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| by Stan Beer | |
| Monday, 31 March 2008 | |
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I honestly don’t remember too much about what was exactly said at that lunch but I do remember one incident. One of the AMTA representatives, a senior telecommunications expert, whipped an old mobile phone out of his pocket and opened the battery compartment. To my surprise instead the usual square Nickel Cadmium battery pack, the phone was powered by three rechargeable AA batteries. “Do you honestly think this could generate enough power to cause brain cancer?” he asked – or words to that effect. It was pretty naked attempt by AMTA to make nonsense of the whole issue but for me it had the opposite effect. I was disturbed that someone in a high technical position in the mobile phone industry would be so blatantly dismissive of a serious issue using such an obviously fallacious example. Ever since those days, I’ve followed the mobile phone cancer issue with interest, mindful and taking note of the associated events, studies and media reports. I watched as Dr George Carlo, the one-time chairman of the global mobile phone industry’s sponsored $25 million Wireless Technology Research (WTR) project, had a falling-out with his sponsors in 1999 after producing findings of a study which he claims to this day support links between brain cancer and cell phone use. |
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