US Cellphone Radiation Tests Are ‘Rigged,’ Ignoring Long-Term Health Effects: Expert

While U.S. tests focus narrowly on whether phones heat tissue, some experts argue they fail to show the whole picture.

France's recent ban on sales of the iPhone 12 due to radiation concerns has sparked apprehension throughout Europe about the health risks of cellphone radiation exposure.

American regulators focus narrowly on whether phones heat tissue, but some experts argue that such tests fail to show the whole picture.

"The way they're tested is to see whether or not they heat you up, and not for the chronic long-term effects that have been demonstrated," Devra Davis, a cancer epidemiologist who holds a doctorate in science studies and a master's in public health in epidemiology, told The Epoch Times.

"Particularly the effects on sperm and lower testosterone, among others." Cellphone Radiation Tests Are 'Rigged': Expert According to Ms. Davis, the biggest problem with U.S. testing is that it's not conducted with the phone against the body-the tests are set up with spacers, as if phones were in holsters or other holders.

She compared it to the "Dieselgate" scandal involving Volkswagen, when the company rigged its tests to show lower exhaust emissions than the vehicle actually produced.

When the French government tests cellphones as they are actually used, "Like in your hand [or] next to your body," Ms. Davis said, the phones exceed European Union radiation limits.

France has pulled or required software updates for 42 other cellphone models that emit excessive radiation since 2017, The Telegraph reported.

She warned of the danger cellphones pose, similar to certain drugs found to cause cancer and other health problems, in her 2010 book, "Disconnect: The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family," and stands by it today.

Cellphone Use Might Be Linked to Cancer Risk Heavy cellphone use has a "Possible" association with increased brain cancer incidence, especially in research not funded by telecoms, according to a review of 23 case-control studies in 2009 published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

"Our government stopped funding research on the health effects of radiofrequency radiation in the 1990s," study author Joel Moskowitz, the director of the Center for Family and Community Health and Community Health at the School of Public Health at UC-Berkeley, said in a press statement in July 2021.

Cancer Might Be Linked to Living Near Cell Towers The International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields warned that radiofrequency radiation exposure limits established in the 1990s don't adequately protect the public, especially from novel 5G technology that hasn't been the subject of health studies.