Re: cell phones, though I'm skeptical of the below. Here in S.F. there are elevated cancer rates near the cell phone transmission towers. http://www.radres.org/rare_151_05_0513.pdf Moulder, J. E., Erdreich, L. S., Malyapa, R. S., Merritt, J., Pickard, W. F. and Vijayalaxmi. Cell Phones and Cancer: What Is the Evidence for a Connection? Radiat. Res. 151, 513“ 531 (1999). There have been allegations in the media and in the courts that cell phones and other types of hand-held transceivers are a cause of cancer. There have also been numerous public ob- jections to the siting of TV, radio and cell phone transmission facilities because of a fear of cancer induction. A recent pub- lication in Radiation Research by Repacholi et al. (147, 631“ 640, 1997) which suggests that exposure to radiofrequency (RF) radiation may increase lymphoma incidence in mice has contributed to this controversy. The goal of this review is to provide biomedical researchers a brief overview of the exist- ing RF radiation–cancer studies. This article begins with a brief review of the physics and technology of cell phones. It then reviews the existing epidemiological studies of RF radi- ation, identifying gaps in our knowledge. Finally, the review discusses the cytogenetics literature on RF radiation and the whole-animal RF-radiation carcinogenesis studies. The epi- demiological evidence for an association between RF radiation and cancer is found to be weak and inconsistent, the labora- tory studies generally do not suggest that cell phone RF ra- diation has genotoxic or epigenetic activity, and a cell phone RF radiation–cancer connection is found to be physically im- plausible. Overall, the existing evidence for a causal relation- ship between RF radiation from cell phones and cancer is found to be weak to nonexistent...