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This is absolutely brilliant. The fearmongerers have lots of wares to peddle. One such trinket is an irrational fear of cell phones. Now, don't get me wrong: those things are dangerous, but mostly because people use them when they should be directing all attention at keeping their cars from hitting stuff, and whether hands-free or not, planning your night out over the phone impairs you.

Aside: I'm going to go a step further and suggest that it's not the phone per se that's the problem, it's that your attention is not on your surroundings; I imagine that a phone conversation in which you are describing the traffic around you might even improve your driving.

Anyways, that's not the cell phone danger that prompted this post. Instead, I wanted to make fun of the tin-foil hat wearing spazzes who insist, based on an irrational fear of things ethereal, that cell phone use exposes you to dangerous radiation, putting you at risk for tumours and the like. Well, it turns out that a bunch of researchers found that it doesn't. In fact, it apparently might be beneficial.

Now, the thought of providing iPhones to nursing home patients with alzheimers is provocative. The GPS capabilities on them could certainly come in handy should one of them escape. On the downside, I'm not sure that the general public wants to make it easier to hear the musings of a demented person. And, the other big downside I can see (which I mention just to see if I can bait any more internet perverts), is that we might run into the problem of some of the friskier nursing home patients sexting each other.

That's right. Nursing home patients sexting. Never before have these words been strung together in the English language. You saw it first here, folks.