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Cell Phones Aren’t as Safe as You Think They Are, Claims Author


Before anyone realized the horrible effect of cigarettes on health, people smoked them often and everywhere: At breakfast, lunch, dinner; in the office, outside, inside, and even while pregnant or while nursing ailments in the hospital. Then, it was just a benign habit that offended some but was largely promoted by social norms. Flash forward to now, and a similar habit plagues us: cell phones. They’re even more ubiquitous, and most of us use them more than even the heaviest smokers use cigarettes. Like tobacco, cell phone usage is far from benign, according to epidemiologist Devra Davis, author of “Disconnect.” … More »

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Cell Phones Aren’t as Safe as You Think They Are, Claims Author

Thanksgiving Travel: Are Airport Security Scanners Really Bad for Your Health? (Rocky Flats Gear Hopes You Think So)


For the upcoming Thanksgiving weekend, Colorado-based company Rocky Flats Gear has introduced a new travel accessory: Radiation-shielding undergarments. Their bras and briefs “can protect tissues from a broadband of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation generated by imaging equipment and natural sources,” according to their website, which also states that the company’s goal is to protect the traveling public from radiation generated by security and medical imaging equipment. They offer a wide variety of styles for men, women, and children, but their site provides very little evidence that the leaf-shaped shields that are adhered to cotton underwear could really protect us.

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Thanksgiving Travel: Are Airport Security Scanners Really Bad for Your Health? (Rocky Flats Gear Hopes You Think So)

Forget Body Scanners: Real Radiation Risk Comes From the Sky


Lately, some fliers are up in arms over the new full-body scanners that are being used at airports, because of the dose of radiation and the invasion of privacy. But it turns out that the real radiation worry could be coming from the sky, not the scanners. A new paper that will be released in December from the Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal says that people who fly more than 85,000 miles a year should be classified as radiation workers because of the radiation they’re receiving from the sun and the stars. … More »

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Forget Body Scanners: Real Radiation Risk Comes From the Sky