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SUMMARY
The microwave radiation from mobile phones have harmful effects at intensity levels far below the official safety threshold values . This is confirmed by a considerable body of evidence.
The radiation of the mobile phones is adapted to the these far to high threshold values.
This means that your mobile phone radiation is strong enough to exert harmful influences on your brain and other tissues even at normal usage.
Accumulating evidence indicate that microwave radiation from mobile phones may cause serious diseases and disturbances in the physiology. This includes an increased cancer risk and genetic damage, disturbed brain function and other effects.
Under such conditions the precautionary principle should be applied. It says that people and the environment should not be exposed to influences whose harmful effects are incompletely known. There are especially strong reasons to appy this principle when, as is in the case of mobile phones, there are multiple studies indicating that seriously harmful health effects may occur.
Conclusion
- People should be very restrictive with using mobile phones as there is a growing body of compelling scientific evidence indicating serious hazards. Especially the steadily growing numbers of studies indicating increased risk for brain tumors are worrisome. As it is seems now, it is wise to limit the usage to emergency situations.
- Further buildup of the mobile phone net should be stopped until enough is known about the health risks. As it seems now, steadily increasing evidence indicates that it is too harmful to be acceptable for common usage.
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Quote:"...with medical science indicating increased risks of tumors, cancer, genetic damage and other health problems from the use of cellphones, the government and the cellphone industry have abandoned the public." Source: George Louis Carlo, Ph.D., Martin Schram "Cell phones: Invisible hazards in the wireless age: An Insider's Alarming Discoveries about Cancer and Genetic Damage." To the website of Dr Carlo: "SafeWireless intiative" |
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Significant effects on wellbeing and psychological test performance found at levels far below recommended radiation intensity.
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The top floors of a Melbourne office building were closed down and 100 people evacuated after a seventh worker in as many years was diagnosed with a brain tumour.
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What is safe radiation?
Scientific experts reject governmental safety guidelines
The Catania Resolution
This resolution, made by world leading experts, rejects safety rules based on the belief that mobile phone radiation only can harm by heating the tissues.
The experts find that scientific evidence indicate harmful radiation effects at intensity levels far below the offical safety levels.
This means that the experts disapprove the present official safety guidelines of the European Union, USA, and many other countries. The mobile phones are designed according to these guidelines.
Conclusion
The radiation of mobile phones is too strong to be safe, because their radiation level is based on the outdated and clearly erroneous belief that mobile phone radiation has no other effects on tissues than heating. Experts believe that the maximum level should be 100-1000 times lower than presently allowed.
Selected scientific articles
These are only a few of a considerable body of articles and scientific reports about the effects of mobile phone radiation.
Health risks from Base Station radiation
Great cancer risk increase in the vicinity of a GSM base station
A German study found a threefold higher frequency of cancer among people living in the vicinity (400 m) of a GSM base station compared to people living further away from the antenna. The risk for mammary cancer was 3,4 times greater and the average age of contracting this disease was considerably lower, 50,8 years than in the control group (69,9 years). The frequency increased also the longer people had been exposed to the radiation. The study covered a ten year long period (1994-2004), starting the year after the installation of the base station. Before the installation of the base station, there was no difference in cancer incidence between people living in the vicinity of the (future) base station and the control area.
Source (in German): Horst Eger, Klaus Uwe Hagen, Birgitt Lucas, Peter Vogel, Helmut Voit, Einfluss der räumlichen Nähe von Mobilfunksendeanlagen auf die Krebsinzidenz. Umwelt·Medizin·Gesellschaft | 17 | 4/2004Excerpt:
"The result is a quite concrete epidemiological proof of a connexion between exposition to radiation from GSM Base stations and Cancer. This result is, considering the available documentation about the effect of highfrequency electromagnetic radiation not only plausible but probable."
Comment
There exsists ample and uneqiuvocal evidence today that microwave radiation damages DNA. It has also been established beyond doubt in experimental studies that DNA damage increases cancer risk. This study adds to several others indicating that the DNA damage from microwaves brings about a considerable increase of cancer risk among people exposed to the radiation.
This study is just one of several indicating various health disturbances in people living or working close to base stations (see below).
New Austrian research confirms health effects of base station radiation.
Despite exposure to raditation far below recommended levels (max. 4.1 mW/m2), effects on wellbeing and performance on cognitive tests was observed in a study of 365 subjects living within 20-600 metres from Mobile Phone Base stations.
Source: Hutter HP, Moshammer H, Wallner P, Kundi M. Subjective symptoms, sleeping problems, and cognitive performance in subjects living near mobile phone base stations. Occup Environ Med. 2006 May;63(5):307-13.
Comment
This finding adds to the concerns raised by the report of a remarkable increase of brain tumor rates in the top floors of an office building, see "Mobile Phone Tower causing brain tumors?".
These observations are actually not surprising, as it is a well established scientific fact that mobile phone radiation has biological effects far below the present recommended levels.
These experiences support the theory of the physicist, Dr Hyland, see below, that predicted that base station radiaton can affect humans even at very low intensities.
An explanation how GSM base station can have harmful effects
This is a theoretical explanation based on known biological facts. It makes it evident why even weak microwave radiation can damage DNA.
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Excerpt:
Source: How Exposure to GSM & TETRA Base-station Radiation can Adversely Affect Humans. By Dr Gerard Hyland. NOTE: This is a "pdf" = Adobe Acrobat file. If you cannot open it, download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader here: |
Comment
Hylands predictions comply with the finding of professor Lai that mobile phone radiation damages DNA, see Biological effects of radiofrequency radiation.
Non-thermal effects
In most countries the mobile radiation safety standards are based on the assumption that the only biological effect of microwave (mobile phone) radiation is heating (the so called "thermal effect"). However ample evidence demonstrate that non-thermal effects do exist and may occur at a significantly lower radiation level than what causes heating. This means that present safety standards need to be changed so that they allow considerably lower levels of raditation intensities.
Source "BMC Genomics 2008, 9:77"
- A summary of scientific study abstracts which demonstrate biological effects below the exposure safety thresholds set for various frequencies, commonly used for wireless communications. Dated February 2002. Download in Word format,
- Paper on Non-Thermal Effects for Scientific Workshop.
Quote: There is also some evidence that effects of RFR accumulate over time. Here are some examples: Phillips et al. (1998) reported DNA damage in cells after 24 hours of exposure to low intensity RFR. DNA damage can lead to gene mutation, which accumulates over time. Magras and Xenos (1999) reported that mice exposed to low-intensity RFR became less reproductive. After five generations of exposure, the mice were not able to produce offspring. This shows that the effect of RFR can pass from one generation to another.
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"Free radicals are involved in normal regulatory mechanisms in many tissues, including the brain and vascular systems, and in the regulation of normal programmed-cell-death (apoptosis). Disordered free radical regulation is associated with oxidative stress diseases, including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, coronary heart disease, aging and cancer. Acute and chronic microwave exposure produces single strand breaks in DNA of brain and testis cell nuclei at athermal field levels [italics by PSRAST]. Failure of apoptosis has been cited as a factor in tumorigenesis through failure to eliminate aberrant cell clones which then undergo further progressive mutation leading to tumor formation. In initiated cells with mutated DNA but not tumor forming, overexpression of the enzyme ornithine decarboxylase, demonstrated to be sensitive to microwave fields, allows it to act as a tumor promoter, leading to tumor formation in the absence of other promoters." |
Conclusion
The scientist who declares that there exists no evidence of non-thermal effects of microwave radiation at intensities below present safety norms is either consciously lying or unaware of important research in the field, which means he is incompetent (because a competent scientist has to be aware of all important research in his field).
Unfortunately such scientists exist who serve money rather than the scientific ideal of impartiality. For more about this problem, see "Corrupt Science"
The cancer risk from Mobile phones
from the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority in Finland compared the mobile phone use of 1,521 people with brain cancer (glioma) with that of 3,301 healthy people.
When they looked only at people who had used a mobile for 10 years or more, they found that they were 39 per cent more likely than average to get a glioma on the side of their head where they held their handset.
Professor Anssi Auvinen, an epidemiologist involved in the study, said a causal connection was credible considering that the tumors developed at the side where the phone was held. : "It seems credible as it was after long-term exposure - which makes sense in terms of the length of time it takes for tumours to develop - and it is localised to the side of the head where the handset is held."
Source: "Mobile phone use 'linked to tumour". Daily Telegraph Jan 26 2007.Over 900 cancer patients from the years 1997-2003 have been compared with a control group of over 2000 persons. The conclusion is that those who have used a mobile or a cordless phone for more than one hour a day during ten years ran twice the risk of the control group to have gliomas, the most malignant form of brain tumor.
This study is the largest in the world says a coauthor, Professor Jonas Hardell, a leading independent researcher on mobile phone hazards.
Source: "Pooled analysis of two case-control studies on use of cellular and cordless telephones and the risk for malignant brain tumours diagnosed in 1997-2003", Hardell et al, International Journal of and Occupational and Environmental Health, 16 March 2006..
Excerpt: Three European research groups in separate studies have found an increased risk of brain tumors in people who have used the phones for 10 years or more. Two of the studies found a correlation between the tumor's location and the side of the head where people reported they held the phone. One also suggests the greatest risk is in people who began using the phones before age 20.
Source: "Three groups find danger of tumors" Sun Sentinel, Florida Febr 1 2006
1617 patients with malignant and benign brain tumors were studied by Jonas Hardell, professor of Oncology, Örebro, Sweden. The risk for developing brain tumors was found to increase the more intensely one used the phone and the more years it had been used.
There was a significantly increased risk to develop brain cancer on the same side as one used to hold the phone, but not on the other side.
In addition, the risk was increased by 30% for developing Acoustic Neurinoma, a benign tumor on the auditory nerve that may cause permanent deafness if not removed in time.
Source:"Further aspects on cellular and cordless telephones and brain tumours" (2003)
Comment by PSRASTIt must be noted that tumors are crude indicators of harmful effects on the brain. It takes a considerable impact and a long exposure to damaging influences to cause cancer. If even such a pronounced derangement of cellular functioning may develop, there are strong reasons to believe that many subtle and delicate processess may be affected to an important extent. An expression of such effects are disturbances of brain waves and sleep that have been demonstrated in some studies (see below). Science knows much to little yet to be able to fully assess the impact of microwaves on the brain. |
A study in Israel further confirms other observations of DNA-damaging effects of mobile phone irradiation. It is especially significant that this effect was demonstrated to be caused by non-thermal influence. Moreover, the nature of the induced change (aneuplody) is known to increase the risk of cancer.
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Excerpt: Molecular toxicologist David de Pomerai at the University of Nottingham, UK: "...a consensus is emerging that non-ionising radiation can indirectly damage DNA by affecting its repair system. If the DNA repair mechanism does not work as well as it should, mutations in cells could accumulate, with disastrous consequences. "Cells with unrepaired DNA damage are likely to be far more aggressively cancerous," " |
Harmful effects on the brain
| Quote: "The situation of the growing brain might deserve special concern," the study authors wrote, "since biological and maturational processes are particularly vulnerable. We cannot exclude that after some decades of often daily use, a whole generation of users may suffer negative effects as early as middle age." |
The full article is found at http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1241519&blobtype=pdf. See also popular scientific article about the same issue.
"we found a relationship between headache, fatigue, dizziness, tension and sleep disturbances in subjects exposed to mobile phones emissions. It is advisable therefore; that the use of mobile phones is a risk factor for health hazards and suggest that excessive use of mobile phones should be avoided"
"Inhabitants living nearby mobile phone base stations are at risk for developing neuropsychiatric problems and some changes in the performance of neurobehavioral functions"Source: Abdel-Rassoul G, et al, Neurotoxicology. 2006 Aug 1
General articles
| Quote: "Dr Carlo also said that he "was alarmed that parts of the industry have ignored the scientific findings suggesting potential health effects, have repeatedly and falsely claimed that wireless phones are safe for all consumers including children, and have created an illusion of responsible follow up by calling for and supporting more research". |
Corrupt Science
Increasing numbers of scientists serve corporate interests rather than scientific truth
Science has become dependent on corporate sponsorship to a considerable extent. Their influence is especially great in applied science. Corporations are misusing this dependence to promote their interests by suppressing unfavorable evidence and distorting truth. Leading scientists have been corrupted to promote corporations under the false disguise of "scientific objectivity".
One especially powerful strategy is to have paid scientist create "counterevidence" for every alarming discovery so that it can be said that "the issue is controversial" and that "the scientists have disparate opinions" or that the effect is "not conclusively proven". Thereby restrictive legislation is delayed. The tobacco industry did this for several decades after it had been conclusively proven that smoking is harmful, see for example Lancet article by professor Stanton Glantz (Jan 2005).
Outright falsifications of data by scientists, corrupted by corporations, have been revealed as well as cases where scientists have been forbidden by their sponsors to publish findings that would damage the interests of the corporation (naturally, very few cases are discovered and none has so far been revealed concerning microwave radiation research as far as we know, but this does not rule out an extensive corruption).
Therefore, considering the extensive evidence indicating that mobile phone radition is harmful, it is justified to suspect that scientific reports that deny this are corrupt. Often the research has openly been sponsored by the mobile phone industry. In such cases there are especially strong reasons to question the reliability of the conclusions. Furthermore, the data may have been faked so as to suit the intersts of the sponsor. In other cases there may be a hidden influence (read corruption) from the industry.
It is obvious that the corporations would try to corrupt especially renowned scientists from the most respected universities as this would have the greatest impact. So such merits are by no means
Documents about the corruption of science
- "Industry bias". This article contains a very revealing study that showed a remarkable difference between independent and industry funded research. A few industry funded studies even indicated a protective effect, which runs counter to a huge majority of independent reserach. Therefore it is highly likely that the researchers, in their ambition to please their sponsors, went too far in falsifying the evidence. See the image below, where the protective effect study is the red triangle to the left at the arrowpoint.
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Also the article points out serious errors in the industry funded research of such a magnitude and nature that it seems unlikely that the scientists were so incompetent. The more likely conclusion is that they have been "encouraged" to omit important considerations by the funding industry. A more and more common practice is that the industry just buys the name of some respectable scientist and writes the article on its own. One scientist in the field of genetic engineering who protested against not being allowed to see the research data underlying the article which he was expected to sign, lost his job after pressure on the univeristy from the industry (universities are increasingly economically dependent on industrial sponsorship).
- The late professor Ross Aday has made thoughtful comments on this issue:
- A recent book "Trust us, we are the experts", gives an illuminating picture of how corporations manipulate and distort truth in order to promote their interests.
Excerpt: In 1999 Drummond Rennie, editor of JAMA [Journal of American Medical Association, a world leading medical publication], said private funding of medical research was causing "a race to the ethical bottom.... The behavior of universities and scientists is sad, shocking, and frightening," Rennie said. "They are seduced by industry funding, and frightened that if they don't go along with these gag orders, the money will go to less rigorous institutions," he said. (pg. 217) - Dysfunctional science - Towards a "pseudoscientfic world order"?
Excerpt from the article:
The successful launch of genetically engineered foods with the aid of a useless safety assessment principle endorsed by leading scientists in national and international expert committees is a very serious warning signal. It indicates that we may already be well on the way towards a "new pseudo-scientific world order" where the short term interests of powerful industrial corporations override global long term ecological and health safety considerations. - The New Thought Police - Suppressing Dissent in Science. By Mae-Wan Ho and Jonathan Mathews at Institute of Science in Society (ISIS). Their article further confirms and extends the tenets presented in the above article.
Excerpt: "... Our academic institutions have given up all pretence of being citadels of higher learning and disinterested enquiry into the nature of things; least of all, of being guardians of the public good. The corporate take over of science is the greatest threat to our survival and the survival of our planet. It must be resisted and fought at every level." - The Corporate Corruption of Science.
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"...science is now routinely at the center of controversies where economic incentives to influence scientific opinion toward a consensus favorable to commercial interests are often irresistibly large. Without effective reforms, this may well lead to the neutralization of science..."
- Scientists Identify Corporate Structure as Bad for Public Health
Excerpt
"Corporate power is a major cause of health problems, according to the October/December 2005 special issue of the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health. Contributions to the issue reveal how corporate structure results in pressure to influence science and place the public at risk... "
- PR strategies used to manipulate opinions about GE foods. An illustrative case. The story is essentially the same in the case of mobile phones.
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In many countries, and particularly in the USA, the effects of such harassing and troublesome tactics on independent, careful fundamental research have been near tragic. Beguiled by health hazard research as the only source of funding, accomplished basic scientists have diverted from a completely new frontier in physical regulation of biological mechanisms at the atomic level [we think he means bequiled from, that is, the scientists have been deprived of this only source of funding]. Not only have governments permitted corporate interests in the communications industry to fund this research, they have even permitted them to determine the research questions to be addressed and to select the institutions performing the research. Source: "REFLEX report shows that mobile phone radiation damages living cells". Foreword by Ross Adey |
Bottom line
Considering the extensive evidence of harmful effects of mobile phones, there are good reasons to suspect that scientists and scientific reports denying or downplaying the hazards of mobile phones are corrupt, however renowned the university or famous the scientist may be.
Popular scientific articles
New! "Cellphone radiation affects cells in living humans". Finnish research demonstrated how certain proteins in human cells are altered at the very same level of mobile phone radiation that you are exposed to at calling. This demolishes the attempt by the mobile phone industry to dismiss several other studies demonstrating the same kind of effect because they were made on animals. This was actually a very weak counteragument, because it is well established that animals react in the same way to biophysical influences.- In December 2004, preliminary results of work by 12 groups in seven European countries, the "REFLEX Study", found that radiation at some cell phone levels damages DNA in a laboratory setting. This damage could not always be repaired by the injured cell. The 291-page report is online at http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/reports/20041222_reflex.pdf
In a BBC report, the leader of the four-year REFLEX study, German scientist Franz Adlkofer, said people should use landlines, rather than cell phones, wherever possible.
- Furthermore an Israelian study found DNA damage, see DNA damage from mobile phone radiation
- Also an Italian study, see Cancer cell study revives cellphone safety fears (New Scientist, Oct 2002).
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Dr Gerard Hyland, a theoretical physicist at the International Institute of Biophysics in Neuss, Germany, says "the guidelines [based on heating effects] protect us against something that isn't a problem,"... He argues that, as well as heat, mobile phone and mast microwaves emit a kind of pulsing white noise that interferes with our bodies in the same way that phones interfere with aeroplane or hospital equipment. "The alive human body is an electromagnetic instrument, not just a bag of chemicals," he says. "Information is transported electrically, the body chemistry is controlled by electrical signals."
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| Quote: "Dr George Carlo - the man hired by the cell phone industry to investigate the claims and who for six years had poured cold water on the issue - suddenly had a change of heart. 'The Government and industry needs to take the next steps quickly - because now we have findings that say there could be a problem,' Carlo told reporters." |
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Excerpt:
Comparison of brains from unexposed and exposed rats 
Exposed animals, were much more likely to have albumin leaking from blood vessels in inappropriate locations. This shows as dark dots in the exposed brain above on the right. Control animals, in contrast, showed either no albumin leakage or occasional isolated spots, as seen in the figure on the left. A closer look at the cells within the brain revealed that exposed animals had "scattered and grouped dark neurons... often shrunken.. with loss of internal cell structures." ...A neuronal damage of the kind described here may not have immediate, demonstrable consequences, even if repeated. In the long run, however, it may result in reduced brain reserve capacity that might be unveiled by other later neuronal disease or even the wear and tear of aging. |
| Quote: The shape of the skull "is perfect for making the head serve as a resonator for electromagnetic radiation emitted by the cellphone, which causes it to absorb much of the energy specifically from these wavelengths.". |
| Quote: Many studies have indicated serious biological effects of radiofrequent/microwave radiation. Therefore several researchers recommend microwave exposure to be kept as low as possible. In countries like Australia, Italy, Austria and Switzerland they have already lowered the total exposure limits for high frequent radiation. In June this year, 19 researchers at a conference on transmitters in Salzburg demanded that the total exposure to microwave based radiation must be lowered drastically, due to the biological effects. The recommended limits for radiofrequent/microwave radiation must be reconsidered, focusing the total, long term and biological effects. |
Literature
- "Cellular Telephone Russian Roulette: A Historical and Scientific Perspective". Robert C Kane, former researcher at Motorola.
Quote: "We know today that even one single exposition to a low dose of radiation from a mobile phone will bring about DNA damage in brain cells."
"Repeated damage or irritation in a certain biological zone, for example a small region in the brain may lead to irreparable damage." - "Cell phones: Invisible hazards in the wireless age: An Insider's Alarming Discoveries about Cancer and Genetic Damage." (link to Amazon.com). Dr. George Carlo and Martin Schram. ISBN 00786708182. Carroll & Graf 2000.
Quote:"...with medical science indicating increased risks of tumors, cancer, genetic damage and other health problems from the use of cellphones, the government and the cellphone industry have abandoned the public."
Recension: PC World
Links
- Council on Wireless Technology Impacts - good scientific research list..
- IEGMP, Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones
- EM facts. On Health Hazards with mobile phones and other kinds of electromagnetic radiation.
- EMF health Report. An on-line journal on EMF problems.
- Bener Digest Update. Scientific studies.
- Electric words. A list on mobile phone safety research.
- Cell Phones & Health. List of some scientific studies.
- "The EMF Safety Superstore"
- EMR network, Citizens and professionals for Responsible use of Electromagnetic Radiation.
- The Swedish Association for the Electrosensitive (English language edition).
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