Studies of Mobile Phone Use and Brain Tumor Risk Are Independent of Industry Influence

Mobile phones, brain tumors, and the limits of science

“…But for this topic, there are suspicions about integrity and conflicts of interest which further complicate the interpretation of published results. It has been shown that studies reporting results showing the absence of a hazard are more likely to have industry‐related funding than those which report hazards [Huss et al, ]; while industry spokespersons have emphasized the independence of studies such as Interphone [Rowley and Milligan, ]. Some of the laboratory studies have had allegations of fraudulent results [Charatan, ; Vogel, ].…”