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AIBU?

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to wish they would stop telling my DD nonsense

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macdoodle · 14/07/2014 14:28

DD1 is 13, she has a friend whose mother seems to believe all sorts of rubbish. And they keep scaremongering. Ridiculous stuff.
The latest....if you keep your phone in your bra you get breast cancer . DD1 keeps all sorts in her bra
Before that it was if you tweak your nipples you get breast cancer. They seem deadly serious.
I am a GP and very scientific/evidence based, always very straight up an honest with my children.
This seems to throw DD1 and she rings to check! She is away on a school trip and has just texted to ask if its ok to keep her phone in her bra. I've told her she can keep the bloody thing wherever she likes and it wont give her cancer.

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Namechangearoonie123 · 14/07/2014 14:30

Please point to the study that says that keeping your phone next to breast tissue poses no danger.

Seriously though, I keep my phone in my bra. Can't help thinking it might be a danger though, not entirely convinced we know all the effects of wifi/Bluetooth

DiseasesOfTheSheep · 14/07/2014 14:32

Hehe that would drive me nuts too. Just keep pointing your daughter towards the actual data and hope she passes some of it on to the poor indoctrinated friend.

ObfusKate · 14/07/2014 14:34

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Seeline · 14/07/2014 14:35

God I wish I had room for my phone in my bra

WorkingBling · 14/07/2014 14:36

Definitely keep encouraging her to see through this nonsense. Introduce her to Snopes now too. Sounds like she's going to need it with this kind of friend.

NoodleOodle · 14/07/2014 14:36

My DD came home talking about crystals and the magic of the power of three. I rolled my eyes.

MaidOfStars · 14/07/2014 14:36

Better to give her a built-in bullshit detector

Agree. Being devil's advocate, why should she believe you? It's just another authority figure telling her "fact". I would encourage her to research stuff for herself.

Ilovexmastime · 14/07/2014 14:38

Thought this was going to be a thread about religion in school .

YANBU, the mother sounds gullible.

Miggsie · 14/07/2014 14:39

Surely it would be better to have pockets rather than keep things in your bra!

SallyMcgally · 14/07/2014 14:41

I think all you can do is point to your medical degrees, your years spent training and in practice and tell her that if she has any questions then she is to ask you. Point out that anything to do with cancer has a 1000 myths attached to it, and that her friend's mother has no training or expertise that would allow her to separate fact from fiction. YANBU. This would annoy me a lot.

ObfusKate · 14/07/2014 14:49

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Didactylos · 14/07/2014 15:10

if her phone is in her bra she can look up snopes or a similar website at any time, and point out the drivel she is being told

YouTheCat · 14/07/2014 15:14

Acquaint her with Snopes.

bumbleymummy · 14/07/2014 15:15

Snopes says it's undetermined so that might not be much help to her.

settingsitting · 14/07/2014 15:17

Interesting that she has chosen a friend that has a mum that is a direct opposite to you.
Not sure what that means really. Just musing.

bigTillyMint · 14/07/2014 15:19

LOL at keeping your phone in your bra. No way I could fit my smartphone in my 34A!

Surely your DD can see that you are probably way better placed to know about health stuff if you are a GP?

Dfg15 · 14/07/2014 15:19

Do people really keep stuff in their bras? ! There's only room for my boobs in mine !

OnlyLovers · 14/07/2014 15:22

Yes, do people have combat bras with pockets and zip compartments?

I'm struggling to imagine being able to keep things in there.

MaidOfStars · 14/07/2014 15:23

Not sure what that means really

It means nothing. She has chosen a friend, not the friend's Mum. My best school mate's Mum was batshit crazy and babbled constantly about ghosts in hoovers and banshees at the window. It made no difference to our friendship.

WellnowImFucked · 14/07/2014 15:27

The only issue that I have with keeping my phone in my bra is I tend to forget that's where it is (though in my case wine may be involved).

I then tear the place apart before getting someone to call me, which means that there's a witness to my stupidity.

But then I work for Big Bad Pharma and am involved in multiple cover-ups. . . (Not really)

Fattyfattyyumyum · 14/07/2014 15:30

She needs a better fitting bra

And a chat about not beliveing everything you're told by your friends!

DownstairsMixUp · 14/07/2014 15:42

I can fit my phone in my bra to. It's a samsung mini though and it is snug. Usually keep it in there at work as they hate you keeping your phone with you and they won't staff search there!

CalamitouslyWrong · 14/07/2014 15:46

If there was enough room for a mobile phone alongside my breast tissue in my bra, I'd've bough a cup size down.

SistersOfPercy · 14/07/2014 15:53

Probably not a good idea to keep your phone in your bra tbh, nothing to do with all the cancer bollocks but everything to do with the fact that boobs sweat and modern mobile phones have a moisture strip inside. It's not beyond the realms of possibility that a sweaty boob can change the colour of the strip and should your phone need to go in for repair for whatever reason the engineer is going to see a triggered moisture strip and call water damage.

SteeleyeSpanx · 14/07/2014 15:56

Hmmm, I kind of agree with you, but the trouble with being so dogmatically evidence-based is that you run the risk of ignoring the 'Unknown unknowns' so to speak.

I think it very arrogant to assume that we currently know all there is to know about everything and that there will never again be a paradigm shift in anything..

As a scientist, you will be familiar with the expression "The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"

AFAIK, there is no concrete evidence that mobile phones 'cause' cancer, but neither is there any that proves beyond any doubt that they don't (they haven't been in existence long enough for any meaningful longitudinal studies to have borne any fruit yet)

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