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Contact: USA – Lloyd Morgan
UK -
Alasdair Philips
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01353 778422
Cellphones
Cause Brain Tumors, Says New Report by International EMF Collaborative
You
Tube Introduction:
August 25, 2009. A new report, “Cellphones and Brain Tumors: 15
Reasons for Concern,Science, Spin and the Truth Behind
Interphone,” was released today by a collaborative of
international EMF activists. Groups
affiliated with the report include Powerwatch and the Radiation
Research Trust in the U.K., and in the
U.S., EMR Policy Institute, ElectromagneticHealth.org and
The Peoples Initiative Foundation. Download the report. (http://www.radiationresearch.org/pdfs/15reasons.asp )
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.
Lloyd Morgan, lead
author and member of the Bioelectromagnetics Society says, “Exposure
to cellphone radiation is the largest human health experiment ever
undertaken, without informed consent, and has some 4 billion
participants enrolled. Science has shown increased risk of brain
tumors from use of cellphones, as well as increased risk of eye cancer,
salivary gland tumors, testicular cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and
leukemia. The public must be informed.”
International
scientists endorsing “Cellphones and Brain Tumors: 15 Reasons for
Concern”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.
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