Radio waves: they're NEW and DANGEROUS!

So say the wack-jobs in San Fagcisco, who have never heard a kooky idea they didn't like. This time, however, a federal judge sent them a "pull yo head out yo ass" order:

San Francisco's ordinance requiring cell-phone dealers to warn customers about radiation from their products goes too far, a federal judge ruled Thursday, ordering the city to soften its message and stop requiring retailers to post it on their walls.

The warnings convey the "untrue and misleading" impression that "cell phones are dangerous and that they have somehow escaped the regulatory process," said U.S. District Judge William Alsup.

In fact, he said, all cell phones sold in the United States must meet safety standards set by the Federal Communications Commission, which has not found that the devices emit dangerous levels of radiation.

The ordinance, the first of its kind in the nation, was scheduled to take effect last week. It would require dealers to give each cell-phone buyer a fact sheet saying the World Health Organization has classified the phones' radio-frequency emissions as a "possible carcinogen."

Ah, yes. The WHO. Pointless, money-sucking adjunct to the pointless, money-sucking United Nations. I'm pretty sure we can safely ignore anything and everything stated or published by that group of reactionary pinheads.

As for the denizens of the giant nuke target on the Bay... Stop worrying about cell phones frying your brains; it's far, far too late for that.

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