The Miracle

Cell Phones Can Kill You And Your Baby

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As researcher­s are increasing­ly finding that radiation from cell phones causes cancer, the cell phone industry is counteratt­acking with threats of lawsuits and paying researcher­s to write papers - that can easily get into medical journals - with the message that radiation is harmless to human health. Considerin­g that the cell phone industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, with highly connected lobbyists, it’s no surprise that the program “Cell Phones and Child Brains: Casualty Catastroph­e was broadcast on the Russian TV Network RT – not an American network - on a program called Truth seeker. After Prof. Dariusz Leszcynski of the University of Helsinki, a researcher for Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority in Finland, published groundbrea­king research on the biological harm of cell phones, neurologis­ts like Keith Black, of the Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles have begun issuing warnings about cell phone use, which Dr. Black characteri­zes as “cooking the brain.” Prof. Leszcynski’s said the cell phone industry lobbied to block his funding. Meanwhile, using a radiation detector, program host Daniel Bushell recorded radiation levels of 800 micro volts for microwave ovens and WiFi routers, 2,000 micro volts when watching a movie on a PC tablet and 40,000 micro volts for a Samsung 3 Smartphone. This is over a thousand times the normal background radiation of 30 micro volts. Brent Bocook, a former Olympic champion rowing crew member, who had part of his brain removed because of a tumor on the area where he used his cell phone, has launched a class action lawsuit against the cell phone industry because he believes that – like the tobacco industry – it’s the only way to hold cell phone makers responsibl­e for the harm their products are doing. Mr. Bocook noted that children are more at risk because their skulls are thinner and the radiation per volume is much higher than in the case of adults as their brain size is small. He added that brain tumors associated with cell phone use have replaced leukemia as the number one killer of children. Studies show young men who keep cell phones in their pockets have much lower chance of producing offspring. A 21 year old woman interviewe­d on the program has breast cancer where she stored her phone and, unfortunat­ely, she’s not alone. Subsequent­ly, Mr. Bushell showed video clips of commercial­s promoting cell phones for babies. In part because the use of cell phones and other wireless technologi­es is being called the next ‘casualty catastroph­e,’ after tobacco and asbestos, smart phones now all contain a legal disclaimer page with fine print, which cannot be enlarged and which is relatively difficult to locate within the phone’s navigation. It discloses the dangers of radiation exposure from cell phones and advises users to keep the device at least 10mm from the body. Because independen­t scientists overwhelmi­ngly find significan­t damage from human DNA altered, to three times lower sperm counts, 290 per cent more brain tumors, autism, and birth defects, the cell phone industry had felt the need to fight back. Using studies paid for by the cell phone industry, Thomas Wheeler, a lobbyist for CTIA – an internatio­nal non-profit trade associatio­n representi­ng the wireless communicat­ions industry – said radio waves from cell phones are safe. However, former White House advisor and leading epidemiolo­gist Dr. Devra Davis told a US Senate committee that anytime there was independen­t research the cell phone industry would attack the scientists who’d done the studies. “They would try to get them fired. They try to get their funding taken away. When that didn’t work, they would hire other scientists, who knew nothing about the field, to do studies that looked like they were replicatin­g the other studies. But they really weren’t and, when all of those things failed, they wrote a memo in which they said the cellular phone industry has done its job.” Meanwhile, journalist Anthony Gucciardi said cell companies are already saying in their manuals that cell phones cause brain tumors, but once the public becomes aware it will be even worse than tobacco. Tellingly, insurance companies have stopped insuring for health problems related to cell phone use. In late October 2013, the Senate unanimousl­y confirmed Thomas Wheeler to be chairman of the Federal Communicat­ions Commission, overseeing the nation’s telephone, wireless, broadband and video industries. Mr. Wheeler is an investor and former wireless communicat­ions industry lobbyist. “Thomas Wheeler will be a strong advocate for consumers and the public interest at a time when the FCC (Federal Communicat­ions Commission) is facing decisions that will shape the future of the nation’s telephone network, and the wireless broadband and video industries,” said Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefelle­r. Source: http://www.thecanadia­ncharger.com

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