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Anatomy of a techno-myth; Science and society.(The (non) risks of mobile phones)
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The Economist (US)
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March 26, 2005
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No sparks flying here
The debate over the safety of mobile phones has little to do with science
DO MOBILE phones cause explosions at petrol stations? That question has just been exhaustively answered by Adam Burgess, a researcher at the University of Kent, in England. Oddly, however, Dr Burgess is not a physicist, but a sociologist. For the concern rests not on scientific evidence of any danger, but is instead the result of sociological factors: it is an urban myth, supported and propagated by official sources, but no less a myth for that. Dr Burgess presented his findings this week at the annual conference of the British Sociological Association.
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