Interphone Results - Children’s Risks Underestimated?

The long-waited Interphone Final Report about mobile phones and brain tumours is finally out.

"There were suggestions of an increased risk of glioma, and much less so meningioma, at the highest exposure levels, for ipsilateral exposures and, for glioma, for tumours in the temporal lobe. However, biases and errors limit the strength of the conclusions we can draw from these analyses and prevent a causal interpretation." (pp. 14)

Wait a second! Interphone study has at least 15 design flaws that make its results indicate smaller risk. Our international concortium listed them in the "Cell phones and Brain Tumours - 15 Reasons for Concern"-document. Same design flaws we announced here in Finland, in Finnish, in the following press release "_{WHO: KÄNNYKÄN PITKÄAIKAISKÄYTTÖ LISÄÄ KASVAINRISKIÄ} ".

Interestingly, the Interphone Final Report has an Appendix 2 that describes those risk levels (ORs) in detail and  indicates increased, up to 1,82 x risks for the most heavily exposed users.

Now: Nordic countries have allowed service providers to cut down telephone lines in vast rural areas. Children especially in the countryside are forced to use A) mobile phone B) 3G/GPRS/WiMAX modem often in very bad coverage situations = heavy exposure situations.  Once again I ask: How ethical is mobile business?  (and ... How sponsored and narrow-minded are Nordic politicians ?)

 

Radiation gets absorbed into children’s heads really deep, reaching even the pineal gland. My friends, medical doctor, professor in physiology Osmo Hänninen and medical doctor Seppo Kinnunen are very concerned about this.  (Please, take a look at this important article about children's risks ).

Similarly, Director, surgeon Santosh Kesari expresses his concern in the following video:

The following BioInitiative Working Group press release about Interphone has similar tone.

BTW, professor Dariusz Leszczynski provides a nice summary about different views on the Interphone Final Report.

Any comments about Interphone, "15 Reasons for Concern" or the Finnish press release?