Cell Phone Use Prevents Cancer. Ha Ha Ha. (article review)

The INTERPHONE study is an insult to science.

I had so many questions when I read the INTERPHONE study.

What are the authors’ affiliations (are they biased)?

Who funds the funding agencies (are they baised)?

How can a $25 million study conclude that a cancer increase of 40% is a methodological error (intentional misunderstanding)?

I could not find information about the authors.

The funding agencies appeared to be government bodies, but it was impossible to figure out where the study money really came from (in my limited search time).

This study looked fishy as hell.

So I researched other INTERPHONE articles.

Dr. Havas is one of many non-industry-funded scientists who point out how infuriating the INTERPHONE study is.

Which, in my words, is this:

When you find a 40% increase in brain tumors, it’s somewhere between stupid and criminal to dismiss those findings as “probably methodology errors.”

Every methodology error that the authors made reduced the possibility they’d find a link between mobile phone use and brain tumors.

• CDC Issues Precautionary Health Warnings about Cell Phone Radiation (CDC press release)
• INTERPHONE STUDY DESIGN FLAWS (Lloyd Morgan, B.Sc. video)
• More results from Interphone confirm glioma risk associated with use of mobile phones, by Lennart Hardell (blog post)
• Poor Interphone Study Design Underestimates Brain Tumor Risk, by Powerwatch.org.uk (article)
• Mobile Phones [Don’t] Cause Brain Tumors (study)