The new year began with comforting reports assuring us that cancer is due to bad luck. Johns Hopkins researchers concluded that up to two out of every three cancers could be tied chiefly to how many stem cells divide within an organ. They advise expanding screening...
Dr. Davis’ published articles
Huffington Post: The Connection Between Air Pollution and Cell Phones You’ve Never Heard About
In the 21st century, "show me the bodies" seems like a cruel and outdated foundation for public policy. Yet history is littered with examples -- like tobacco and asbestos -- where only after the death toll mounts is the price of inaction finally understood to exceed...
LEGAL BUT LETHAL: San Francisco Medicine: “Flying Blind: The Public Health Impacts of Wireless Radiation”
Public Health Impacts of Wireless Radiation — Flying Blind
As uses and users of wireless transmitting devices are skyrocketing in our homes, schools and even our national parks, one would think that scientific research on the human health and environmental implications of wireless electromagnetic radiation would be exploding...
An Open Letter to President Obama: Consider the Full Costs of Wireless Technology
Before this nation makes Wi-Fi in schools like it is in coffee shops, as the president recently urged, we need to consider what this could do to our children's brains and bodies. Three years ago the World Health Organization declared cell phone and other wireless...
War-Gaming Cell Phone Science Protects Neither Brains Nor Private Parts
In science news as in life, timing is everything. As soon as the World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer expert review declaring cell phone radiation a "possible human carcinogen" -- just like lead, DDT, and jet fuel -- was drafted in...
Cicadas and Cell Phones: Welcome to the 21st Century
What does the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) have in common with the cicada bug? They both follow 17-year cycles. In 1996, the first and last time the agency considered standards for cell phones, cicada carcasses clogged Washington, D.C. streets, a stamp cost...
The World Is Watching San Francisco on Cell Phones
Three years ago, San Francisco passed the Cell Phone Right to Know Act, requiring phone sellers to tell consumers about safer uses of phones prior to purchasing them. At that time, Israel, U.K. and France had taken similar steps and the average age at which a child...
Cell Phone Safety: The Right to Know About Grey Matters: San Francisco Medicine 2012
More Inconvenient Truths About Cell Phone Radiation
Are children really safe using cell phones? That's how industry-affiliated scientists interpret a widely publicized report in the Journal of The National Cancer Institute. Further, are cell phone users spared from health risks? That's what a recent report in Fortune...