Hot off the news that the measles-mumps-rubella vaccination does not and never did cause autism, it now turns out that the authors of two papers showing that cell phone electromagnetic fields cause DNA damage
are under investigation for scientific misconduct. Among the most important parts of the investigation are notes from a technician indicating that the supposedly double-blind study of EMF damage was not double-blind; she knew for each experiment which cell lines had been exposed to EMF and which had not. Both papers, the only two showing actual DNA damage, came out of the same lab, and all eight of the papers to come out of this lab since 2003 are now considered suspect.
The lead author of the papers claims that the investigation was motivated by the cell-phone company, and is standing by his findings even without the technician's results. But it's not looking good; right now, any results showing genotoxic EMF from cell phone radios ought to be considered invalid.
[Edit: I'd add attribution, but the original LJ post is friends-locked.]
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