X-Message-Number: 22523
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 05:04:36 -0700
Subject: Pointer to original paper (was RE: Mobiles 'make you senile')
From:  (Tim Freeman)

From: "Mark Plus" <>
>Mobile phones and the new wireless technology could cause a "whole 
>generation" of today's teenagers to go senile in the prime of their lives
>...Leif Salford...

Google for "Leif Salford" leads to this URL for the paper:  

   http://www.elektrosmognews.de/salfordjan2003.pdf

No referees are mentioned in the acknowledgements section.

You'd think there would be enough data on humans by now to show
practical consequences, if there are any.  I would expect reducing the
brains "reserve capacity" to reduce scores on some cognitive test.

They were able to get statistically significant results with a small
group of rats, looking at their brains 50 days after they were exposed
to just 2 hours of radiation.  Figure 3 on the last page is pretty
obvious even without any statistics.  They claim that the person
categorizing the brain damage was blind to which brains had been
irradiated.

The radiation came from a real cellphone, except for a modification to
the antenna that provided controllable radiation levels for the rats.

I would like to understand their experimental setup better.  I suspect
the antenna in their experimental setup might be much larger than the
antenna on a real cell phone.  I don't know if that matters.  I don't
know how realistic their power levels are.  I bet the phone dissipates
more power if you hook it to a larger antenna.

This is definitely interesting.  Thanks for making the post.

-- 
Tim Freeman                                                  
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