I have a strong suspicion that this story is mostly receiving such strong pickup because people like to giggle at stories about testes. So: balls! Balls balls balls! Der Ballzen, which is not German, it is me speaking in a funny faux-German accent. There, got it out of your system yet? No? Okay: Balls.

For years now, Engadget has been collecting all of these studies in an ongoing series they call "Cell Phones Are Dangerous/Not Dangerous," which I think sums up the topic. This isn't like global warming or evolution, where the preponderance of evidence is on one side. This is a little more like the "causes of autism" battle, where there's a big, messy scrum of studies that hasn't come to any kind of a solution. In other words, if you want to get crazy about it, be my guest, but I'm not going to be your crazy-enabler.

If you want to embrace the precautionary principle, by all means ditch your cell phone, live far from power lines, and milk your own cows. That would be a very healthy lifestyle. If you want to be a little less crazy but be sensible, maybe you shouldn't strap your cell phone to any given body part in transmit mode for more than four hours a day. Use a frickin' headset.

But I just don't see the blow-by-blow, tit-for-tat, he-said-she-said of these cell phone health studies leading to much except unnecessary fear for ordinary people. Like studies which don't prove that combining a cup of coffee with a Tylenol will destroy your liver, this debate just seems to be generating much more smoke than actual fire.