Reply to Brzozek et al. Comment on “Choi et al. Cellular Phone Use and Risk of Tumors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 8079”

" Industry-funded research, especially occupational and environmental health research, has been a topic of concern for decades, because it has often been found to be biased to support industry interests, according to numerous peer-reviewed papers, e.g., [8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19]. Moreover, several peer-reviewed papers have raised concerns about bias in industry-funded research on the effects of exposure to radio frequency radiation [20,21,22,23,24]." {Credits 1}

" Multiple papers that reviewed the research on the effects of radio frequency or cell phone radiation have found that industry-funded studies were less likely to report effects [3,25,26,27,28,29,30,31]. For example, in 2007, a review of experimental studies conducted by Martin Röösli and colleagues concluded, “The interpretation of results from studies of health effects of radiofrequency radiation should take sponsorship into account” [25]. In an updated review published three years later they concluded, “Previous findings were confirmed: industry-sponsored studies were least likely to report results suggesting effects… The source of funding and conflicts of interest are important to consider in this area of research” [27]. We are aware of only one review study of the effects of radio frequency radiation that failed to find an association between study outcomes and study sponsorship [32]." {Credits 1}

{Credits 1} 🎪 Moskowitz, J. M., Myung, S. K., Choi, Y. J., & Hong, Y. C. (2021). Reply to Brzozek et al. Comment on “Choi et al. Cellular Phone Use and Risk of Tumors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 8079”. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(11), 5581. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.