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MOBI-Kids Published

December 30, 2021

“Wireless Phone Use in Childhood and Adolescence and Neuroepithelial Brain Tumors: Results from the International MOBI-Kids Study,” Environment International, February 2022.

It “provides no evidence of a causal association between wireless phone use and brain tumors in young people.” However, sources of bias prevent ruling out a small increased risk.

Open access.

MOBI-Kids is the first mobile phone/brain tumor case-control study to take into account ELF EMF exposures —not just RF. ELF dose was estimated with cumulative induced currents at location of tumor.

Project began in 2009; 14 countries participated. More here.

 

Critique by Hardell and Moskowitz

May 15, 2022

“In our opinion, the results as reported in the MOBI-Kids paper seem uninterpretable and should be dismissed,” according to a detailed analysis of the the MOBI-Kids study by Lennart Hardell and Joel Moskowitz.

Their critique, which was just published by Reviews on Environmental Health, runs 13 pages with 71 footnotes. Open access.