• Science and News Media

From years of reading in the news media about the possibility of health effects associated with the exposure to mobile phone radiation, I got an impression that the information field has been dominated by two types of activists. One type … Continue reading →

• INTERPHONE again – story from the “down under”

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In November 2010 I have spent 2 weeks in Australia at the Swinburne University of Technology (SUT) in Hawthorn/Melbourne. The reason was to familiarize myself with the workings of the laboratory of Andrew Wood at the Brain Research Institute of … Continue reading →

• “Nothing New Under the Sky” – the new WHO Research Agenda

  WHO has released  2010 Research Agenda for Radiofrequency Fields ( http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2010/9789241599948_eng.pdf ). It is new but, to my great disappointment, there is nothing new. The opinion, as expected is very much influenced by the ICNIRP. Out of the 19 … Continue reading →

• Yale University’s journal on mobile phones

  Yale University’s online journal e360 ( http://e360.yale.edu/ ) has published a story, by Bruce Stutz, about the mobile phones and health. I have been interviewed and some of the opinions presented in my Science Blog were used for the story. You can read it here: … Continue reading →

• INTERPHONE afterthoughts and question about compliance of mobile phones with safety standards

  The recent publication of the summary analysis of the Interphone project about the effect of mobile phone radiation on the development of glioma and meningioma has got the media and the public confused. The interpretation of the results and … Continue reading →

• INTERPHONE – LET’S THE SPIN BEGIN

Design flaws make INTERPHONE non-informative On May 18, 2010 was published in the International Journal of Epidemiology the summary result of INTERPHONE project the effect of mobile phone radiation on development of brain cancer ( http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/dyq079 ). Reading this article … Continue reading →

• We need to continue research on the effects of mobile phone radiation

On January 8th, 2010, the major Finnish newspaper, “Helsingin sanomat“, has published as a “front page” guest editorial (vieraskyna/pääkirjoitus) my text concerning the need for further research on the effects of the mobile phone radiation. The original text (in Finnish) can … Continue reading →