United States: Petition to the FDA to protect children from wireless radiation in schools

Would you like to do something about wireless radiation in schools?
Posted on March 19, 2025 by LVsA

If you’re a parent or grandparent, teacher or administrator, or belong to an organization concerned with the welfare of children, you can sign on as a petitioner! Just visit the ART website and add your name before midnight on Tuesday, March 25th.

And thank you!

Read and Join the Petition to the FDA

Americans for Responsible Technology – 19mar2025.

FREE online 2025 EMF Hazards Summit: Safeguard Our Future (April 10–15, 2025)

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Austria: Carinthia plans to ban cell phones in public schools - critics warn against radiation risks

Why is there only talk about cell phone use in class, but not about potential health risks caused by radiation?

Austria: Carinthia plans to ban cell phones in public schools - critics warn against radiation risks

kurier.at, January 2025 - autotranslation

In Kärnten, in the future, a mobile phone ban will apply at public schools to promote children's ability to concentrate. Regulated use for 10 to 14 year olds is also discussed. Education correspondent Daniel Fellner (SPÖ) is also seeking a uniform regulation nationwide.

While some federal states are skeptical and prefer to leave individual solutions to schools, critics are demanding a more fundamental debate: Why is there only talk about cell phone use in class, but not about potential health risks caused by radiation? Studies on the effect of high-frequency electromagnetic fields on children exist, but many scientists warn that long-term consequences are still unclear.

Radiation critics are therefore demanding not only a ban on the use, but also stricter rules for Wi-Fi and mobile radio radiation in schools. Instead of just regulating children's behavior, it should also be examined what health risks arise from the increasing digitization in educational institutions.
Source: Kurier
"Österreich: Kärnten plant Handyverbot an Volksschulen – Kritiker warnen vor Strahlungsrisiken"

Wi-Fi, Cell Towers May Soon Be Spying on You Without Your Consent

Wi-Fi, Cell Towers May Soon Be Spying on You Without Your Consent
by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., childrenshealthdefense.org, February 4, 2025

Wireless radiation could be used to surveil people without their knowledge or consent, even if they aren’t wearing a “smart” device or holding a cellphone, according to the authors of a new study.

The study authors — engineering faculty members with the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science at the University of Porto, Portugal — posted their report Jan. 24 on the Cornell University open-access research website, arXiv.

The study showcases hardware the authors designed that leveraged ambient wireless radiofrequency (RF) radiation to detect and render a visual image of human activity — such as waving a hand or a person’s breathing rate — with over 90% accuracy.

Their design involved a thin programmable surface — a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) — that communicates with computers and artificial intelligence (AI).

RIS can manipulate and steer Wi-Fi signals in controlled ways, explained Fariha Husain, manager of Children’s Health Defense’s (CHD) Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) & Wireless Program. “By adjusting how radio waves reflect off this surface, the researchers were able to enhance signal-sensitivity and improve their ability to detect subtle human movements.”

Wi-Fi radiation: Practical steps to implement safer tech in classrooms

Wi-Fi radiation: Practical steps to implement safer tech in classrooms 

by Theodora Scarato, Rob Brown, MD, & Kent Chamberlin, PhD, Environmental Health Trust
August 1, 2024

Many public health agencies and medical organizations recommend taking prudent measures to limit student exposure to RFR

Key points:

• Many school district policies prohibit the installation of new cell towers at schools
• The surprising/unsurprising things education IT leaders have to say
• Tech investments determine school success
• For more news on safe tech, visit eSN’s IT Leadership hub

Around a decade ago, districts began installing Wi-Fi technology in schools to facilitate access to enhanced “21st century” educational resources. Before Wi-Fi, students used computers plugged in through ethernet cords in dedicated computer rooms. Today, even kindergarteners sit in circles on the floor with Wi-Fi tablets on their laps.

United States: Throwing Kids’ Health Under the Bus? FCC Wants to Put Wi-Fi on School Buses

Throwing Kids’ Health Under the Bus? FCC Wants to Put Wi-Fi on School Buses
By Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., childrenshealthdefense.org, 3 May 2024

Citing mental and physical health concerns, parents, politicians and safe technology advocates are pushing back against an FCC initiative to put Wi-Fi on school buses.

Parents, politicians and safe technology advocates are pushing back against a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) initiative to put Wi-Fi on school buses.

Patricia Burke of Safe Tech International in an April 29 Substack post accused the federal regulatory agency for telecommunications of being “the bully boarding the bus.”

Burke cited evidence of eye damage from excessive screen time and the risk of exposing kids to increased cyberbullying and addictive social media apps via unsupervised internet access while riding to and from school.

“It is time to stop throwing children’s health, including eyesight and mental well-being, under the bus,” Burke said.

New Study: Wireless Radiation Negatively Impacts Human Cells

New Study: Wireless Radiation Negatively Impacts Human Cells

Environmental Health Trust, 27 November 2023

Link to study, "The Exposure to 2.45 GHz Electromagnetic Radiation Induced Different Cell Responses in Neuron-like Cells and Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells"
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/11/12/3129

November 24, 2023: Research on human cells exposed to wireless frequencies published in the journal Biomedicines found numerous impacts including increased oxidative stress and impacts to mitochondrial function.

In the experiments, human cells were exposed to the wireless frequency of 2.45 GHz. This frequency is used in Wi-Fi and wireless communications. Sources of 2.45 GHz in everyday life include cell phones, Wi-Fi routers, laptops and tablets, Bluetooth, cell towers and “small” cell antennas.

Wi-Fi and Other EMFs May Be Linked to Infertility and Miscarriage: Scientists

Wi-Fi and Other EMFs May Be Linked to Infertility and Miscarriage: Scientists
by Marina Zhang, theepochtimes.com, 16 August 2023

Follow the series “EMF: The Invisible Hazard” here.

In this series, we will explore the invisible yet omnipresent electromagnetic fields from common home electronics to 5G and their potential impact on health.

(Shutterstock/Lightspring)

As exposures to wireless and electronic devices and electromagnetic fields (EMFs) increase, so does the worry about rising infertility and miscarriage rates, leading to questions about a possible connection.

Infertility is increasingly affecting younger people of reproductive age; around 1 in 5 couples struggle with infertility, and miscarriage rates have been increasing by 1 percent every year.

EMFs and Reproductive Organ Damage

EMFs from wireless and electronic devices can induce oxidative stress within cells sensitive to these environmental signals.

Organs involved in reproduction are vulnerable to damage from EMFs, and animal studies have established a connection.

Germany: Saxony: Father Sues Against WiFi in the Classroom

Saxony: fear of radiation! Father sues against WiFi in the classroom
time.news, 23 June 2023

Dresden – Saxony has already invested 354 million euros in the “Digital Pact for Schools”, which is intended to provide WiFi and tablets at all schools in Saxony. But on Thursday, a father sued his child’s school for using wireless internet!

Eric Frank (57) demands from the city of Bad Gottleuba-Berggiesshübel (school authority) the “immediate shutdown of the WLAN at the primary school Berggiesshübel”!

He and other concerned parents think it is completely oversized that there is a WLAN access point hanging from the ceiling in each of the nine classrooms. Her concern: “We don’t want our children to be exposed to radiation! According to the technical description, up to 200 devices can be connected to each access point – but the school only has around 150 children.”

Germany: Wangen City Implements Nightly WiFi Shutdown To Address Electrosensitivity

Wangen City Implements Nightly WiFi Shutdown To Address Electrosensitivity

by PNB Team, parisbeacon.com, Update 8 April 2023

The public WLAN in the Upper Swabian town of Wangen has been being switched off daily from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. this month. The city administration wants to enable people who feel negatively influenced by the WLAN to have a good night’s sleep. The “Alliance for Responsible Mobile Communications” campaigned, and an agreement was quickly reached with the city administration. Wangen limited the temporary shutdown to the hotspots in the old town, where the number of accesses in the relevant time was low anyway.

In Ravensburg, about 30 km from Wangen, there are similar plans to relieve people who feel electrosensitive. The city wants to comply with the requests of a citizens’ group that deals with the issue of mobile phone radiation to switch off the public WLAN at night. The city intends to switch off the hotspots from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., making a contribution to minimizing overall radiation exposure.

"Why Fried?" - Excellent program from ABC Television, Australia - Transcript and Film

UPDATE (2 February 2023): We are re-posting this excellent video with the transcript.

UPDATE (20 February 2016):  Pro-telecoms industry scientists have said this program should never have been aired. 
[You may still view “Wi-Fried”.]

This is an excellent 30-minute report by Dr Maryanne Demasi ** presented on the program, "Catalyst",  ABC television, Australia.

In October 2016, it was announced that the ABC’s Catalyst program was to lose its weekly slot and its 11 staff – including the suspended presenter Maryanne Demasi – made redundant under a radical plan which has been approved by the ABC board.  Senior ABC program makers warned that ditching the weekly half-hour program and disbanding the science unit would lead to a dumbing down of science programming and effectively kill off Australian science on television.

See: https://mieuxprevenir.blogspot.com/2016/10/australia-abcs-catalyst-staff-to-be.html

Wi-Fried?

abc.net.au, 16 February 2016

Could wifi-enabled devices be harmful to our health? You cannot see it or hear it but Wi-Fi blankets our homes, our schools and our cities. Australia's safety agency says there's no evidence of harm, but that's not the same as saying its safe. A growing number of scientists are concerned that the widespread use of Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi-enabled devices could be slowly making us sick. In this Catalyst investigation, Dr Maryanne Demasi explores whether our wireless devices could be putting our health at risk.

TRANSCRIPT

Microwave Expert Barrie Trower - 9 Interviews with Morten Julius

Readers of this blog may be interested to know that in 2012, we posted the resumés of nine interviews with microwave radiation expert Barrie Trower. In 2011, Danish documentary filmmaker and journalist Morten Julius conducted an interview with Barrie Trower about microwave dangers which could be seen on Vimeo (143 mn) and ten 12-minute videos on YouTube. The Vimeo video has disappeared and we are not sure whether we could find the ones on YouTube. The interviews are extremely interesting and much of what he says is relevant today, in 2023.

Here is an excerpt from one of the videos: You will find the list of interviews at the end of this excerpt

The mobile industry is the greatest polluter on the planet today

What about microwaves and CO2 emissions? Trower knows of three published papers which say that the biggest polluter on the planet is the mobile industry. The hundreds of thousands of transmitters all over the world require power. “All the mobile phones need power, all the Wi-Fi sets, all the gadgets and all this power has to be generated. The more the industry puts out Wi-Fi, not only are they contributing to warming the atmosphere but they are also increasing the carbon footprint. The mobile industry is the greatest polluter on the planet today… Yet, you hear nothing anywhere in the world against the mobile industry in terms of pollution.

Children's Health Defense Seeks Plaintiffs for Lawsuits Challenging WiFi in Schools, and Cell Towers and Small Cells in Neighborhoods

CHD Seeks Plaintiffs for Lawsuits Challenging WiFi in Schools, and Cell Towers and Small Cells in Neighborhoods

Childrens' Health Defense, 1st Nov. 2022

Children’s Health Defense is seeking plaintiffs for lawsuits challenging WiFi in schools, and cell towers and small cells in residential areas in an effort to protect children and other vulnerable populations from harmful levels of radiofrequency radiation exposure.

Children’s Health Defense (CHD) is seeking plaintiffs for lawsuits challenging WiFi in schools, and cell towers and small cells in residential neighborhoods.

Our litigation efforts aim to protect children and other vulnerable populations, including pregnant women and those suffering from electromagnetic sensitivity (EMS), from harmful levels of radiofrequency (RF) radiation exposure.

Getting Fried by WiFi in Airplanes

Getting Fried by WiFi in Airplanes
By Beverly Jensen, opednews.com, 14 September 2022

Choice of image by Editor, 
"Towards Better Health"

Since 9/11 the security protocols at airports have made flying stressful.

Now sometime in the past two years, flying has become life threatening. In beautiful, comfortable new aircraft, passengers (and the flight crews!) are being zapped by the non-ionizing radiation of WiFi.

Having internet access while en route on flights isn't as dangerous when it's WIRED, as it is in Boeing's Dreamliner. It's the WIRELESS technology that's dangerous. Yet it's now being beamed through the cabin on most airlines. Whether it's being used by passengers depends on, in part, whether it costs extra or is free.

Lloyd's of London, the bellwether of the insurance industry, declared in 2015 that the science shows conclusively that wireless technology causes non-ionizing radiation. Lloyd's announced that they are not covering health claims due to wireless devices in ordinary policies, and the entire insurance industry has followed.

Why Die for WiFi? My Child Did - Will Yours?

Why die for WiFi?  My Child Did - Will Yours?
by Debra Fry, posted 3 May 2016

On the 11th of June 2015, my 15 year old daughter, Jenny Fry was found by me, hanged in woods near our home in Oxfordshire, UK .

She was utterly exhausted; instead of receiving sympathy and understanding, she was battling the school for giving her detentions and refusing to acknowledge her difficulty around wifi, which had a profound effect on her ability to concentrate, write, explain things, and function in school.

I went into the school on several occassions to try to educate them on the health dangers to all pupils and staff, as well as the effect it was having on Jenny, but I was told that for as many reports that there are showing harm, there are as many available online saying that wifi is safe (although I have not seen any saying this).

The head teacher did say he would double check; I left him a list of information - reports and websites - to check. He also said he could not turn off the wifi for one child; I said it was not just for Jenny, but it would be healthier for everyone.

Russian Government Recommends Banning Wi-Fi and Cell Phones in Primary Schools

Russian Government Recommends Banning Wi-Fi and Cell Phones in Primary Schools
By Dafna Tachover, CHD’s Director of 5G & Wireless Harms Project, childrenshealthdefense.org, 

20 July 2020

On July 17th, 2020, the Russian Ministry of Health ** published recommendations to schools to ban the use of Wi-Fi and cell phones in elementary schools. The Medical Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, prepared the recommendations together with the Russian Ministry of Health.

The information was provided to Children’s Health Defense by Professor Oleg Grigoriev, Dr.Sc, PhD, the Chairman for the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection. Professor Grigoriev has been outspoken about the harms of wireless technology and has been leading the recent initiatives by the Russian government to protect children from harm. He also tweeted about the news.

Sacopee Valley (Maine) 8th grade science class investigates WI-FI

This video is English: Sacopee Valley (Maine) 8th grade science class investigates WI-FI.

PREUVE DE LA DANGEROSITÉ DU WIFI SUR LE VIVANT (Proof of the dangerousness of Wi-Fi on the living) - (20 Nov. 2019 - 5 min.)

Please share! Sacopee Valley (Maine) 8th grade science class investigates WI-FI.

Silas Hagerty - November 19:
Check out our first ever Web Series "Pioneers of Science"!!! It was awesome working with the Sacopee Valley 8th grade science class this past spring on this first episode about WI-FI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHXLDPA5c9I&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1-c_LXC5ch-r4kov8LgyztmWwAipU1NHBXyhB6cZyk8IfqIETMcnnEdWc


See also  "Eight-Year-Old Second Grader's Science Fair Project: 'What Wireless Can Do To You'"
https://mieuxprevenir.blogspot.com/2017/04/eight-year-old-second-graders-science.html

Wireless Radiation: New Awareness Campaigns Launched by Cyprus and Italy

Compare the awareness campaign on environmental and health impacts of mobile phone use recently launched by the Italian Government with that of Cyprus regarding how to reduce wireless radiation exposures.

Cyprus 

Environmental Health Trust 24 June 2019

Cyprus has launched an awareness campaign to educate the public on how to reduce wireless radiation exposures. The campaign includes large scale signs on pubic buses with the slogan “Don’t Irradiate Me: Learn How to Protect Me” along with posters, brochures and videos translated into both Greek and English.

The Campaign was launched at a press conference June 24, 2019 with recommendations include simple advice on how to protect children at home

Video Interview with Professor Martin Röösli, President of the Swiss Advisory Expert Group NIS (BERENIS)

Video interview with Professor Martin Röösli
schutz-vor-strahlung.ch, 29 May 2019 - translation

[All interviews are in Swiss German.]

Professor Martin Röösli

Martin Röösli is Professor in Environmental Epidemiology at the Tropical Institute in Basel and also a member of  ICNIRP.  He also presides over the Advisory Expert Group NIS (BERENIS), which works for the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), and continues to work in the "Mobile Communications and Radiation" working group, which is mandated by the Confederation. We were allowed to interview him.

WLAN [Wi-Fi] and the detectability of electrosensitivity

We wanted to know why Prof. Röösli considers WLAN to be negligible, because building biologists have been recognizing WLAN as a disturbing factor for a good night's sleep for years.

"If it were possible to prove electrosensitivity only once, that would question the whole model of thinking." 

- Martin Röösli, epidemiologist and FOEN consultant

According to a 2004 survey , 5% of respondents said they were electrosensitive. According to another survey in 2009 , it was 8.6%. An additional increase in the number of persons affected by 2019 is to be expected. Around 800,000 people in Switzerland are therefore likely to react sensitively to electrosmog today. Nevertheless, Prof. Röösli finds no scientific proof of electrosensitivity.

Wi-Fi at Home Harms Children, Expert Warns

(A laptop should never be used on the lap.)

Wi-Fi at home harms children, expert warns
By Naturalist Activist, 30th April 2019

Legal action to force a school to remove a cell tower has highlighted the dangers to children of Wi-Fi at home.

Parents of children at a primary school in Kifissia, a wealthy suburb of Athens in Greece, say the cell tower, which is 80 meters from classrooms, is damaging the health of pupils. The school is refusing to remove the tower so the parents are taking it to court.

Dr. Theodore Metsis, an engineer and a wireless radiation specialist, is advising the parents and their lawyers. He says: “Talking with the mothers I learned that one third of the pupils have various problems, including attention deficient and hyperactivity disorder; learning and concentration difficulties; diabetes and thyroid problems.”