Cellphone radiation researchers say industry hampers studies

Attention Hollywood: If you're looking for the next "The Insider" or "Erin Brockovich," you may want to take a look at the story of cellphone researcher Henry Lai. According to an article in Columns, the University of Washington Alumni Magazine, Lai has been the target of coordinated attacks from the cellphone industry ever since his 1995 study that found a possible link between microwave radiation and brain-cell damage. The article cites internal Motorola documents that laid out plans to "war-game" Lai's work, along with efforts by industry groups to get Lai fired from his U.W.
research position. While the industry apparently didn't succeed in those attempts, Lai, like some other researchers,
has moved on to other fields, and is now studying the use of a wormwood derivative as a cancer cure. Meanwhile, studies on cellphone radiation continue to yield inconclusive and contradictory results.

[Via Slashdot]