Cell Phone Fraud Exposed

The journal Science is reporting that two studies claiming that radiation from cell phones can cause DNA damage are fraudulent.

The August 29 issue of the journal Science reports that two studies from the Medical University of Vienna purporting to show that radiation from cell phones causes DNA damage have been investigated by University ethics committees after it was revealed that an experimenter had fabricated data. We have argued that direct DNA damage from cell phone radiation is impossible (see Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer? and news item 13 (Can Cell Phones Kill You?)) so the conclusions of the ethics committee are no surprise.

The two studies were headed by Dr. Hugo Ruediger, who has recently retired. The experimenter who faked the data, E. Kratochvil, has also left the university. In the meantime, one of the journals is conducting its own investigation and the University is considering an investigation of all the papers written by Kratochvil.

The full Science article is here.