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N°78 15-04-2008

Mobile phones:tomorrow will be too late

In spite of the dithering by the Ministry of Health and the delaying tactics of the phone operatingcompanies, it is now becoming clear that the mobile phone is a virulent pathogen with damagingeffects that we are only vaguely aware of. Recently it was scientifically proved that there is aconnection between certain types of tumour and the intensive use of a mobile phone. Most inevidence are cases of acoustic neurinoma, a tumour that develops on the acoustic nerve, as well asmalignant brain tumours. According to this study the risk is multiplied by two or more on the sidewhere the phone is held.Are the health authorities worried about these results? Not in the least since, according to the officialexperts, the risk concerns only "intensive" phone users, and, as they add with a certain touch ofcynicism, nothing proves that using a mobile phone always causes a tumour to develop.They are right, but when we know that a tumour usually takes 15-20 years to develop, it would seemlogical to conclude that the appearance of tumours after 4-5 years in these intensive phone users isa sure sign of a health catastrophe to come in 10 years' time. 10 years! For those who havechildren, it's nothing, but for the people that sell telephones it must seem a long way off.The worst thing in this situation is that it is the younger generation that is the most in danger. It ischildren and teenagers who use mobile phones the most. And it is at precisely this age that the brainis the most exposed: in a child's brain almost two thirds of it are affected by the radiation while in theadult it reaches only one third of the brain, which is already far too much!Even more worrying, the radiation increases in intensity as reception becomes more difficult. Sowhen you use the phone in a train or a car, or when you are in a zone with weaker coverage and thephone has to keep searching for new signals, the intensity of the microwaves is considerably higher.And with every day that passes we find more electromagnetic radiation in our daily surroundings: TVscreens and computer monitors, cordless phones and wi-fi systems. All of which is horrifying. All thisradiation is non-ionising, that's to say it is capable of upsetting the function of our cells, particularly inour DNA, and the functioning of our glands. Among these it is the pineal, the source of the sleephormone and of the resistance to cancer, that is the most easily disturbed.We could weep over this tragedy that awaits us, which everyone sees coming and which nobody isdoing anything about. But wait

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there are millions of mobile phones in use nowadays..

And one day, for lack of the will to face up to this problem, we will inevitably be faced with a terriblechoice: your mobile or your life!At that point we will have to give up this magic tool, resign ourselves to taking a step backwards,draw a line through all that it has brought us

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will we dare?.

It's at that moment that we'll see if humanity still has a will to live or not.

Dr Paul Dupont