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blake <backland@mindless.com> wrote in message news:37CD36C9.F187FF4C@mindless.com...
> John Leister wrote:

>> Quick Question.

>> If ever it is proved that phones produce a health effect
>> no matter how small what would the legal implications
>> be for both sellers, manufacturers and all?

> Regardless of what others think I believe that it _has_ been
> proven that mobile phones have an effect on our brains.

Some people believe that grovelling to some god helps too.
Proves SFA about whether it actually does or not tho.

> Until recently, only the effects of thermal energy on the brain was
> tested and this has proved to be negliable. But a recent study (in
> the uk i think) found that mobile phone emmissions actually caused
> an increase in 'reaction times', of students in a control group,
> who were performing simple tasks on a computer screen.

We'll see. That particular study hasnt been replicated, so its too
early to say if it just suffered from poor experimental design or not.

That reaction time stuff is very sensitive to all sorts of trivial effects,
particularly just basic stuff like situation its tested in and the state of
the people doing the test etc, so until its been thoroughly replicated,
we dont even know if its a real effect at all.

And you certainly do get an effect on reaction times with very basic
changes like say leaving the windows open etc in a car, so it proves
SFA about bad health effects anyway, even if it is replicatable.

> While this may be seen as a 'good' effect, it does prove that
> mobile phone emmissions have a biological effect on our brains

Nope, not yet. And you can say the same thing about
open windows in a car using that quite bogus line of
argument. Or say the environmental lighting too.

> and this is a bad thing when we don't know exactly what this biological effect is.

Wrong, most obviously with environmental lighting which has
clearly measurable effects on reaction times too. Room color too.

>> Could this hurt the industry badly?

> I saw a doco on this subject recently on the abc ( lateline/panorama ?).
> The major manufacturers commisioned the study above, but were reluctant
> to publicise the results even though they were 'good' (increased reaction speeds).

Because it hasnt been replicated yet.

> This is because they do not want the public to know that mobile phones
> have a definite but unkown biological effect on the human brain.

Wrong. You can make the same claim about say the room color too. Bogus.