Cell phones: Communications for the 21st Century
or The Road to Medical Armageddon?
By Amy Worthington
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/cellphonetowersaidordisasterapr02.shtml
From the April 2002 Idaho Observer
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:
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
From the April 2002 Idaho Observer: http://proliberty.com/observer/20020409.htm
Forward courtesy of < ebrittingham@gci.net >
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