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    Science Of Sheryl Crow: Cell Phones Cause Cancer But Organic Food Prevents It
    By Hank Campbell | September 10th 2012 04:24 PM | 10 comments | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
    Progressives love to get celebrity endorsements for their beliefs, and for good reason; while the right is stuck with Clint Eastwood wandering around unintelligibly - and he disagrees with about half their platform - the other side's famous true believers are all thin and pretty and stay on message. No independent thinking like Dirty Harry and if you have a crackpot, anti-science belief, some left-wing celebrity does too.

    Courtesy of Katie Couric, we get Sheryl Crow doing for cell phones what Jenny McCarthy did for autism; namely, working people dumb enough to watch Katie Couric into a frenzy about their iPhones.  She suspects that her brain tumor was caused by her phone. 

    "There are no doctors that will confirm that," Crow, 50, said Monday while appearing on the premiere of "Katie", the new syndicated talk from Couric. "[But] I do have the theory that it's possible that it's related to that. I [used to spend] hours on the old archaic cell phones."



    Want to look like this at 50?  It isn't genetics or wealth, it's organic food.  Link: People.

    That brain tumor was benign.  Unfortunately, Crow's take on science is much less so.

    *Please be Republican, please be Republican*  

    Nope, there she was singing at the Democratic National Convention in 2008. Once again it is not a Republican spouting anti-science, hysterical nonsense despite what we get told by corporate science media twice per week.



    Since her claim was on television, it must be true, so if you are worried about brain cancer from your cell phone and got here via search, you are in luck - I did the research on how to offset the risk. At Forbes, Crow shared her Anti-Cancer Diet Secrets. She says walnuts prevent breast cancer, and pomegranate juice prevents all kinds of cancer.  Organic chicken somehow gets included too.

    Okay, Sheryl Crow has a few advantages that we common plebians don't have; namely a personal chef who can also ghost-write a cookbook for her. Otherwise, she is just like you, so if you want to stay cancer free, eat organic. And get your assistant to answer your cell phone.

    Comments

    yes, but mr. catty is right! Red states are the fattest :( How's that possible?

    Hank
    Don't know, I always get the red state and blue state thing confused.  When I was young, 'red' was a bad thing.

    It may be just cultural.  People are always saying that Americans are too worried about their appearance so perhaps blue states care too much about what other people think and are obsessed with facile trappings. Maybe those red states are mentally healthier because they are shucking off spatial context and contemporary body image stereotypes left over from post-colonial times.

    Mauritania loves fat people but I don't think they are Republicans.
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    According to the GE app titled Stats of the Union, which is based off of the recent census info, southern states have highest depression and mental health rates with Tennessee and Arkansas leading the way. The southeast part of the US is objectively worse in most statistics they measured.

    Sorry, that data comes from the latest CHSI report, not the census.

    Hank
    Meh. CHSI is 99% obese too.
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    MikeCrow
    I always tell people Sheryl could be my 2nd or 10th cousin...
    Never is a long time.
    Hank I'm willing to pitch in to buy Sheryl an Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie if Science 2.0 is interested in helping her to protect herself from further tumors. I'm sure if it came with a Science 2.0 coffee mug, I mean a Science 2.0 "organic beverage mug" (you could charge $5.00 more for those, wink wink), Sheryl would be thrilled.

    http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

    Look at the INTERPHONE Study - Appendix 2 on page 4.

    The risk for a brain tumor (glioma) doubles (OR 2.1) after 1640 hours (30 min per day over 10 years) of cell phone use.

    http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/suppl/2010/05/06/dyq079.DC1/Interp...

    Hank
    That's not a study and you don't understand a risk factor and why 'doubles' doesn't mean much.  It is not a study because it was a survey and any results that didn't match what they wanted to show were dismissed as outlier results due to participation bias. And then they throw in speculation about unmeasured factors.

    This is why Sheryl Crow would believe it but smart people should not.
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    Just when you thought somebody couldn't get any annoyinger...it's a word. I'm pretty sure.