Where’s the evidence of a threat to our health from mobile phones?
I went to the association's website to look for this ample evidence because I'd looked for it several times before and had not been able to find any.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find even a single reference to any scientific evidence about the health effects of mobile phone systems on their website.
I would be delighted if Dr Cullen, or her association, could produce even one reputable report showing "ample evidence" that signals from mobile phone masts installed according to internationally accepted guidelines have damaging health effects.
So far all the major studies basically say no evidence of damaging effects can be found, although there remains some residual possibility that evidence might be found in the future.
Britain, France, The Netherlands, the US, the Nordic countries, the World Health Organisation, and others, have all come to the same conclusion.
Even if the ubiquity of the mobile phone suggests we ought to keep an open mind, it does not support the need for the specifically Irish and expensive studies that the association wants the Government to undertake.
Even if there are risks, all these other countries are doing the work for us already. If some other country did find a risk which by now seems unlikely they are hardly going to keep it secret.
Perhaps the association's call for more studies is simply a nice make-work scheme for doctors. I'd hate to think so. Just think of the poor Irish taxpayer coughing up to pay for another pointless tribunal and all those professional experts getting rich on the fees. It could never happen in Ireland, could it?
Hugh Sheehy
Marina 48
08005 Barcelona
Spain.
