Monday, August 31, 2009

Still Want Your Kids To Have Cellphones?

You might not, after you read this.

Although, really, when you get right down to it, what's a little risk of brain tumours compared to the immeasurable joy of being able to text their friends about what they're wearing today or who likes whom?

And who could ever have guessed that an earlier study, funded by the telecom industry, would have had more than a dozen biases built into it such that the results seemed more benign than they should have? That sort of thing is basically impossible to predict, isn't it?

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