Or the world in general, I should probably say. I thought that was directed at me.

There is a large difference between heads exploding and cancer. heat builds up inside the popcorn, and the moisture with becomes so pressurized it then explodes into a wonderful snack food. I have read differing viewpoints on the studies themselves and either the lack of peer review or the way the studies were done...I don't have that at hand at the moment, but I can do some research to look up the critiques of those studies. There may also be more recent, better studies that I'm not familiar with. But there has always been hysteria around cellphone teckmology (I'm sorry, it's from Da Ali G show, I can't spell it any other way now!! o_0)
There may also have been some studies done that say that headsets---getting the energy emitting apparatus away from your head---is a good solution to the problem. But I'd probably look at just a simple population known for their cell phone use and out of that how many have gotten brain tumors. And at what age.
That study says that when someone has gotten a brain tumor it seems to correlate to which side of the head they would put their phone. I'm not sure if this is because they watched people who may or may not get brain tumors and counted how many hours they held their phone against one particular side of the head, or if they just asked them after which side they normally held their phones. Human memory is at best fallible, at worst, completely mutable in any given circumstance.
This is just what I'm remembering from an older discussion of a cell phone/brain tumor study, so if this isn't the same one, if it's more recent, then I'd have to collate that data and recalibrate. But I think it's the same one.
Anyway, though I'm not stating that cellphones are completely innocuous physically, I am stating that they don't make popcorn.

The people whose heads I wanted to pop were the characters in the video. Maybe the characters were supposed to portray the smug college graduated city dweller, remarking on how cool each others' phones were in order to give it the feeling that THESE people are smarty pants in smart looking pants and even THEY are baffled!
It's an advertisement and that's the style they went with. Since it was obviously staged, I think my feelings toward their characters don't count. They aren't real people. Yes the people playing them were real, and I wouldn't want anyone to be harmed in reality, even the promoter of this video because it's a lame little viral ad.
The people that come the closest to at least public shaming in my mind and even jail time in terms of debunking etc are faith healers and other psychic types who feed off the grief and pain and worry of others for their own benefit.. But still, it's not like i want them tarred and feathered. ( That is a TERRIBLE TERRIBLE ACT btw, cartoons had led me to believe otherwise for years....)


Skepticism and critical thinking doesn't exist apart from the rest of the human body, and I think that's always something to be accounted for when judging your baseline in reaction to something. I did, when I said ARGH I want this to be debunked ASAP but I'm tired and loopy and I need help from other, cooler heads for that right now because all I can think of is how annoying that video is(Not only the characters but the assumed claim being made. And maybe the amount of exclamation points that were added to "IS THIS FOR REAL???!!!"). So I came here, where cooler minds prevailed and a soothing balm of rational thinking was able to provide me the response I knew I really wanted to give to my friend who sent it.

I didn't have everyone go and attack the makers video, or anything like that...I just don't have that much energy. Anyway it's already out in the memetosphere, so that would be pointless.