Death by cell phone? Oh please.

According to an over-hyped study, your cell phone could kill you. News at 11. If ever there was a time to ignore the media's clueless rantings (this time about the cancer risks of cell phone usage), this is it. I give you PZ Myers, Ph. D, associate professor of biology at the Univ of Minnesota: "We're just swimming in electromagnetic fields all the time, so it seems silly to worry about one tiny, low-power transmitter when I live in a house with a microwave oven, a half-dozen computers, a big screen TV, and whatever other hi-tech gadget has tickled my fancy that week. ... [the] study found no effect at all of moderate cell phone use on the frequency of cancers, but did report an increase in gliomas (brain tumors) in patients who self-reported very heavy cell phone use -- like an entirely unrealistic 12 hours a day. It seems likely that this is a result of a cycle of disinformation: wild stories about the induction of cancer with electric fields circulate, patients diagnosed with glioma rack their memories for possible causes, batten on their cell phones as a scapegoat, and in their minds, their use of the evil instrument grows and grows." This is right up there with living is hazardous to your health. Get a grip, folks.