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Cell phones, invisible hazards in the wireless age : an insider's alarming discoveries about cancer and genetic damage, George Carlo and Martin Schram

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non fiction

Cell phones

George Carlo and Martin Schram

invisible hazards in the wireless age : an insider's alarming discoveries about cancer and genetic damage

Machine generated contents note: PART ONE -- CHAPTER ONE -- When Science Meets Politics 3 -- A Suit Heard 'Round the World -- When Carlo Met Wheeler -- Thousands of Studies? -- Belated Background Check -- CHAPTER TWO -- Follow-the-Science: No Problems, But No Tools 17 -- No Heating, No Problems -- A Primer: How Radiation Is Measured -- Shattering Test-Tube and Petri-Dish Findings -- Stealth Rats -- CHAPTER THREE -- Follow-the-Politics: High and Inside 35 -- The Power of the Purse Strings -- Truth and Labeling-I -- Truth and Labeling-II -- PART TWO -- CHAPTER FOUR -- Follow-the-Science: Henry's Comet _55 -- Interlude: A Primer on DNA Breakage and Genetic Damage -- Chasing the Tail of the Comet -- CHAPTER FIVE -- Follow-the-Politics: The Care and Feeding of Watchdogs 75 -- A Protest to the Media -- CHAPTER SIX -- Follow-the-Science: Heart-Stopping Phone Calls 83 -- The Mayo Clinic's Pacemaker/Cell Phone Study -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- Follow-the-Money: Caught in a Litigation Vise 97 -- The Compromise -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- Follow-the-Science: Interesting but Inconclusive Findings 107 -- Leaks in the Blood Brain Barrier -- First Biological Effects in Rats -- Lymphoma in Overexposed Mice -- Headaches -- Cancer Findings, 1994-1996 -- CHAPTER NINE -- Follow-the-Money: Turning Off the Spigot 123 -- First Cash-Flow Crisis -- A Government Intervention -- A Rare Executive: Promoting Research -- Very Political Science-I -- PARTTHREE -- CHAPTER TEN -- Follow-the-Science: Red Flags 149 -- Genetic Damage in Human Blood -- Micronuclei-A Diagnostic Marker for Cancer Experts -- The Specifics of the WTR Studies -- Very Political Science-II -- CHAPTER ELEVEN -- Follow-the-Science: More Red Flags 165 -- The WTR's Studies of People Using Cellular Phones -- A Study of Brain Cancer Patients -- A Study of Acoustic Neuroma Patients -- A Study of 285,000 Analog Cellular Phones Users -- A Roadblock -- Corroboration from Sweden -- Very Political Science III -- CHAPTER TWELVE -- Hoisting the Red Flags 181 -- Tough Day in the Big Easy -- A Rare Ex