Homework 10 - Informal Research Internet

http://www.mobiledia.com/news/30541.html

This article was talking about how people might be able to get a brain tumor after using their cell phones for ten or more years. However, the article does not state if that is a fact or not, as they are still trying to find the answer.

From the link above, I think the most interesting part of the text is the paragraph that reads "Early last year Dr. Lonn published the results of a Swedish study, which found an increased risk of acoustic neuroma, a type of brain tumor, after 10 or more years of cell phone use. This year he published more research results, which showed that cell phones did not increase the risk of other brain tumor types (gliomas or meningiomas). These types of conflicting reports often leave the public unsure about whether cell phones pose a risk or not." I thought this was interesting because even though Dr. Lonn reported in a Swedish study that there is an increased risk of getting a brain tumor, after doing more research, he contradicted what he originally said. After reading this paragraph, i couldn't figure out if cell phone use increased a risk of a brain tumor because of the two contradicting results reported in this article.

When reading this article, my thoughts were all over the place. I did not know if i should worry about getting a brain tumor from excessive cell phone use, or not have to worry about it. I was scared, but then did not know what to think. After reading this article i decided to read others and see what they said about getting a brain tumor from excessive cell phone use.

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/study_cell_phone_tumor.html

This article also said that people can get brain tumors from using cell phones, however they said that instead of being from excessive cell phone use, it was from the regularity of cell phone use.

From the link above, I think the most interesting part of the text is the paragraph that reads "The research team said it found no association between the tumors and heavy cell phone use, but rather on the length of time those in the study had been regular cell phone users." I thought this was interesting because other articles i read connected brain tumors to excessive use of cell phones, while this article said that brain tumors have an association with people who used their cell phones regularly, but not necessarily excessively.

When reading this article, my mind was extremley confused because this article was telling me something different from the above article. One of the questions in my mind was: So does that mean excessive cell phone use is not the cause of a possible brain tumor, but refualr phone use? And what does this mean for people who excessively use their phones on a daily basis? Are they at a higher risk? I decided to read another article and see what they wrote about this topic.

http://www.naturalnews.com/021634.html

This article article also said that people who use their cell phone regularly have a higher chance of getting a brain tumor than people who do not. It also said that people with a higher risk of getting a brain tumor are under the age of 20.

From the link above, I think the most interesting part of the text is the paragraph that reads "using a cell phone causes the risk of getting a brain tumor called a glioma to rise by 40 to 270 percent on the side of the head preferred for using the phone". I think this was extremley shocking because after the past articles i have been reading, i did not think that i needed to worry about the chance of getting a possible brain tumor from excessive cell phone use. But after reading this article and looking at how drastically the risk increased, i got scared again.

When reading this article, the thoughts running through my mind were panicky thoughts. I didn't know what to believe after reading this article, and became a bit worried. All of these articles were telling me different things, and i did not know what to believe.