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- There has been anecdotal evidence for several years associating
use of cellular phones, and other sources of electromagnetic radiation
in the microwave region of the spectrum, with brain cancers and other cancers.
From police officers who used radar guns to heavy users of cellular phones
who have contracted cancer, there has been mounting evidence that exposure
to this kind of electromagnetic radiation may not be as safe as advertised.
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- A team of scientists funded by Telstra to investigate
claimed links between cellular phones and cancer has turned up probably
the most significant finding of an adverse health effects yet. When presented
to 'Science' magazine for publication the study was rejected on the grounds
that publication "would cause a panic". Three other prominent
magazines including 'Nature' also later rejected the report, suggesting
that they would not handle such important conclusions without the research
being further confirmed.
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- The study looked at 200 mice, half exposed and half not,
to pulsed digital phone radiation. The work was conducted at the Royal
Adelaide Hospital by Dr Michael Repacholi, Professor Tony Basten, Dr Alan
Harris and statistician Val Gebski, and it revealed a highly-significant
doubling of cancer rates in the exposed group. The mice were subject to
GSM-type pulsed microwaves at a power-density roughly equal to a cell-phone
transmitting for two half-hour periods each day; this was pulsed transmission
as from a handset, not the steady transmission of a cell-phone tower.
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- A significant increase in B-cell lymphomas was evident
early in the experiment, but the incidence continued to rise over the 18
months. The implications of the B-cell (rather than the normal T-cell)
lymphomas here, is that B-cell effects are implicated in roughly 85 percent
of all cancers. The experiment was conducted as a blind trial, using absolutely
identical equipment and conditions for two groups of 100 mice. The only
difference between handling the two groups was that the power to one antenna
was never switched on. Over the 18 months, the exposed mice had 2.4-times
the tumour rate of the unexposed - but this was later corrected downwards
to a more confident 2-times claim to remove other possible influences.
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- According to Dr Alan Harris from the Walter and Eliza
Institute in Melbourne: "This is important because up until this,
there was no convincing evidence that radio fields (in contrast to X- and
Gamma-rays, ultraviolet and atomic radiation) can directly cause the changes
in genes responsible for cancer development." This experiment also
raises questions about the potential for cell-phone handset radiation to
effect people nearby (passive exposures) than just the user him/herself.
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- Increased tumours began to be recorded after about 9
months. The total exposure period is very much less than can be expected
from human use over a lifetime, so while one of the scientists downplayed
the importance, saying, "humans are not rodents" another pointed
out that "DNA is DNA". There has been evidence accumulating over
many years that the long-term effects of radio-frequency exposures may
have serious consequences for a certain percent of the population, but
this has been ignored by the industry, by the media, and by the government.
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- Dr Henry Lai and Dr Singh at Washington State University
reported enormous increases in double-strand DNA breaks in rat-brain tissue
following cell-phone type microwave exposures of only two hours. The media,
the government, and of course the cell phone industry all ignored these
findings. The media is essentially silent on this issue now, because they
have been bought and paid for by the BIG money behind the cell phone industry.
Every attempt has been made to hose down the significance of these reports,
and others like them. However, the facts are clear, that people have an
increased risk of cancer from the use of digital mobile phones, and there
is a deliberate attempt by the industry, media, and government to keep
people in the dark about this fact.
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