WHO announces members of the Task Group on Radiofrequency Fields and Health Risks

Due to the importance of this message, we are posting the entire contents of the message received from Dr. Joel Moscowitz, University of California, Berkeley, on 20 December 2022.

WHO announces members of the Task Group on Radiofrequency Fields and Health Risks

[Comments of Dr. Moscowitz]:

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the 21 experts selected for the Task Group on Radiofrequency Fields and Health Risks. These individuals are responsible for examining ten research reviews and making recommendations for the WHO Environmental Health Criteria (EHC) Monograph on Radio Frequency (RF) Fields and Health Risks to be published in 2023.

The list of 21 experts selected by the WHO for the Task Group on Radiofrequency Fields and Health Risks appears below along with information I compiled regarding task group members' EMF publications and affiliations with ICNIRP, the self-selected group that recommends RF exposure limits which are promoted by the WHO.

Eleven of the 21 individuals have current or past affiliations with ICNIRP. Most of the other individuals have published or presented papers defending ICNIRP's RF exposure limits. A recent study found that ICNIRP heavily cites its own members' research and that of their close colleagues to support the ICNIRP exposure limits (Nordhagen and Flydal, 2022).

Wireless Environmental Impacts To Biodiversity

Wireless Environmental Impacts To Biodiversity

Environmental Health Trust, 13 December 2022

Scientific evidence indicates that the wireless emissions from modern technology can impact biodiversity. Ask your COP15 • The Convention on Biological Diversity delegates to include wireless radio- and low frequency electromagnetic radiation in Target 7, along with noise and light, harmful substances including pesticides, electronic waste and plastic pollution. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KdgBiL-WTc (4 min.)

Learn more at https://wirelessenviroimpacts.science

Doctors and Scientists on Cell Phone and Wireless Radiation Health Effects: Expert Symposium 2022

Doctors and Scientists on Cell Phone and Wireless Radiation Health Effects: Expert Symposium 2022 (1:21)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu8cW0cIZ48

 - Dr. Hugh Taylor MD, Chair of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital, president of American Society of Reproductive Medicine 

- Dr. Hillel Baldwin MD, Neurosurgeon 

- Devra L. Davis, PhD, MPH, President Environmental Health Trust 

- Theodora Scarato, MSW, Executive Director of Environmental Health Trust 

Research on cell phone wireless health effects at:

https://ehtrust.org/health-effects-of-cell-phones-and-wireless-radiation-published-credible-science/

IARC Will Soon Reassess RF Cancer Risk —Or Maybe Not - Director Sends Mixed Signals

IARC Will Soon Reassess RF Cancer Risk —Or Maybe Not
Director Sends Mixed Signals

Microwave News, December 12, 2022

Elisabete Weiderpass at the podium
 in Paris

On November 23, Elisabete Weiderpass, the Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), revealed that a new assessment of the evidence linking radiofrequency (RF) radiation to cancer would likely take place in early 2024. A formal decision could come within a few months.

Calls for a new IARC evaluation have been mounting for some years following the release of two large animal studies showing elevated tumor counts after lifelong exposure to RF radiation. Many believe that the animal experiments leave the Agency little choice but to increase the cancer risk classification at least one notch to “probable” from the current “possible,” or perhaps to its highest classification, a known human carcinogen.1

But, as Weiderpass made clear on making the announcement at a conference in Paris,2 the RF–cancer risk might instead be downgraded and the “possible” classification removed.

The stakes are high. RF health concerns have long been on the back burner, a situation made possible by industry-friendly exposure standards that discount cancer risk. An upgrade would most probably change all that. The ongoing siting of hundreds of thousands of new 5G antennas would add fuel to the fire.

France: SAR Measurements: ANFR’s Reprehensible Omissions

SAR measurements: ANFR’s reprehensible omissions

By : Jean-Philippe, phonegatealert.org/en, 13 Dec 2022

In a press release dated December 7, 2022, the French National Agency of Frequencies (ANFR) publishes the SAR measurements it carried out in 2021 with a one-year lag. The agency’s database, which we obliged it to make public in 2018 by legal means, currently includes 862 test reports, carried out between 2012 and 2022.

More tests, but incomplete ones and not protecting health

141 mobile phones were therefore checked in 2021 – compared to 95 the previous year –, which our NGO, from whose came the alert and the first sanctions against the manufacturers, welcomes. However, we note with regret that the head SAR has only been measured for 14 of them (10%), which is totally insufficient.

When Will They Come Clean Over the Radiation Risks of 5G?

When will they come clean over the radiation risks of 5G?
By Gillian Jamieson, conservativewoman.co.uk, 12 Dec. 2022

DOES citing peer-reviewed studies on the health impact of 5G and wifi make you a ‘conspiracy theorist’? The ‘Broadband and the road to 5G’ inquiry run by the Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee seems to suggest so.

Before I explain further, I’d like to ask about your relationship with your smartphone. Do you love it so much that you would keep it on your person even if you knew it could damage your health?

A friend of mine used to go running with her smartphone in her bra and before she knew it had stage 4 breast cancer. In his later years my father had his wirelessly connected iPad on his lap much of the time. He lost the power in his thighs and got dementia. Does my suggestion of some connection seem outlandish to you? If so, please keep reading!

United States: The Girl Scouts’ Latest Business Project: Hailing 5G Cellphone Technology

The organization famous for its cookie sales paired with equipment-maker Ericsson to encourage Scouts to spread the word about the technology and to tout its safety. Scouts of all ages are invited to “discuss with your troop or an adult how mmWave spectrum is safe and does not cause harm to our health.” Some scientists see it differently...

Read also the letter sent by the Environmental Health Trust asking the Girl Scouts of America "to immediately suspend", the 5G and IOT Ericsson patch "because it disseminates scientifically inaccurate information and promotes a false and dangerous message."

The Girl Scouts’ Latest Business Project: Hailing 5G Cellphone Technology
by Peter Elkind, propublica.org, 9 Dec. 2022

The organization famous for its cookie sales paired with equipment-maker Ericsson to encourage Scouts to spread the word about the technology and to tout its safety. Some scientists see it differently.

Illustration by ProPublica. Source Image: Donald Iain Smith/Getty Images.

Beyond developing their camping skills, participating in a food drive to aid the hungry and donating pajamas for seniors, Girl Scouts across America this year were offered a new way to earn a special uniform patch: learning about the wonders of 5G cellphone technology and, in some cases, promoting it.

France: Beware of waves emitted by cell phones and connected objects

Beware of waves emitted by cell phones and connected objects
Géraldine Zamansky - Radio France, franceinfo , December 3, 2022 (3 min. radio broadcast in French)

Were you able to choose your phone with your health in mind? Were its health standards explained and displayed? Two supervisory authorities reveal the existence of significant information failures.

(Photo): Beware of waves from mobiles and connected objects. Compliance standards are not always displayed. (Illustration) (ERIC AUDRAS / MAXPPP)

Health standards for cell phones and worse, compliance standards in this area, are not always clearly displayed when you buy a phone. Géraldine Zamansky, journalist for Health Magazine on France 5, discusses recent recommendations made by health authorities.

EU: 5G on planes, Wi-Fi on the road – Commission decision opens up new opportunities for innovation

5G on planes, Wi-Fi on the road – Commission decision opens up new opportunities for innovation
Press Release, European Commission, 24 November 2022

Airlines will be able to provide the latest 5G technology on their planes, alongside previous mobile technology generations as the Commission updated the implementing decision on spectrum for mobile communications on-board aircrafts, designating certain frequencies for in-flight 5G technology.

(Photo) : Passengers aboard flights in the EU will be able to use their mobile phones to the maximum of their capacity and features, just like with a ground-based 5G mobile network.

Thierry Breton, Commissioner for the Internal market, said:

5G will enable innovative services for people and growth opportunities for European companies. The sky is no longer a limit when it comes to possibilities offered by super-fast, high-capacity connectivity.