George Carlo

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George Louis Carlo (born August 24, 1953^{[citation needed]}) is an American public health scientist, research director, and consultant^[1], most widely known for investigating the possible negative health effects of mobile phones.

He earned his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo) and earned a law degree from George Washington University.^[1] He is a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, and has served on the medical faculties of the University of Arkansas and SUNY-Buffalo, and as an adjunct faculty member of George Washington University's School of Medicine and Health Sciences.^[1]

Career

From 1993 to 1999 he headed a US$28 million research program funded by the cellular phone industry that investigated the possible health effects of cellular phones. It initially found that there were no significant health threats posed by such devices, but by February 1999^{[citation needed]} he had changed his mind, saying their use "could lead to genetic damage, which some argue, could lead to cancer."^[2] He later said:^[3]

The scientific and medical information is in a gray area. We can't say clearly that these things are safe. We have a hint that they are dangerous. [But] we don't know how dangerous. What we do know is that in the four different epidemiologic studies we've done, there are hints of health risks.

Also in the 1990s he headed the Breast Implant Public Health Project, which was funded by the Dow Corning corporation and overseen by the FDA.^{[citation needed]}

Carlo is the founder and chairman of the Science and Public Policy Institute and its sub-project, the Safe Wireless Initiative.^[4]

Books

• Carlo, George Louis (1979). "Organic Drinking Water Contaminants and the Incidence of Selected Gastrointestinal and Urinary Tract Cancers." Ph.D. dissertation. Buffalo, New York: State University of New York at Buffalo.
• Carlo, George L., ed.; Mary Supley, Susan E. Hersemann, and Polly Thibodeau, associate eds. (1998). Wireless Phones and Health: Scientific Progress. Foreword by George L. Carlo. Boston, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0792383478.
• Carlo, George, and Martin Schram (2001). Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age: An Insider's Alarming Discoveries About Cancer and Genetic Damage. 1st Carrol & Graff ed. New York, New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. Errata sheet inserted. ISBN 0786708182.
• Carlo, George L., ed.; Polly M. Thibodeau, associate ed. (2001). Wireless Phones and Health II: State of the Science. Foreword by George L. Carlo. Contains papers presented at the Second State of the Science Colloquium, Long Beach, CA, June 1999, organized by Wireless Technology Research, LLC. Boston, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0792379772.

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