- The most basic fact about cell phones and cell towers
is that they emit microwave radiation; so do Wi-Fi (wireless Internet)
antennas, wireless computers, cordless (portable) phones and their base
units, and all other wireless devices. If it's a communication device and
it's not attached to the wall by a wire, it's emitting radiation. Most
Wi-Fi systems and some cordless phones operate at the exact same frequency
as a microwave oven, while other devices use a different frequency. Wi-Fi
is always on and always radiating. The base units of most cordless phones
are always radiating, even when no one is using the phone. A cell phone
that is on but not in use is also radiating. And, needless to say, cell
towers are always radiating.
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- Why is this a problem, you might ask? Scientists usually
divide the electromagnetic spectrum into "ionizing" and "non-ionizing."
Ionizing radiation, which includes x-rays and atomic radiation, causes
cancer. Non-ionizing radiation, which includes microwave radiation, is
supposed to be safe. This distinction always reminded me of the propaganda
in George Orwell's Animal Farm: "Four legs good, two legs bad."
"Non-ionizing good, ionizing bad" is as little to be trusted.
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- An astronomer once quipped that if Neil Armstrong had
taken a cell phone to the Moon in 1969, it would have appeared to be the
third most powerful source of microwave radiation in the universe, next
only to the Sun and the Milky Way. He was right. Life evolved with negligible
levels of microwave radiation. ** An increasing number of scientists speculate
that our body's own cells, in fact, use the microwave spectrum to communicate
with one another, like children whispering in the dark, and that cell phones,
like jackhammers, interfere with their signaling. ** In any case, it is
a fact that we are all being bombarded, day in and day out, whether we
use a cell phone or not, by an amount of microwave radiation that is some
ten million times as strong as the average natural background. And it is
also a fact that most of this radiation is due to technology that has been
developed since the 1970s.
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- As far as cell phones themselves are concerned, if you
put one up to your head you are damaging your brain in a number of different
ways. First, think of a microwave oven. A cell phone, like a microwave
oven and unlike a hot shower, heats you from the inside out, not from the
outside in. And there are no sensory nerve endings in the brain to warn
you of a rise in temperature because we did not evolve with microwave radiation,
and this never happens in nature. Worse, the structure of the head and
brain is so complex and non-uniform that "hot spots" are produced,
where heating can be tens or hundreds of times what it is nearby. Hot spots
can occur both close to the surface of the skull and deep within the brain,
and also on a molecular level.
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- Cell phones are regulated by the Federal Communications
Commission, and you can find, in the packaging of most new phones, a number
called the Specific Absorption Rate, or SAR, which is supposed to indicate
the rate at which energy is absorbed by the brain from that particular
model. One problem, however, is the arbitrary assumption, upon which the
FCC's regulations are based, that the brain can safely dissipate added
heat at a rate of up to 1 degree C per hour. Compounding this is the scandalous
procedure used to demonstrate compliance with these limits and give each
cell phone its SAR rating. The standard way to measure SAR is on a "phantom"
consisting, incredibly, of a homogenous fluid encased in Plexiglas in the
shape of a head. Presto, no hot spots! But in reality, people who use cell
phones for hours per day are chronically heating places in their brain.
The FCC's safety standard, by the way, was developed by electrical engineers,
not doctors.
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- Read the entire article here
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- http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/04/20/
- mobile_and_wireless_largest_biological_experiment.htm
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