Cell Phone / Brain

"Not Going to Be a Shill"

This assignment turned out to be different, though.  Referenced in his book, "Cell Phones - Invisible Hazards of the Wireless Age," his frame of mind at the time of his appointment is described: "Carlo knew, deep down, he was not going to be a shill; but then again, truth be told, he always thought, deep down, that his research project would conclude what the early studies and the cell phone industry had always asserted - that there was no evidence that wireless phones caused cancer."

It was in this frame of mind that Dr. Carlo in 1993 began his research project on cell phone brain dangers, sponsored by the cell phone industry itself.  Little did they or he know that things would not turn out the way anyone had expected at the onset.

Letter to the CEO's of the Cellular Phone Industry

In February of 1999, at the end of Dr. Carlo's assignment, he gave a briefing to the board of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) on his findings regarding cell phone brain dangers.  Four months later, when it became apparent that the industry was still doing nothing in response to his findings, he wrote a letter to the CEO's of the cellular phone industry.  This is an excerpt from that letter, again quoted from Dr. Carlo's book, Cell Phones - Invisible Hazards of the Wireless Age:

"At that [February, 1999] briefing, I explained that the well-conducted scientific studies that the WTR [Wireless Technology Research, L.L.C.] was overseeing indicated that the question of wireless phone safety had become confused.

Specifically, I reported to you that:

Recourse for Mitigating Cell Phone Brain Dangers

At the end of his book, Dr. Carlo gives the following advice to minimize cell phone brain dangers.  I paraphrase:

1) Use a headset, earpiece or speakerphone to keep the antenna away from the head.

2) If the above suggestions are not an option for you, then make sure you keep the antenna fully extended when speaking on the phone.  If the antenna is recessed within the phone, then the entire phone functions as an antenna which greatly increases the radiation exposure.

3) Children under ten should not use any type of wireless technology.  For children over ten, pagers are suggested over cell phones.

4) Do not use your cell phone in areas of low signal strength.  The lower the signal strength, the more radiation has to be emitted by the cell phone in order to connect with an available cell tower.

5) Recommendation number five listed by Dr. Carlo has nothing to do with cell phone radiation but simply concerns the common sense notion of not talking on a handheld cell phone while driving for safety reasons.

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