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There is a lot of misinformation and disinformation out there -- and for good reason: this is a trillion-dollar-a-year in-profits industry. Hence, "Doubt is Their Product." It was established over a decade ago by Dr. Henry Lai, PhD. (Bioelectromagnetics Laboratory at the University of Washington) that even microwave radiation from cell phones breaks DNA (both single strand and double strand) and micronuclei (i.e. fragmented DNA) was found leaking from cells. This is the information that the cell phone industry wanted to suppress and did not want Dr. George Carlo -- the epidemiologist who ran the 28 million dollar research program for the wireless industry between 1993 and 1999 -- to go public with. They even apparently offered him a million dollars a year to keep his mouth shut and toe the industry line! He didn't (keep his mouth shut) and did go public with the information on his own -- and naturally his relationship was then severed and his house was mysterously burnt down. The cell phone industry then tried to hire other researchers to discredit Dr. Henry Lai's findings and phone calls were also apparently made to the president of his university in an attempt to get him fired.
Even more recently, the REFLEX studies done throughout a number of European countries prove without a doubt that microwave radiation does indeed break DNA (and this is most likely through the creation of free radicals [which is also how ionizing radiation has its negative effects btw]). They have found that one minute on a cell phone is equivalent to one X-Ray! Hence, one hour is equivalent to 60 X-rays; ten hours to 600 X-rays; and 100 hours equivalent to 6000 X-rays. Now, would you X-ray your head 6000 times?
http://current.com/items/89039886/radiation_exposure_24_hour_cell_phone_...
http://proliberty.com/observer/20080508.htm
http://proliberty.com/observer/20060401.htm