Mobile phones can reduce sperm count claim

OH, GREAT. NOT content with claiming that mobile phones fry your brains, new research carried out in Hungary now suggests that they do your nadgers in.

Apparently the study of 220 men showed that a man's sperm count could drop by as much as one third if he used a mobile phone. The worst affected were those men who habitually kept their phones in the trouser pockets or in a belt clip.

The researchers concluded that the damage was being done by electro-magnetic radiation given out when the handset searches for the nearest base station on a frequent basis.

British experts apparently complained that Hungary doesn't have at least three different mobile phone frequencies - unlike Britain? So you could be safer on T-Mobile, 3 or Orange, then? Doesn't sound likely.

Of course, the reports don't mention the fact that a general trend towards low sperm counts across industrialised societies has been observed. How come mobile phones get the blame? µ