"Mobile phones causing bony spikes" debunked

Courtesy of the Daily Grail - this article from Forbes debunks the recent news story suggesting that mobile phone use is causing bony spikes on the skull to develop, on the basis that these spikes were already well known and characterised, the paper contains errors and the suggested connection with mobile phones was purely speculative anyway:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakil...f1c6152bc1

Sloppy journalism from the BBC seems to have been the prime culprit in this case (again). On another thread I commented that Forbes and LiveScience had been rightly sceptical about a couple of misleading stories in the press recently. Forbes seems to have done it again, though in this case LiveScience repeated the story rather uncritically.

Courtesy of the Daily Grail - this article from Forbes debunks the recent news story suggesting that mobile phone use is causing bony spikes on the skull to develop, on the basis that these spikes were already well known and characterised, the paper contains errors and the suggested connection with mobile phones was purely speculative anyway:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakil...f1c6152bc1

Sloppy journalism from the BBC seems to have been the prime culprit in this case (again). On another thread I commented that Forbes and LiveScience had been rightly sceptical about a couple of misleading stories in the press recently. Forbes seems to have done it again, though in this case LiveScience repeated the story rather uncritically.

It has been the same in italy. Many journalists started reporting this new, and a few serious journals immediately debunked it. Seems all the world is in the same bad pot when it comes to journalism.

I've posted this before, but I'm going to mention it again to anyone that will listen with reference to mobile phone usage. A family member (heavy user of his phone) died some years ago from a glioblastoma (brain tumour). The tumour formed exactly where the phone was always pressed to his head.

Some time after he died, I saw his neighbour who was also a heavy mobile phone user with it seemingly pressed to his head every time I bumped into him. This was years ago and I said to him, why don't you get that phone away from your head, you know how X died. He acknowledged it and then carried on regardless and developed a glioblastoma himself exactly where the phone was always pressed to his head and despite treatment, died a couple of years ago.

If you poke about a bit you'll notice there's something of an epidemic of brain tumours but the mobile phone companies and the medical profession seem to be oblivious. Not scientific, I can't prove it but anyone that's used a mobile for any time pressed to their head will have perhaps noticed a headache developing.

I've posted this before, but I'm going to mention it again to anyone that will listen with reference to mobile phone usage. A family member (heavy user of his phone) died some years ago from a glioblastoma (brain tumour). The tumour formed exactly where the phone was always pressed to his head.

Some time after he died, I saw his neighbour who was also a heavy mobile phone user with it seemingly pressed to his head every time I bumped into him. This was years ago and I said to him, why don't you get that phone away from your head, you know how X died. He acknowledged it and then carried on regardless and developed a glioblastoma himself exactly where the phone was always pressed to his head and despite treatment, died a couple of years ago.

If you poke about a bit you'll notice there's something of an epidemic of brain tumours but the mobile phone companies and the medical profession seem to be oblivious. Not scientific, I can't prove it but anyone that's used a mobile for any time pressed to their head will have perhaps noticed a headache developing.

Of course it may be that there are other health problems related to mobile phones.

But the suggestion that mobile phone use is causing "bony spikes" - which is the topic of this thread - seems to be very questionable, from what I've read.

I've posted this before, but I'm going to mention it again to anyone that will listen with reference to mobile phone usage. A family member (heavy user of his phone) died some years ago from a glioblastoma (brain tumour). The tumour formed exactly where the phone was always pressed to his head.

Some time after he died, I saw his neighbour who was also a heavy mobile phone user with it seemingly pressed to his head every time I bumped into him. This was years ago and I said to him, why don't you get that phone away from your head, you know how X died. He acknowledged it and then carried on regardless and developed a glioblastoma himself exactly where the phone was always pressed to his head and despite treatment, died a couple of years ago.

If you poke about a bit you'll notice there's something of an epidemic of brain tumours but the mobile phone companies and the medical profession seem to be oblivious. Not scientific, I can't prove it but anyone that's used a mobile for any time pressed to their head will have perhaps noticed a headache developing.

It happened in italy too, a man died from brain tumor because he was overusing the phone (like, keeping it attached to the head 6 or plus ours a day, using it for work). It seems that medical staff acknowledged that the phone was probably at least partially responsible for the tumor, although you really have to use it a lot and with a call open, like that man did. Still, the bone spike seems to be "bunk"

By the way, here in italy it has been published a study looking at how much "radiation" (not the scientific term, but you get the idea) different smartphone produce. Unsurprisingly, chinese phones are the worst but also some of the big companies ranked in the top 15. I'm glad to have a Samsung, seems they release a rather small amount of them.