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Mobile phone health alarmists bereft of credible arguments

  • Written by Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
imageAge-adjusted brain cancer rates have flatlined over nearly 30 years.Giuseppe Milo/Flickr, CC BY-NC

In May this year, I led a paper published in Cancer Epidemiology, which looked at the incidence of brain cancer in Australia between 1982 and 2012.

The first mobile phone call was made in Australia in 1987 and today their use is all but universal.

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