Despite what Robert F. Kennedy wants you to think, cell phones do not cause brain cancer

Robert F. Kennedy , secretary of Health and Human Services , still believes cell phones are causing brain cancer.

But numerous studies going back to the year 2000 all indicate there is no particular reason to fear cell phones as a cause of cancer.

From 1985 to 2021 , there was a 1,200-fold increase in the number of cell phone subscriptions in the U.S. There is no evidence that cell phone emissions are unlikely to cause cancer.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown : RFK Jr. appears to have an implacable drive to do away with vaccines by undermining public confidence, disrupting insurance coverage, and making it too costly for pharmaceutical companies to produce them.

Exposing his lies is literally a matter of protecting the lives of children and adults from the all-too-real infectious diseases he doesn't believe in.

Brown 's various quirks and mistakes are analyzed at length in Reason's July cover story.