Assignment 1 Dictation Transcript.docx

ASSIGNMENT #1

DICTATION TRANSCRIPT: Your brain cells communicate via electrical impulses and are active all the time, even when you’re asleep. So scientists out of the Netherlands, England and Japan took 31 people in a two-day study to see what a 15-minute phone call on a 3G device can do to those impulses. The first day, a mobile phone was placed near the subject’s chest when a call was made. The next day, the phone was placed near the subject’s ear during the call and, sure enough, the placement near the ear affected the electrical impulses inside the subject’s brain. Now important to note: identical sham phones were also used so that the subjects didn’t know what was real, what was fake, when or if a call was even being placed. Now, further studies are needed to demonstrate the relevance of these findings and what they can actually do to you, which brings up an important point made by the authors of the study, which was published in the scientific journal “Plus 1,” that said 87% of brain activity studies are sponsored by the mobile phone industry. Although this does not necessarily imply that the results of these articles are biased, the issue of conflict of interest cannot be neglected. Now, the fact that airplanes and hospitals can be affected by the waves emitted from these devices--just think of the further study needed on our brains and the brains of our children! Those born now are connected to these devices just as much as we adults. So, I know what you’re thinking: If this truly is detrimental, someone in Silicone Valley better solve this for us and quick. In Washington, Lindsay France, RT.