New cellphone-cancer link study says “nej”

After the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced that it was officially rating cellphones as a possible carcinogen category 2B (along with certain types of pickles, coffee and carpentry) the mediasphere lit up, with a mixture of luddites saying “See! Ban them!”, and a mixture of gadgetophiles saying, “They’re just hedging their bets, it proves nothing”.

Now a study in the American Journal of Epidemiology has examined incidence of tumours of the brain in 2.9 million adult Danes that have been using mobiles for 11 to 15 years. The study found no evidence that shows a correlation between cellphone use and a type of brain tumour, never mind a clear link. In fact, they couldn’t even find an increase in the chance of the tumour being in right hand side of the head (the most common side for people to hold their phones)…

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