The World Health Organization (WHO) has created another cultural tizzy because some people persist in an irrational belief that anyone in the UN knows anything about anything. 

Recently, WHO issued a fuzzy statement saying maybe, perhaps, alarmism about cellphones and cancer was right after all.   This, despite no quantitative data, no published study, no absolute risk factor and even no definition of "limited evidence" hidden in a footnote

The actual risk (from data in WHO footnote) was 0.0023% but they call that a "40% increased risk" lifted from the unnamed study. If true, new risk is 0.0032%, slightly more than your risk of getting cancer from drinking a cup of coffee, but only because almost anything can be attributed to cancer when you have a risk factor.

Ivo Vegter at IT Web has the smackdown.