Lulled in to Risk: Cell Phones are not as safe as you've been told

Misleading Danish Mobile Phones and Brain Tumour Study

 

Just about every news outlet is telling you that your cell phone is safe, yet no one is really telling you about the faults in the study. 

 

I have been researching the cell phone and related microwave issue for almost 15 years.  Everything I have read issues a risk.  And I have read research dating back to the early 1940s.

 

Of course you can make a choice to use a cell phone, a microwave, a smart meter, or have wi-fi in your home but just don't be lulled by junk science.  Get properly informed first before you wake up in 10 years with leukemia because your red blood cell production is failing because you carry your cell phone on your belt, or you can't have children, or you get thyroid disease or breat cancer, ovariam cancer or your children have behavioral problems or you get a heart attack.

 

"This misleading study has many flaws and serious confounders and should not give anyone reassurance that mobile phone use is not associated with an increase in brain tumours. In our opinion the paper should not have been published in this form — it should have failed peer-review. We recommend that it is disregarded as low quality science.
Denis Henshaw, Emeritus Professor of Human Radiation Effects at the University of Bristol agrees with this view: "This seriously flawed study misleads the public and decision makers about the safety of mobile phone use. I consider that their claims are worthless."" READ complete article

 

and  find more in this press release -

 

INDUSTRY PLAYS ‘DOUBT’ CARD TO DOWNPLAY IARC/WHO FINDINGS’

The BMJ is set to publish an 'update' to a study that finished over 4 years ago

[1](and used dataeven older) and was widely criticised at the time for its design - that it appeared to be

designed tocome out negative for tumours in that they had excluded heavy mobile phone users from the study(the business users).More recent studies - including the Interphone Study (itself somewhat flawed) - have shown asignificant increased incident of brain tumours and related cancers in long-term (10 years use for1/2 hour per day) mobile phone users.Because of these other studies etc. the World Health Organisation (WHO) in conjunction with theInternational Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) have this year declared microwave radiation -used by mobile phones and other wireless devices - to be a class 2b carcinogen " Possibly carcinogenic  to  humans "[2]

 

This means that microwave radiation is a possible cause of cancer  .The re-release of the Danish study is part of an industry-orchestrated backlash to delay legislationto limit microwave exposure and place mandatory health warnings on mobile phones (in the style ofcigarette packets) and other radiation emitting devices such as WiFi routers, smart meters andcordless landlines. The 4G spectrum sell-off would be adversely affected with such a move.

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This is what we said about the Danish Cohort Study back at the end of 2006:-"

Danish Mobile Phone Study : He who pays the piper, calls the tune.

You might have widely read the story in the Press that "A long-term study, carried out by the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Denmark and published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, has found no increased incidence of cancer among mobile phone users."

However, if you delve a little bit deeper you will find that all is not quite as it seems.

George Carlo, former head of the US WTR research project into Mobile Telephone health effects in the late 1990s had this to say: "John Boice and his colleagues have been on the cell phone industry payroll, and for big money, since the late 1990’s. The money laundering vehicle is the International Epidemiology Institute — the name sounds like a non-profit by design, but make no mistake, this is a big for-profit enterprise. When I ran the WTR, the International  Epidemiology Institute, with  Boice and a fellow  named Joe McLaughlin, applied for funding to do this exact epidemiology study that was released this week. After much discussion within the WTR, they were refused funding because I felt they were blatantly biased and had overtly given us the notion that they would always create findings that were favorable to the industry."

The EM Facts Consultancy had the following to add: "Here’s the latest in industry funded cell phone studies that claim to have the final answer. When you see statements like “There’s really no biological basis for you to be concerned about radio waves,” and “people can become more reassured that these devices are safe” you can be sure the cell phone industry is paying the piper."

EMFacts Article and The Times Article

"http://mastsanity.org/home/2/108-danish-mobile-phone-study--he-who-pays-the-piper-calls-the-tune.html[2] http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2011/pdfs/pr208_E.pdf - IARC possible cancer announcement

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Selections from Natural Health News

 

Natural Health News: San Francisco Passes Cellphone Radiation Law

Jul 20, 2011

At long last, since the discoveries of Dr. Gerorge Carlo in the 1980s about the carcinogenic risk of cell phones, now perhaps there will be more progess towards the truth. San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday unanimously ...

Natural Health News: New reports tell of more cell phone risks

Mar 07, 2008

There was a time not so very long ago that all of us got along very well without cell phones. This month, being Women's Health Month, I especially hope for women that they come to understand the specific risks uncovered ...

Pittsburgh cancer center warns of cell phone risks - Natural ...

Jul 23, 2008

A 2008 University of Utah analysis looked at nine studies — including some Herberman cites — with thousands of brain tumor patients and concludes "we found no overall increased risk of brain tumors among cellular phone ...

Natural Health News: Cell Phone Updates -Know Your Risks

Oct 10, 2009

Hang on to your land line phones. Herb Denenberg in an article for The Bulletin says: “The great cell phone cover-up may be coming to an end. A new report may finally wake the public up to the brain cancer risks of cell ...

SmartMeters Risky in more ways than one

SmartMeters have many drawbacks for consumers but a recent New York Times articles asks "... are they actually dangerous? A study released last week by environmental consulting firm Sage Associates contends that they are. The report claims violations of federal emissions standards at a variety of distances from the meters and argues that the devices are more dangerous when grouped together and when coupled with other wireless technologies.
"Indiscriminate exposure to environmentally ubiquitous pulsed RF from the rollout of millions of new RF sources (smart meters) will mean far greater general population exposures, and potential health consequences," the study says. 

As more and more utilities move to this type of metering to help save on their costs and manipulate your energy usage too, you might want to consider the issues and how they can impact your life and health.

EMF Backlash: Cell towers and SmartMeters from Natural Notes by herbalYODA

UPDATE: 10 August - Clothing that stalks you: Wal-Mart employees will not be removing the RFID tags when items are sold or deactivating the tags  > read more 

UPDATE: 7 August - Non-Consent for Wireless Meters

UPDATE: 3 August - The Pants That Stalked Me

UPDATE: 1 August - As WIFI and other wireless devices escalate so do reports of increasing health risk.

Pulse-modulated microwave emissions from masts and mobile phones

Report on a cancer cluster in an antenna ranges facility

Cancer Mortality near Air Force Bases (include airfields in general)

And note that those RFID tag readers in WalMart - they do read your RFID enhanced (and hackable) driver's license data too.

I've been involved in researching and educating about EMF (electro-magnetic fields) since the mid/late 90s when I helped stop a cell phone tower at the school in my small Cascade foothills town in Washington state.

As EMF exposure escalates so does the science and so does health risk.

Cellular carriers do know the problems but don't usually include it in marketing material.  The data can be found in their patent applications if you really want to learn more about the issues. This concern has led to the newly passed legislation in some areas that now required radiation data to be provided withe phones and other similar type appliances you can can buy.  And this isn't limited to phones, it does apply to all wireless applications.

In 2004 I taught a class on the technology and increasing problems with the ability to diagnose health complaints. This group of health professionals was aghast when I relayed all of the known health concerns that had been identified from EMF exposure in the scientific literature dating back to the 1940s. Much of this had been classified in Navy archives, but had been released in the 90s.

Fast forward to Arizona and 2010. 

Not too long ago I noticed a parent in group in Gilbert taking a very courageous tack against the school board regarding erection of a cell tower on an elementary school yard. Being a bit courageous myself, I sent some information to the group.  So far that cell tower is tabled.

I noticed an older article on azcentral from 2007 about a cell tower going up at another school.  Then I found even more reporting on the proliferation of cell towers throughout the area.  Yikes!  Do I need to carry a tin foil hat with me now? 

Perhaps the money is the lure, but, unwittingly, those who allow these applications may not be fully educated about the risk, and the cell phone companies like it that way.

This takes me a step further in my plan to be in the area soon so I started researching utilities for the area where I'll be.  I noticed that SRP was the power company for my area and they are involved in a change over to SmartMeters. 

SmartMeters meters use wireless technology  that sends out short, high intensity bursts (pulsing) of microwave radiation that communicates your energy use data to the utility.  With very little public input meters get installed and thus begins the influx of complaints about inaccurate bills and even spontaneous combustion of the meters. Some governments have wisely responded by planning to place a moratorium on further installations.

     Read about the risk of almost constantly emitting pulses from the SmartMeter here and here.

I'm not opposed to progress or new technology, but I am a proponent of the precautionary principle. I fall back to "precaution" from my days as a Planning Commissioner and member of the Health and Environment Commission in places where I have lived in the past.

I believe there does need to be an effort by those who are elected to represent the people in any community to require companies that develop and manufacture the technology, and those who introduce them into daily life, to prove the technology is safe before it is globally implemented.

So far the batting average weighs on the side of higher health risk with wireless.  Be forewarned.

And to see just how viral EMF is becoming, read my post about tagged clothing that tracks you...

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