Are Cell Phones Safe? How to Avoid Risk Cell phone use among
children is a massive uncontrolled experiment on the brain. So
says Devra Davis, Ph.D., award-winning scientist, writer and
founder of Environmental Health Trust, a nonprofit devoted to
researching and controlling avoidable environmental health
threats. “Children’s skulls are thinner and their brains are
less dense so there’s more absorption of radio frequency
signals,” she said at a recent event in San Francisco where she
spoke about the Campaign for Safer Cell Phones. She added that
we don’t know the long term effects of using cell phones, and
that the FDA has never tested cell phones for safety. “If cell
phones were a pharmaceutical drug,” she said, “they would never
have gotten to market.” Studies from around the world are now
being released with some startling news about using cell phone
safety. A Swedish study reports that radio waves from mobile
phones penetrate deep into the brain not just around the ear.
Researchers found that using your ce