Archive for September, 2009

The Cellphone Radiation Controversy

By Dana Blankenhorn The sudden firing of head football coach Jim Leavitt for going all George Patton on one of his players is not the biggest controversy this week on the campus of the University of South Florida in Tampa. That honor goes to Gary Arendash at the school’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, who reports that mice exposed to cell phone radiation lost some of the beta amyloid plaques in their brain and gained relief from the animal version of Alzheimer’s...