Mobile phone shock Horror! You could be risking your life by answering a cell phone whilst on charge... Industry scare-mongering or another urban legend?
- Remember when a major computer supplier company had to recall millions of laptops due to faulty batteries?
- We’re always hearing about the potential health hazard of mobile phones is never far from the news. But whilst the actual danger posed by the radiation from our GSM phones hasn’t actually been proved it’s always there – and what if there was something else just as deadly lurking in the wings?
- And anyway we all like a conspiracy theory: what better than the powers-that-be turning a slightly blind eye in the face of the huge mobile telecoms market?
- And there’s also the self-satisfaction of saving everyone you know from meeting a sticky end...
- There’s nothing to prove its authenticity or where it came from – no name, date or origin
- 4 photos of unknown origin which don’t even prove that the burned ear was related to the injured hand, or that the photos were actually linked to the subject matter
- There’s no trace of a certain António Ferreira Moita dying at St. José hospital.
- And the scientific and journalistic credentials of the member of the embassy? It all sounds a bit strange: a Canadian national alert over the death of a Brazilian, relayed in Africa. It may also be that the email signature at the bottom was automatically added on transfer – it seems that Daouda Diop does exist and occupies this post.
- A message in English, dating from the end of 2007 for the first example
- A message in old Portuguese from 2005 for the second
Published July 4, 2018
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