RFID tags have been shown in several studies to induce malignant tumors when they're implanted in mice, the Associated Press reported this weekend...

...VeriChip tells the AP that it wasn't aware of the mice studies, and the FDA declined to detail which studies it reviewed...

...There's one more wrinkle in this story. At the time that VeriChip was looking for FDA approval of its device, the head of the Department of Health and Human Services was former Wisconsin Gov. -- and just-failed Republican presidential candidate -- Tommy Thompson. Shortly after Thompson left HHS, he joined VeriChip's board and he became so forceful an advocate of human chip implantation that he promised to get chipped himself.

A series of veterinary and toxicology studies, dating to the mid-1990s, stated that chip implants had "induced" malignant tumors in some lab mice and rats.

"The transponders were the cause of the tumors," said Keith Johnson, a retired toxicologic pathologist, explaining in a phone interview the findings of a 1996 study he led at the Dow Chemical Co. in Midland, Mich.

Leading cancer specialists reviewed the research for The Associated Press and, while cautioning that animal test results do not necessarily apply to humans, said the findings troubled them. Some said they would not allow family members to receive implants, and all urged further research before the glass-encased transponders are widely implanted in people.

Originally posted by jaden_x
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wouldn't it be much easier to just:

use a device such as on the link above.