Do the BioInitiative Report authors represent an authoritative international body?
Often in assessing public health issues, bodies are formed to evaluate evidence and offer recommendations about particular issues. The model that most scientific expert bodies in this area (e.g. World Health Organisation (WHO)) employ is to engage independent experts to provide a review and recommendations on an issue. Independent experts are engaged because it is meant to provide an objective evaluation of the issue. This contrasts strongly with the BioInitiative Report, which is the result of the opinions of a self-selected group of individuals who each have a strong belief that does not accord with that of current scientific consensus. An indication of this may be seen in the group’s stated purpose, which is “to document the reasons why current public exposure standards for non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation are no longer good enough to protect public health” (Section 2, page 1), rather than to provide a scientific evaluation of the issue. Similarly, the standard model normally
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