Hoe de mobiele telefoonindustrie de wetenschap manipuleert
woensdag, 13 augustus 2008 - Categorie: Berichten Nederland
Hier vindt u een artikel over hoe de mobiele telefoonindustrie de wetenschap manipuleert:
walrusmagazine.com/articles/2008.09-health-cellphone-brain-tumour-melinda-wenner/
De geschiedenis wordt opnieuw verteld door Melinda Wenner in The Walrus Magazine.
Citaten:
“Biological effects are undoubtedly there, no question, and it’s a canard to suggest that they’re not,” says Abe Liboff, a research professor at Florida Atlantic University, and co-editor of the journal Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine. The cellphone industry, he insists, “will use any excuse to avoid the truth.”
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Nonetheless, Lai’s research suggested they could, and his paper worried Motorola. Phillips recalls that the company asked him to “find ways to put a spin on it that was favourable to them and less favourable to Henry and N. P.”
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Indeed, of thirteen epidemiological studies published since 1999 on cellphone use for more than ten years, eight suggest a two- to threefold risk increase.
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Of the approximately 400 laboratory studies that have investigated whether exposure to radio frequency radiation affects dna in cells and/or animals, only about half report any effects.
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According to University of Massachusetts Amherst toxicologist Edward Calabrese, animals and cells respond differently and inconsistently to low-level toxic exposures, so varied findings are not surprising.
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