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Cell Phone Radiation Implicated In Erectile Dysfunction And Bat Boys In West Virginia

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
April 2, 2014
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Submitted by Hank on Wed, 04/02/2014 - 19:50
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A non-peer reviewed claim published in something called the Central European Journal of Urology is all that's needed for American environmentalists to declare that cell phones are causing men to be unable to get it up.

What was the evidence? Surveys they matched to the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) and then answering questions about cell phone habits.

This goofiness is being perpetuated by Natural News, which is basically the Weekly World News of health coverage.  Look for them to claim pesticides are creating Bat Boys next:

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