According to Lepp, Barkley, and Karpinski (2015), some recent findings suggest a careful consideration of the relationship between cell phone use, and foremost the use of social media, and academic performance.
The first is to establish a statistical association between cell phone use and accidents using survey data [3, 4, 5, 6].
We measured the distance between cells using the reconstructed soma centers, and used the logistic-distance spatial relation.
The article points out that there is insufficient data to prove a causal connection between cell phone use and resulting accidents and deaths.
This all explains why broad epidemiological studies have shown no measurable links between cell phone use and brain cancer -- and the National Cancer Institute has shown no appreciable increase in brain cancer rates since 1987, despite a massive surge in cell phone use.
What we are left with is decisive evidence that the radiation fields cell phones produce can and do penetrate into our bodies and brains, a variety of studies less robust than human intervention trials showing the potential for those fields to injure our cells and DNA, and observational epidemiology showing associations between cell phone use and the development of tumors.
Besides the brain tumors assessed in the current study, INTERPHONE also evaluated correlations between cell phone use and tumors of the acoustic nerve and the parotid salivary gland.
While the World Health Organization publicly acknowledges that current research has found no definitive link between cell phone use and adverse health effects, it is still recommending guidelines that include limiting cell phone use, using a hands-free device and avoiding driving while using a cell phone.
Study participants will agree to allow researchers to track their mobile phone use over the next 20 to 30 years and to access their health records to look for correlations between cell phone use and health effects.
As CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta pointed out in one of the more informed and reasonable reports on the link between cell phone use and brain cancer, this is because cell phones have only been around 30 years.
