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Re:Microsoft designs smart bra to combat emotional eating by loceng on Saturday December 07, 2013 @02:55PM (#6867441)
But that is generally what these large studies are finding.

Interphone study says no risks? The results are far from conclusive.

http://interphone.iarc.fr/interphone_results.php

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20483835 - "CONCLUSIONS: Overall, no increase in risk of glioma or meningioma was observed with use of mobile phones. There were suggestions of an increased risk of glioma at the highest exposure levels, but biases and error prevent a causal interpretation. The possible effects of long-term heavy use of mobile phones require further investigation."

This conclusion has sentences that contradict each other. E.g. Heavy long-term use has higher negative numbers, compared to the "normal use" that causes "no increased risk" ?!

Re:Microsoft designs smart bra to combat emotional eating by daeken on Saturday December 07, 2013 @03:00PM (#6867467)
Have you read the paper? What that means is: no statistically significant links were found. But because of bias in the study, it's possible that we're wrong about the highest end of exposure, so this should be studied further.

Claims that interphone found any statistically significant risk increase due to the use of cell phones is not backed up by the data in any way, shape, or form. (But this, of course, doesn't mean there is no risk, but that we haven't seen it. Future studies could find such a risk, as unlikely as that may be.)