High Court Won’t Hear Wireless Radiation Appeal

By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Class-action lawsuits against wireless telephone providers and manufacturers over radiation emissions will be able to go forward, after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by the companies.

The high court rejected hearing an appeal by companies like Nokia and Cingular Wireless challenging a decision by a U.S. appeals court that reinstated the lawsuits that argued manufacturers knew about and hid the risks of radiation emissions wireless phones posed to users. Source: Reuters

We Say: This is a subject, that much like (here it comes) global warming, is so polarizing that it can become a very contentious item of discussion. Cellular phones are so pervasive in society that there’s no way they are going away … but human beings have not had to deal with all the electromagnetic radiation we now have for very long … so can we be certain we are “resistant” as we are with many viruses and bacteria? (I’m not just speaking of cellular phone radiation, by the way … think of all the other devices we have, from TVs to microwaves to radar towers to medical X-rays to …) For my own personal use I generally look for phones with a lower radiation rating. There’s no reason not to play it safe.