Wireless radiation and health: making the case for proteomics research of individual sensitivity

Wireless radiation and health: making the case for proteomics research of individual sensitivity - Opinion article
Dariusz Leszczynski, Front. Public Health, Sec. Radiation and Health, 10 January 2025
Volume 12 - 2024 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1543818

Introduction

The current deployment of the fifth generation of wireless communication technology (5G) has reignited the long-standing debate around the possibility of health effects from the radiation emitted by the existing wireless communication devices and networks and the new ones introduced by the 5G. The opposition of the part of society toward wireless communication technologies is caused by the uncertainty of whether this radiation affects humans as well as fauna and flora.

Some of the population considers themselves sensitive to wireless radiation, the so-called electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS). Currently, the existence of EHS has not yet been proven scientifically. However, according to the definition of health of the World Health Organization (1) where “health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity”, any person believing his/her health is affected or sensitive to wireless radiation experiences a health effect caused by the wireless radiation. According to the WHO definition of health, just a belief in having EHS and experiencing non-specific symptoms, physiological and/or psychological, is experiencing the health effects of wireless technology. Hence, it is correct to claim that wireless radiation causes health effects.

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https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1543818/full

Ireland: Growing up without your own smartphone

This article includes a discussion of smartphone bans in primary and secondary schools in Europe.

Mobile phone ban in Ireland - Growing up without your own smartphone
by Michael Gerber, srf,ch, 22 Dec. 2024 - auto-translation

Children should be allowed to be children again – spared from social media and cyberbullying. This is what many parents and schools in Ireland want, who have agreed to ban smartphones.

(Photo): Rachel (left) and her sister Jane snack on homemade strawberry cake. RTS

It's afternoon snack time for 10-year-old Jane and her 8-year-old sister Rachel. The two girls have baked a strawberry cake, which their mother Christina Capatina cuts into pieces and distributes.

Rachel and Jane could score points on Instagram and other social media with their strawberry cake. But the girls don't have smartphones to post pictures of it. "Other children find it hard. I can live well without a smartphone," says Rachel. "The whole world doesn't need to see this strawberry cake."

Voluntary renunciation is becoming more common

WHO Cell Phone Radiation Cancer Study is “Seriously Flawed”

New Publication: WHO Cell Phone Radiation Cancer Study is “Seriously Flawed”

icbe-emf.org, 15 January 2025

Scientists conclude the review does not assure wireless safety, and should not be used to set public health policy

Media Contact:
Joel Moskowitz PhD
Email: jmm@berkeley.edu

A Letter to the Editor published in the journal Environment International by the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (ICBE-EMF) concludes that a recently published World Health Organization (WHO) systematic review and meta-analysis on cell phone radiofrequency radiation (RFR) and cancer risk by Karipidis et al. (2024) is scientifically flawed and does not provide a reliable assessment of the evidence on brain cancer risk associated with the use of cell phones and other wireless technologies. The ICBE-EMF are experts in researching the health effects of RFR from wireless devices and infrastructure including cell phones, Wi-Fi and cell towers.

ICBE-EMF’s scientific leadership points to numerous significant flaws in the WHO review that combine to understate the cancer risk from wireless exposure and undermine the validity of the study’s conclusions, raising serious concerns about its impact on public health policy.

Official Launch of Stop5G: An initiative of Children's Health Defense

New initiative from Children's Health Defense
stop5g.org/  10 January 2025

Explore this website to find resources and step-by-step guides to push back against the reckless expansion of cell towers in your neighborhood. Make use of Stop5G™ Community Empowerment Consulting services to maximize your effectiveness. 

Contact us for a free initial consultation today.

Stop A Proposed Cell Tower

A comprehensive 10-step guide to push back against proposed cell towers in your community.

Challenge An Existing Cell Tower
A comprehensive 10-step guide to challenge existing cell towers in your community.

Challenge A Smart Meter Mandate
A comprehensive guide to challenge smart and digital utility meter mandates.

https://www.stop5g.org/

France : 5G: Legal action continues against the ANSES report

5G: our legal action continues against the ANSES report
By : Phonegate Team • 8 Jan 2025

On January 6, 2025, the associations Phonegate Alert, Robin des Toits and the European Cancer and Environment Research Institute (ECERI) filed new claims with the Administrative Court of Melun as part of their legal action against the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES). The proceedings are aimed at challenging the public consultation, opinion and report on 5G published by the agency on April 20, 2021.

ANSES is playing for time with regard to 5G: two years of silence to benefit industry

• ANSES took two years to respond to the initial conclusions submitted by the associations, finally providing its response in August 2024
• The legal action is led by Lisa Arazi, a public law attorney 1, who states:

“In our reply brief, we pointed out the irregularity of the public consultation procedure carried out by ANSES concerning the expert report on 5G. This consultation, in disregard of the rules applicable to optional public consultations, excluded the comments submitted by Phonegate Alert, ECERI and Robin des Toits. We have also highlighted the consequences of this exclusion on the legality of both the report and the opinion formulated by this agency”.

22 New Papers on Electromagnetic Fields and Biology or Health (7 January 2025)

22 New Papers on Electromagnetic Fields and Biology or Health (7 January 2025)
Electromagnetic Radiation Safety, 7 January 2025

Dr. Joel Moscowitz, University of California Berkeley, has been circulating abstracts of newly-published scientific papers on radio frequency and other non-ionizing electromagnetic fields (EMF) monthly since 2016. The complete collection of these papers contains more than 2,000 abstracts with links to the papers. Several hundred EMF scientists around the world receive these updates.

To see abstracts for the most recent papers or to download volumes 1 to 3 of this collection go to:
https://www.saferemr.com/2022/06/recent-research-on-wireless-radiation.html

Recent Research on Wireless Radiation and Electromagnetic Fields

World Health Organization’s EMF Project’s Systemic Reviews on the Association Between RF Exposure and Health Effects Encounter Challenges

Exposure to RF-EMF from mobile phone base station increases with increasing population density

New method to measure 5G radiation from mobile phones and base stations

Exposure to RF-EMF from mobile phone base station increases with increasing population density

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), News Release, 2 January 2025

A team of researchers from Project GOLIAT has developed and applied a new protocol to measure exposure to mobile phone radiation, in particular from 5G. The researchers measured radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) levels during three different scenarios: when the mobile device is in flight mode (non-user), when the mobile phone is used intensively by either downloading or uploading data. The study demonstrates that exposure to RF-EMF from mobile phone base station increases with increasing population density. However, mobile phones transmit most strongly in areas with poor network quality.

The research was conducted in Switzerland, one of the first countries in Europe to roll out 5G networks on a large scale. The results have now been published in Environmental Research and provide relevant data for epidemiological research, risk management and risk communication.

RFK Jr. Podcast: Paul Héroux on the potential health effects of radiofrequency radiation from cell phones and Wi-Fi networks

RFK Jr. Podcast: Paul Héroux on the potential health effects of radiofrequency radiation from cell phones and Wi-Fi networks
27 July 2024

In the episode, Paul Heroux and I discuss the potential health effects of radiofrequency radiation from cell phones and Wi-Fi networks, with a focus on the need for new rulemaking by the FCC. We also discuss the safety of radiation, industry manipulation of science, and the potential dangers of emerging technologies like 5G and driverless cars. The conversation highlights the increase in permeability of the blood-brain barrier due to radiation exposure, leading to inflammation and interference with brain function, as well as the link between radiation exposure and various chronic diseases.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBplrhixedw
 

A Chinese study confirms the dangers of waves for male fertility

A Chinese study confirms the dangers of waves for male fertility
By : Phonegate Team • 16 Dec. 2024

A new Chinese animal study, published in November 2024 in the journal Reproductive Toxicology, highlights the harmful effects of microwaves on male reproduction. The research, conducted by a team led by Dr. Ruiyun Peng of the Beijing Institute of Radiological Medicine, provides new scientific evidence of the risks associated with wireless communication technologies.

An electromagnetic environment at risk

Microwaves are widely used in mobile communications, particularly in the 1.5 GHz (L-band) and 4.3 GHz (C-band) frequency bands. These frequencies are close to those used by 4G and 5G technologies, as the authors point out in this study:

“Yet in reality, due to the complexity of the electromagnetic environment, the human body is exposed to several microwave frequency bands. These include global mobile communication systems, widely used 4 G and 5 G cell phones, and commonly used frequency bands including L-band and C-band, [2, [3-. Therefore, it is essential to explore the biological effects of combined L- and C-band microwave exposure.”

World Health Organization’s EMF Project’s Systemic Reviews on the Association Between RF Exposure and Health Effects Encounter Challenges

In a newly-published paper, one of the world's most renowned scientists who has studied the effects of radio frequency (RF) radiation, Dr. James C. Lin, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Chicago and a former ICNIRP Commissioner, attacks the World Health Organization's systematic reviews of the research on RF radiation that dismiss the substantial evidence for adverse biological and health effects.

World Health Organization’s EMF Project’s Systemic Reviews on the Association Between RF Exposure and Health Effects Encounter Challenges [Health Matters]
by James C. Lin, IEEE, 12 Dec. 2024

James C. Lin concludes:

"The criticisms and challenges encountered by the published WHO-EMF systematic reviews are brutal, including calls for retraction. Rigorous examinations of the reviews reveal major concerns. In addition to the scientific quality, they appear to have a strong conviction of nothing but heat to worry about with RF radiation. The unsubtle message that cellular mobile phones do not pose a cancer risk is clear. The reviews exhibit a lack of serious concerns for conflicts of interest and display unequivocal support for the recently promulgated ICNIRP RF exposure guidelines for human safety.

From its inception, WHO-EMF had close ties with ICNIRP, a private organization, frequently referred to as the WHO-EMF project’s scientific secretariat [18]. What may not be as apparent for the WHO-EMF systematic reviews is the lack of diversity of views. A large number of ICNIRP commissioners and committee members are listed as authors for the WHO-EMF systematic reviews; some also served as lead authors. These concerns advance issues of reviewer independence and potential for conflicts of interest."

Link to paper and pdf:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10795296