Comments:Media reports exaggerate cell phone cancer risk

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13,000 deaths a year isn't important? That's HUGE! I think it's absurd that this article tries to trivialize brain cancer in this way. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.199.100.169 (talk • contribs) 10:27, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Where did you see the article trivializing brain cancer? It's simply a very rare thing, despite the fact that cancer is still a MotherFucker. Booticon - (talk) 14:22, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

The article merely points out that Brain Cancer is not the most common form of cancer, AND, that of the 13,000 deaths per year, not all of them can be attributed to using cellphones.Rekov - (talk) 15:01, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Give it a few

I'm confident those numbers will go up...and I also feel like our author is downplaying... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.233.80.139 (talk) 15:20, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Trivializing?

I apologize to readers who perceive this as trivializing a rare disease. That was not my intention. On Wikipedia I created a featured list about brain tumors.[1] Durova - (talk) 17:58, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Results poorly understood by author

No offense to the author here, but he seems to be either deliberately misrepresnting facts or is misunderstanding Khurana. Comparing the amount of current Tobacco deaths to brain tumor deaths is non-sensical, because cigarette smoking has been going on for a long time now, and there is a significant percentage of the population who has been doing it ALL their lives.

This would be the equivalent to saying smoking isn't dangerous a mere ten years after cigarettes became popular, because not many people were dying of lung cancer at that point. So whether or not Khurana is correct, you ARE either misrepresenting or misunderstanding. Because after sixty years of cell phone usage, your risk is going to rise a lot, and so are the deaths. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.149.109.48 (talk) 20:23, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks —59.165.104.148 (talk) 15:14, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Full_Star_Red.svg/25px-Full_Star_Red.svg.png —87.163.82.81 (talk) 15:26, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Discrete risks are not "cancelled" out because they're less than some other risk.

"So if cell phone use actually doubled the brain tumor casualty rate, a United States resident would still be 20 times more likely to die from tobacco than from a primary brain tumor."

This is irrelevant and misleading.

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On May 31, 2011, the WHO's position on radiofrequency (particularly mobile phone) EMF health effects changed, in support of Dr Khurana's findings. As the prevalence of smoking declines, and the prevalence of mobile phone usage increases exponentially (currently more than 5 billion mobile phone users), brain tumour incidence rates need to be monitored closely in the years to come. —1.148.46.78 (talk) 10:22, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

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bad —91.225.19.231 (talk) 11:30, 10 October 2011 (UTC)