He said that afterwards, he spoke to Challis, and said, ‘Surely you know that this technology is going to cause death and illness in millions of people?” Trower was at an early talk by Challis on the planned microwave mobile phone rollout.
Barrie Trower, in a YouTube talk, described hearing a famous British scientist, Sir Lawrie Challis, Order of the British Empire, and long a stalwart of committees saying that mobile phones were perfectly safe:
