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Date: February 01, 2024 at 23:45:17
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: cell phone radiation... why did NIH abruptly halt research? |
URL: https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4437988-why-did-nih-abruptly-halt-research-on-the-harms-of-cell-phone-radiation/ |
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imo, cellphones are most likely way more dangerous to your health than vaccines...
Why did NIH abruptly halt research on the harms of cell phone radiation?
by Devra Davis, Opinion Contributor - 02/01/24 8:00 AM ET
In a shocking reversal, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has quietly disclosed that it will stop studying the biological or environmental impacts of cell phone radiofrequency radiation.
This decision comes despite results from the program’s carefully engineered and reviewed decade-long $30 million animal studies that found cancer, heart damage and DNA damage associated with exposure to cell phone radiofrequency radiation at levels comparable to those experienced by Americans today.
The sudden end of civilian government efforts to study potential health impacts of wireless radiation constitutes a glaring abdication of responsibility. In contrast, the U.S. Department of Defense continues to study this problem.
The European Union is providing multi-million dollar grants for multidisciplinary studies. The French government regularly monitors towers and phones and has recalled millions of phones for excessive radiation or other concerns, reflecting public concerns about both psychological and physiological impacts. In 2019, French Minsters passed an order ensuring phones had consumer information that included that teenagers and pregnant women avoid exposing their abdomens to wireless radiating devices.
Just last year, the NTP declared on its 2023 fact sheet that it would perform follow-up studies to better understand the effects found in the long term animal studies. So what happened? At this juncture, it is unclear. Have the follow-up studies been completed already? Working with Swiss national engineering and U.S. government experts, the NTP had devised small-scale systems for exposing animals experimentally to controlled levels of wireless radiation. Yet results from these exposure systems have neither been publicly shared nor published.
In a sudden and inexplicable turnaround of this long-scheduled and heavily reviewed workplan, the NTP now states that no more research on wireless radiation is planned due to costs of the studies and technical challenges. One must ask what is driving this flipflop. What has led to this sudden change in priorities, so that such an exponentially growing environmental exposure no longer merits study?
The sole explanation from NTP for this turnaround raises more questions than it answers: “The research was technically challenging and more resource-intensive than expected. No additional [wireless radiation] studies are planned.”
This defies modern medical and even casual public knowledge and concerns. For example, infertility clinics ask men what their habits are with respect to cell phones and other wireless devices. They tell them to take these phones off their bodies and out of their pockets because there is evidence of a correlation in rodents between wireless radiation exposure and low sperm count, poorer sperm quality, decreased testosterone and damage to the testes.
Studies have also linked carrying a cell phone in one’s bra to increased risk of breast cancer. The list of adverse health effects associated with this exposure is long and our use of these devices growing constantly.
Whether the government stops doing the research or not, we are all a part of a massive research study. Billions of people worldwide are being exposed to ever-increasing levels of wireless radiation. Children are uniquely vulnerable due to their rapidly developing brains. In effect, there is no control group. This makes it difficult, but not impossible, to discern the effects of wireless radiation in human populations.
It is the ultimate arrogance and folly to stop doing research on this major growing environmental pollutant when we have ample evidence of harm.
The civilian government’s decision to stop research on cell phone radiation is consistent with the Chinese proverb, “If you don’t want to know, don’t ask.”
When it comes to understanding how wireless radiation affects biology, the cessation of studies makes no sense. The complexity of the issue should not become an excuse for ignoring one of the fastest growing environmental pollutants in the world today.
If the civilian government has run out of money for this, there’s an easy remedy: Charge a fee of two cents per month to to every device owner, internet provider and manufacturer and use the funds to train scientists to carry out independent monitoring and research.
Surely, it’s worth a few pennies a month to find out how wireless radiation affects our health, and how to reduce its impact on ourselves, as well as the birds, bees and trees on which our planet depends.
Devra Davis, a former senior adviser to the assistant secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services, is the founder and president of Environmental Health Trust. She is the author of “Disconnect: A scientist’s solutions for safer technology.”
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Date: February 02, 2024 at 11:52:57
From: ncy/Oregon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: cell phone radiation... why did NIH abruptly halt research? |
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imo, cellphones are most likely way more dangerous to
your health than vaccines...
Agree
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Date: February 02, 2024 at 10:02:20
From: eaamon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: cell phone radiation... why did NIH abruptly halt research? |
URL: The Brick! |
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one was the change of frequency as quoted already.
it went from the 150Mhz range up to a higher less used area 900 Mhz if I remember.
both are now not used, retired.
then they went to 2500 Mhz/2.5Ghz and later to 5Ghz. up at those frequencies the
power went from a high wattage I believe near 20 watts 150 Mhz to 0.2 watts.
if you ever touched a 7 watt night light and burned your finger that was less
than the old cell phone. it could cook your head unless you used a antenna extension.
the 900 range cell phones used the original Raytheon radar range/microwave cooking
frequency. it was believe it may cause cataracts or it does, don't recall exactly.
getting close to any radiation can be bad.
note: I still have a collection of old CB radio magazines that had a
study of a real estate broker, a lady from Florida who used the old Motorola Brick
as it was called. the story had x-ray shots of her head cancer caused by her phone use.
interestingly enough it had the exact shape of the cell phones rubber duck antenna.
I kept it for history sake.
just for fun one day just feet behind my shop in CA was a newly installed cell tower.
I worked that side when across thee street a building had cell antennas on it.
I felt safer there until the new tower went in.
my mechanics and I were talking and I told them how bad those towers were and (a dozen) each
antenna might be transmitting over 1000 watts each and it was more than our microwave
put out. there was a cell tower worker coming down and we all walked over to him.
I asked him how many watts that tower put out. H replied enough to pop
a lot of popcorn and stopped at that. they were shocked as I warned them of working
on that side of the shop.
I have no idea with this new 5G service what frequency or how many watts
they put out now. the 5G service in my area antenna was over 50 miles away when
the first one went in. they are larger antennas now and the number of antennas
on the towers number so many I can barely count them when I drive by.
your old ham radio operator who is out of step with the new stuff/5G.
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Date: February 02, 2024 at 10:03:38
From: eaamon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: cell phone radiation... why did NIH abruptly halt research? |
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PS. I made sure I did not live near any power lines or cell towers!
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Date: February 02, 2024 at 01:23:28
From: chaskuchar@stcharlesmo, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: cell phone radiation... why did NIH abruptly halt research? |
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i think they paused for a while because of the change in
cell phone frequency. we all hear sounds from low to
high frequency and some of then we don't like. and some
are audio and then electro-magnetic. all affect
molecules differently. some are good, some are bad. so
past studies are probably useless with cell frequency
more than doubling i think. use to work in ele3ctro
magnetics and rewfrain3ewd from buyig the nww phones but
finally i did. too old to worry any nore.
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Date: February 12, 2024 at 09:48:59
From: Kat, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: cell phone radiation... why did NIH abruptly halt research? |
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I’ve gotten used to answering my cell with speaker on. I hardly ever hold
my cell phone up to my ear any longer
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