{"id":847,"date":"2020-01-18T19:40:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T00:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haidut.me\/?p=847"},"modified":"2020-01-18T19:40:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T00:40:14","slug":"the-inconvenient-truth-about-cancer-and-mobile-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/?p=847","title":{"rendered":"The inconvenient truth about cancer and mobile phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This mainstream media article is one of the best reviews on the dangers of EMF exposure and it does a very good job of explaining why this &#8220;inconvenient truth&#8221; is not more widely known &#8211; i.e. deliberate and well-funded propaganda campaign by the wireless industry often involving direct bribing and even physical violence aimed at concealing the truth. Please keep in mind that at this point a number of government organizations (including WHO\/UN) have publicly labelled EMF exposure as either a &#8220;possible&#8221; or &#8220;known&#8221; human carcinogen, and recent studies by NIH\/NIST leave little doubt over the risks of EMF exposure. Over the last few months mass media has been ablaze about the successful lawsuits against Monsanto and its carcinogenic blockbuster product <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glyphosate#Legal_cases\">RoundUp (glyphosate)<\/a>, yet the exposure to EMF dwarfs glyphosate and its negative impact on public health. The newest reincarnation of wireless technology (5G) is already generating controversy in regards to its safety (or lack thereof).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Jxupry92pa\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/haidut.me\/?p=686\">We Have No Reason to Believe 5G Is Safe<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;We Have No Reason to Believe 5G Is Safe&#8221; &#8212; To Extract Knowledge from Matter\" src=\"http:\/\/haidut.me\/?p=686&#038;embed=true#?secret=dGY7IHnMnq#?secret=Jxupry92pa\" data-secret=\"Jxupry92pa\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If there is any doubt in anybody&#8217;s mind about the dangers\/risks of EMF please scroll down to the 6th paragraph\/quote below, which explains that insurance companies refuse sell coverage for EMF damage. Why? Well, because to them the evidence is clear that EMF causes cancer, so it makes little sense to sell coverage for an adverse event that WILL occur due to EMF exposure. You see, insurance companies like to sell coverage for events that are NOT likely to occur so that they can collect most of the premiums and not have to make any policy payments. So, even Big Money is betting that EMF causes cancer, yet we keep hearing otherwise from mainstream media. So, instead of suing Monsanto (which is still a good idea) the public&#8217;s time\/effort\/money are probably much better spent on taking action against private and government factors pushing for ever-increasing pervasiveness of EMF. Even if the increase in wireless deployments cannot be stopped, at the very least the legal action can create requirements for transparency about the true risks of such technology and ensure severe penalties for any corrupt proponent of wireless technology that knowingly creates <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt\">FUD<\/a> with fake\/sponsored &#8220;research&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/biorxiv\/early\/2016\/05\/26\/055699.full.pdf\">https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/biorxiv\/early\/2016\/05\/26\/055699.full.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saferemr.com\/2016\/05\/national-toxicology-progam-finds-cell.html\">https:\/\/www.saferemr.com\/2016\/05\/national-toxicology-progam-finds-cell.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1241867\/cell-phone-radiation-can-cause-cancer-in-rats-according-to-the-final-results-of-a-us-government-study\/\">https:\/\/qz.com\/1241867\/cell-phone-radiation-can-cause-cancer-in-rats-according-to-the-final-results-of-a-us-government-study\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/jul\/14\/mobile-phones-cancer-inconvenient-truths\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/jul\/14\/mobile-phones-cancer-inconvenient-truths<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;On 28 March this year, <strong>the\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ntp.niehs.nih.gov\/ntp\/about_ntp\/bsc\/2018\/june\/meetingmaterials\/blystone20180620_508.pdf\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">scientific peer review<\/a> of a landmark United States government study concluded that there is \u201cclear evidence\u201d that radiation from mobile phones causes cancer<\/strong>, specifically, a heart tissue cancer in rats that is too rare to be explained as random occurrence. Eleven independent scientists spent three days at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, discussing\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/biorxiv\/early\/2016\/05\/26\/055699.full.pdf\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">the study<\/a>, which was done by the National Toxicology Program of the US Department of Health and Human Services and ranks among the largest conducted of the health effects of mobile phone radiation. NTP scientists had exposed thousands of rats and mice (whose biological similarities to humans make them\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nabr.org\/biomedical-research\/laboratory-animals\/species-in-research\/mice-and-rats\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">useful indicators of human health risks<\/a>) to doses of radiation equivalent to an average mobile user\u2019s lifetime exposure. <strong>The peer review scientists\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saferemr.com\/2016\/05\/national-toxicology-progam-finds-cell.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">repeatedly upgraded the confidence<\/a>\u00a0levels the NTP\u2019s scientists and staff had attached to the study, fuelling critics\u2019 suspicions that the NTP\u2019s leadership had tried to downplay the findings<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong><a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1241867\/cell-phone-radiation-can-cause-cancer-in-rats-according-to-the-final-results-of-a-us-government-study\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Thus the peer review also found \u201csome evidence\u201d<\/a> \u2013 one step below \u201cclear evidence\u201d \u2013 of cancer in the brain and adrenal glands<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Not one major news organisation in the US or Europe reported this scientific news<\/span>. But then, news coverage of mobile phone safety has long reflected the outlook of the wireless industry<\/strong>. <strong>For a quarter of a century now, the industry has been orchestrating a global PR campaign aimed at misleading not only journalists, but also consumers and policymakers about the actual science concerning mobile phone radiation<\/strong>. Indeed, <strong>big wireless has borrowed the very same strategy and tactics big tobacco and big oil pioneered to deceive the public<\/strong> about the risks of smoking and climate change, respectively. And like their tobacco and oil counterparts, <strong>wireless industry CEOs lied to the public even after their own scientists privately warned that their products could be dangerous, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">especially to children<\/span><\/strong>. Outsiders suspected from the start that <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">George Carlo<\/span> was a front man for an industry whitewash. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Tom Wheeler<\/span>, the president of the\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ctia.org\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association<\/a> (CTIA)<\/strong>, handpicked Carlo to defuse a public relations crisis that threatened to strangle his infant industry in its crib. This was back in 1993, when there were only six mobile subscriptions for every 100 adults in the United States, but industry executives foresaw a booming future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;Carlo seemed like a good bet to fulfil Wheeler\u2019s mission. An epidemiologist with a law degree, he had conducted studies for other controversial industries. After a study funded by Dow Corning, <strong>Carlo had declared that breast implants posed only minimal health risks. With chemical industry funding, he had concluded that low levels of dioxin, the chemical behind the Agent Orange scandal, were not dangerous<\/strong>. In 1995, Carlo began directing the industry-financed Wireless Technology Research project (WTR), whose eventual budget of $28.5m made it the best-funded investigation of mobile safety to date.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;Carlo sent letters to\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goaegis.com\/articles\/gcarlo_100799.html\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">each of the industry\u2019s chieftains<\/a> on 7 October 1999, reiterating that WTR\u2019s research had found the following: <strong>the risk of \u201crare neuroepithelial tumours on the outside of the brain was more than doubled\u2026 in cellphone users\u201d; there was an apparent correlation between \u201cbrain tumours occurring on the right side of the head and the use of the phone on the right side of the head\u201d; and the \u201cability of radiation from a phone\u2019s antenna to cause functional genetic damage [was] definitely positive<\/strong>\u201d. <strong>Carlo urged the CEOs to do the right thing<\/strong>: give consumers \u201cthe information they need to make an informed judgment about how much of this unknown risk they wish to assume\u201d, especially since some in <strong>the industry had \u201crepeatedly and falsely claimed that wireless phones are safe for all consumers including children<\/strong>\u201d. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The very next day, a livid Wheeler began publicly trashing Carlo to the media<\/strong><\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;<strong>The key strategic insight animating corporate propaganda campaigns is that <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">a given industry doesn\u2019t have to win the scientific argument about safety to prevail \u2013 it only has to keep the argument going<\/span><\/strong>. <strong>Keeping the argument going amounts to a win for industry<\/strong>, because the apparent lack of certainty helps to reassure customers, fend off government regulations and deter lawsuits that might pinch profits. <strong>Central to keeping the scientific argument going is making it appear that not all scientists agree<\/strong>. Towards that end, and <strong>again like the tobacco and fossil-fuel industries, the wireless industry has <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cwar-gamed\u201d science<\/span><\/strong>, as a\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rfsafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/cell-phone-radiation-war-gaming-memo.pdf\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Motorola internal memo<\/a> in 1994 phrased it. War-gaming science\u00a0involves playing offence as well as defence \u2013 <strong>funding studies friendly to the industry while attacking studies that raise questions; placing industry-friendly\u00a0experts on advisory bodies<\/strong> such as the World Health Organisation <strong>and seeking to discredit scientists whose views differ from the industry\u2019s<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;A closer look reveals the industry\u2019s sleight of hand. When Henry Lai, a professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington, analysed 326 safety-related studies completed between 1990 and 2006, he discovered that 44% of them found no biological effect from mobile phone radiation and 56% did; scientists apparently were split. But when Lai recategorised the studies according to their funding sources, a different picture emerged: <strong>67% of the independently funded studies found a biological effect, while a mere 28% of the industry-funded studies did<\/strong>. Lai\u2019s findings were replicated by a\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1797826\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">2007 analysis in\u00a0<em>Environmental Health Perspectives<\/em><\/a>, which concluded that <strong>industry-funded studies were two and a half times less likely than independent studies to find health effects<\/strong>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>One key player has not been swayed by all this wireless-friendly research: the insurance industry<\/strong><\/span>. In our reporting for this story, we found <strong>not a single insurance company that would sell a product-liability policy that covered mobile phone radiation. <\/strong>\u201cWhy would we want to do that?\u201d one executive asked with a chuckle before pointing to <strong>more than two dozen lawsuits outstanding against wireless companies, demanding a total of $1.9bn in damages<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;<strong>The industry\u2019s neutralisation of the safety issue has opened the door to the biggest prize of all: the proposed transformation of society dubbed the Internet of Things<\/strong>. Lauded as a gigantic engine of economic growth, the Internet of Things will not only connect people through their smartphones and computers but will also connect those devices to a customer\u2019s vehicles and appliances, even their baby\u2019s nappies \u2013 all at speeds much faster than can currently be achieved. <strong>There is a catch, though: the Internet of Things will require augmenting today\u2019s 4G technology with <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">5G technology, thus \u201cmassively increasing\u201d the general population\u2019s exposure to radiation<\/span><\/strong>, according to a\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B14R6QNkmaXuelFrNWRQcThNV0U\/view\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">petition signed by 236 scientists worldwide<\/a>\u00a0who have published more than 2,000 peer-reviewed studies and represent \u201ca significant portion of the credentialled scientists in the radiation research field\u201d, according to\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acsh.org\/news\/2017\/02\/28\/uc-berkeley-psychologist-joel-moskowitz-cell-phone-wi-fi-truther-10928\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Joel Moskowitz<\/a>, the director of the Center for Family and Community Health at the University of California, Berkeley, who helped circulate the petition. <strong>Nevertheless, like mobiles, 5G technology is on the verge of being introduced <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">without pre-market safety testing<\/span><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This mainstream media article is one of the best reviews on the dangers of EMF exposure and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[55,1029,876,1028,161,184,734,114,328,873],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-cancer","tag-confirmed","tag-corruption","tag-danger","tag-emf","tag-fraud","tag-manipulation","tag-radiation","tag-risk","tag-wireless","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haidut.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}