Wednesday 14 April 2010




report

Introduction
This research is on how harmful mobile phones are to human’s health and do they increase the rate of crime? The main aim of the research is to discover whether mobile phones are more beneficial to society than the health risks they cause as well as the amount of crime impact that people carrying mobile phones cause.
The affect on health issues to humans
The affect on crime rate to humans

The research that has been done looks into depth on what the public views and scientists views on how harmful mobile phones are to human health and if the microwave radiation has enough effect to humans to stop the constant usage of mobile phones.
Report
This is the views of Amy Worthington who states “You don’t deserve brain cancer you deserve facts”
Some people appear to have an emotional attachment to their mobile phones and there is a fascinating that cell radiation pulses might actually be addictive to the human brain??? We can't save those who would rather die than switch. But ethics compelled us to ensure that all reasonable people have access to the basic scientific facts. Your mobile phone is a microwave transmitter and it should bear a cancer warning! Microwave energy oscillates at millions to billions of cycles per second. The Journal of Cellular Biochemistry reports that these frequencies cause cancer and other diseases by interfering with cellular DNA and its repair mechanisms. Microwave promotes rapid cell aging. Italian scientists have recently demonstrated that mobile phone radiation makes cancerous cells grow aggressively. Cordless phones marked 900 megahertz or 2.4 gigahertz emits the same dangerous microwave radiation as mobile phones.

Research by University of Washington professor Dr. Henry Lai shows brain cells are clearly damaged by microwave levels far below the U.S. government's "safety" guidelines. Dr. Lai notes that even tiny doses of radio frequency can cumulate over time and lead to harmful effects. He warns that public exposure to ! radiation from wireless transmitters "should be limited to minimal."
Motorola advises consumers to avoid pointing a cellular antenna toward exposed parts of the body. But independent tests show that mobile phones can also leak huge amounts of radiation from the keypad and mouthpiece. This radiation deeply penetrates brain, ear and eye tissues, which are especially susceptible to microwave damage. Belt clip cases allow mobile phones to deliver radiation to the liver or kidney areas when a wired, hands-free earpiece is used.


Recent studies confirm that cell and cordless phone microwave can:
Damage nerves in the scalp
Cause blood cells to leak haemoglobin
Cause memory loss and mental confusion
Cause headaches and induce extreme fatigue
Create joint pain, muscle spasms and tremors
Create burning sensation and rash on the skin
Alter the brain's electrical activity during sleep
Induce ringing ! in the ears, impair sense of smell
Precipitate cataracts, retina damage and eye cancer
Open the blood-brain barrier to viruses and toxins
Reduce the number and efficiency of white blood cells
Stimulate asthma by producing histamine in mast cells
Cause digestive problems and raise bad cholesterol levels
Stress the endocrine system, especially pancreas, thyroid, ovaries, testes
In 1993, the telecom industry committed $25 million dollars for a series of research projects designed to prove that mobile phones are safe. The studies proved just the opposite! They proved that federal microwave exposure standards are dangerously inadequate. Cell damage and tumours can be easily induced in the lab at about one third of the FCC's exposure guidelines.
The telecom boys panicked. They and their lackey politicians and federal regulators decided the only lucrative thing to do was to LIE and DENY. Despite damning evidence, the FDA still prevaricates: "There is no reason to conclude that there are health risks posed by mobile phones to consumers." Meantime, the telecom industry has been pressing to INCREASE BY MORE THAN 10 TIMES the allowable human exposure to mobile phone radiation!
Luckily, Dr. George Carlo headed up the industry's study project. He presents the shocking facts in his book, Mobile phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age: An Insider's Alarming Discoveries about Cancer and Genetic Damage (Carroll and Graf, 2001). A summary of Dr. Carlo's book is this: Mobile phones are hot, adequate protective regulations are naught, and Americans are being "fried" so that the deceitful telecom industry can rake it in! It's dirty business as usual, and the longer the industry can con the public, the more billions it collects.
On June 16, 2002 , CBS aired a Sixty Minutes segment which confirmed the telecom industry is about as grungy as it gets. CBS producers accused major phone service providers of cheating, scamming, forging signatures, switching phone service without permission and lying about charges. The attorney general of Connecticut stated that despite millions of dollars in fines each year, these companies remain incorrigible. Should we be trusting this industry with our brain tissues and our very lives?
Microwave to the head is extremely hazardous to children. Parents in some European nations are now warned to keep children away from mobile phones. A University of Utah researcher found the younger the child, the more radiation is absorbed by the brain. Spanish researchers have shown that mobile phones can alter electrical activity of a child's brain for hours, causing drastic mood changes and possible behaviour and learning disabilities. Scientists fear that mobile phone radiation could damage human embryos. Pregnant women are advised to be wary.
A mobile phone must greatly increase its field strength to maintain communications within the metallic cage of an auto. Thus, the effect of microwave radiation inside a vehicle is especially intense. Volkswagen of Europe has warned that mobile phone usage inside a car can be "injurious to health due to the extremely high electromagnetic! Fields generated."
Insurance studies in England showed that an average driver talking on a cell is actually more impaired in function and reaction time than a drunk. Finland 's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority reports that one hour of exposure to mobile phone radiation can cause human cells to shrink. Researchers believe this is due to increased protein activity, an indicator of cell damage. What an unstable world needs now is a global population afflicted with incredible shrinking brains!
Brain cancer rates in USA have increased by 25% since 1975. In 2001, 185,000 Americans were diagnosed with some form of brain cancer. A grade four brain tumour can grow from the size of a grape to tennis ball size in just 4 months. Brain tumours are almost always fatal and most people die within 6-12 months after diagnosis. On April 7, 2002 , Sixty Minutes aired a fascinating report on brain cancer, explaining that scientists are unsure why incidence of the disease is growing so exponentially.
Ironically, the segment was followed by a Sprint ad, which advised parents that the best way to keep track of teenagers is to connect them to a mobile phone. While researchers say that radical damage to the brain can occur within the first few minutes of conversation, telecom ads encourage customers to spend many hours on the phone each month. Those blazing, full-page mobile phone ads in newspapers and magazines must be the reason mobile phone dangers are almost never discussed in the mainstream media.
An excellent resource tool is Robert Kane's book Cellular Telephone Russian Roulette (Vantage Press, 2001). As a telecommunications expert, Kane presents an impressive collection of studies showing that both government agencies and mobile phone manufacturers KNEW YEARS AGO that mobile phone radiation at present exposure levels is dangerous to human health. He notes that cell! phones would be rendered useless if their RF emissions were reduced to safe levels.
Reports of illness from heavy mobile phone usage and from living or working close to powerful RF transmitters are synchronous with numerous cancer-related lawsuits now being filed against the mobile phone industry. The insurance industry sees big trouble ahead. Underwriters for Lloyd's of London refuse to insure phone manufacturers against damage to users' health. Mobile phones are today what tobacco was 40 years ago!!

Wednesday 10 March 2010

Literature Review

Literature review.

I have found that online articles in the independant and various other news papers have positive arguments for radiation in mobile phones and thats using your mobile phone often can cause damages to the brain. In a statement in the Independant a top brain expert explains that people should stop using mobile phones whenever possible and he also explains that the government and mobile phone must take immidieate steps to reduce exposure to radiation from mobile phones. He admits that mobiles can save lives but has to conclude that the there is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours. We are currently experiencing a reactively unchecked and dangerous situation unless the industry and governments take immediate and decisive steps.
In france the french government has warned the public about the radiation off mobile phones especcially towards children.
I beleive that this argument is very beleivable but only time will tell, in the next decade or two it will be alot more clearer to see if excesive use of mobile phones can cause brain tumours, as it normally takes that amount of time for the cancer to develop and will be getting to the time where most people have been using mobilephones for a reasonable amount of time to tell if it causes brain damage..