The Food and Drug Administration quietly removed webpages saying cellphones aren’t dangerous as the Department of Health and Human Services under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launches a study on cellphone radiation.
Kennedy and some of his allies have long pointed to cellphones as a potential source of illnesses including cancer. Many mainstream scientific institutions, including the FDA, previously concluded that there isn’t adequate proof to link health problems to cellphones or other wireless devices.
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Kennedy, who for many years worked as an environmental lawyer, successfully petitioned a federal court in 2020 to force the Federal Communications Commission to review its wireless-radiation rules. Kennedy has also represented plaintiffs who have sued telecom companies and alleged that their brain tumors were caused by cellphones. The group he chaired, Children’s Health Defense, has filed or funded lawsuits concerning 5G infrastructure ….
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Large epidemiological studies have shown no link between cellphone use and cancer, and cellphones don’t emit the type of radiation that causes cancer, said Elizabeth Platz, a cancer epidemiologist and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
