
Taking calls while making out? Is nothing sacred?
Yes!!!! Now I have a legitimate reason not to talk on the phone, and being someone who hates talking on the phone, any reason is a good one.
Becky,
The internet is too ‘modern’ for my mom. She does have my old 486 at home but only uses it to enter her bank statements into an excel spreadsheet.
She probably uses the computer for 10 minutes or so a month.
Apparently those wired earpieces channel the radiation straight to your head. Rather that than wear one of those wireless (bluetooth) headsets though. The Janet Jackson Live On Tour look is so eighties.
Of course, if you don’t like this “study,” just hang on a few minutes. Someone else will publish another study that claims the call phones CURE cancer. It all depends on whose paying for it. We already have no real journalists left in the country; soon we’ll have no real scientists left, either.
Not that I’m bitter.
Any of you guys see the episode of Bullshit where Penn and Teller talk to several people at the CDC who say that this is completely, well, bullshit? According to the CDC we have nothing to fear and I trust them over this stock tip.