Thread: Would you give up your mobile phone?

Just read an article about mobile phone use with regard to brain cancer. Not so much if they actually increase the risk but, rather, what would you do if they found conclusive evidence that these marvels of communication actually lead to tumors? Would you decrease your use? Go cold turkey? Keep it plastered to your ear till you dropped dead?

Here's a snippet of the article and the link below.

What Would It Take to Make You Change?
What about you? Do you avoid holding a phone up to your ear, like these prominent neurosurgeons do? How much proven risk would push you to give up your cellphone entirely? What if instead of doubling your chance for cancer, the phone only increased it by 20%? Is that an acceptable risk? Or in that case would you expect to die from lung cancer or in a car crash long before other health problems kick in? All this writing has convinced me to go out and find a headset good enough that I might actually use it. And to up the amount of texts I can send a month. Not that there's necessarily a good reason to do either. That I know about. Yet.


DVICE: SHIFT: What if cellphones cause cancer?