Re: Mobile phones and brain cancer

["Richard L. Hess" <lists@richardhess.com>]

At 12:15 PM 9/30/2002 -0500, John Moulder wrote:

>Judge Catherine Blake has just rendered her decision in the Newman case.

>

>Federal District Court in the US has just dismissed the major mobile phone 

>brain cancer case on the  the grounds that "no sufficiently reliable and 

>relevant scientific evidence to support either general or specific 

>causation has been proffered by the plaintiffs."

>

>Detailed at:

>http://www.mdd.uscourts.gov/Opinions152/Opinions/newman0902.pdf

>--



It is interesting to note, (especially Bjorn) that on page 7 "Dr. Hardell 

is the only medical doctor relied on by the plaintiffs to support specific 

causation. He is a full professor in oncology at the University Hospital in 

Orebro, Sweden, who divides his time among research, teaching, and clinical 

practice....



P13 "Fairly read, his papers, deposition and hearing testimony do not 

support finding a scientifically valid dose-response relationship for 

mobile phone use and brain cancer, particularly not for astrocytoma. "



I won't read any more...or bore you...but this is how we, on this side of 

the pond, get the feeling that Sweden is at the forefront of these 

investigations. Also, the judge certainly had some expert help of her own.



Very interesting.



Cheers,



Richard



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