JGeropoulas
The Living Force
Here are some excerpts from an excellent article with a lot of truth for a mainstream magazine. [All bold emphasis and bracketed comments are mine]
The Man Who Was Allergic to Radio Waves
_http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-02/disconnected
“The stress response induced by EMFs at 915 megahertz disrupted the body's DNA-repair machinery,
he concluded, thus making it harder to fix the kind of cellular damage that can lead to cancer.”
Per Segerbäck suffers from electro-hypersensitivity (EHS), which means he has severe physical reactions to the electromagnetic radiation produced by common consumer technologies, such as computers, televisions and cellphones. Symptoms range from burning or tingling sensations on the skin to dizziness, nausea, headaches, sleep disturbance and memory loss. In extreme cases like Segerbäck's, breathing problems, heart palpitations and loss of consciousness can result…Sweden is the only country in the world to recognize EHS as a functional impairment, and Segerbäck's experience has been important in creating policy to address the condition. Swedish EHS sufferers -- about 3 percent of the population, or some 250,000 people, according to government statistics…
“When a nerve is stimulated—say, the optical nerve stimulated by light—all sorts of electrical activity goes on. The nervous system uses electrical fields to function. It would be expected that certain extraneous electromagnetic fields would affect the nervous system. If you apply a correctly tuned EM field, you’re going to affect nervous-system function…when you expose a frog’s heart to EM frequencies…you can produce arrhythmias in those hearts and even stop the hearts [another "conspiracy theory" promoted to "fact"]…EM frequencies could open the blood-brain barrier. This means that substances in the blood can leak into the highly stabilized systems in the brain.” — Allan Frey, a neuroscientist formerly with the GE Advanced Electronics Center at Cornell University who conducted some of the first experiments showing the biological effects of radio-frequency radiation.
Electro-magnetic waves from the phone’s antenna penetrate the brain several centimeters deep.
Segerbäck was once an elite telecommunications engineer. He worked for Ellemtel, a division of the Swedish telecom giant Ericsson, for more than 20 years, leading an engineering group that designed advanced integrated circuits for prototype telecommunication systems. He used the newest and most advanced computer and telecom equipment available, the kind of stuff only Ericsson and the Swedish military had access to. He was, as a result, up to his eyeballs in a non-ionizing radiation bath, from computers, fluorescent lights and the telecom antenna located right outside his window.
He noticed his first symptoms -- dizziness, nausea, headaches, burning sensations and red blotches on his skin -- in the late 1980s, a decade into his telecommunications research work. All but two of the 20 or so other members of his group [= 90%] reported similar symptoms…
Ericsson went to great lengths to keep Segerbäck, a key member of the firm's design team, on the job. In the early 1990s, the company installed metal shields around his bedroom and study at home so he could sleep and work without radiation exposure.
To enable him to go outside, medical authorities
gave Segerbäck an EMF-resistant suit like those
worn by engineers working close to telecom towers
In 1993 Ericsson produced a report, "Hypersensitivity in the Workplace," about what happened at Segerbäck's lab. In the foreword, Ellemtel's vice president Örjan Mattsson and administrative chief Torbjörn Johnson wrote: "A new problem in the work environment has appeared: hypersensitivity...Soon, we came to look upon hypersensitivity as a serious threat to the company business. . . . We started wondering if we were faced with a modern-day scourge."
…Ericsson dismissed Segerbäck in 1999. "He could not perform the work he was employed to do," according to an Ericsson spokesperson. Segerbäck challenged the dismissal in a Swedish labor court and lost.
There are several hundred EHS "refugees" in Sweden, she says, people who have had to move, some more than once, to escape the effects of EMFs. She describes one hypersensitive couple that lives in a mobile home so they can quickly relocate if their symptoms worsen.
The Interphone Project, a collaboration among 13 countries that carried out studies between 2000 and 2005 coordinated by the WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer [Who?! “It’s not what you know, but WHO…you know] was set up to settle the matter of whether cellphones cause brain cancer. It, however, has been plagued by controversy over methodology, bias and contradictory results. [just as planned, no doubt] Children were not included in the study, for instance…
Let's be clear: Cellphones are not like cigarettes. There is a proven mechanism by which cigarettes cause cancer,[i.e. spraying/fertilizing tobacco with carcinogens] even if you live an otherwise healthy life. There is as yet no proven mechanism by which cellphones do the same. [sounds exactly like what they said about cigarettes 50 years ago] Most experts say there is no such mechanism…
"There is no dramatic evidence of a health effect," says Michael Kundi of the Institute of Environmental Health at the Medical University of Vienna. "Otherwise, we all would be terribly sick." But, he says, there is another crucial distinction to understand. Even though EMFs are in all likelihood not cancer initiators -- they don't cause cancer the way that tobacco does -- the radiation might well be a cancer promoter, allowing precancerous cells time to grow and metastasize, especially in concert with other factors…
According to a 2004 report from the U.K. Office of National Statistics, the rate of childhood brain and spinal-cord tumors in Britain rose from just under 20 per million in the early 1970s to just under 30 per million in the late 1990’s [that sounds like “dramatic evidence” to me]
…cellphone radiation does have "non-thermal effects" -- biological effects beyond the mere heating of tissue -- that could influence human health…There are three main lines of investigation into non-thermal effects: the potential influence on melatonin production, gene expression and intracellular signaling.
The stress response induced by EMFs at 915 megahertz disrupted the body's DNA-repair machinery, he concluded, thus making it harder to fix the kind of cellular damage that can lead to cancer.
…the International Cohort Study of Mobile Phone Users (COSMOS)…will be monitoring some 250,000 Europeans…looking at potential links between cell phones and brain tumors as well as headaches, sleep disorders, and neurological and cerebro-vascular diseases…results are not due until 2029[! by which time, conveniently, enough brains and DNA should’ve been damaged to ensure psychopathic dominance]
Here you can read how researchers of cellphone radiation regulate their personal use of cellphones:
_http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-02/disconnected?page=4
This graph showing can opener emissions to be the worst is terribly misleading: can openers are only on
for a few seconds and don't emit microwaves (unlike cordless & cell phones, microwave ovens, and Wi-Fi).