United States: NIH Redacts Nearly 2,500 Pages of Records on Wireless Radiation Studies

The NIH refuses to reveal nearly 2,500 pages of records related to the National Toxicology Program’s decision to shut down its research on how wireless radiation affects human health, according to an investigation by The Defender.

NIH Redacts Nearly 2,500 Pages of Records on Wireless Radiation Studies
by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., childrenshealthdefense.org, February 25, 2025

Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series investigating why the U.S. government ended studies on the biological effects of wireless radiation. Part 1 covered the expert opinion of John Bucher, Ph.D.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) refuses to reveal nearly 2,500 pages of records related to the National Toxicology Program’s (NTP) decision to shut down its research on how wireless radiation affects human health, according to an investigation by The Defender.

In January 2024, the NTP announced it had no plans to further study the effects of cellphone radiofrequency radiation (RFR) on human health — even though the program’s own 10-year, $30 million study, completed in 2018, found “clear evidence” of cancer and DNA damage.

In April 2024, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) filed requests to the NIH under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain records related to why the government shut down the research.

Miriam Eckenfels, director of CHD’s Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) & Wireless Program said, “First and foremost, we want the science done.”

She said:

“If you find a smoking gun — as NTP did when it found clear evidence that wireless radiation was linked to cancer and DNA damage — you don’t just walk away. You find out why the gun was smoking. So the basic fact that the research was stopped is deeply disturbing.

“We believe the public deserves to know exactly why they decided to stop and whether the wireless industry had anything to do with it. Beyond that, we just care about the research getting started again.”

The reasons the NTP provided for ending the research aren’t good enough, according to Eckenfels. “It is the government’s job to protect the public from environmental harms, even if that is challenging and resource-intensive.”

“They can’t just say this is complicated, so we won’t even look at it,” she said. “The American public deserves better.”

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