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Don’t Stand Under Trees…Or Use Your Phone

Geoff Duncan By

In a letter to the British Medical Journal, doctors recommend people stay off their mobile phones during thunderstorms.

The odds of being struck by lightning are, by scientific and common-sense accounts, not very high. But it does happen, and the proliferation of mobile phones around the world

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  1. Chad at 6:25am 26th June 2006 It's an hour show... I wouldn't trust anything I read on an online message board either.
  2. josh at 10:04am 25th June 2006 Mythbusters is hardly scientific, they have enough scientific knowledge to sound good, but their adherence to the scientific method leaves much to be desired; not that you could really do so in a 30 min tv show anyway. They are "special effects experts" and there for entertainment, thus I wouldn't bet your life on anything they "bust".
  3. Tim Stevens at 12:29pm 23rd June 2006 This remind me of the myth that using your cell phone at the gas pump could ignite the gas, which was debunked by the Myth Busters.
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