Ban the Cell Phones
As we talked about yesterday, researchers are offering up conflicting evidence on the negative health effects of cell phone use.
But this controversy hasn’t stopped a California man (Michael R. Bennett) from exercising his right to sue the cell phone manufacturer for his hearing loss that he blames on cell phone use.
In general cell phones are believed to be safe, but some governments other than the U.S. have issued stricter warnings.
Motorola has consistently defended its products and mobile phones and stated "Expert scientific panels and health agencies around the world have consistently confirmed the safety of the RF technology used in mobile phones."
This one individual is suing Motorola, Samsung and T-Mobile in the California courts
According to the court papers:
"On April 28, 2006, plaintiff suffered a sudden hearing loss in his right ear, vertigo, loss of equilibrium, and other personal injuries related thereto, and has continued to suffer the same injuries from said date through and including the present date. Upon plaintiff's information and belief, plaintiff's injuries were caused by electromagnetic radiation emanating from the Samsung cell phone and from the Motorola cell phone during plaintiff's use thereof, resulting from improper and unsafe design, manufacturing and production of the Samsung cell phone by defendant Samsung and of the Motorola cellphone by defendant Motorola, and by said defendants' respective failure to adequately warn of such dangers."
There is no mention if Mr. Bennett's physician believes in his case. While it's easy to point fingers at corporations with deep pockets, is there any way to conclusively prove that using a cell phone caused Mr. Bennett's hearing lost, vertigo and other problems?
As of now, the case has been moved from state court to federal court and we'll have to await the outcome.
Maybe our city council can pass a resolution to ban cell phone use as an employee safety issue like they are doing with the smoking ordinance.
I’ll ask again; once started, where will it end?
But this controversy hasn’t stopped a California man (Michael R. Bennett) from exercising his right to sue the cell phone manufacturer for his hearing loss that he blames on cell phone use.
In general cell phones are believed to be safe, but some governments other than the U.S. have issued stricter warnings.
Motorola has consistently defended its products and mobile phones and stated "Expert scientific panels and health agencies around the world have consistently confirmed the safety of the RF technology used in mobile phones."
This one individual is suing Motorola, Samsung and T-Mobile in the California courts
According to the court papers:
"On April 28, 2006, plaintiff suffered a sudden hearing loss in his right ear, vertigo, loss of equilibrium, and other personal injuries related thereto, and has continued to suffer the same injuries from said date through and including the present date. Upon plaintiff's information and belief, plaintiff's injuries were caused by electromagnetic radiation emanating from the Samsung cell phone and from the Motorola cell phone during plaintiff's use thereof, resulting from improper and unsafe design, manufacturing and production of the Samsung cell phone by defendant Samsung and of the Motorola cellphone by defendant Motorola, and by said defendants' respective failure to adequately warn of such dangers."
There is no mention if Mr. Bennett's physician believes in his case. While it's easy to point fingers at corporations with deep pockets, is there any way to conclusively prove that using a cell phone caused Mr. Bennett's hearing lost, vertigo and other problems?
As of now, the case has been moved from state court to federal court and we'll have to await the outcome.
Maybe our city council can pass a resolution to ban cell phone use as an employee safety issue like they are doing with the smoking ordinance.
I’ll ask again; once started, where will it end?
Labels: cell phones, controversy
posted by Anonymous at 5:51 AM
1 Comments:
you are right HB. Once they start legislating our choices, it will never end.
The best way combat this is to never let it happen
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