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12. The question of “independence” of radiation research is vital. The Italian
Supreme Court was the first to challenge the mobile phone industry’s
war-gaming tactic, when in October 2012 it ordered Italian authorities to
pay workman’s compensation to a former businessman who developed a
tumor in his head because of heavy, long-term use of his mobile phone.
The court threw out all the industry-funded studies on the grounds that
they were tainted by conflict of interest. It accepted only the results of
independent research showing a variety of causal links between mobile
phone use and certain types of cancer. “Italy court ruling links mobile
phone use to tumor” (2012, Oct 19). Reuters. http://www.reuters.
com/article/2012/10/19/us-italy-phones-idUSBRE89I0V320121019.
Accessed Jan 19, 2017; “ICEMS Position Paper on the Cerebral Tumor
Court Case” (2012, Nov. 4). http://icems.eu/docs/ICEMS_Position_
paper.pdf?f=/c/a/2009/12/15/MNHJ1B49KH.DTL.