Wireless Radiation: the Elephant in the Classroom - November 9, 2024 - Forest Row, United Kingdom

Wireless Radiation: the Elephant in the Classroom - November 9, 2024 - Forest Row, United Kingdom

Evidence-based conference on biological impacts of wireless radiation on children, adults and wildlife, with expert advice on mitigation.

There will be two presentations from leading experts on biological impacts of wireless radiation, particularly on children, with a focus on mitigation strategies for schools. There will be a break for refreshments, a Question and Answer session, and a mitigation workshop from an engineering expert.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wireless-radiation-the-elephant-in-the-classroom-tickets-1014326486827

All proceeds from the event will be used to cover costs with any additional funds donated to the non-profit Environmental Health Trust.

Other Countries Are Taking the Health Risks of 5G and Wireless Radiation Seriously. Why Isn’t the U.K.?

Other Countries Are Taking the Health Risks of 5G and Wireless Radiation Seriously. Why Isn’t the U.K.?
by Gillian Jamieson, dailysceptic.org, 29 October 2024

Momentum is building in the campaign to try to protect children from harmful smartphone use. Earlier this year, Miriam Cates MP led a lively debate on this subject, while the Education Committee led an inquiry entitled, ‘Screen Time – Impacts on Education and Wellbeing’. The grassroots movement, including Smartphone Free Childhood, Safe Screens and others is gathering pace. The latter organisation is in fact actively supporting MP Josh MacAlister’s Safer Phones Bill launched earlier this month, which aims to “make smartphones less addictive for children and empower families and teachers to cut down on children’s daily smartphone screen time”.

The dangers of smartphone use are clearly serious and encompass addiction, harmful content, exposure to sexual abuse and bullying, disruption of learning, behavioural changes through the habits adopted and the loss of previously normal childhood activities and social interactions. The movement hails Jonathan Haidt as the “world’s leading voice” on the damage caused to children by a phone-based childhood. Haidt identifies the damage as an “adolescent mental health crisis”.

Switzerland: 2023 monitoring report on non-ionizing radiation

2023 monitoring report on non-ionizing radiation in Switzerland
(source: www.info-emf.ch/monitoring) - auto-translation

The 2023 monitoring report presents several problems :

We persist in only taking into account the RMS values ​​(effective average values) and not the peak values, whereas it is mainly the latter which are decisive for the impacts at the biological level.

These measured values ​​are compared in this way to the maximum admissible immission value according to the ORNI [Ordinance on protection against non-ionizing radiation] which is much too high (up to 61V/m) because it is based solely on considerations of thermal effects, even though the BERENIS expert group [Swiss expert group on electromagnetic fields and non-ionizing radiation] mandated by the FOEN [Federal Office for the Environment] acknowledged having observed effects at values ​​lower than the maximum emission values ​​authorised for installations, which are 5V/m as a general rule.

Exposures that are already far too high according to the biological criteria of EUROPAEM [European Academy for Environmental Medicine] and habitat biology are declared as "low".

Measurements are only taken in schools in playgrounds and corridors, and never in classrooms, which are heavily irradiated due to all the wireless devices used.

Therefore, it is not possible to subscribe to what the FOEN says:

"The results indicate that population exposure to RNI is generally low and that health protection is assured."

Effects of Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields: Thirty years of research

Effects of Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields: Thirty years of research
saferenr.com, 24 October 2024

The preponderance of peer-reviewed research published since 1990 has found significant adverse effects from exposure to radio frequency radiation and extremely low frequency and static electromagnetic fields.

 
Dr. Henry Lai, Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, Editor Emeritus of the journal, Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine, and an emeritus member of the International Commission on the Biological Effects of EMF, has compiled summaries of the research on the biological effects of exposure to radio frequency (RFR) and extremely low frequency (ELF) and static electromagnetic fields (EMF). His set of abstracts which covers the period from 1990 to October 2024 constitutes a comprehensive collection of the peer-reviewed research.

Dr. Lai reports that the preponderance of research has found that exposure to RFR or ELF EMF produces oxidative effects or free radicals, and damages DNA. Moreover the preponderance of studies that examined genetic, neurological and reproductive outcomes has found significant effects. Among hundreds of studies of RFR, 71% to 89% reported significant effects. Among hundreds of studies of ELF and static fields, 75% to 90% reported significant effects.

Cell Phone Dangers Prompt FOIA Requests - FOIAengine: Questions from Siri & Glimstad Point to Possible Litigation

Cell Phone Dangers Prompt FOIA Requests -
FOIAengine: Questions from Siri & Glimstad Point to Possible Litigation
by David Nayer, lawstreetmedia.com, 23 October 2024

Does radiation from cell phones and cell towers affect human health? There has long been controversy around this question, which the federal government has tried to put to rest by issuing findings that there is no clear evidence of a health impact and by refuting earlier studies that found that biological changes associated with radiofrequency radiation. But, as recent Freedom of Information Act requests demonstrate, the controversy isn’t going away.

According to PoliScio Analytics’ competitive-intelligence database FOIAengine, which tracks FOIA requests in as close to real-time as their availability allows, 20 cell phone and cell tower radiation requests have been submitted to the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institute of Health since January of 2021.

Washington Post Shines Light on What Modern Life Is Like for People With Electromagnetic Sensitivity

Washington Post Shines Light on What Modern Life Is Like for People With Electromagnetic Sensitivity

The Washington Post reported on dozens of “electrosensitive” people who moved to a remote West Virginia town with no cell service rather than endure heart arrhythmia, headaches, eye problems, burning skin, brain fog, fatigue and other symptoms caused by exposure to electromagnetic fields.

by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., childrenshealthdefense.org, October 23, 2024

The Washington Post last week reported on dozens of “electrosensitive” people who moved to a remote West Virginia town with no cell service, drawing mainstream media attention to how wireless radiation can cause some people to experience life-altering health symptoms.

Electrosensitivity — sometimes referred to as electromagnetic sensitivity (EMS), electromagnetic hypersensitivity or microwave syndrome — is a federally recognized condition in which people experience adverse health effects due to electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure.

The Post interviewed residents of Green Bank, West Virginia, some of whom said EMF exposure previously had caused them to experience heart arrhythmia, headaches, eye problems, burning skin, brain fog, memory issues, fatigue and/or other symptoms.

So they moved to Green Bank, an EMF-free town situated in a roughly 13,000-square-mile area spanning Virginia and West Virginia. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1958 created the protected area — dubbed the National Radio Quiet Zone — because the area is home to the Green Bank Telescope.

The telescope, considered “the most accurate, versatile, large dish radio telescope in the world,” is powerful enough to pick up “the super-faint clouds of hydrogen that hang out between the stars and galaxies.” Because cell tower or Wi-Fi signals would drown out the subtle signals picked up by the telescope, the FCC protected the area from radiofrequency (RF) radiation-EMF interference.

Continue reading:
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/electromagnetic-sensitive-people-washington-post/

Germany: Concrete Help for Those Affected by Electrohypersensitivity

Electrohypersensitivity: Concrete help for those affected in Germany

diagnose-ehs.org (site in German) auto-translation

Recently, the diagnose:funk doctors network went online in Germany. This is supposed to provide people with electrohypersensitivity across Germany with an overview of where and with whom they can listen to their complaints (for the first time).

While in Switzerland, people suffering from electromagnetic hypersensitivity can already seek professional advice at the medical network MedNIS since 2023, Germany is still significantly behind in this. Although the Robert Koch Institute recognized as early as January 2020 that “patients with environmentally related or caused health disorders are finding it increasingly difficult to receive environmental medical care”, it has hardly taken any steps in this regard to date.

The network of doctors set up by diagnose:funk is now set to change this. The 50 doctors involved so far

- take EHS sufferers with the cause of the illness of radio radiation seriously.

- do not regard EHS as a psychological condition.

- try to provide support as much as they can.

New study links cellphone radiation to brain cancer, challenges WHO findings

New study links cellphone radiation to brain cancer, challenges WHO findings
By Olusegun Odunewu, nationaldailyng.com, 23 October 2024

Full text of study: 
"Relationship between radiofrequency-electromagnetic radiation from cellular phones and brain tumor: meta-analyses using various proxies for RF-EMR exposure-outcome assessment"

https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-024-01117-8

A new peer-reviewed study from South Korea has found a significant link between cellphone radiation and an increased risk of brain cancer, directly contradicting a recent World Health Organization (WHO)-led study that dismissed any such connection.

Published on October 10 in Environmental Health, the South Korean study analyzed 24 previous studies and concluded that heavy, long-term cell phone use increases the risk of malignant brain tumors, including meningioma and glioma, particularly on the side of the head where cellphones are held.

This study adds to growing evidence that cellphone radiation poses a potential health risk, bringing the total number of meta-analyses since 2016 linking radiation to brain cancer to seven, according to Joel Moskowitz, Ph.D., a leading expert on wireless technology and public health.

Moskowitz, who directs the Center for Family and Community Health at UC Berkeley, criticized the WHO’s recent review, stating that these seven studies clearly contradict its findings.

United States: Children's Health Defense Launches Stop 5G Initiative to Help Communities Challenge Cell Towers

CHD Launches Stop 5G Initiative to Help Communities Challenge Cell Towers

Children’s Health Defense has launched Stop 5G, a new initiative to empower communities to effectively oppose the installation of cell towers and small cells in their neighborhoods.
by Children’s Health Defense EMR & Wireless Team

Children’s Health Defense (CHD) has launched the Stop 5G: Empowering Citizens to Protect their Community Initiative, a step-by-step guide communities can follow to mount an effective defense against proposed and existing cell towers in their neighborhoods.

The initiative is designed to help people take action on their own or with the support of CHD’s Stop5G Community Empowerment Consulting service, which offers legal representation, expert consultation and advocacy services through our partnership with attorney W. Scott McCollough, lead counsel for CHD’s EMR & Wireless program.

United Kingdom: Fight begins to make mobile-free schools law

Fight begins to make mobile-free schools law
by Vanessa Clarke, Education reporter, BBC News, and Branwen Jeffreys Education Editor, BBC News•@branwenjeffreys, 15 Oct. 2024, bbc.com

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Calls are growing to ban smartphones in schools in England by law, as education experts and unions back an MP’s attempt to push a new law through Parliament.

Children “doomscrolling for hours a day” is causing widespread harm, according to Josh MacAlister, the Labour MP and former teacher behind the private member's bill being introduced in the House of Commons on Wednesday.

Most schools in England already have a ban or restrictions on phone use, after government guidance was introduced earlier this year.

But Mr MacAlister wants to turn the guidance into law, as well as bringing in what he calls “seatbelt legislation” for children’s social-media use.