News from MICROWAVE NEWS - WARNING: HIGH FREQUENCY

by Paris08, Thursday, December 01, 2011, 09:01 (539 days ago)
edited by admin, Monday, December 12, 2011, 01:03

Source of information: www.microwavenews.com , Short Takes, November 30, 2011

Christopher Ketcham ( http://www.christopherketcham.com/ ), who made a splash early last year with his GQ piece, "Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your Health," is back on the EMF beat with a cover story in the latest issue of Earth Island Journal:

"Warning: High Frequency."

( http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/warning_high_frequency )

The first warning centered on brain tumor risks; the new one focuses on electromagnetic hypersensitivity. One quote from Carl Blackman of the U.S. EPA highlights how controversial the whole issue is: "With my government cap on, I'm supposed to tell you you're perfectly safe," Blackman tells [a woman whose family and farm animals are bedeviled with health problems after a cell tower was installed nearby]. "With my civilian cap on, I have to tell you to consider leaving." See also the accompanying comments by the editor of Earth Island Journal.

Comments by B. Blake Levitt (*), November 30, 2011:
Excellent piece, Chris, as usual. You hit all of the highspots. And thanks to Earth Island Journal for giving the subject decent word count. One thing though… the paper that Dr. Henry Lai and I co-authored on infrastructure exposures, entitled “Biological effects from exposure to electromagnetic radiation emitted by cell tower base stations and other antenna arrays,” appeared in 2010 in Environmental Reviews [18:369-395], one of the peer-reviewed publications of Canada’s now-privatized National Research Council Press, not as stated in the International Commission on Electromagnetic Safety’s publication. I have no doubt that EHS exists. Too many people now report identical symptoms from low-level exposures that are not supposed to be happening according to standard physics models. But then standard linear physics models do not take non-linear effects into consideration. An allergy is a classic non-linear reaction, i.e. a small amount of a substance like bee pollen will cause a seemingly out-of-proportion reaction such as anaphylactic shock. (In fact, all biology is non-linear, including the weather.) No one knows why some people develop allergies to specific things. But Olle Johansson’s work that found changes in skin mast cells are a good indicator of both how and why EHS might be occurring and verified, if not treated. As the body’s largest organ, skin is our first contact with the world. The elephant in the room re: our increasing ambient exposures to EMF/RF is that biology is far more complex than simplistic physics models can or ever will encompass. The wrong profession has been traditionally in charge of this. Plus, any safety standards in place at regulatory agencies are for high-intensity, short-term acute exposures, not the low-level chronic ones common today. In addition, no one takes cumulative effects into consideration from the myriad wireless products embraced by so many today. It is no wonder that some people’s immune system reach a tipping point. We have a biological problem now, not a physics one. And as with us, so with other species. We are not the only ones being affected. Some species are fantastically sensitive to low-level EMF and in fact rely on the earth’s natural fields for migration, mating, etc. Environmentalists, please take note—there is a wealth of information on adverse effects to wildlife. Please consider some of it before continuing to microchip pets, which can develop deadly sarcomas around the chips, or attaching radio collars to everything that moves…

(*) B. Blake Levitt is an award winning medical science writer, author of “Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumer’s Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves”

Louis Slesin, editor of Microwavenews: “We’re electromagnetic beings. You wouldn’t have a thought in your head without electromagnetic signals. There is electrical signaling going on in your body all the time, and the idea that external electromagnetic fields can’t affect us just doesn’t make sense.”

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