PAPER: A Critical Analysis of the World Health Organization (WHO) Systematic Review 2024 on Radiofrequency Radiation Exposure and Cancer Risks (open access)
Lennart Hardell and Mona Nilsson
Abstract
Radiofrequency (RF) radiation was in 2011 classified as a possible human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) at the WHO. Currently the WHO undertakes a systematic review of human studies on the cancer risks. In a publication by Karipidis et al (2024), commissioned by the WHO, it was argued that based on all available studies there would be “moderate certanity evidence” that mobile phone use “likely does not increase the risk of glioma, meningioma, acoustic neuroma, pituitary tumours, and salivary gland tumours in adults, or of paediatric brain tumours.” However, the authors have overlooked results showing increased risks for brain tumours in the most exposed groups, the most exposed part of the head, and longest latency time from first exposure to tumour diagnosis. The authors also claimed that there would be “moderate certainty evidence” that transmitters and mobile phone base stations do not increase the risk of pediatric leukaemia. These conclusions are based on selective inclusion of very few and low exposure studies. This WHO evaluation is contradicted by scientific results that show increased risks of cancer from exposure to RF-radiation from mobile and cordless phones, transmitters, and base stations. Other scientists have concluded, after reviewing the available evidence, that RF-radiation may increase the risk of cancer. This article analysis the Karipidis et al review and highlights several errors, omissions, and conflicts of interests that may explain the conclusions of no cancer risk. The flawed evaluation of scientific facts should lead to retraction of the article.’
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Dr. Robert Brown, Vice President of Scientific Research and Clinical Affairs for the Environmental Health Trust and a diagnostic radiologist with extensive experience evaluating blood flow using diagnostic ultrasound, and his colleague Barbara Biebrich, a senior ultrasound technologist with decades of experience performing vascular ultrasounds, decided to test whether ultrasound could detect and display rouleaux blood clumps forming in real time, in a healthy volunteer.
The International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields has published a Letter to the Editor in the journal Environment International regarding the scientific flaws of the WHO backed cell phone radiation cancer study by Karipidis et al. (2024) . We found the review does not provide a reliable assessment of the evidence on brain cancer risk associated with the use of cell phones and other wireless technologies.
After many hard-working months, the OneName Project has reached the end of its one-name quest…and entered a new era of advocacy for our community, an era defined by respect, empowerment, and unity of message — under the banner of one name. Yes, it’s happened. Based on your rich and varied input, top leaders of the movement from the US, Canada, and Europe have chosen one, singular, powerful name to label the condition that many of us share:
The OneName Project brought together people living with wireless radiation sickness, leading wireless radiation experts, safe technology advocates and medical professionals to choose a single, unifying, non-stigmatizing term for illness caused by exposure to wireless radiation and electromagnetic fields.
by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.
January 28, 2025
‘Wireless radiation sickness has a new and more universally acceptable name: Electromagnetic Radiation Syndrome, or EMR Syndrome, according to a press release issued by the OneName Project.
EMR Syndrome is a “new unifying name for a 21st-century health crisis,” the press release said.
Millions of people experience physical symptoms — including headaches, insomnia, heart palpitations and more — when exposed to electromagnetic radiation (EMR), according to the press release.
But until now, it’s been difficult for these individuals to advocate for themselves and educate others because there’s been no single, easily understandable term for the condition.
Instead, there were multiple names, including electromagnetic sensitivity, electrohypersensitivity, microwave syndrome, Havana syndrome and others.
Some of these names stigmatized the people by labeling them as “sensitive,” instead of placing the blame on the radiation that was causing their illness. Other names confused the public — such as microwave and Havana syndrome — because they sounded like references to microwave ovens and the capital of Cuba, rather than wireless radiation from cellphones, Wi-Fi routers and smart devices.
Do you remember the song ”Stop! In the Name of Love”, a 1965 hit recorded by the trio Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson & Diana Ross, also known as The Supremes, for the Motown label, and written and produced by Motown’s main production team Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Brian Holland.
Dozier said that he got the idea after he got cheated on by his girlfriend. In the heat of the argument, he said, ”Baby, please stop. In the name of love – before you break my heart.” (I recall that The Supremes’ choreography for this song involved one hand on the hip and the other outstretched in a ”stop” gesture.) Nearly 60 years later, I strongly argue that we must say, ”Stop! In the Name of Life”. Why…? Let me explain!
Occurrence of new, antibiotic-resistant, high-risk bacterial clones
A short time ago, in November 2024, I read that a multi-resistant strain of the Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria has taken hold in Europe. According to a new study, the occurrence of new, more resistant forms of a high-risk clone has increased sharply in recent years, including also in my own country, Sweden. Traditionally, E. coli bacteria are spread via water, food and contact with infected humans, the latter especially in hospitals where a lot of antibiotics are used.
By mapping the genetic mass of the E. coli bacteria, the European infection control agency, The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), in collaboration with, among others, the Swedish Public Health Agency, has been able to show how the resistant bacteria that carry ESBL-CARBA (Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase with Carbapenemase Activity, a substance found in some bacteria that makes them resistant to certain antibiotics) has spread within and between European countries. The study was recently published in the journal Eurosurveillance (Kohlenberg et al. 2024).
”The study gives further evidence of the serious increase in multi-resistant bacteria that risks reducing the possibility of treating severe bacterial infections in the future. Urgent measures are required to counter the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in Sweden and globally”, says Vilhelm Müller, investigator at the Swedish Public Health Agency.
Infections difficult to treat now will become very difficult, or even impossible, to treat in the near future … and that will also include ordinary, everyday ones!
E. coli bacteria normally occur in our intestinal flora, but this particular clone is a common cause of, among other things, urinary tract infection and blood poisoning (sepsis). The bacteria now studied are resistant to several common treatment options, including broad- spectrum antibiotics such as carbapenems (carbapenems are antibiotics that work against many different bacterial species and are reserved for the treatment of infections in seriously ill patients and infections caused by bacteria resistant to first-line therapy).
E. coli. Photo: IAID, Public Domain
The consequence is that there are only a few treatment options left for patients with these infections. Down the line, if this antibiotic resistance is not countered, there is a risk that even simple, ordinary, everyday infections can no longer be treated, like a splinter in your thumb, and you, therefore, risk dying. To state that this new situation is severe and dramatic must be this century’s biggest ’understatement’.
Resistant bacteria a global health threat
The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies carbapenem-resistant bacteria as a global health threat and of the highest priority for research and development of new treatment methods. The ECDC study emphasizes the importance of continuing to develop and improve the conditions for reducing the spread of multi-resistant bacteria.
To map the occurrence and spread of multi-resistant bacteria across national borders is now of paramount importance, as are much more restricted open-border policies across the world, and limits on international work and holiday journeys.
(It should be noted that the recent COVID pandemic not at all reached the same global health threat classification level, as antibiotic resistance does. The latter even has been characterized, by the WHO, as the worst threat to mankind, and antibiotic resistance is referred to as ”the silent tsunami facing modern medicine”.)
A high-risk clone is a resistant bacterium of great clinical importance that has the ability to spread with high efficiency in inpatient care, cause serious infection, and cause long-term carriage in humans. High-risk clones are an important explanation for the spread of resistance in society.
The Swedish Public Health Agency closely follows the development of the number of cases and characterizes all findings with the aim of detecting and preventing the national spread of infection as well as changes in resistance mechanisms and resistance patterns. The same protective measures are now implemented in other countries as well.
Previous observations of antibiotic resistance around the world
On Monday, May 22, 2017, the newspaper Metro Stockholmreported that the Ministers of Health from the so-called G20 countries, including Australia, France, India, Italy, Japan, Canada, China, Russia, Saudi-Arabia, Great Britain, South Africa, Turkey, Germany and the USA, have decided to cooperate to counter the ever-increasing and alarming world-wide resistance of bacteria to antibiotics.
Only within the EU there are yearly more than 35,000 deaths due to antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and by the year 2050, it has been calculated that more than 10,000,000 people worldwide will die prematurely each year due to antibiotic resistance.
Among the measures presented were national action plans to be in force at the end of the year 2018. Furthermore, the G20 countries are striving to only allow antibiotics to be purchased via formal medical prescriptions, as well as working towards supplying these medicines at lower and more reasonable prices in poor countries.
All of the above sounds very serious and scary, but still in the hands of highly capable authorities, civil servants, politicians, and health care officers, doctors and nurses. But then why do they not pay attention to the following?
Electro smog metering. Photo: NewsVoice
Antibiotic resistance, cell phone and WiFi radiations, and bacterial communication using microwaves
Surprisingly enough, nothing is – however – mentioned about the very recent results of several international research units like that of Taheri et al. (2017, see here), who have demonstrated that the exposure to 900 MHz GSM mobile phone radiation and 2.4 GHz radiofrequency radiation emitted from common Wi-Fi routers made Listeria monocytogenes and Escherichia coli bacteria resistant to different antibiotics. These findings naturally have direct implications for the management of serious infectious diseases (cf. above), and may potentially lead to a future collapse of the global human population.
Another very important study is the US DARPA-funded one (Rao et al. 2022) which has found that bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus, biofilms communicate using frequencies that are in the range used by Wi-Fi and 5G C-band. The experiment found that notable radiation is observed in the 3-4 GHz band coming from the Staphylococcus aureus biofilms.
Radiation from three identical biofilm samples was monitored and recorded over 70 days. Two distinct frequency bands, namely the 3.18 GHz and the 3.45 GHz bands, were identified as potential “communication bands”. Furthermore, long-term and short-term cycles of the total radiation intensity within the band were observed over the course of the experiment.
So this recent study indicates that bacterial cells in biofilms may use electromagnetic signals to communicate which are of the similar type as our own cell phone and WiFi signals! Biofilms are one of the most ubiquitous forms of biological systems on earth, and are commonly associated with infectious diseases. They are also responsible for contamination of medical devices and implants, deterioration of water quality, and microbial-induced corrosion.
This work confirms the presence of electromagnetic radiation within bacterial communities, which is a key requirement to demonstrate electromagnetic signalling among bacterial cells. The insight could lead to breakthroughs in demystifying how cells communicate as well as the advancement of important technologies in biology and communication systems. But, much more importantly, this is a very firm and strong warning to mankind to stop playing with biology here on Earth – we may have to very profoundly regret it.
My personal comment to this is: just imagine what our man-made high-frequency signals, used by cell phones, wireless smart meters, WiFi systems, wireless baby alarms, DECT phones, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Bodies (IoB), and many more gadgets/installations/systems, delivered at colossal power levels compared to the natural ones, may do to these intricate communicative mechanisms!
The above may, in addition – if replicated by independent scientists in further controlled studies – explain the observed occurrence of antibiotic resistance after exposures of common bacteria, like Listeria monocytogenes and Escherichia coli, to the radiation of 2G mobile telephony or WiFi-router fields (cf. above; see also Johansson 2017).
Soil bacteria are also affected by radiation from mobile phone towers
It must also be noted that Sharma Antim Bala and coworkers (2018) have demonstrated the impact of the radiations transmitted by mobile tower base stations on microbial diversity in soil and antibiotic resistance patterns. Soil samples were taken from near four different base stations located in Dausa City, India, while control samples were taken far from any base stations.
Isolation and identification of microorganisms were done using biochemical reactions and antibiotic resistance was observed. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Chryseobacterium gleum, and Kocuria rosea were isolated and identified in soil samples collected near radiation- exposed zones.
A statistically significant greater antibiotic resistance was observed in microbes present in the soil near base stations compared to the control, using nalidixic acid and cefixime as antimicrobial agents (p<0.05). The authors stated that ”our findings suggest that mobile tower radiation can significantly alter the vital systems in microbes and turn them multidrug-resistant, which is the most important current threat to public health”.
With the ongoing huge and highly frightening development into more and more antibiotics-resistant microorganisms around the world, this adaptive phenomenon and its potential threats to human health, according to my view, definitely and rapidly should be further investigated in controlled replication experiments, rather than only spend money and time on national action plans, commercially lowering the prizes, and flying to Mars!
The War of the Worlds coming true?
Talking about the planet Mars, in H.G. Wells’ famous novel The War of the Worlds, the invading Martians were finally successfully battled only by the bacteria, which eventually killed them. Towards the end of the book, the narrator – to his surprise – discovers that all the Martians have been killed by an onslaught of earthly pathogens, to which they had no immunity: ”slain, after all man’s devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth”.
In The War of the Worlds, Wells explores the extremes of what is possible under evolution and natural selection. Are we heading to the same extreme now, or…? Are we now seeing the sequel with the bacteria again reacting to a hostile ’invasion’, this time of artificial, man-made electromagnetic fields and signals, but now instead killing off us – mankind – by their capacity to quickly adapt, producing new strains of antibiotic-resistant super-bacteria?!
And the only ones to actually be blamed for the extinction of ourselves are … us and our love for ”progress”. Do we suddenly have a red doomsday button within our reach?! And are you prepared to take a chance on it?
The functional impairment electrohypersensitivity, food, bacteria, and artificial radiation
Finally, it should be noted that people with severe electrohypersensitivity have noticed a direct relationship between the severity of their functional impairment and sugar ingested (not white sugar, but sugary food), and as a result, heightened levels of electromagnetic field sensitivity. Such a direct relationship to their diet/internal bad gut load just from one day of cheating on a diet can result in a massively overwhelming and irritating increase of the electromagnetic field sensitivity during the next day.
So the impact on gut bacteria (E. coli; Candida albicans?) by diet perhaps may trigger attacks of electrohypersensitivity?
Will this also be a symptom of bacteria with a deranged communication due to the impacts of artificial electromagnetic fields and signals from our ’smart’ world, the latter thus being not-so-smart? Perhaps it is high time to start de-smarting our life and our environment, and instead start listening carefully to our bacteria? Maybe they are trying to tell us something?
Conclusions
With all the new data from different investigations appearing, some days with several publications being released in parallel, maybe I was not wrong when I used my common sense and called for safety measures already back in the early 1980s; maybe it was morally and ethically 100% right to sound the alarm, thus to warn everyone that we are under attack of an invisible invader using the colossal exposure levels – of modern telecommunication technologies – to conquer our cells and tissues, and change their sensitivity to pharmaceutical treatment?
From a public health point of view, the proof in the form of thousands of peer review-based scientific publications, covering various health and biological impacts, is overwhelming – now society must act! To instead disengage academic scientists, with great know-how and a firm scientific curiosity, from their workplaces due to “lack of money” will not sound good in the future. Not at all.
Being a mental fire brigade soldier (aka scientist), personally, I would hate to arrive at the Pearly Gates and hear Saint Peter say:
“Why did you not react and act, Olle, you understood, you knew, you saw; you could and should have done much more!”
No, as a mental fire brigade soldier, I rather try my hardest and possibly be wrong – false alarms never make the ordinary firefighters or citizens weep, and so it should not make anyone sad or angry if my concerns are wrong. We must get out of the current society’s constant shooting at the piano player instead of listening to his or her tune, react to it, and act in a mature, adult way, using common sense.
As scientists we must have the clear, unmistakable and unambiguous right to sound the alarm, just like the ordinary fire brigade which we cherish for doing it one time too many rather than the opposite. This is a societal precautionary principle we must protect at all costs and not allow corporate, financial or political bullies to violate and destroy – never! For too long a time the latter have been allowed to run the show, and that must stop! In the name of love for life!
The above ECDC finding is potentially very important! It is part of a dangerous development I, Olle Johansson, have tried to emphasize and warn about for decades.
Science has already demonstrated that bacteria exposed to mobile phones and WiFi radiation are resistant to antibiotics. The implications of this are chilling and may easily explain the ongoing huge and highly frightening development of more and more antibiotics-resistant microorganisms around the world.
So I say again: Stop all forms of wireless energy feeds to bacteria. This potential madness must halt until we know if it is safe for everyone!
Stop! In the Name of Life!
By Olle Johansson, Ph.D, associate professor, and former head of The Experimental Dermatology Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, and former guest and adjunct professor, respectively, of The Royal Institute of Technology, also Stockholm, Sweden. He is a world-leading authority in the field of artificial electromagnetic radiation and health & biological effects. Among many achievements he coined the term ”screen dermatitis” which later on was developed into the functional impairment electrohypersensitivity which recognition mainly is due to his work. Read his full bio here.
References
Bala SA, Os L, Lokendra S, Abhishek S, ”Effect of mobile tower radiation on microbial diversity in soil and antibiotic resistance,” In: 2018 International Conference on Power Energy, Environment and Intelligent Control (PEEIC), Greater Noida, India, 2018, pp. 311-314
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We examined one of the first published of the several systematic reviews being part of WHO’s renewed initiative to assess the evidence of associations between man-made radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation (RF-EMF) and adverse health effects in humans. The examined review addresses experimental studies of pregnancy and birth outcomes in non-human mammals. The review claims that the analyzed data did not provide conclusions certain enough to inform decisions at a regulatory level. Our objective was to assess the quality of this systematic review and evaluate the relevance of its conclusions to pregnant women and their offspring. The quality and relevance were checked on the review’s own premises: e.g., we did not question the selection of papers, nor the chosen statistical methods. While the WHO systematic review presents itself as thorough, scientific, and relevant to human health, we identified numerous issues rendering the WHO review irrelevant and severely flawed. All flaws found skew the results in support of the review’s conclusion that there is no conclusive evidence for nonthermal effects. We show that the underlying data, when relevant studies are cited correctly, support the opposite conclusion: There are clear indications of detrimental nonthermal effects from RF-EMF exposure. The many identified flaws uncover a pattern of systematic skewedness aiming for uncertainty hidden behind complex scientific rigor. The skewed methodology and low quality of this review is highly concerning, as it threatens to undermine the trustworthiness and professionalism of the WHO in the area of human health hazards from man-made RF-EMF.
Introduction
In this paper, we present a thorough analysis of the quality, validity and conclusion of the first report of a series of reviews from a renewed World Health Organization (WHO) initiative to assess the evidence of associations between (human made) radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation (RF-EMF) and adverse health effects in the general and working population. This initiative will publish several reports in “the Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) series”. The report we analyzed [1], is the first in the row, hereinafter ‘EHC2023’, published in August 2023. A companion protocol was published in 2021 [2], below just termed “the protocol”. A monograph summing up the results of these EHC reports on individual adverse effects is planned as an update of the 1993 WHO monograph on radiofrequency fields [3].
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A new Chinese animal study, published in November 2024 in the journal Reproductive Toxicology, highlights the harmful effects of microwaves on male reproduction. The research, conducted by a team led by Dr. Ruiyun Peng of the Beijing Institute of Radiological Medicine, provides new scientific evidence of the risks associated with wireless communication technologies.
An electromagnetic environment at risk
Microwaves are widely used in mobile communications, particularly in the 1.5 GHz (L-band) and 4.3 GHz (C-band) frequency bands. These frequencies are close to those used by 4G and 5G technologies, as the authors point out in this study:
“Yet in reality, due to the complexity of the electromagnetic environment, the human body is exposed to several microwave frequency bands. These include global mobile communication systems, widely used 4 G and 5 G cell phones, and commonly used frequency bands including L-band and C-band, [2, [3-. Therefore, it is essential to explore the biological effects of combined L- and C-band microwave exposure.”
The study shows significant impacts on reproduction
Testicular damage: testicular tissues of exposed rats showed histological and ultrastructural alterations.
Reduced sperm quality: significant decrease in sperm viability and motility.
Hormonal disturbances: reduced levels of testosterone, LH, FSH and inhibin B.
Increased oxidative stress: higher levels of lipid peroxidation and reduced activity of antioxidant enzymes.
Full Study:
Oxidative stress and energy metabolism in male reproductive damage from single and combined high-power microwave exposure at 1.5 and 4.3GHz
There is increasing evidence that exposure to weak electromagnetic fields (EMFs) generated by modern telecommunications or household appliances has physiological consequences, including reports of electromagnetic field hypersensitivity (EHS) leading to adverse health effects. Although symptoms can be serious, no underlying mechanism for EHS is known and there is no general cure or effective therapy. Here, we present the case study of a self-reported EHS patient whose symptoms include severe headaches, generalized fatigue, cardiac arrhythmia, attention and memory deficit, and generalized systemic pain within minutes of exposure to telecommunications (Wifi, cellular phones), high tension lines and electronic devices. Tests for cerebral, cardiovascular, and other physiological anomalies proved negative, as did serological tests for inflammation, allergies, infections, auto-immune conditions, and hormonal imbalance. However, further investigation revealed deficits in cellular anti-oxidants and increased radical scavenging enzymes, indicative of systemic oxidative stress. Significantly, there was a large increase in circulating antibodies for oxidized Low-Density Lipoprotein (LDLox), byproducts of oxidative stress accumulating in membranes of vascular cells. Because a known primary effect of EMF exposure is to increase the concentration of cellular oxidants, we propose that pathology in this patient may be causally related to a resulting increase in LDLox synthesis. This in turn could trigger an exaggerated auto-immune response consistent with EHS symptoms. This case report thereby provides a testable mechanistic framework for EHS pathology with therapeutic implications for this debilitating and poorly understood condition.
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Background
The patient is a 25-year-old Caucasian male residing near the city of Compiegne, France, 195 cm, 115 kg, with marked sensitivity to exposure to electromagnetic fields and telecommunications. His symptoms include but are not limited to: sensation of pressure in the skull, sensation of acute and burning cerebral pain following a vascular trajectory; pain in the temporal region and circle of Willis; fatigue; difficulty in concentration; memory loss; lack of focus; reduced motor function; insomnia; nausea; hearing deficit and/or hyperacuity; and problems with vision. In addition, the patient experienced acute thoracic pain, dyspnea, and spasms (although without affecting oxygen saturation values); variations in arterial tension; intestinal transit problems; generalized trembling; spasms/microspasms in internal tissues (not related to muscular activity); and contractile sensations in the teeth. There is further generalized pain throughout the body, heaviness in the limbs, reduced sensitivity/feeling in the face and arms, and generalized retraction in the superficial veins (clearly visible in the hands but also occurring throughout the body).
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A few tickets are still available for the scientific conference on Saturday, 9th November regarding children’s health in school, Wireless Radiation: the Elephant in the Classroom. The conference is taking place in Forest Row, East Sussex.
The fully evidence-based conference will illuminate the science underpinning biological impacts of wireless radiation including neurological effects, the classification of radio frequency radiation as a Group 2B carcinogen, and specific vulnerabilities of children and adolescents. Practical, simple ways to reduce exposures at school and at home to reduce risk of negative health impacts for children and their families will be outlined.
Dr Devra Davis, epidemiologist and toxicologist, lead author on a Nobel Peace Prize-winning team, former scientific advisor to the Clinton administration, and founder of the Environmental Health Trust will be travelling from the US to explain current science published on this issue.
Dr. Erica Mallery-Blythe (Special Expert at the International Commission on Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields, Founder of Physicians’ Health Initiative for Radiation and Environment, Advisor for Oceania Radiofrequency Scientific Advisory Association and Honorary Member of the British Society of Ecological Medicine) will lecture on the evidence pertaining to variations in sensitivity to electromagnetic fields in humans.
In addition to the science on detrimental effects on human health, evidence will be shared regarding environmental impacts including on pollinators such as bees as well as other diverse forms of flora and fauna. The current exposure limits will be discussed and deficits in the construction of them will be explained. Two scientific papers underpinning the conference content are below.
Electromagnetic Sense Ireland 