India's largest English-language daily gives the ARPANSA-affiliated review of the WHO-sponsored studies on RF-EMF health effects a full lifestyle-desk write-up, zooming in on the brain-cancer angle and framing it as the "clear answer" to the long-debated mobile phone question. The piece tells readers scientists at ARPANSA reviewed "one of the most thorough reviews yet" and found "nothing to show mobile phones are causing brain tumors."
Alongside the reassurance, Times of India reproduces the "we'd see it in the data" argument — brain-cancer rates have not risen with mobile-phone use — and notes precaution options such as speakerphone, wired earphones and texting, framed as "just optional safety steps — not based on proof of harm."
"Their verdict just appeared in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, and it lines up with years of other international studies: so far, there's nothing to show mobile phones are causing brain tumors. There's no evidence that using your mobile phone increases your risk of brain cancer or cancers in your head and neck."
"They also pointed out something big: if phones were really causing brain cancer, we'd see it in the data. Since billions of people started using mobiles over the past thirty years, brain cancer rates haven't shot up the way you'd expect if there was a link."
"The latest review says loud and clear: mobile phone use doesn't cause brain cancer."
"If you're extra cautious, you can always use speakerphone, wired earphones, or text instead of long calls, but scientists say these are just optional safety steps — not based on proof of harm."
Health risks of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields, and the World Health Organization's programme
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