Mobile Phone Studies
In 1995, mobile phone sales in North America exceeded the birth rate.
According to Bank My Cell, in 2021 there were 7.1 billion mobile phones worldwide, 6.37 billion of those were smartphones.
They are ubiquitous. You and anyone else within range of the microwaves emitted by a mobile phone are affected.
We have yet to count the costs of the miniature radio transmitters that are transforming Nikola Tesla’s invention into possibilities for portable personal pollution. Entire nations are reaching for pocket communicators. According to Globe Newswire, in 2022, the mobile phone industry was worth USD484.81 billion and was expected to increase to USD792.51 billion within seven years.
Exquisitely sensitive to subtle electromagnetic frequencies, human brains and bodies depend on tiny electrical impulses to conduct complex life processes including the ability to read, recall and respond to words. Acting as antennas, our bodies easily tune into signals from radio and microwave transmissions. Blake Levitt, author of Electromagnetic Fields, says, “When it comes to mobile phones, a worse frequency could not have been chosen for the human anatomy.”
As researcher Carolanne Patton notes, “The brain reaches peak absorption in the UHF bands, right where cellular (mobile phone) telecommunications operate.” British military scientists have discovered that mobile phone transmissions disrupt the brain sites for memory and learning, causing forgetfulness and sudden confusion. Other studies in both Europe and England show signals from mobile phones reduce the ability to concentrate, calculate, and coordinate complicated activities such as driving a car.
Startled by a $4 billion a year increase in claims among drivers after using mobile a phone, North American insurers found that simply juggling mobile phones is not the cause of a 600% increase in accidents. Instead of being a dangerous distraction,tests conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy found, “Using a mobile phone impairs memory and reaction times.” These statements were made before 4G was fully integrated.
According to a University of Toronto report, “The heightened probability of crashing your car persists for up to 15-minutes after completing a call.” Dr. Chris Rumball, chairman of the B.C. Medical Association’s emergency medical services committee claims, “This is comparable to driving while dead drunk.” This is one of the reasons there are such heavy fines for driving while talking on a mobile phone. ‘Hands-free’ mobile speakerphones cause even more crashes because they typically emit 10-times more brainwave interference than handheld units, due to the metal surround of cars.
In New Zealand (due to the work of the late Dr Neil Cherry) mobile phone towers are prohibited on school property because of possible health effects. But in Canada, England, and Australia regulations ignore the hidden hazards of mobile phone towers.
Mobile phones send pulsed signals through the skull in a process one expert likens to jackhammers on the brain. Safety Codes look only at microwaves burning the skin. “Basically, Health Canada claims if it can’t cook you, it can’t hurt you,” says Walter McGinnis. “It’s like saying cigarettes aren’t dangerous unless they burn you.”
Micro-cell spokesman Colin McCrae claims, “Emissions from mobile phone towers carry about the same energy as a 50-watt light bulb, well within safe guidelines”.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) told us thalidomide, asbestos and blood transfusions were safe. Strangely, the addiction to mobile phones is very similar to the prestigious allure of smoking in the 60s and 70s. Could immense profitability be the reason why the mobile phone industry steadfastly denies all risks or responsibility?
Reporting the conclusions of a British study team, scientist Sir William Stewart told London’s Financial Times, “Children may be more vulnerable because of their developing nervous system, the greater absorption of energy in the tissues of the head and a longer lifetime of exposure.”
Roger Coghill became a long-standing advocate for health warnings to be affixed to mobile phones after he found that mobile-phone transmissions damage the ability of white blood cells to ward off infectious disease by disrupting the immune system’s electromagnetic communications.
Dr. Neil Cherry (Lincoln University in Christchurch, NZ) has measured accelerated ageing, increased cell death, and cancers caused by radio frequency microwaves from mobile phones and their relay towers. With the brain’s electro-chemical communications repeatedly zapped by lightning-like phone pulses, this Ph.D. biophysicist warns that headaches, fatigue, lethargy, nausea, dizziness, depression, arteriosclerosis and even Alzheimers, can result from frequent or prolonged calls on mobile phones.
“There is also a higher incidence of cardiac problems,” Dr Cherry comments, “in terms of the timing function in hearts. It has now been shown in many studies, that mobile phone users get more heart attacks and more heart disease.”
He has also found that mobile phones can alter moods by causing tiny imbalances in trace minerals and hormones resulting in depression, suicide, anger, rage, and violence when calcium and serotonin levels are disrupted by mobile phone transmissions.
George Carlo (public health scientist) was hired by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association to condone mobile phones, but he found that rare tumors on the outside of the brain have more than doubled among mobile phone callers particularly on the right side of the head where phones are usually held. Carlo told ABC’s ‘20/20’, “Mobile phones cause genetic damage leading to cancer.” Warning of the potential for a global health disaster, ABC recommended ’prudent avoidance’ of mobile phones after finding that every mobile phone they lab-tested exceeded the US Federal Communication Commission’s standards for EMF absorption rates. EMF researcher Dave Ashton cautioned ‘20/20’ viewers that, “Because mobile phones constantly search for the nearest repeating tower, long-term damage comes from mobile phones in the stand-by mode.”
Dr. Carlo later told London’s Express newspaper “Mobile phones cause genetic damage following a dose-response curve. That is, the more a person uses a mobile phone, the more cellular destruction and health risks they incur. Mobile-phone-confused cells can go crazy. Experiments on captive animals show that this cumulative DNA damage is passed on to succeeding generations.”
Dr Michael Repacholi (retired head of Australian Radiation Laboratories and head/coordinator at WHO for Radiation and Environmental Health Protection of the Human Environment) was in charge of an Adelaide Hospital study which confirmed Dr Car- lo’s conclusions after finding B-cell lymphomas doubled in mice within 18 months of a one-hour daily exposure to power densities experienced by a mobile phone users.
B-cell lymphomas are implicated in 85% of all cancers.
Mobile phone companies insist that the new digital phones operating at 1/50th the power of older analog models are safer, but there is nothing “safe” about the new 1.9 gigahertz broadcasting frequency. Rapid pulsing microwave/radio mobile phone signals is much like a boxer taking repeated blows to the head, which can cause permanent brain damage.
A study by Dr. Peter French of Sydney, Australia, “Cells are permanently damaged by mobile phone frequencies and inherited unchanged, from generation to generation. This cellular damage, Dr French noted, is maximized at low dosage.
Attempting to explain a 25% increase in asthma and a 5% increase in asthma-related deaths throughout metropolitan Sydney, Dr French found “the production of histamine, which triggers bronchial spasms, is nearly doubled after exposure to mobile phone transmissions. Mobile phones also reduce the effectiveness of anti-asthmatic drugs, and retard recovery from illness”.
Reference: “Cell phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age”,
by Dr. George Carlo and Martin Schram (2001, Caroll and Graf publishers)
HOW DANGEROUS ARE MOBILE PHONES?
“The risk is extremely high,” declares Dr. Cherry. “There are 6 epidemiological studies showing that electromagnetic radiation across the spectrum increase brain tumors in human populations. Two of those studies are for particular brain tumors from mobile phones.”
Dr Cherry says, “Because cancer takes decades to develop, it will be another 10 or 20 years before ‘mobiles’ manifest a big bonanza in brain tumors. We’re already seeing acute effects that are noticed within minutes of using a mobile phone.”
Professor Leif Salford informed the Daily Mail that after a two minute conversation on a mobile phone: “It seems that molecules such as proteins and toxins can pass out of the blood, while the phone is switched on and enter the brain. We need to bear in mind diseases such as MS and Alzheimers which are linked to proteins being found in the brain.”
“The mobile phone frequencies are the same as those used in radar and your microwave oven,” says Florida mobile phone tower opponent, Joe Chwick. “You wouldn’t think of sticking your head in the a microwave oven, but there is no hesitation to putting the mobile phone to your ear.”
The information for this section is courtesy of:
“The Tao of Detox”
by Daniel Reid, Healing Arts Press
Publishing 1 edition (October 25, 2006)
Paperback 336 pages ISBN-10: 1594771421/ISBN-13: 9781594771422
Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious ‘colony collapse’ of bees
By Geoffrey Lean and Harriet Shawcross
Sunday, 15 April 2007
It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world’s harvests fail.
They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possibleanswer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the beesthat pollinate crops. Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that the phenomenon - which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe - was beginning to hit Britain as well.
The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees’ navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back this up.
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) occurs when a hive’s inhabitants suddenly disappear, leaving only queens, eggs and a few immature workers, like so many apian Mary Celestes. The vanished bees are never found, but thought to die singly far from home. The parasites, wildlife and other bees that normally raid the honey and pollen left behind when a colony dies, refuse to go anywhere near the abandoned hives.
The alarm was first sounded last autumn, but has now hit half of all American states. The West Coast is thought to have lost 60 per cent of its commercial bee population, with 70 per cent missing on the East Coast.
CCD has since spread to Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece. And last week John Chapple, one of London’s biggest bee-keepers, announced that 23 of his 40 hives have been abruptly abandoned.
Other apiarists have recorded losses in Scotland, Wales and north-west England, but the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs insisted: “There is absolutely no evidence of CCD in the UK.”
The implications of the spread are alarming. Most of the world’s crops depend on pollination by bees. Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, “man would have only four years of life left”.
No one knows why it is happening. Theories involving mites, pesticides, global warming and GM crops have beenproposed, but all have drawbacks.
German research has long shown that bees’ behaviour changes near power lines.
Now a limited study at Landau University has found that bees refuse to return to their hives when mobile phones are
placed nearby. Dr Jochen Kuhn, who carried it out, said this could provide a “hint” to a possible cause.
Dr George Carlo, who headed a massive study by the US government and mobile phone industry of hazards from mobiles in the Nineties, said: “I am convinced the possibility is real.”
The case against handsets
Evidence of dangers to people from mobile phones is increasing. But proof is still lacking, largely because many of the biggest perils, such as cancer, take decades to show up.
Most research on cancer has so far proved inconclusive. But an official Finnish study found that people who used the phones for more than 10 years were 40 per cent more likely to get a brain tumour on the same side as they held the handset.
Equally alarming, blue-chip Swedish research revealed that radiation from mobile phones killed off brain cells, suggesting that today’s teenagers could go senile in the prime of their lives.
Studies in India and the US have raised the possibility that men who use mobile phones heavily have reduced sperm counts. And, more prosaically, doctors have identified the condition of “text thumb”, a form of RSI from constant texting.
Professor Sir William Stewart, who has headed two official inquiries, warned that children under eight should not use mobiles and made a series of safety recommendations, largely ignored by ministers.
What is 3G, 4G, and 5G?
The G in these terms means “generation”. So 3G, 4G, and 5G are successive generations of telecommunication devices. Each new generation raises the download speed and capacity levels of prior iterations. 3G had a download speed of 7Mbps, improved voice quality, and introduced basic data services. The download speed of 4G is a hundred times faster, with 5G being quoted as having a maximum download speed of 2.5 Gbps. Each new rendition of the global mobile network uses new infrastructure and software, more towers of different technologies. The 5G network has moved to a cloud-based system, using OFDM encoding on the 100 to 800 MHz channels.
INTERNATIONAL SAFETY STANDARDS
Russia 1.5 milligauss (mG)
Sweden 2.5mG
United States 833 - 4,000mG
United Kingdom 1,000 - 4,000mG
Australia 1,000 - 5,000mG
These governments justify not acting on further regulation because they claim only ‘ionizing’ radiation causes problems. Their stance is that only radiation that heats tissues significantly are a risk. Clearly ‘ionizing radiation’ does cause problems and mobile phones put out such radiation. This kind of experiement shows that they are not even following their own gross low standards and thus not performing even the lowest levels of their duty of care for the public. It has been repeatedly proven that much lower levels of radiation than that put our by mobiles phones causes significant changes in tissues, but the evidence is assiduously ignored. The health effects of, and response of the human body to, mobile phones and other sources of domestic radiation needs a lot more research.
CONCLUSIONS
- Don’t believe the ‘authorities’.
- Use the ‘precautionary principle’, i.e. be prudent, avoid
contact or have Tesla’s Phone Tags.
- Use the loudspeaker on your mobile phone whenever it is
possible.