The scare du jour now seems to be cellphones killing off bees:
It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world’s harvests fail.
They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world – the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops.
Brought to you by the same folks who brought you global cooling, acid rain, Y2K, and the global starvation pandemic that would wipe out humanity by 2000.
