The online magazine for system integrators -- amongst others
|
|
|
Mobiles might prevent Alzheimer's disease
NEVER MIND getting brain tumours, using your mobile phone might be able to reverse or protect against Alzheimer's disease.
Apparently if you are a mouse and spend a lot of time on your mobile you are less likely to get the illness. Boffins also found that mice suffering from Alzheimer's seemed to get a bit better the more calls they made.
According to AFP, researchers at the University of South Florida genetically altered 96 mice to develop the Alzheimer's disease. They then flooded them with the same electromagnetic waves generated by US mobile phones.
The mice were zapped with 918Mhz frequency radiation twice a day for one hour each time over a period of seven to nine months, which apparently is comparable to several decades for a human.
Older mice with Alzheimer's saw deposits in the brain of beta-amyloid, a protein fragment that accumulates in the brain of Alzheimer's sufferers to form the disease's signature plaques, erased. They apparently remembered things a bit better too.
Young adult mice with no apparent signs of memory impairment were protected against Alzheimer's disease after several months of exposure to the mobile phone waves, the study showed.
The results surprised the boffins who were expecting the mobile phone use to speed up the illness. The report did not mention if any of the mice died of brain tumours, or were any quicker at calculating the meaning of life, the universe and everything. µ
Share this:
Share
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.
Would it increase or reduce chances of cancer?
"Vascular dementia is the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer's disease" ...
"There appeared to be no link either way between vascular dementia and cancer."
... which might explain why mobiles could prevent Alzheimer's disease:
http://www.healthscout.com/news/1/634268/main.html