I feel so ronrey. And out of touch. Because this is the first time I’ve seen this six-year-old story about how to cook an egg using cellphones.

Vladimir Lagovski and Andrei Moiseynko of the Russian newspaper Pravda – Russian for “truth” – realized that most scientists wouldn’t risk their well being, financial or otherwise, by telling the truth about the dangers of cell phones, so they decided to find out for themselves.

They propped up two cell phones, using one to dial the other. Once a connection was made, they started playing a tape recording of a conversation to keep the phones active. In between the two phones the placed an egg. What they found was shocking…

Fortunately, the response is out there. Double fortunately, for those who read and are misled/confused by Mike Nugent, (Ted’s little bro?) Sploid‘s token (and apparently full of either whiskey or bullshit) scientist’s disproof*, there is an actual, real answer here.

“I really underestimated how many people would take it seriously,” he tells Gelf over email. “No other page on the site has grabbed people’s attention and ire button as much as this one. What seems to be happening is that it ‘travels’ from blog to blog, forum to forum. It was big in Australia last year and seems to be big in the US right now.”

According to Ivermee, the article got almost 50,000 hits during one week in September last year and last week got 18,500 hits. That number is sure to rise even more this week.

I mean, you could try it yourself and end up with raw egg and an enormous phone bill, but why bother? You’re not the type to conduct experiments: you’re the type to read blogs when you should be widget-pimping and report-formatting and throwing your enemies to the crocodiles.

Just read the truth right here.

*Mike is right, an egg is made largely of water. But so is a human brain. Read his response and conclude, correctly, that if water as a major component of the egg is the reason cellphones can cook an egg, then cellphones can cook a human brain just as easily. Fortunately for all of us, cellphones cannot cook an egg (see above, repeatedly if neccessary).

The nature of Nugent’s affiliation with the cell phone industry is unclear.