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We, you, should be demanding a
series of follow-up studies to investigate our specific absorption rate ("SAR") values. Cell
phone companies have reflected their levels and can be found at www.sarvalues.com.
As consumers, we need to demand those companies start listing and revealing the exposure level on the
packaging. A start would be to write to your U.S. State Representative or U.S. Senator demanding they put
pressure to have a bill passed.
In 1993, Motorola [actually
the CTIA - Cellular Telecommunication Industry Association] hired Dr. George Carlo, a leading
epidemiologist. Motorola was determined to prove that cell phones are "safe". After six
years of research, Dr. Carlo became alarmed, when his sponsors attempted to alter and suppress his
findings. At that point, Dr. Carlo became a whistleblower. He and Martin Schram tell the story in
"Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age":
Dr. Carlo's research showed
alarming signs: "that cell phones interfere with pacemakers, that developing skulls of children are
penetrated deeply by the energy emitted from a cell phone, that the blood brain barrier which prevents invasion
of the brain from toxins can be compromised by the cell phone radiation and, most startling, that radio
frequency radiation creates micronuclei in human blood cells, a type of genetic damage known to be a diagnostic
marker for cancer."
Surprisingly Americans have not, or
are ignoring safety advice. Albeit this information is still coveted by the cell phone industry for fear
of losing teenagers, one of their main markets.
It's mystifying that parents are
not heeding the warnings, and opt to take the approach 'Ostrich – head in the sand' [rather than the
Precautionary Approach strongly recommended by the Stewart Report in the UK].
Understandably working parents want
to have a lifeline to their children and cell phones offer immediate contact and assurances. While
schools find them disruptive as teenagers spend hours on the phone not knowing etiquette of when to use
them. This in part, is the fault of the parents, who are poor role models, making dubious judgment
choices.
The Stewart Report recommended that
children text message rather than use the phone, this way the antennae is further away for the head. The
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concluded there was no proof that cell phones are risk free. However,
the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry states that these frequencies cause cancer and other ailments that
interfere with cellular DNA.
After reading several scientific
reports and articles published both here and in Great Britain, I conclude the longer one is exposed to RF waves,
the better chance one has becoming ill. History [shows] that tobacco, asbestos and lead over decades of
prolonged exposure had terminal results and only through lawsuits, where people were able to prove the companies
knew, but chose not to fully explore the latent results.
There are so many questions that
need to be answered. As a commuter, I constantly observe people who talk on the cell phone and wonder what
the potential is for the passive victims around that person talking all the time on their cell phone? Are
the by-standers, being exposed? Some believe that this is like the Tobacco, Asbestos and Lead industry ~
that we won't know the real damage for decades.
When an industry is doing testing
of 'prolonged' exposure, they need to include in their equation, additional EMF radiation. To date, no
one has ever demonstrated a "safe" level for this radiation. Hypothetically, let's say
a 10 year old child is getting x-rays, as he broke his foot at school. His Mom is on her way to the
hospital and while in the waiting room, he talks to her on his cell phone. Every evening this child sleeps
next to his electric alarm clock and they live near a TV tower masts (these can emit radiation hundreds of times
more powerful than cell phone towers, i.e. Tiverton, RI) and he likes to watch his food in the microwave.
The equation needs to determined not just with cell phones, but with other environmental exposures.
Lastly, a British Medical Journal
study revealed that drivers are four times more likely to experience a car accident.
A poll in July 2005 on
RadioFrequencysafe.com produced some disturbing statistics. The question was 'Does your child use a cell
phone?' Results - |
