[Infowarrior] - Science Report: Cellphones and Brain Tumors

[Richard Forno]

http://www.radiationresearch.org/pdfs/15reasons.asp

August 25, 2009 - Cellphones Cause Brain Tumors
A new report was released today by the International EMF Collaborative  
entitled "Cellphones and Brain Tumors: 15 Reasons for Concern,  
Science, Spin and the Truth Behind Interphone".

Media contactsUS Contact: Lloyd Morgan - Tel: +01 510 841 4362 - E- 
mail: bilovsky at aol.com

UK Contact: Alasdair Philips - Tel: +44 (0)1353 778422 - E-mail: alasdair at powerwatch.org.uk

Groups affiliated with the report include Powerwatch and the EM  
Radiation Research Trust in the UK, and the EMR Policy Institute,  
ElectromagneticHealth.org and The Peoples Initiative Foundation in the  
US.
The exposé discusses research on cellphones and brain tumors and  
concludes:

	• There is a risk of brain tumors from cellphone use;
	• Telecom funded studies underestimate the risk of brain tumors, and;
	• Children have larger risks than adults for brain tumors.
This report, sent to government leaders and media today, details  
eleven design flaws of the 13-country, Telecom-funded Interphone  
study. The Interphone study, 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.

The design flaws include categorizing subjects who used portable  
phones (which emit the same microwave radiation as cellphones,) as  
'unexposed'; exclusion of many types of brain tumors; exclusion of  
people who had died, or were too ill to be interviewed, as a  
consequence of their brain tumor; and exclusion of children and young  
adults, who are more vulnerable.

International scientists endorsing the report include Ronald B.  
Herberman, MD, Director Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh Cancer  
Institute; David Carpenter, MD, Director, Institute for Health and the  
Environment, University at Albany; Martin Blank, PhD, Associate  
Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University;  
Professor Yury Grigoriev, Chairman of Russian National Committee on  
Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, and many others.