ANOTHER week, another less-than-convincing study on cellphones and cancer. This time the claim is that not only is there a link but that digital mobile phone users living in rural areas are three times more likely to develop malignant brain tumours than their urban counterparts.
The claim, by a team at Örebro University Hospital in Sweden, is based on a new analysis of data from an earlier study in which 1500 people with brain tumours and 1500 matched controls were asked about their cellphone usage, to see if there were any links with cancer risk. This kind of study is…
