Information on the Peer Review Process
Sense About Science - is a charitable trust, founded in 2002, to promote an evidence-based approach to scientific issues in the public domain. The trust works with organisations, experts and opinion formers to encourage this approach, particularly in areas of controversy.
http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/
Recent work includes a discussion paper, Peer Review and the Acceptance of New Scientific Ideas this can be found at: http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/ and a booklet, Making Sense of Radiation - A Guide to Radiation and Its Health Effects, this can be found at: http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/pdf/makingsenseofradiation.pdf
Science Media Centre - is an independent venture working to promote the voices, stories and views of the scientific community to the news media when science is in the headlines.
http://www.sciencemediacentre.org
A leaflet setting out information on the peer review process can be found at:
http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/uploadDir/adminpeer_review_in_a_nutshell.pdf
INTECH Science Centre - a hands-on interactive science and technology centre, where one of the new exhibits explains the science behind the mobile phone http://www.intech-uk.com/
4 Million Mobile Broadband Connections
Mobile phones cannot work without a network of base stations (masts). There are approximately 52,500 base stations in the UK. An Ipsos MORI survey for MOA (May 2010) showed that almost three quarters of people understood that masts are essential if they are to access the services they require. Mobile telecommunications are vital for the UK’s economic competitiveness and in promoting social inclusion. There are now over 81 million mobile connections in the UK. Over 4.8 million customers now access mobile broadband services via a laptop and dongle, and 28 per cent of UK adults use their mobile phones for internet access.
No Established Health Effects
Mobile phones operate by using radio waves, similar to those that have been widely used for decades, for example in radio, TV and radar signals. A large number of studies over the last two decades have found no clear evidence of adverse health effects from the use of mobile phones or from phone masts.