Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your Health, a GQ February 2010 feature, was picked up and publicized on Facebook by the Burbank group No Cell Tower in our Neighborhood. Sunroom Desk’s editor recommends it as an appropriate follow-up to today’s first post, worth reading in its entirety.
Recounting the experiences of scientists who have investigated the nonthermal effects of microwave radiation and whose findings have been stifled by federal agencies and corporations, the section on cell phones concludes:
If all this sounds like some abandoned X-Files script, consider the history of suppression of evidence in the major issues of consumer health over the past half century…That the cell-phone industry, which last year posted revenues in the hundreds of billions of dollars, has an incentive to shut down research showing the dangers of cell-phone use is not a radical notion.
Following that is a short discussion on cell towers, focusing on the 1996 Telecom Act:
The prize in the TCA for telecom companies branching into wireless was a rider known as Section 704, which specifically prohibits citizens and local governments from stopping placement of a cell tower due to health concerns. Section 704 was clear: There could be no litigation to oppose cell towers because the signals make you sick.
Restating Full Signal’s trailer statement (“the world’s largest biological experiment ever”), a retired scientist told the GQ writer, “What we’re doing is a grand world experiment without informed consent.”
Glendale residents: read up before next week’s Planning Commission hearing on the proposed wireless ordinance!
Whilst there’s little evidence that mobiles produce sufficient levels of radiation to cause any lasting ill effects, there’s no harm in taking simple precautions to reduce the levels of radiation you absorb from using your Mobile Phone or Cell Phone. There is a lot information at http://www.radiation.uphero.com about this subject, including recommended phones and which ones to avoid.