X-Message-Number: 22523 Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 05:04:36 -0700 Subject: Pointer to original paper (was RE: Mobiles 'make you senile') From: (Tim Freeman) From: "Mark Plus" <> >Mobile phones and the new wireless technology could cause a "whole >generation" of today's teenagers to go senile in the prime of their lives >...Leif Salford... Google for "Leif Salford" leads to this URL for the paper: http://www.elektrosmognews.de/salfordjan2003.pdf No referees are mentioned in the acknowledgements section. You'd think there would be enough data on humans by now to show practical consequences, if there are any. I would expect reducing the brains "reserve capacity" to reduce scores on some cognitive test. They were able to get statistically significant results with a small group of rats, looking at their brains 50 days after they were exposed to just 2 hours of radiation. Figure 3 on the last page is pretty obvious even without any statistics. They claim that the person categorizing the brain damage was blind to which brains had been irradiated. The radiation came from a real cellphone, except for a modification to the antenna that provided controllable radiation levels for the rats. I would like to understand their experimental setup better. I suspect the antenna in their experimental setup might be much larger than the antenna on a real cell phone. I don't know if that matters. I don't know how realistic their power levels are. I bet the phone dissipates more power if you hook it to a larger antenna. This is definitely interesting. Thanks for making the post. -- Tim Freeman GPG public key fingerprint ECDF 46F8 3B80 BB9E 575D 7180 76DF FE00 34B1 5C78 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22523