Chipping away at Cancer
I don't really believe this, but spread the word anyway. There is a report out that implanted RFID chips can cause cancer. The report claims that the FDA and Verichip, the company that was formed to "chip" people, ignored studies showing a higher-than-normal incidence of cancer in animals. The tumors may be coming from the injection itself or they may be coming from the chip--who knows?
I don't really believe it because it seems that everything causes cancer: cell phones, relay towers, microwave ovens, milk, you name it. It's difficult to test for long-time carcinogenic tendencies. For one thing, it's well--long term. It takes many years to really know. Hell, the tobacco people are still putting up a pretense that tobacco doesn't cause cancer.
The good news is that this cancerous rumor will almost certainly slow down the inevitable adoption of chipping human beings.
Posted on September 14, 2007
