Cell Phone, WiFi, WiMax, Bluetooth - Dangerous as Cigarettes? Looks Like It

I've been working in and around electronics and radio since I was a young kid - pre-teen. Because of that and quite a bit of education and practical experience with radio, TV, cell phones and all manner of antennas, measuring devices and such, as well as an excellent grounding in physics, I read this article with great interest. Its title, "Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your Health" mirrors lots of articles I've read in the past 20+ years, but this is the first one I've read that puts a bunch of different things into perspective in a way that makes me feel like moving far from the local cell tower and throwing away my cell phone and WiFi modem NOW!

I've pretty much agreed with the typical scientific article I've seen that the effects of microwave radiation on the human body would be mostly due to heating in the same fashion that meat heats in a microwave oven - and that such effects would be minimal due both to the relatively low power of the phones (especially recently, not so much in the first few years as the cells were larger and the radios had to be more powerful than they do today.)

"Distorting the public health literature is not a victimless crime. Workers who will be exposed to higher EMFs will face, according to Miller and Villeneuve, an up to tenfold greater cancer risk than if precautions were to be taken. Kheifets and Swanson's fraud is no different from that which helped suppress the cancer risks of cigarette smoke, asbestos and many, many chemicals. Yet these industry scientists continue to be welcomed at the highest levels as fair and balanced experts." (Junk Science - Microwave News)

Christopher Ketcham has dug around and interviewed some people who have found that the effects are not just heat - they are interference with the body's own electrical signals - to the point of researchers being able to stop a frog's heart with the correctly modulated cell phone wave.

It turns out that the basic carrier wave - the microwave signal that the phones transmit when there is nothing to say - is not the problem. The modulation of that carrier wave with something like voice or data - and especially data - is what causes the problem. A microwave oven does not modulate the radiation - it simply has a very powerful carrier wave - so it heats.

The cell phone - and your WiFi modem - and the more powerful WiMax data systems that are just being rolled out - are less powerful than the typical microwave (0.25 watts for typical cell phone vs 600 watts for typical microwave oven) but the modulation of the cell phone wave is what does the damage; and the damage is adding up to increased numbers of brain tumors in "power users" and increased "genotoxic" effects (changes in the bodies DNA) that trigger headaches and general feelings of listlessness as well as long-term lowering of overall health. One rural Swedish village's inhabitants suffered from headaches, difficulty breathing, blurred vision and even heart arrhythmias during a test of a WiMAX system in their area - effects that disappeared when the system was turned off.

The question is - has there been an orchestrated cover up of this information? Does it extend to the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) in the US and the DOT (Department of Transport) in Canada as well as their counterparts in other countries?

Researchers have been told not to publish their negative results. Maybe this has parallels to the tobacco industry's long-term cover up of the dangers of tobacco.

I don't know - but I'm going to do some digging. In the mean time I'm thinking strongly about putting my cell phone in a metal box when I'm not using it. Tin foil on the windows and walls? Not yet, but maybe. I'm a skeptic - I'm not one of the sheep.

richard

Cited Links

• MOBILE PHONE RADIATION WRECKS YOUR SLEEP (The Independent - UK)
• Cell Phone, Cancer Link Claimed (PC World)
• Mobile Phone Use and Risk of Cancer (Institute of Cancer Research UK)
• Interphone Study
• The Frey effect
• Effects of RF Radiation - specifically non thermal effects of microwaves
• Non-Thermal effects in the microwave induced unfolding of proteins observed by chaperone binding
• Health Effects of Microwave Radiation (Western View)
• Dr. Henry Lai's Vienna Report on RFR Bioeffects 
• And finally - Microwave News - A report on non-ionizing radiation Lots of good articles here - especially this one on "Junk Science"

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