Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take “immediate steps” to reduce exposure to their radiation.
The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks.
It draws on growing evidence – exclusively reported in the IoS in October – that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer. Cancers take at least a decade to develop, invalidating official safety assurances based on earlier studies which included few, if any, people who had used the phones for that long.
Earlier this year, the French government warned against the use of mobile phones, especially by children. Germany also advises its people to minimise handset use, and the European Environment Agency has called for exposures to be reduced.
Professor Khurana – a top neurosurgeon who has received 14 awards over the past 16 years, has published more than three dozen scientific papers – reviewed more than 100 studies on the effects of mobile phones. He has put the results on a brain surgery website, and a paper based on the research is currently being peer-reviewed for publication in a scientific journal.
He admits that mobiles can save lives in emergencies, but concludes that “there is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours”. He believes this will be “definitively proven” in the next decade.
Noting that malignant brain tumours represent “a life-ending diagnosis”, he adds: “We are currently experiencing a reactively unchecked and dangerous situation.” He fears that “unless the industry and governments take immediate and decisive steps”, the incidence of malignant brain tumours and associated death rate will be observed to rise globally within a decade from now, by which time it may be far too late to intervene medically.
“It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking,” says Professor Khurana, who told the IoS his assessment is partly based on the fact that three billion people now use the phones worldwide, three times as many as smoke. Smoking kills some five million worldwide each year, and exposure to asbestos is responsible for as many deaths in Britain as road accidents.
Late last week, the Mobile Operators Association dismissed Khurana’s study as “a selective discussion of scientific literature by one individual”. It believes he “does not present a balanced analysis” of the published science, and “reaches opposite conclusions to the WHO and more than 30 other independent expert scientific reviews”.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) quickly approved the implanting of VeriChip RFID Chips in humans. They have called the implanting of RFID chips in people “safe” and an “innovative technology”.
What the FDA has failed to recognize is that numerous studies have shown a high percentage of animals with the RFID chip implants grew cancerous tumors.
Several studies have been conducted since 1996 involving laboratory mice, rats, and some dogs and all studies found that the animals who were implanted had a high rate of cancerous tumors which would grow around the chip.
When asked if they knew about these studies, the FDA said they had no knowledge of them. When asked what studies they did review before approving the chip, the FDA refused to reveal that information.
A Freedom of Information Act request was then submitted by RFID chip expert and privacy advocate Dr. Katherine Albrecht. The FDA claimed they had no documents that matched that request.
In a never ending quest to ‘improve coverage’, telecommunications companies like Sanswire Networks are proposing sending blimps containing cell phone antennas into the sky.
These cell phone antenna blimps would be sent 13 miles into the sky. The blimps would provide coverage to a large area and be controlled using remote-control.
Bob Jones, president of Sanswire Networks, said the blimps would replace “unsightly towers” and each blimp would stay in the sky for a year and a half, before being replaced.
Buyer beware.
The RF microwave radiation coming from the blimps would be more hazardous than the radiation from a cell phone tower due to the lack of any buffers that help shield the radiation such as trees.
So, in addition to the 1.9 million ‘unsightly’ cell phone towers on the ground in the US, just how many unsightly blimps in our skys can we look forward to?
Pictured above is a cell phone antenna test blimp.
According to AntennaSearch.com, there are 1.9 million cell phone towers and antennas located in the US. How many of those cell phone towers and antennas are near your home? How many near your children’s school?
Before investing in real estate, it is a good idea to check out the number of cell phone towers and antennas near the area. Not only are you protecting the health of your family, you are also protecting your real estate investment. Just as homes near power towers lose value, homes near cell phone towers and antennas will do the same.
Keep in mind, the majority of cell phone towers and antennas near you, you probably have never seen. Over 25% of cell phone towers and antennas are hidden; disguised as trees, water towers, flag poles, gas station signs, chimneys, boulders and even tombstones. That wholesome looking cilo pictured above, you guessed it, is a cell phone tower.
Another large percentage of cell phone towers and antennas are under 200 feet tall, making them nowhere near as conspicuous as the 200+ feet tall (undisguised) cell towers while conveniently allowing them to be erected without being registered by the Federal Communications Commision (FCC).
Which brings us to the accuracy of Cell Phone Searches. Although many searches are thorough, many of the cell towers and antennas are not registered, making it a bit more cumbersome to keep track of how many are being put up.
To search for cell phone towers and future cell phone towers near your home, go to antennasearch.com.
According to a recent article by Sleep Counselor Janet Kinosian, ” Somehow, bedrooms have transformed from a simple place for sleep and rejuvenation into info/entertainment centers.”
“If you’re a good consumer, you’ll have a TV, portable phone, CD player or iPod, cell phone, electric alarm clock, radio, perhaps a computer, laptop, fax, scanner, a DVD or video player, and even the dreaded BlackBerry — you get the idea. These electronics — particularly the television and computer screens — jam up your air and emit energy waves long after they’ve been turned off.”
“Madison Avenue will never tell you about electromagnetic fields when they try to sell you the latest entertainment gadget, which today inevitably gets placed in the bedroom; its buyer and sleeper beware.”
“It’s bad enough being so wired on the info-mania highway during daytime, but please don’t drag it into your sleep hours. If you want to get better sleep - and even if you think you do sleep well enough - clean out the electronics from your bedroom,” says Janet.
Sleep is the body’s time to heal. Providing yourself with a healthy sleep environment that allows the body to do its nightly repair work has always been of utmost importance in ancient systems such as Feng Shui.
According to Janet, there is an alternative to sleeping pills.
“Tally up the electronic devices in your bedroom, and weed most out.”
For those electronics that you are unable to remove from the bedroom, Feng Shui recommends moving them at least four feet away from the bed, since EMF Fields dissipate with distance.
Janet recommends neutralizing EMFs from devices that can not be removed.
“Plants help absorb some of this electrical pollution: the rule of thumb is one big plant per item of electronic equipment. Palms, peace lilies, and spider plants are said to absorb the most electrical charges.”
There are currently over 1.9 million cell phone towers and antennas in the US, according to AntennaSearch.com. There are now 6 less in Sydney, Australia.
Gerald Goldberg, a US medical doctor and researcher, has authored a book on microwave radiation called “Would You Put Your Head in a Microwave Oven?”
In this book, Dr. Goldberg links microwave radiation with many seemingly unrelated illnesses and points out how the planetary rise in wireless microwave radiation has paralleled the rise of many modern diseases. He refers to earth as being transformed into an “open microwave system” and shows how “slow exposure to EMFs is masquerading as various illnesses”.
Dr. Goldberg uses Dosimetry Studies done by the US Air Force to show which organs of the body are most vulnerable to cumulative microwave radiation exposure.
According to Dr. Goldberg, the “handwriting is on the wall” regardless of what the so-called experts want you to believe.
As more and more evidence points to severe health hazards associated with cell phone radiation emissions, how can it be that cell phones were so easily approved for use by the FDA? And how can it be that Cell Phones were approved without any preliminary premarket testing?
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the governing body responsible for regulating wireless phones. This authority was granted to the FDA under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1968 (originally titled Radiation Control for Public Health and Safety) and then again under the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
Cell Phones were not only approved but exempt from any regulations by the FDA based upon a widely accepted but scientifically unconfirmed theory that the effect of radio waves operating below SAR levels of 40 watts did not produce tissue heating. Since cell phones operate far below 40 watts, with power less than .6 of 1 watt, cell phones were exempt from any regulations.(The calculation of SAR begins by measuring the amount of heat that is generated by radio waves passing through tissue at one specified moment.)(1)
Both the FDA as well as the most influential standard-setting group for radio frequency radiation (the IEEE/American National Standards Institute) used these unconfirmed findings as substantiated evidence that cell phones posed no health hazard and were safe. This was also the rationale the government used to explain why they had not required premarket testing before millions of Americans would begin using cell phones on a regular basis.
While the FDA sees fit to continue its push to regulate herbs such as lobelia, it does not consider microwave radiation to the brain as something that requires any regulations.
What should come as no shock is the depths of corruption regarding big business, big government and big money when it comes to the regulation (or more accurately the lack of regulation) of cell phones.
Sources:
(1)Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age by Dr. George Carlo and Martin Schram pg 21
Although official government agencies and the telecommunications industry keep reporting studies proving there are no adverse health reactions to electronic smog, the World Health Organization (WHO) seems to be taking electromagnetic pollution and its subsequent result of electrical sensitivity quite seriously, as it has released a fact sheet on Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity that holds governments responsible for educating citizens as to the possible health hazards associated with electromagnetic fields.
The WHO EMF Sensitivity Fact Sheet begins by addressing the growing amount of EMF fields that people are being exposed to on a daily basis.
“As societies industrialize and the technological revolution continues, there has been an unprecedented increase in the number and diversity of electromagnetic field (EMF) sources. These sources include video display units (VDUs) associated with computers, mobile phones and their base stations. While these devices have made our life richer, safer and easier, they have been accompanied by concerns about possible health risks due to their EMF emissions.
For some time a number of individuals have reported a variety of health problems that they relate to exposure to EMF. While some individuals report mild symptoms and react by avoiding the fields as best they can, others are so severely affected that they cease work and change their entire lifestyle. This reputed sensitivity to EMF has been generally termed “electromagnetic hypersensitivity” or EHS.”
The WHO Fact Sheet goes on to compare Electrical Sensitivity to Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, noting that both cause a wide-range of non-specific symptoms.
“EHS resembles multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS), another disorder associated with low-level environmental exposures to chemicals. Both EHS and MCS are characterized by a range of non-specific symptoms that lack apparent toxicological or physiological basis or independent verification. ”
“EHS is characterized by a variety of non-specific symptoms, which afflicted individuals attribute to exposure to EMF. The symptoms most commonly experienced include dermatological symptoms (redness, tingling, and burning sensations) as well as neurasthenic and vegetative symptoms (fatigue, tiredness, concentration difficulties, dizziness, nausea, heart palpitation, and digestive disturbances). The collection of symptoms is not part of any recognized syndrome.”
The WHO Fact Sheet gives an estimation of the percentage of the population believed to be suffering from EMF Sensitivity. They note that one study estimated only a few individuals per million, while another study found the number to be considerably higher, with 10% of those reported cases of electrical sensitivity said to be “severe”.
The WHO conclude by stating that;
“EHS is characterized by a variety of non-specific symptoms that differ from individual to individual. The symptoms are certainly real and can vary widely in their severity. Whatever its cause, EHS can be a disabling problem for the affected individual.”
The curse of the mobile phone age: around your home there are countless gadgets whose electrical fields, scientists now warn, are linked to depression, miscarriage and cancer.
The evidence - which is being taken seriously by national and international bodies and authorities - suggests that almost everyone is being exposed to a new form of pollution with countless sources in daily use in every home.
Two official Department of Health reports on the smog are to be presented to ministers next month, and the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has recently held the first meeting of an expert group charged with developing advice to the public on the threat.
The UN’s World Health Organisation (WHO) calls the electronic smog “one of the most common and fastest growing environmental influences” and stresses that it “takes seriously” concerns about the health effects. It adds that “everyone in the world” is exposed to it and that “levels will continue to increase as technology advances”.
Wiring creates electrical fields, one component of the smog, even when nothing is turned on. And all electrical equipment - from TVs to toasters - give off another one, magnetic fields. The fields rapidly decrease with distance but appliances such as hair dryers and electric shavers, used close to the head, can give high exposures. Electric blankets and clock radios near to beds produce even higher doses because people are exposed to them for many hours while sleeping.
Radio frequency fields - yet another component - are emitted by microwave ovens, TV and radio transmitters, mobile phone masts and phones themselves, also used close to the head.
The WHO says that the smog could interfere with the tiny natural electrical currents that help to drive the human body. Nerves relay signals by transmitting electric impulses, for example, while the use of electrocardiograms testify to the electrical activity of the heart.
Campaigners have long been worried about exposure to fields from lines carried by electric pylons but, until recently, their concerns were dismissed, even ridiculed, by the authorities.
But last year a study by the official National Radiological Protection Board concluded that children living close to the lines are more likely to get leukaemia, and ministers are considering whether to stop any more homes being built near them. The discovery is causing a large-scale reappraisal of the hazards of the smog.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer - part of the WHO and the leading international organisation on the disease - classes the smog as a “possible human carcinogen”. And Professor David Carpenter, dean of the School of Public Health at the State University of New York, told The Independent on Sunday last week that it was likely to cause up to 30 per cent of all childhood cancers. A report by the California Health Department concludes that it is also likely to cause adult leukaemia, brain cancers and possibly breast cancer and could be responsible for a 10th of all miscarriages.
Professor Denis Henshaw, professor of human radiation effects at Bristol University, says that “a huge and substantive body of evidence indicates a range of adverse health effects”. He estimates that the smog causes some 9,000 cases of depression.
Perhaps strangest of all, there is increasing evidence that the smog causes some people to become allergic to electricity, leading to nausea, pain, dizziness, depression and difficulties in sleeping and concentrating when they use electrical appliances or go near mobile phone masts. Some are so badly affected that they have to change their lifestyles.
While not yet certain how it is caused, both the WHO and the HPA accept that the condition exists, and the UN body estimates that up to three in every 100 people are affected by it.
Case History: ‘I felt I was going into meltdown’
Until a year ago, Sarah Dacre reckoned she had a “blessed life”. Running her own company, and living in an expensive north London home, the high-earning divorcee described herself as “fab, fit and 40s”. Then suddenly the sight in her right eye failed: she first noticed it when she was unable to read an A-Z map. Soon she was getting pains and numbness in her joints. She could not sleep and spent nights “pacing about like a caged lion”. Her short-term memory failed and if she took notes to remind her, she would forget she had made them.
The symptoms got worse whenever she was exposed to electricity. She could not use a computer for more than five minutes without becoming nauseous. Even using a telephone landline gave her a buzzing in the ear and made her feel she was “going into meltdown”.
