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Media Coverage and Analysis of Recent Cellphone
Study Released on Friday, May 27, 2016
As the Center for Safer
Wireless announced on Friday morning, May 27, the U.S. National Toxicology
Program (NTP) was expected to report to the public on its $25 million completed
study which showed statistically significant increases in cancer among rats that
had been exposed to GSM or CDMA signals for two-years. Thankfully, because of Microwave News' excellent reporting,
portions of the study's findings were announced sooner than were originally
expected. To the wireless industries benefit, it came right before the Memorial
Day weekend when people were focused on the holiday.
Despite the quick
turnaround, the wireless industry had time to strategize and notify the media
with their points and position. As usual, the strategy is to create doubt,
question the study and call for more research. The wireless industry uses the
same playbook as the tobacco industry implemented years ago because it works.
It's quite evident in the following headlines and reporting.
Better coverage and headlines are at:
"There are arguments in the
literature now that we are at the beginning of an epidemic of
cancers," Chris Portier, former associate director of the NTP,
told Mother Jones.
Ron Melnick, a former National Toxicology Program
researcher who worked on early stages of the study before his retirement, told
the Wall Street Journal: 'Where people were saying there's no
risk, I
think this ends that kind of statement.'
Louis Slesin of
Microwave News believes that the cell phone controversy will never be the
same again because the study contradicts conventional wisdom that such
health effects are impossible.
David Carpenter is
director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University of
Albany and on the Medical Advisory Board of the Center for Safer Wireless. "This
is a game changer, there is no question," he said. "It confirms what we have
been seeing for many years - though now we have evidence in animals as well
as in humans." Carpenter went on to add, "The NTP has the credibility of the
federal government. It will be very difficult for the naysayers to deny the
association any longer."
"Such positive results ... suggest that human health
might be in some danger," Dariusz Leszczynski, a Finnish researcher who
focuses on radiation and health said in an email. "The human health risk might
not only be possible but it might rather be probable."
Joel Moscowitz, Ph.D., Director, Center for Family
and Community Health at University of California, Berkeley offered research to
indicate health effects from cell phones in the op/ed section of the Wall Street
journal on Sunday, May 23. According to Dr. Moscowitz "The NTP report did not
assess the overall risk of tumors for both types of tumors studied. By my
calculation, thirty of 540 (5.5%), or one in 18 male rats exposed to cell phone
radiation developed cancer. In addition, 16 pre-cancerous hyperplasias were
diagnosed. Thus, 46 of 540, or one in 12 male rats exposed to cell phone
radiation developed cancer or a pre-cancerous lesion........ Though not
statistically significant one in 33 female rats exposed to cell phone
radiation developed cancer or a pre-cancerous lesion. No cancers were found
in 90 male and 90 female rats in the unexposed control group."
The
Center for Safer Wireless believes the NTP study offers more credible evidence
that products emitting pulsed radiofrequency radiation can cause health effects.
We think everyone should take precautions when using wireless devices such as
cellphones, iPads, tablets, laptops, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth etc.
Regards,
Desiree
Jaworski
Executive
Director
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