Cell Phones and Sperm

Here’s why I’m not worried about a recent report that cell phone use has been associated with low sperm count in men. A) I am a woman. B) I just spent a half hour on the phone with the first author of the report and he’s been fielding calls non-stop for the past two days on, you guessed it, a cell phone.

“I’m not giving up my cell phone,” says Ashok Agarwal, a reproductive biologist at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. Indeed, he’s probably going to have to get a new one since his cell phone stopped working this morning and he had to borrow someone else’s to talk to all the journalists from around the world who are calling him up. “Our study is not the final word,” Agarwal says. “But we were able to demonstrate some interesting findings.”