There are a couple of ways to interpret the story about a revoked ordinance in San Francisco that, as Reutersreports,
would have been the first in the United States to require [cell phone] retailers to warn consumers about potentially dangerous radiation levels.
Before it was reversed it was known as--get ready for it--the "right to know" ordinance. Sound familiar? Here's some reaction from a disappointed SF resident:
"This is just a terrible blow to public health," Ellen Marks, an advocate for the measure, said outside the [city] supervisors' chambers. She said her husband suffers from a brain tumor on the same side of his head to which he most often held his mobile phone.
Now, we could interpret this news as a victory for Big Cell Phone, since they fought against the proposal to warn consumers about the potential lethality of cell phones. Big Cell Phone doesn't want you to ...
