Electronic smog is bad for you...

Read this: Independent Online Edition > Environment

"Invisible 'smog', created by the electricity that powers our civilisation, is giving children cancer, causing miscarriages and suicides and making some people allergic to modern life, new scientific evidence reveals"

Right, so having your mains powered alarm clock by your head is bad (that's the truth, plenty of evidence to show it upsets your sleep patterns... not least by going off just when you get into that dream with you and Michelle and the cat suit where she.... oops, getting carried away again)... where were we.... oh yes, ..... having your mains powered alarm clock by your head is bad, but using a mobile next to your ear, and living underneath a great big fucking pylon are alright for you??

Ooookaaayyyy...

I've said if before and I'll say it again. When I spent 2 weeks in an engineering lab at Motorola, working with the base stations that sit underneath every cellular aerial you see dotted around, I had a raging headache for 2-3 days when I first started. The old boys explained that everyone get's that... "it's to do with the power kicked out by those things".

OK, so mobile phones kick out alot less power than base stations. But then I don't sit with a base station 1 inch from my brain, groin (front jeans pocket), heart (jacket pocket).

Or my hip: remember in the '80s when phones got small enough to carry around, but were too big to fit in a pocket, and the nice mobile phone companies made us pay £60 for a leather pouch to put on our jean belt hooks???

Do you also remember that cancer of the hip and lower spine soared in the 80's?

Today's lesson: don't have your mobile on you all the time. Put it on the desk.

posted by Blakey UK @ 12:50 pm