After a number of prominent, peer-reviewed studies indicating that cell phone radiation
can cause genetic damage, brain and blood cell dysfunction and a host of health problems
including cancer, now comes a Danish study that appears to say there is no danger at all.
And, that is exactly what cell phone users want to hear – if it is true.

The problem is that the new Danish cohort study does not support the reassurances that
have been ascribed to it. It is a ruse based upon a program initiated by the
telecommunications industry more than a decade ago to control the global scientific
research agenda concerning cell phones and health effects. The industry strategy has
been to fund low-risk studies that will assure a positive result – and then use it to
convince the news media and the public that it is proof that cell phones are safe. Even
though the actual science proved nothing of the sort.

It is against this backdrop that the Danish study provides an illustrative case history.

Heavy cell phone use may have a significant impact on the fertility of men, according to a study released in late October by the prestigious Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio.

One in 10 Canadians would rather lose their mother-in-law than their cell phones, according to a poll released earlier this month.

Washington, D.C. ---- A new qualitative risk assessment conducted by SWI staff, prompted in part by the recent confirmation of severe lung disorders among first responders and firefighters following the World Trade Center terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, indicates an urgent need for preventive intervention steps to be taken among these groups. SWI is particularly concerned that firefighters – with jobs among the most hazardous in society – are in danger of suffering serious illness derivative of synergies among electro-magnetic radiation, toxic chemical exposures, biological disease agents, and debilitating post-traumatic stress.  The problem is further exacerbated by both the continually growing dependence of emergency responders on wireless communications and the tendency of current wireless infrastructure build-out to include firehouses and other emergency triage units.

                                                      ---- SWI