potholer54 | Do cell phones cook your brain? @potholer54 | Uploaded January 2017 | Updated October 2024, 20 hours ago.
There are lots of studies on cell phones, so please don’t tell me I’ve “missed” this study or that study. As I said in the video, I’ve tried to summarize the research by looking at the major studies, which are most often cited. They pretty much reflect the state of research. No single study has a monopoly of wisdom in this field, but taken collectively they show a basic pattern:
No obvious effect of cell phones in most in vitro and in vivo experiments.
A possible link with heavy cellphone use has been found in case control studies.
No link found in cohort studies.
And no increase in the rate of brain cancer in the USA or the UK.
You may not like those results, and you may have a favorite study you’d prefer to focus on to the exclusion of all others, but tough. That’s the state of the science.
SOURCES
Usually I type out all the sources in full in the video description, something that very few YouTubers bother doing because it is tiring and time-consuming. So for this video I am going to give you the privilege of doing that yourselves. ALL THE SOURCES ARE SHOWN IN THE VIDEO by title, author and date of publication. So I don't need to rewrite it all here, I've just written "as shown." Where it is not shown, I give you a URL. :
0:00 -- youtube.com/watch?v=vF5ArGid5QE
0:51 -- RT youtube.com/watch?v=wXax0-MTTsk
2:05 -- MSNBC youtube.com/watch?v=03niyCMwars
2:05 -- Cell phone strength from:
"A handheld cell phone operates on about 0.75 to 1 watt of power." Kaplan, Laura G. Emergency and Disaster Planning Manual. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 1996: 204.
Vecchione, Glen. Blue Ribbon Science Fair Projects. Toronto: Starling Publishing, 2005: 64. "Although most auto phones have a transmitter power of 3 watts, a handheld cell phone operates on about 0.75 to 1 watt of power."
technologyandgadgets.co.uk/2016/06/20/power-of-a-cell-phone-transmitter.html
5:47 -- youtube.com/watch?v=wXax0-MTTsk
6:08 -- “Acute low-intensity microwave exposure increases DNA single- strand breaks in rat brain cells." Bioelectromagnetics, 1995 Lai H, and Singh
6:53 -- Negative findings jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/07/27/jnci.djr285.full\
6:59 -- NCI comment from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26420225
7:18 – Wall Street Journal
7:28 – Mother Jones as shown
7:33 – Daily Mail as shown
7:34 – Natural News naturalnews.com/054165_cell_phone_radiation_brain_tumors_government_study.html#ixzz4WpfbgrJF
8:10 -- Wall Street Journal
8:54 – Study as shown
10:06 – New Scientist as shown
10:08 – Science, as shown
10:13 – Washington Post as shown
11:44 – 2008 CEFALO study as shown
11:53 – 2011 IARC study as shown
12:12 – 2014 Hardell study as shown
12:35 – 2013 Coureau study as shown
12:58 – Japanese study as shown
13:50 – 2016 Australian study as shown
13:52 – Danish study as shown
13:44 – US brain cancer rates as shown
13:51 – UK brain cancer rates as shown
15:05 – IARC announcement as shown
15:20 – News Channel 15
16:06 – Times article as shown
16:08 -- Mirror article as shown
16:28 – Israeli study as shown
There are lots of studies on cell phones, so please don’t tell me I’ve “missed” this study or that study. As I said in the video, I’ve tried to summarize the research by looking at the major studies, which are most often cited. They pretty much reflect the state of research. No single study has a monopoly of wisdom in this field, but taken collectively they show a basic pattern:
No obvious effect of cell phones in most in vitro and in vivo experiments.
A possible link with heavy cellphone use has been found in case control studies.
No link found in cohort studies.
And no increase in the rate of brain cancer in the USA or the UK.
You may not like those results, and you may have a favorite study you’d prefer to focus on to the exclusion of all others, but tough. That’s the state of the science.
SOURCES
Usually I type out all the sources in full in the video description, something that very few YouTubers bother doing because it is tiring and time-consuming. So for this video I am going to give you the privilege of doing that yourselves. ALL THE SOURCES ARE SHOWN IN THE VIDEO by title, author and date of publication. So I don't need to rewrite it all here, I've just written "as shown." Where it is not shown, I give you a URL. :
0:00 -- youtube.com/watch?v=vF5ArGid5QE
0:51 -- RT youtube.com/watch?v=wXax0-MTTsk
2:05 -- MSNBC youtube.com/watch?v=03niyCMwars
2:05 -- Cell phone strength from:
"A handheld cell phone operates on about 0.75 to 1 watt of power." Kaplan, Laura G. Emergency and Disaster Planning Manual. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 1996: 204.
Vecchione, Glen. Blue Ribbon Science Fair Projects. Toronto: Starling Publishing, 2005: 64. "Although most auto phones have a transmitter power of 3 watts, a handheld cell phone operates on about 0.75 to 1 watt of power."
technologyandgadgets.co.uk/2016/06/20/power-of-a-cell-phone-transmitter.html
5:47 -- youtube.com/watch?v=wXax0-MTTsk
6:08 -- “Acute low-intensity microwave exposure increases DNA single- strand breaks in rat brain cells." Bioelectromagnetics, 1995 Lai H, and Singh
6:53 -- Negative findings jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/07/27/jnci.djr285.full\
6:59 -- NCI comment from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26420225
7:18 – Wall Street Journal
7:28 – Mother Jones as shown
7:33 – Daily Mail as shown
7:34 – Natural News naturalnews.com/054165_cell_phone_radiation_brain_tumors_government_study.html#ixzz4WpfbgrJF
8:10 -- Wall Street Journal
8:54 – Study as shown
10:06 – New Scientist as shown
10:08 – Science, as shown
10:13 – Washington Post as shown
11:44 – 2008 CEFALO study as shown
11:53 – 2011 IARC study as shown
12:12 – 2014 Hardell study as shown
12:35 – 2013 Coureau study as shown
12:58 – Japanese study as shown
13:50 – 2016 Australian study as shown
13:52 – Danish study as shown
13:44 – US brain cancer rates as shown
13:51 – UK brain cancer rates as shown
15:05 – IARC announcement as shown
15:20 – News Channel 15
16:06 – Times article as shown
16:08 -- Mirror article as shown
16:28 – Israeli study as shown
