http://www.neuromance.co.za/2009/11/29/are-cellphones-dangerous/

It is a book written by an RF engineer who died from a brain tumour which he attributed the cause to his long standing position as an antenna designer for motorolla.

I understand you are friendly with the iBurst/Mybroadband forum coalition and recently won an expensive prize there (a PS3) in a random competition. (Congrats).

It doesn’t get worse than this.

Look at the Landau study on bees for yourself, it’s available on the net. The researchers looked at how many bees returned over a 45-minute period. Bees are busy, you know, they perform a shuttle operation. Researchers found honeycombs in the radiated hives were at least 20% smaller than in the controls. They took care to look at the “best case” scenario, and still found significant problems.

Elsewhere, I have strongly advocated a massive rollout of fibre optics, as in Australia, so we can have massive bandwidth to each home. This would also help “limit the proliferation” of masts I call for. For this kind of thinking, I get called a caveman. I love good technology, want decent communications, was obsessed with wireless even as a kid. I am just certain that blanketing the landscape with microwaves is going to have incalculabe environmental consequences.

Finally, just so you can see what a proper precautionary warning looks like, this is a recent statement from the Russian government’s radiation protection authority:

Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection

CHILDREN AND MOBILE PHONES:
THE HEALTH OF THE FOLLOWING GENERATIONS IS IN DANGER

Moscow, Russia 14 April 2008

For the first time in history, we face a situation when most children and teenagers in the world are continuously exposed to the potentially adverse influence of the electromagnetic fields (EMF) from mobile phones.

Electromagnetic field is an important biotropic factor, affecting not just a human health in general, but also the processes of the higher nervous activity, including behavior and thinking. Radiation directly affects human brain when people use mobile phones.

Despite the recommendations, listed in the Sanitary Rules of the Ministry of Health, which insist that persons under 18 years should not use mobile phones (SanPiN 2.1.8/2.2.4.1190-03 point 6.9), children and teenagers became the target group for the marketing the mobile communications.

The current safety standards for exposure to microwaves from the mobile phones have been developed for the adults and don’t consider the characteristic features of the children’s organism. The WHO considers the protection of the children’s health from possible negative influence of the EMF of the mobile phones as a highest priority task. This problem has also been confirmed by the Scientific Committee of the European Commission, by national authorities of the European and Asian countries, by participants of the International scientific conferences on biological effects of the EMF.

Potential risk for the children’s health is very high:
─ the absorption of the electromagnetic energy in a child’s head is considerably higher than that in the head of an adult (children’s brain has higher conductivity, smaller size, thin skull bones, smaller distance from the antenna etc.);
─ children’s organism has more sensitivity to the EMF, than the adult’s;
─ children’s brain has higher sensitivity to the accumulation of the adverse effects under conditions of chronic exposure to the EMF;
─ EMF affects the formation of the process of the higher nervous activity;
─ today’s children will spend essentially longer time using mobile phones, than today’s adults will.
According to the opinion of the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, the following health hazards are likely to be faced by the children mobile phone users in the nearest future: disruption of memory, decline of attention, diminishing learning and cognitive abilities, increased irritability, sleep problems, increase in sensitivity to the stress, increased epileptic readiness.

Expected (possible) remote health risks: brain tumors, tumors of acoustical and vestibular nerves (in the age of 25-30 years), Alzheimer’s disease, “got dementia”, depressive syndrome, and the other types of degeneration of the nervous structures of the brain (in the age of 50 to 60).

The members of the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection emphasize ultimate urgency to defend children’s health from the influence of the EMF of the mobile communication systems. We appeal to the government authorities, to the entire society to pay closest attention to this coming threat and to take adequate measures in order to prevent negative consequences to the future generation’s health.

The children using mobile communication are not able to realize that they subject their brain to the EMF radiation and their health – to the risk. We believe that this risk is not much lower than the risk to the children’s health from tobacco or alcohol. It is our professional obligation not to let damage the children’s health by inactivity.

On behalf of members of Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection

Chairman, professor

46, Zhivopisnaya Str., 123182 Moscow, RUSSIA
+7-499-193-0187 rcnirp@mail.ru

http://www.scribd.com/doc/18363669/CHILDREN-AND-MOBILE-PHONES-THE-HEALTH-OF-THE-FOLLOWING-GENERATIONS-IS-IN-DANGER

No there’s no reason to go back to the stone age yet but I don’t see why every network must have their own transmitter in every area to bombard us with millions of times more radiation than we have naturally become accustomed to. I also don’t see why there should be super fast wireless communication at all. If the guavamint did their job in the first place we would all have landlines and be switching to fibre optics that emit practically no outside radiation at all. Something has got to give and it shouldn’t have to be our safety.

I would encourage you to read the Bioinitiative report. An international working group of scientists, researchers and public health policy professionals (The BioInitiative Working Group) released its report on electromagnetic fields (EMF) and health. They reviewed over 2000 research papers and document serious scientific concerns about current limits regulating how much EMF is allowable from power lines, cell phones, and many other sources of EMF exposure in daily life. This is one of many reports raising concerns for public health.

T-Mobile in Germany commissioned ECOLOG to review over 220 pieces of peer reviewed and published papers and they found evidence for: Effects on the central nervous system, Cancer initiating and promoting effects, Impairments of certain brain functions, loss of memory and cognitive function. Ecolog called for the ICNIRP guidelines to be reduced immediately. The Ecolog report was released in the year 2000. However, the report was never translated into English until H.e.s.e. UK recently uncovered it six years later.

Governments should be called to provide evidence demonstrating this form of radiation is safe before forcing the public to live near untested and unregulated radiation. I developed breast cancer at the age of 38 and discovered that I was living in a cancer cluster. I was living 100m from a phone mast. I now realise that we are not alone and there are many similar situations worldwide.

Take a look at the enclosed pie chart which was highlighted at a workshop at the EU Commission in Brussels; the chart was taken from the WHO website.
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/who_and_pubmed_epidemiological_studies_on_base_stations_2006.pdf

To date FOURTEEN epidemiological studies on mobile telecommunication base stations have been published and are referenced either on the EMF WHO database and/or on PUBMED.

10 studies (70%) DID find significant increases in the symptoms being analysed.

A new peer reviewed Swiss study by Frei has shown that mobile phone masts exposure resulted in 32% exposure and mobile phones amounted to 29%, Dect cordless phone base stations 23%. This new study is very worrying as it demonstrates mobile phone masts expose the public to more radiation than mobile phones. Researchers from Bern and Basel universities said individuals are responsible for generating much of the radiation themselves and recommend that people cut down on calls from their mobile devices and buy phones with cords for home use to reduce exposure..”
Download the following report for more information: http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20090618_dect_interphone_rf_exposure.asp

Please find enclosed information about the campaign in the UK; you will find the short film on my story contained in the Rewire.me eMagazine, http://www.rewire.me

View my PowerPoint presentation for the European Commission, Feb 2009.
http://www.radiationresearch.org/pdfs/20090224_eileen_eu_presentation_slides.pdf

See details for a copy of my paper Base Stations and Health concerns paper http://www.radiationresearch.org/pdfs/20061101_base_stations_health_concerns.pdf

And PowerPoint presentation
http://www.radiationresearch.org/pdfs/20061016_hpa_eileen.pdf
My personal story PowerPoint presentation for the Royal Society, London event http://www.radiationresearch.org/pdfs/eileen_my_story.pdf

This mass experiment is a violation against human rights and will go down in history as one of the biggest mistakes ever made against mankind!

Kind Regards,

Eileen O’Connor

Clearly this is absurd and we should thus attempt to strike a balance. However, Muller seems to advocate the complete switching off of all systems that radiate. Telecommunications as we know it will cease to exist and South Africa (and most of the world) will be plunged into the dark ages.

Muller might be happy to live in cave but I, for one, for sure have no such desire.