Is the mobile telephone industry being honest?
A report released by the International EMF Collaborative last week has some disturbing information in it; that cell phones (mobile phones in Europe) are more likely than not to be a causative factor in some cancers, most notably brain cancers.
That information will not come as a surprise to anyone as rumours have been circulating for many years. What is 
worse (if brain cancer wasn’t bad enough) is a growing view that the cell phone industry may have been trying to skew the results in favour of the industry. If proven, that sort of corporate behaviour underlines the value of integrous living as the only way of creating a society fit for all.
The International EMF Collaborative claims that the Interphone study, which begun in 1999, was “intended to determine the risks of brain tumors, but its full publication has been held up for years. Components of this study published to date reveal what the authors call a ’systemic-skew’, greatly underestimating brain tumor risk.”
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Dolores Bearnal of News Junkie Post (seriously!) goes on to report that,
The EMF Collaborative’s study is not the first to show that cell phones can increase the risk of brain cancer. The Dutch Health Council in Sweden released a similar report in 2006. But the EMF’s study has been the only one so far that has been received dozens of endorsements from doctors, scientists, and experts from the US and Europe. According to Public News Service, one of the authors of the study, Lloyd Morgan, a retired electronics engineer from Berkeley who developed a brain tumor in 1995, says that his doctor told him that his tumor was probably caused by his work around electromagnetic fields.
“Bottom line is, cell phones are causing brain tumors. If you look at the independent research, it’s absolutely clear. If you look at the telecom industry-funded research, it’s spun such that it would appear that there are no risks,” Morgan told PNS.
The report from the International EMF Collaborative is here.
A good news release from CNET is here.
Details of an upcoming Senate hearing are here.
Comment from ZD Net on the Swedish report is here.
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