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Yeah Oh okay Future scientists or Luddite however you turn

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out all right Well here we go Electromagnetic radiation is

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all around us as we move into the age of

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living inside of our cellphones and computing mobile league Sadly

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no superpowers are being crowned from them Well the effect

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of mobile phone radiation on human health continues to be

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a topic of interest in study The majority of the

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investigations are concerned with looking for an increase in cancer

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in humans caused by radio and microwave Well many scientists

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continue to find that exposure to these waves is unlikely

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to increase cancer And then I think about when you

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carry your phone in your pocket what it's kissing up

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against Yeah some other scientists suggest that there's a growing

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some of evidence for a link between mobile phone operation

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and certain brain tumors Yeah carry it against your head

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So you listen to it on speakers Okay While Scientist

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One says there are eleven studies that performed statistics on

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people using mobile phones for greater than or equal to

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ten years to reported an association between the use of

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mobile phones and brain tumors Nine multinational studies which were

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industry funded and administered by who also report associations Though

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more studies need to be implemented there are significant elevated

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odds of developing a tumor on the same side of

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the head for preferred mobile phone use over the duration

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of exposure greater than or equal to ten years What

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we need to be concerned about brain tumors and other

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health effects such as behavior development salivary gland tumors male

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infertility and microwave sickness syndrome that was scientist once he

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sounds like a hoot toe hanging out with at a

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party All right well the two thousand five literature and

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conclusions are superseded by newer long term data This is

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from scientists to There are other long term mobile phone

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studies that air not quoted in Scientist one's review scientists

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One also does not mention the issue of bias in

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his analysis which other studies have found right like think

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of Verizon or eighteen T was funding this study Well

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a main source used by scientists One is his own

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unpublished and non peer reviewed work Well numerous studies indicate

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that a person who has operated a mobile phone for

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around ten years does not display a higher risk for

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brain tumors or cancers in the head operating mobile phone

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for longer than ten years also seems to have the

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same effect This's limiting because the amount of people that

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have operated a mobile phone for ten years or longer

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smells relatively small Mobile phone radiation is a low intensity

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electromagnetic radiation and it is not ionizing like it cannot

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break molecular bonds like the sun's UV radiation can Okay

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that's a mouthful Now let's get down to the questions

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All right The Which of the following would both scientists

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agree on and ignore the bad grammar there The question

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You have mobile phone I'm good for the amount Definitely

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Averman causes can't causing all right Well yeah it's a

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giving The correct answer here is D We can imagine

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putting these two scientists in a room that would not

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make for a pretty picture Scientist too is basically saying

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Scientist One is full of crap and or brother is

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a total wannabe scientist Yeah to him scientists one's research

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is not peer reviewed like he just made it up

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and said so He also think scientists one is biased

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In other words he's insinuating that one's research might not

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live up to the standards of normal scientific research But

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is there a least something these guys can agree on

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Well even scientists one who proposes that there are elevated

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odds of developing a tumor Well he still mentions that

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Mohr studies need to be implemented Scientists do says newer

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long term studies contradict scientists one's claims but he also

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recognizes that the data is limited Neither scientists suggest that

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using a mobile phone can be good for human alsa

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written A There's no mention of definitive evidence Give it

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a B and radio microwaves cannot ionized so get rid

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of sea So ultimately Mohr studies are needed to get

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the answer to this cellphone cancer questions So the answer

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is D It's the Vegas of all the answers and

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when in doubt go with vagary Like Europe Europe voting 00:04:07.738 --> [endTime] Congressman

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