George Carlo

George Louis Carlo (b. August 24, 1953) is an American epidemiologist, author, and attorney. He is best known as one of the most prominent scientists investigating the possible negative health effects of cellular phones.

He earned his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees (the latter in 1979) from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York and earned a JD from George Washington University. He is a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, and has served on the medical faculties of George Washington University, the University of Arkansas, and the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.

From 1993 to 1999 he headed Wireless Technologies Research, LLC, a US$28.5 million research program funded by the cellular phone industry that investigated the possible health effects of cellular phones, which initially found that there were no significant health threats posed by such devices, but by February 1999 he had changed his mind and now believes that such threats (including the production of micronuclei, leakage of the blood-brain barrier, and cancers of the auditory nerve) do exist. At that point, Carlo's budget had been used up and the cellular phone industry informed Carlo that they would no longer require his services.

Also in the 1990s he headed the Breast Implant Public Health Project, LLC, which was funded by the Dow Corning corporation and overseen by the FDA.

Carlo is the founder and chairman of the Science and Public Policy Institute (incorporated in 1994, and based in Washington, D.C.) and its sub-project, the Safe Wireless Initiative.

He has appeared on 20/20, 60 Minutes, World News Tonight, and CBS News with Dan Rather, as well as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC.

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.

Films

 * 2005 - Cell Phone War

Video

 * George Carlo interviews