The recent Ontario ban on cell-phone use while driving intends to lessen
distractions and thereby accidents. Evidence from independent studies, however,
suggests that there are also other not-so-easily-observed health hazards.
Reports show cell-phone use being linked to brain ageing, brain damage,
early-onset Alzheimer's, senility and DNA damage.
These findings call into question the use of one of our most loved and used
technologies. Is it that we don't care or because much of the comfort of our
modern lives depends on not caring? Or can it be that information is suppressed
by an industry whose interests are other than that of human health?
Human beings are part of the electrical nature of the universe, and in part a
complex organization of electrical fields often measured by electrocardiograms
and electroencephalograms.
The brain which is the nerve/electrical control centre needs a stable
environment. As shown by neuroscientist Alan Frey in animal studies, microwaves
pulsed in at certain modulations induced “leakage” between the circulatory
system and the brain, seriously breaching the blood-brain barrier. Frey, who had
been doing radar work funded for fifteen years by the Office of Naval Research
(US), was reportedly told to conceal his blood-brain-barrier work or have his
contract cancelled. Another scientist funded by Motorola replicated earlier
studies on DNA damage, but the company put him under such pressure not to
publish that he quit microwave research altogether.
The proliferation of cell/microwave towers and Wi-Fi networks in homes, offices,
libraries and parks add to harmful electro-magnetic exposure, particularly with
the frequencies used.
For example, in 2006, a super-Wi-Fi was tested in a small rural village in
Sweden. Without villagers’ knowledge that the transmitters were turned on, the
residents were overcome by headaches, difficulty breathing and blurred vision,
two hospitalized with heart arrhythmia. As soon as the system was shut down the
symptoms disappeared.
The National Library of France shut its Wi-Fi citing possible genotoxic effects.
Several European countries have taken steps to remove Wi-Fi from libraries,
universities and government buildings. The Austrian Medical Association is
lobbying for a ban on all Wi-Fi in schools, citing danger to children's thinner
skulls and developing nervous systems.
Information about ourselves, our cell-phones and the electromagnetic spectrum
may, with the influence of rational and intelligent thought, dictate that we
take actions that accord with our knowledge, rather than our comforts and
fashions.
