Cellphone industry continues to control the safety message
By Frontier Centre for Public Policy, troymedia.com, May 16, 2019
In the U.S., the industry has influenced science, regulators, public perception and government policy
When industry wants science to say something, how does it do it?
Last year, The Nation showed us how in its special investigation, How Big Wireless Made Us Think That Cell Phones Are Safe.
In 1993, a lawsuit alleged that cellphones caused a woman’s terminal brain cancer. As wireless stocks headed downward, the industry unleashed a five-fold response.
This tactical plan can be used by any threatened industry on any issue at any time to influence science, regulators, public perception and government policy.
Citizens beware.
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