A new study published in the British Medical Journal claims “to show no link between mobile phone use and tumors.” However, the study is seriously flawed, according to experts from the U.K., United States, Austria, Sweden and Australia.
The study uses no direct information on cell phone use, fails to consider the recent and rapidly changing nature of and exposure to microwave radiation from cell phones, cordless phones and other growing sources, and excludes people who would have been the heaviest users -- more than 300,000 users of cell phones for business purposes were simply excluded from the analysis.
Anders Ahlbom, the writer of an accompanying editorial commentary supporting the study, has himself come under scrutiny for conflicts of interest.
Ahlbom was dismissed from the WHO’s IARC Expert Panel because he failed to disclose links to the telecom industry.
According to Electromagnetic Health:
“Ahlbom has been a member of the Board of his brother’s telecom consulting company ... He also did not declare his industry affiliation to the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority, where he resigned after this disclosure. Ahlbom is a member of the International Commission on Nonionizing Radiation Protection (ICNRIP), an industry loyal organization, and participated in setting the ICNIRP radiation exposure limits in 1998. These standards assume that the only biological impact of microwave radiation from cellphones is heat and fail utterly to take into effect non-thermal biological effects thereby greatly underestimating risk.”