A Current Affair ran a story tonight on mobile phones affecting male fertility, Men and mobiles: calls to take caution.
New research shows men who regularly carry their mobiles near the groin, on a belt or in a pocket could potentially have their sperm count reduced by as much as 30 percent.
I hate to put a dampener on their findings, but I’ve kept my mobile phone in my front pocket almost every day for the past 9 years, and it took only a couple of months for this.
Update : The Register has a clearer article on the subject, and a much better title, Mobile phones rot your balls.
“It is an observational as opposed to interventional study which appears not to take into account the many potential confounding factors which could have skewed the results. For example, what if heavy mobile phone users in Hungary have particularly stressful lives and jobs?” Factors like this would have a considerable effect on the outcome of the research, he told The Independent.
