'Mobile phones dangerous for kids'

"mobile telephones are about as dangerous for children as sunbathing"
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And yet no reference to the research he has obviously carried out to demonstrate this 'fact'.

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The same society that promotes paranoia about where children are at all times amongst parents now promotes paranoia about the means being used to monitor their location.

Dial M for myth

he views "even the remotest possibility" [of risk] as unacceptable
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Does he keep them carefully wrapped in bubblewrap, locked away in a blast-proof safe? Safety paranoia is creating a generation of coddled children.

Petr Skrabanek has some good writing on fallacies in risk assessment
 
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