Study Says Cell Phones Don't Cause Cancer

Do they or don't they? For about 15 years people have been wondering if cell phone use increases the risk of cancer. Heck, some folks didn't even wonder, they just declared it outright. We may finally have something close to a definitive answer: A new study out of Denmark concludes that the electromagnetic fields pumped out of cell phones don't pose a cancer risk.

So why is this study different from similar reports? Scale and depth. The researchers used data from over 420,000 Danish cell phone (or, I suppose, mobile phone) users, some of whom had been using them as far back as 1982. Their level of cancer incidence was compared to the rest of the country, and guess what? Mobile phone users actually had fewer cases than expected. I suppose there's a possibility that increased herring consumption has something to do with it, but right now I'll just take this as good news.