Children whose mothers use cell phones frequently during pregnancy and who are themselves cell phone users are 80% more likely to have behavior problems.
“It’s a wonderful technology and people are certainly going to be using it more and more,” Dr. Leeka Kheifets of the UCLA School of Public Health, who helped conduct the study, tells Reuters. “We need to be looking into what are the potential health effects and what are ways to reduce risks should there be any.”
In other words, the self-centered ninnyhammers who spend all their time with their faces planted in a cell phone with no regard for anyone or anything around them will raise children who are, themselves, self-centered ninnyhammers. By blaming the phones, we get headlines!
Can’t we just institute “National Smack Someone Who Confuses Correlation With Causation and Should Know Better Day”?