Adam Tozser

The Fox News graphic merging the American and Israeli flag is absolutely disgusting to me.

The US government spent $25 million over a decade trying to prove your cell phone gives you cancer. The study accidentally produced one of the strongest pieces of evidence for radiation hormesis ever recorded. The NTP study was nominated by the FDA in 1999 specifically because they expected to find harm. They built 21 custom reverberation chambers in Switzerland. Exposed 1,679 mice and 859 rats to cell phone frequencies for 9 hours a day, every day, for 2 years. The whole operation was designed as the definitive “cell phones cause cancer” study. The cancer results were mixed at best. Male rats got more heart schwannomas. Mice showed nothing significant. But the survival data was so unexpected that the researchers didn’t even know how to explain it in their own report. Look at the survival curve. Every single radiation group outlived the control. The 2.5 W/kg group hit p=0.0020, the only statistically significant result in the entire longevity analysis. By day 700, the control group’s survival probability had dropped to ~0.65. The lowest dose group was still above 0.80. That’s the hormesis signature. The smallest dose produced the largest benefit. The same pattern shows up in exercise, fasting, and cold exposure. A mild biological stressor activates repair mechanisms that wouldn’t otherwise turn on. Over 3,000 published papers have documented this across microbes, plants, insects, and mammals. The French Academy of Sciences formally accepted it in 2005. The US still builds its entire radiation safety framework on the opposite assumption: that all radiation, at any dose, causes proportional harm. The FCC limit for cell phones is 1.6 W/kg. Your AirPods operate at a fraction of that. The dose that produced the strongest longevity signal in this study was 2.5 W/kg. Barely above the regulatory ceiling. The entire regulatory framework for wireless device safety assumes a dose-response curve that this $25 million study failed to find.

Today in 2008, Tesla began the regular production on its first car, the Tesla Roadster. Also, a reminder that there's one Tesla Roadster in an elliptical heliocentric orbit crossing the orbit of Mars.

Otto Warburg proved in 1931 that cancer cells are obligate glucose metabolisers. He won the Nobel Prize. We've known for 95 years. Hospital dessert menu: jelly, ice cream, fruit juice, and a biscuit. Served to the oncology ward. The Nobel Committee has not commented.