Sorry for the continued obscenity (whatever) but this point needs to be made. 
The anti-mobile masts people are so totally out of touch with reality, they might as well go the whole hog and become creationists or anti-vax zealots. These people are conspiracy theorists of the worst kind.
Apparently, evil mobile phone companies are preying on children and giving them brain cancer through radio signals. Just think about that for a moment. That's what you have to accept as an unquestionable tenet of the anti-mobile faith.
Then those nasty scientists come along and demonstrate there's no risk of brain cancer from mobile phone usage. They then say things like that the research "doesn't really prove anything". Well, gee, we've got an 'A' student here for philosophy of science. Yes, Mr. Philips, you cannot prove that there is no link. You cannot prove anything in science - that's for mathematicians and logicians.
What you can do is make an inference based on evidence. Then your colleagues can criticise you for not having enough evidence, and present counter-evidence and the suchlike. With mobile phones, what we've had is numerous studies which demonstrate no link between the alleged condition and phone usage. This isn't proof that there isn't a link. It's a pretty good demonstration that we shouldn't take claims that there is at face value.
Instead, the arguments against mobile phone masts are, in order of ridiculousness: they don't look nice. We don't really know how they work. They cause cancer! In children! Think of the children!
The only one of those that has any real validity is the first one. The fake trees they use look silly. That's it. So improve the design.
The argument that we shouldn't put up phone masts because we don't know how they work is pretty silly. We do know how they work. It's this funny thing called radio waves. You know, like with television and radio and wifi and Bluetooth and the suchlike. It's really not that complicated.
The studies we've seen so far show that there is no demonstrable link between cancer and phone usage. And one paper has suggested that if there were to be a link, then it would be exarcerbated by lack of masts. Got that? If your phone is pumping out lots of radio waves, and you're worried about that, the best way to cut down on the power of the waves is to put up more masts. Because then, Einsteins-in-training, the handset doesn't have to pump out as much power to get signal.
In the meantime, we now have, to use the current verbiage of our elected officials, "anti-social behaviour" from these anti-mast idiots. In a town near my home, they had something approaching a sit-down protest in a fucking church. Yeah, all these concerned parents stormed in to a church, sat their asses down and refused to move. Why? Because the vicar was going to put a mast inside the church's spire.
Now, I like people hassling members of the clergy. But they should do it for their repugnant theology, not for their embrace of technology.
What we create when we go apeshit over masts is a society that's more concerned about fighting ghosts than facing reality. Imagine, for a second, what would happen if I were to slip over on the ice. In civilised places, I could pull my phone out and call for help. Not being able to call for help creates disasters.
And, simpler than that. I live in a dead zone for everything. We have to have satellite just to watch television. Our television reception, before we got satellite, required the use of a big old reception amplifier. Our mobile reception is almost totally non-existent. Why should these people ban me from using technology I've bought and paid for because of their irrational delusions?
Mobile phone protestors are preventing technological progress based on superstitious fears of the new and non-existent demon within. Government (who got all that money from the 3G licences) and big business are plotting to give our kids cancer! If you accept that, you might as well accept some of these: the earth is 6,000 years old, the MMR jab causes autism, irreducibly complex biological systems can only be produced by Yahweh and homeopathy is scientifically justified. Just stop pushing your crappy, non-scientific horseshit as the basis for public policy. And don't come crying to me when you need to call an ambulance in a dead zone, because I will only say: "I told you so, fucker."
