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No plausible mechanism.

You're just looking at statistical noise.

By pure chance you expect ~5% of studies to show with a 95% confidence level that radiowaves cause cancer/alzheimer's and ~5% to show with a 95% confidence level that mobile phones prevent cancer/alzheimer's. If you aggregate a large number of studies of high quality(e.g. you can verify that there is no publishing bias, that the article would have been published no matter its results) you find no statistically significant causal link between microwave use and cancer. cellphone use and cancer, powerlines and cancer, radiotowers and cancer etc.

Radiowaves and microwaves across the entire spectrum have been investigated for safety over 60 years now; there is no plausible mechanism for them to do more than heat flesh(stay out of high intensity fields), just give it up already.

posted by : Soylent, 10 January 2010 Complain about this comment
What about testing with cancer sensitive mice?

Would it increase or reduce chances of cancer?

posted by : interested_party, 10 January 2010 Complain about this comment
ah, the joy of understanding

"Vascular dementia is the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer's disease" ...

posted by : mjy, 08 January 2010 Complain about this comment
Ah, the joy of reading an article until the end

"There appeared to be no link either way between vascular dementia and cancer."

posted by : Pascal Monett, 07 January 2010 Complain about this comment
Increased cancer risk = reduced Alzheimer's risk

... which might explain why mobiles could prevent Alzheimer's disease:

http://www.healthscout.com/news/1/634268/main.html

posted by : mjy, 07 January 2010 Complain about this comment

Mobiles might prevent Alzheimer's disease

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