Control of the research programmes have passed to managers and lawyers. This is exactly what happened in the tobacco industry. This meant the cells were either dying or going cancerous. He claimed that research money was withheld until an agreed version of his report was reached with sections of the mobile phone industry. What we conclude is up to us.
Any interference affects the credibility of the results.
It's a basic principle in research that the investigator has the responsibility of producing and interpreting the results. The telecoms industry should be involved in these studies only in as much as they provide the money because it is they who are making the profits. Their attempts to influence scientists in the States is a warning to us that these companies must be kept away from the independence and objectivity of future research. The Hardell and Carlo studies are highlighted tonight on BBC1's Panorama, which warns mobile phone users to cut down the time they spend on the phone. Panorama investigated levels of emissions absorbed by the brain from different makes of phone.