Posted on 06/02/2002 6:02:28 PM PDT by handk
Prior to the Federal Telecom Act of 1996, it was almost impossible for the cellular communications industry to flourish because there was local control of cell tower siting. Science had already established the ill effects microwaves have on plant and animal life and no one wanted a cell tower in their backyard. Since passage of the federal act, however, cell towers have sprung up everywhere because their siting can no longer be blocked effectively at the local level. Why, in total disregard for published medical and environmental science, did the federal government provide the authority to site cell towers all over the nation? Was it to increase our cellular communications capabilities? Or, does logic and prior experience indicate something more sinister?
In order to make contact with cell tower transmitters, your cell phone emits powerful microwave signals in the high megahertz or low gigahertz frequencies.
Microwave energy oscillates at millions to billions of cycles per second. Since WWII, European, Russian and U.S. scientists have known that microwave frequencies are extremely damaging to human tissues. Research in the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry demonstrates that microwave frequencies can cause cancer and other diseases by interfering with cellular DNA and its repair.
During cell phone conversation, these cancer-causing frequencies deeply penetrate the brain, ear and eye tissues. The eye is most susceptible to microwave damage. While a standby phone is attached to the body, microwave pulses can penetrate vital organs every few minutes. Headsets and radiation mitigators have been proven generally worthless in reducing this radiation exposure. Recent scientific studies confirm that cell phone microwave can:
* Cause headaches and pressure behind the eyes
* Induce extreme fatigue
* Precipitate cataracts/ eye cancer
* Create burning sensation/rash on the skin
* Damage nerves in the scalp
* Heat the angular gyrus (brain area associated with speech and vision)
* Activate heat shock proteins in the brain (cell stress)
* Induce ringing in the ears, impair sense of smell, cause sensitivity in teeth
* Create joint pain, muscle spasms, tremors
* Cause digestive problems and raise bad cholesterol levels
* Alter the brain's EEG activity during sleep
* Open the blood-brain barrier to virus and toxins (cells leak hemoglobin)
* Reduce the number and efficiency of white blood cells
* Damage blood lymphocyte cells (immune system)
* Cause short term memory loss and difficulty concentrating
* Promote development of Alzheimer's disease
* Stimulate asthma by producing histamine in mast cells
* Stress the endocrine system, especially pancreas, thyroid, ovaries, testes
* Damage chromosomes, specifically the DNA strands
* Induce new cancers and stimulate pre-existing cancers
Scientific data confirming the horrific damage cell phones can do to the human body is found in Dr. George Carlo's great new book, Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age.
Dr. Carlo is an epidemiologist who was hired in 1993 by the telecommunications industry to head an industry-sponsored whitewash of the biological effects of cell phone radiation. His findings were so startling that he was forced to make a break with the industry and expose the raw facts to an unsuspecting public. The subtitle of his blockbuster documentary is “An Insiders's Alarming Discoveries About Cancer and Genetic Damage.”
Microwave is extremely hazardous to children. Parents in many European nations are now warned to keep children away from cell phones. University of Utah researcher found the younger the child, the more radiation is absorbed by the brain.
Spanish researchers have shown that cell phones can alter electrical activity of a child's brain for hours, causing drastic mood changes and possibly behavior and learning disabilities.
Findings published in the Journal of Bio-Electric Magnetics warn that mobile phone emissions may damage human embryos. Pregnant women are advised to be wary of mobile phones.
The effect of microwave radiation inside your vehicle is especially dangerous. Volkswagen of Europe warns that cell phone usage inside a car can be “injurious to health due to the extremely high electromagnetic fields generated.”
This is because a cell phone may increase its field strength up to 10 times to maintain communications within the metallic cage of an auto. Studies in England show that drivers talking on a cell phone are actually more impaired in function and reaction time than drunks.
The telecommunications industry and federal regulatory agencies design their own “studies” to conclude that having a microwave transmitter on your head is safe. However, many people claim to be falling ill from heavy cell phone usage. Numerous cancer-related lawsuits are now being filed against both government agencies and the cell phone industry.
Cell phones today are what tobacco was 40 years ago. The research and the debate will continue for years. Meantime, 90 million cell phone users in the U.S. have three choices:
1. Continue heavy microwave bombardment of brain tissues until disastrous health effects become obvious and irreversible. This is the “guinea pig” option.
2. Reduce cell phone usage to under 2-3 minutes per day and never use the phone in a vehicle. Many health science experts are choosing this option.
3. Obtain a hands-free set and keep the phone away from the body. Everyone in the room can then hear the two-way conversation, but less privacy sure beats brain cancer!
And don't forget to check out your cordless phone. If it has a marking that reads 900 megahertz or 2.4 gigahertz, it emits the same microwave radiation as cell phones.
Some great web sites on microwave and other radiation issues are:
www.wave-guide.org (has great list of books available)
Write to: guru@emfguru.org and ask for free e-mail updates on cell phone/tower studies and litigation.
Note: Last month's edition of The IO contained a review of the book, “Cell Towers, Wireless Convenience or Environmental Hazard? The book is a compilation of research papers presented at a one-day conference entitled, “Cell Towers, State of the Science/State of the Law, that took place in Litchfield, Conn., December 2, 2000. The book, edited by Blake Levitt, is a comprehensive exploration of the manyfold health, environmental, political and legal implications of the cellular communications infrastructure currently being erected in our country. Cell Towers can be obtained by sending email to: blakelevit@cs.com
Good luck on that search. Let me know what you turn up.
What he said. Maybe it will even cure the ones you have now.
What's to be proud about? Cell phone costs and rates are so low nowadays that your home phone bill will decline by just about as much as you pay for a cell phone. I never use my home phone for long distance so my rate on that is at it's lowest. Plus, with a cell phone, I have the convenience of a phone wherever I am including emergency road conditions.
As to safety, how safe do you think coin phones are? Remember, you are putting a phone receiver to your ear that thousands of others have used. I shudder to think of sticking a phone receiver covered with cooties, lice, or other germs from sickos on the street to my ear.
One of my side businesses is selling cell phone accessories. Thanx for the tip. I'll use this one as a sales pitch for hands free kits. BTW, I used to try to sell those radiation blockers but few people wanted to admit they were scared of the radiation but that pitch with the hands free kits sounds like a winner.
Now, I'm not going to lay a "tin foil hat alert" on you (I hate the damned things, too), but I find this article more than a little hysterical.
Care to look at all of the items in today's world.......items that surround us all.........that emit varying degrees of radiation? Televisions. Radios. Computers. Computer monitors (I sit in front of 21" monsters all day.......and into the evening; like now, for instance). Cordless phones. Cell phones. Microwave ovens. Various and sundry power tools and household appliances. Computer networks. Household wiring. Electric lighting of all kinds. Fans, "ionizers" / air purifiers. Garbage disposals. Cars. Aircraft. Motors of all types, sizes, and ratings.
IOW, the ONLY way you may be able to escape most of these (never "all") is to join the Amish or a similar, technology-eschewing sect.
That's certainly your choice, but let's not ignore FCC radiation rules (stricter than most seem to understand) and many other regulatory agencies' rules / regulations.
I choose to live in the 21st century with 21st century technology. I'm not one to take foolish risks with myself or with my family, but I'll be damned if I'll dump modern ways the second some guy publishes a book. How many examples of "The Latest Big Threat / Scare" would you care to review, just from my lifetime (some 46 years)?
From the very beginning of this loony fad
Do you really think it's a "loony fad"? Think about all the people and the places they find themselves in benefiting from cell phones, some tremendously. This "loony fad" you call it has probably saved several thousand lives and minimized the effect of injuries not to mention the benefits to businesses with reps in the field -- to name just a few. For many of those reps their customers may not use cell phones but still benefit from other people (namely the reps) using cell phones. I suppose you think the "loony fad" was a disservice to the innocents on board the plane that crashed on 9/11 in Pennsylvania.
Think First!
At one time I was so paranoid that I covered a part of my body with aluminum foil when watching TV.
Lighten up pardner...
Every word I said stands.
Judging by the borderline hysteria in your reply you'd think I advocated that you be denied the option of irradiating your brain. I don't. If you want to take this risk I'm 110% in favor of you knocking yourself out.
PS. You might want to curtail your coffee intake after 5 PM...
I don't know who you are, but I know what you are. I've run into people like you all my life, and I've learned not to waste my time.You're only feigning interest in the subject matter. If you had even a minimal threshold of interest, you would, of your own volition, go searching around for additional information. That's what people do who sincerely have an interest in something.
But no, you camaflouge your true interest level (=none), by claiming the lame "I don't have to do anything, you're the one that has to show me proof!"
Well, let's talk about "proof". Like I said above, I know what you are. No amount of proof will be satisfactory for you. How do I know this? Well, besides skipping a discussion, and wanting the proof right now!, you tipped your hand in another way.
See, you require "peer reviewed" proof. Snobbery. And it's your "out".
"Well," says Poohbag, "that's not a recognized peer group."
I once told a friend about a federal law that Congress passed. He didn't believe me. I assured him it was a fact. He asked for proof. I told him I had a photocopy from the United States Code from my local library.
In other words, I had conclusive evidence of my claim.
His reply? Mr. Prove It Me?
"Well, you can't believe everything you read."
You're that guy. Same modus operandi. And same waste of time.
Yes - The lawyers are setting the groundwork for future lawsuits.
Don't expect us to believe your obviously biased garbage.
No, I know what you are. You are someone who is quick to throw around arguments, but cannot back them.
Hehe. This reminds me of my great grandmother, may she rest in peace, when she used to talk about television.
In many countries, a cell phone is all you are going to get. It won't be long before more people have cellular than copper. But hey, the good news is, after everyone is dead from brain cancer, you and a few tibetan monks will be the only ones competing for real estate.
I think you've got that backwards. The longer the wavelength, the less likely any part of your body is acting like a resonant antenna. A full wavelength at 450mhz (like the "Family Radio Service" radios you can buy at Shadio Rack) is in the vicinity of 12 inches and the higher the frequency, the shorter the wavelength. The shorter the wavelength, the more likely you are to really need a tin-foil hat. Grab the antenna of even an hf (3.5-30mhz - wavelenth from 250ft to 40ft) radio while it's transmitting at 25 watts and you can get RF burns. That's physical heating of your skin. I have personally experienced RF heating of my hands when merely waving them near leaky microwave waveguide (less than 3 watts) or near the edge of a uplink antenna. This is the same thing as sticking your hands in a microwave oven while it's turned on (not likely with interlocks on the door....).
Admittedly, a handheld celery phone only runs 100mw - given some gain in the antenna, it's still orders of magnitude less power than what I've been talking about. However, a mobile unit transmits something on the order of 3 watts which at microwave is enough to feel if you grab the antenna while it's transmitting.
I worked in the telecom business from land mobile radio to terrestrial microwave point-to-point to satellite television earth stations (fixed and mobile) for better than 15 years. I've received well over $50,000 worth of training in microwave transmission systems. I don't have a third eye growing out of the back of my head yet. Obviously, I don't have an irrational fear of RF exposure or I wouldn't have subjected myself to as much as I have. On the other hand, I would prefer to limit my exposure to ANY RF and microwave in particular. I personally would not like to live near a cell tower. I would not like to live near a TV transmitter antenna farm (particularly UHF) and I would rather not live near high-tension power lines. (I personally know a guy who was working on a UHF television transmitter antenna when some dummy down below turned the transmitter on. That guy was never quite the same after that - and everybody in the market he worked in knew it. Granted, he was subjected to HUGE, MEGA, GIGANTOR AMOUNTS of RF radiation compared to a cell phone but the point is he was damaged.)
Until more is known about its effects on people is known, anyone that casually dismisses RF radiation exposure, even if at a low level, is simply being foolish.
I can't wait!
And if those monks think that they're going to get a free ride from me they never saw 'The Omega Man'.
You have the right to not have a cell phone, and I have the right to have one....and I do......I don't have to worry that I might end up on the side of the road, in the dark, with car trouble and have no way to contact someone for help. If you are married, or have a Mother or Father and you chose to allow them to drive with no cell phone for an emergency, then that is your choice.......my husband values my life and safety more than that.
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