Decoding New WHO–ICNIRP Cancer Review

Old Wine in New Bottles
Decoding New WHO–ICNIRP Cancer Review
Game Over? Likely Not
microwavenews.com, September 11, 2024

An international team of researchers, many with close ties to ICNIRP, is trying to put to rest the very possibility that RF radiation can lead to brain cancer —and, by extension, any type of cancer.

On August 30, they published a detailed systematic review of RF and cell phone epidemiological studies, which concludes that there is little evidence to justify continued concern over a possible cancer link.

The review, commissioned by the World Health Organization‘s (WHO) EMF Project, appears in the journal Environment International.

A few days later, Ken Karipidis, the lead author, posted a short summary to serve as a press release for the journal manuscript, which takes up 52 typeset pages of the journal.

The summary offers a more direct and accessible message under the headline

Mobile Phones Are Not Linked to Brain Cancer
According to a Major Review of 28 Years of Research

It appears on a well-visited online news bulletin board, The Conversation.

“We can now be more confident that exposure to radio waves from mobile phones or wireless technologies is not associated with an increased risk of brain cancer,” declares Karipidis in the press release. He is an assistant director of the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) and the vice chair of ICNIRP, the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection.

The summary was written with his colleague Sarah Loughran, ARPANSA’s director of radiation research. She too works for ICNIRP —as a science advisor. She has close ties to her countryman Rodney Croft, who stepped down as chair of ICNIRP a few weeks ago.

“Overall, [our] results are very reassuring,” according to Karipidis and Loughran. They go on to endorse the ICNIRP exposure standards, used by many countries as their own: “Our national and international safety limits are protective.”

The review was covered all over the world. It was featured in a number of widely circulated news outlets, including The Guardian, the Washington Post and Reuters —as well as countless aggregators. Many simply served up a version of what appears in The Conversation (one example).

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