I'm Not Saying Anything, But….

Amid all the media kerfuffle surrounding the WHO/IARC announcements on the amended carcinogenic status of mobile phones, with frontpage headlines full of misdirection and agenda-setting, it is interesting to note the reaction to this news from the Cancer Research UK’s spokesperson, a Mr Ed Yong.

“The vast majority of existing studies have not found a link between phones and cancer and, if such a link exists, it is unlikely to be a large one.”

So, let’s get this straight. The World Health Organisation’s own International Agency for Research on Cancer finally publish the full findings of the most in-depth global study yet undertaken on the health effects of mobile phone technology on humans, a mere 7 years late, after a week of revelations concerning high-ranking IARC members exposed as Telecom lobbyists and vital data from the Interphone study having been witheld.

The truth, or at least the very small stirrings of the truth, seeps out and the links between mobile phone usage and the rise in particular brain cancers are at last made public. Most alarming, or damning, are the statistics contained in that conveniently missing data.

http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20110527-mobile-phones-cause-tumours.asp

And yet, our Mr. Yong is not convinced. How odd that this news, confirming the widely-growing belief that mobile technology damages human tissue and can result in cancers and tumours of the brain, should be so readily dismissed by the UK’s own Cancer Research body. The WHO actually move to reassign RF Radiation as “possibly carcinogenic to humans”, but CRUK aren’t buying it. Why?

Well, perhaps it’s because CRUK’s state-of-the-art research centre, opened in 2002, was funded to the tune of £5.3m by mobile phone company Hutchinson (now “3″). Their donation was, in the words of then-Hutchison chairman Mr Li Ka-shing, “to further the study on cancer. Cancer is now the number one killing disease. Through medical research and practical applications, we hope that we are able to find better cure and prevention of this disease, and therefore benefit all mankind.” All very honourable. Except that, obviously, the results are coming in from the global juries of doctors and scientists (those who haven’t been silenced, naturally) and, well, it’s not looking good for the telecoms industry; their addictive little gadgets are giving innocent, misinformed people tumours and cancers in their brain.

Mr Yong, who also moonlights as a freelance journalist, is clearly prepared to ignore the evidence of the Interphone study’s findings, as well as the hundreds of other reports and papers published on the serious health risks associated with RF Radiation, and to go on record with his (or his paymasters’) dismissive comments.

I suppose £5.3m can do that.