Not to mention that cancer research is a huge cash cow. If an overall cure is found -- think of the unemployment.

Always having a cell phone up to your ear is gona cause problems...period! However, occasional or responsible use should not pose a problem; however, there are individuals that are naturally more vulnerable than others.
In my job, I have to carry a portable around all the time...I used a belt clip...after a year or so I noticed a pain in the kidney area...I switched sides and the pain went away. I later decided to where the company suit jacket and keep the phone in the pocket, switching sides each day...later included: (Now don't laugh...there is science behind this) I put some smoothed black stones in each pocket...the idea was to change the overall frequency...hoping that new averaged frequency would not be harmful...I tried to prove myself wrong on this and took the stones out and the pain returned each time...so I now keep them in and so far, 4 years now...that pain has not come back.

So maybe...the rats should switch ears each time their cell phones ring? --I'm joking here!

The mind sets of rat irradiaters is somewhat similar to those doing carcinogen research up to the early 1980s as reported in the well researched book "The Apocalyptics: Cancer and the Big Lie , how environmental politics controls what we know about cancer" by Edith Efron, 1984. There were hundreds of chemicals tagged as carcinogens while only a few had been actually shown to be carcinogens in humans. Today the lists again keep increasing in length again along with big worries about EM, diet, climate, future POTUS, etc without much real evidence.

I'm not looking forward to the big sleep, but like you, I get pissed off when my body no longer obeys certain simple commands. But I feel grateful that the brain seems to be functioning at about 90% of previous capacity. Remembering names and titles is a frustration, but I'm relatively computer literate so what has dropped out of my skull can be supplemented electronically.

Both my Mom & Dad checked out at 80 4 months apart. I've got them beat by 2 years...so far. My kids nagged me into quitting the cigarettes, and my wife keeps me eating properly unless I find a way to cheat (which I do, but rarely).Alcohol is forbidden because of my meds. (I cheat there also). I miss my physicality. I didn't appreciate it when I had it, but now, I get pissed off when I know I can't do certain things that were commonplace just a few years ago. My wife's mom lived to 95, and she's in better shape than me.(My wife, that is) You are right, genetics are probably the most important key to long life.

My genetics are what some people call good.Dad smoked 60 years, made 80, Mom made 93, grandmom made 99, have an aunt just made 101, cousins now pushing 90. One of those cousins got me to learn "health" when I was 14 and I've been taking supplements since then, you know, what you used to be called vitamins. It has made a difference versus guys I went to grade school, high school and college with. When we get together annually, I'm about the only one without a hip or knee replacement or a pacemaker or have had some life saving operation. In short, I lucked out and know it.

Only Dagney has any exposure to mention. Might explain her decision not to stay in the Gulch. ;^)

A lady next door who is older than me is looking forward to death ending all her old age problems.
Me? I like action movies.
Sometimes I get to point at the screen and say. "I used to be able to do that move."
Sigh!

It would.

But then, cell phones emit less than a watt. You're probably getting hundreds of watts of radiation from your computer screen right now. So I'm not going to worry about it.

You're kidding, right? My body is only functioning on 2 cylinders. What happened to the rest?
I admit that there are certain advantages such as senior discounts, but the old bod is crumbling. The only advantage I can see is that you start feeling so crappy that when death knocks on the door you welcome him in and offer him a drink.

True.
It's all part of the deal. You live, you die, and your life is recorded as a dash on your tombstone.

At least.

With a few exceptions, rats seldom use cellphones. :)

I wonder what this means regarding exposure to Galt's shield over the Gulch. ;)

Astute observations, Herb. +1

Question for cell experts:
Assuming this is an opportunity, what is needed for a free market solution?
Will more shielding reduce device usability too much?

Old Dino remembers Saccharine being force fed to rats in a stupid study that allegedly proves that particular brand of artificial sweetener causes cancer.
Old Dino has Saccharine in a cup of coffee right now.
No one can force feed any Old Dino any freakin' thing!

We're all gonna die!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCns4...

No wonder lines are always busy. You've got to get those rats off the phones.
But seriously, it's a here we go again situation. When rats were dosed with a thousand times more sweetener than they could ever be exposed to under normal conditions -- guess what? They got sick and the sweetener was banned. When DDT was tested in quantities so enormous the air was foggy it was determined that it made rats sick. So, DDT a bug killer so effective that it allowed areas to open up that were previously anathema to mankind Now we find the same kind of over testing with cell phones. However, it may be true with the guy who sticks one in his ear and is on it constantly all day. He's such a pain in the maximus that he just might be getting his just desserts.

Then rats should stop using cell phones!!!!

It's good to be old!! (73)

maybe they shouldn't feed them to rats.
another program to waste money.
I didn't know that rats were consumers of cell phones unless of course you are referring to the washington dc rat population

Texting while driving?

Cell phones kill like guns do. It's the idiot holding it and deciding what to do with it that needs to go the way of the Dodo.