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Cell phone hawkers have their crosshairs on kids as a target market for their wares, but should parents resist purchasing mobiles for their children? Wireless carriers have begun pushing their "family" plans to provide some economic ammunition for kids pleading with mom and dad for a mobile. While some people -- many of them in the education field -- see the metastasizing of mobiles within the junior set as a menace to decorum, others see serious health threats looming from the practice.
Re: Cell Phones for Kids: What's the Risk?
Posted by: Kagehi 2005-03-22 16:53:24 In reply to: John P. Mello Jr.
Besides, the Japanese have had special ultra cheap cell phone networks in place, just for kids, for a lot longer than any US companies even talked about "Family plans". One would think and potential hazards and medical problems would be appearing their first. lol Paranoia is a national past time in the US and some other countries, where to be considered truely intellectual you have to proscribe to at least one crackpot and unreproducible theory to qualify. Its also interesting that many of those studies tried to apply 'general' EMF as a possible cause, while inexplicable failing to account for the fact that modern cell phones do not necessarilly use the same frequencies as those tested in the positive studies or at anywhere near the intensity. Sort of like stuffing someone is a room for 30 minutes under 50 UV lamps, outputing 10 times that in sunlight, then claiming that even mere "incidental" exposure to UV will cause cancer. Umm. No, not unless incidental means running around ouside in the nude 8 hours a day at the equator with northern european skin genes for 365 days a year over 10 years. lol Well, those are of course made up numbers, but still, the point is that it is likely rather rediculous.
