{"id":40185,"date":"2011-10-09T15:44:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T15:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/scotus-denies-mobile-phone-lawsuit-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-10-09T15:44:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T15:44:30","slug":"scotus-denies-mobile-phone-lawsuit-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/scotus-denies-mobile-phone-lawsuit-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS denies mobile phone lawsuit | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not a huge fan of the current US Supreme Court, but they recently did something right: Bloomberg is reporting<\/a> the Court denied the revival of a lawsuit against mobile phone companies from a group claiming cell phones cause brain damage, including cancer.<\/p>

The Court denied the claim for legal reasons — basically, the suit was filed under state law claims, but a court had already ruled that those laws were superseded by federal (FCC) regulations. So the Court ruled the claimant doesn’t get to sue mobile phone companies.<\/p>

And while you might consider this ruling decided on a technicality, it turned out the right way. Mobile phones don’t cause cancer<\/a>. Or, if you want to be technically accurate, studies of this topic have shown that any link between cell phones and brain damage is so weak<\/a> it’s statistically indistinguishable from no link at all. <\/p>

The exception would be if you’re using your phone while you’re driving. Then the likelihood of brain damage — and spleen damage, and kidney damage, and bone damage, and life damage — jump by a factor of four<\/a>.<\/p>

So you can use your phone and not worry about brain damage… as long as you use it intelligently. <\/p>

Related posts:<\/p>

- Why I’m (still) not worried about my cell phone hurting my brain<\/a>
- Repeat after me: cell phones don’t cause brain cancer<\/a>
(note the followup in the link below!)
- More on cell phones and the lack of harm<\/a>
- xkcd radiates<\/a><\/p>

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