I wonder if consumers in this smart meter trial will be given the choice of opting out if they request to be excluded – and will they be warned that some people may suffer adverse symptoms as well, especially if the meter box is on the bedroom wall close to the bedhead.? Of course not.
Read more →From Fertility and Sterility http://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(11)02678-1/abstract Use of laptop computers connected to internet through Wi-Fi decreases human sperm motility and increases sperm DNA fragmentation Objective To evaluate the effects of laptop computers connected to local area networks wirelessly (Wi-Fi) on human spermatozoa. Design Prospective in vitro study. Setting Center for reproductive medicine. Patient(s) Semen samples from
Read more →On Tuesday November 22 the ABC’s 7:30 Report aired a story about increasing community concerns in Australia over the proliferation of mobile phone towers. Currently we have a bill before the Senate (Senator Bob Brown) and one before the House of Reps.(MHR Andrew Wilkie) that are both aimed at giving more say to the community
Read more →From Jim Owen: Hi Don my name is Jim Owen I am the Head of IT for Enable Housing Association (www.enable-group.org.uk) and I have actively refused to allow any of my systems to use Wifi technology anywhere within our homes or properties for the last 10 years “” so we are supporting Wifi Free Wednesday
Read more →From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: It turns out that a scientist at the highest levels of NIH believes that the only way to cause cancer is to break DNA. That is, he appears to be unaware about epigenetics. This news emerged when Franz Adlkofer, the head of the EC’s REFLEX project, spoke at Harvard Law
Read more →From J Burns: Dear Don, would you please post our idea about Wifi-Free Wednesday. Sites in the UK, Holland, Germany and Canada are posting. We are hoping that there will be a heightened awareness about wifi in schools and the need to hardwire internet connections. There is a parent protest on Wed. Nov 23, 2011
Read more →From the publisher: In ‘Sleep-Powered Wellness’, Angela Hobbs explains why our increasingly safe, luxurious bedrooms are so difficult to sleep in. What is it about all those wireless and electrical devices, all those synthetic furnishings and personal care products, all that light and noise that’s turning 40% of adults into insomniacs? Why are our bedrooms
Read more →From Olle Johansson: I have for years served as Ph.D. supervisor for Eva-Rut Lindberg, The Royal Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, who now intends to defend her thesis entitled “Building Design for Persons with the Functional Impairment Electrohypersensitivity: a Project in the Voltage Field between Belief and Knowledge”. Address: Alfred
Read more →From Vicky Fobel, Mobilewise http://www.mobilewise.org/ PRESS RELEASE – Embargo: 00.01 hrs (GMT) 9 November 2011 Scientists and campaigners call on the Government and phone companies to protect children from the health risks of mobile phones New report details evidence from more than 200 scientific studies linking mobile phone use with serious health problems. Link: http://www.mobilewise.org/facts/report-mobile-phone-health-risks-the-case-for-action-to-protect-children
Read more →Wi-Fi in Schools Nov 2011 Dr Andrew Goldsworthy Most of the damage done by digital telecommunications is not due to heating but by the electrical effect their pulsating signals have on living tissues, which occurs at much lower energy levels. The human body can act as an antenna and the signals make electric currents flow
Read more →From Camilla Rees: I am pleased to share with you research published yesterday by members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in Radiation Biology. Radiation Ecology (Volume 51, No.5, 2011), showing serious cognitive declines in children using cellular communications in a 4-year study. Dr. Yury Grigoriev, who heads the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionising Radiation
Read more →Swinburne’s Brain and Psychological Sciences Research Centre (BPsyC) Hosts This Year’s “Science and Wireless” Public Forum Registration is at http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lss/bpsyc/science-wireless.html The annual “Science & Wireless” event provides a unique opportunity for scientists, regulators, industry specialists and members of the community to meet and exchange views on Radiofrequency (including mobile phones) and health in a public
Read more →From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: The latest analysis of the tumor risks among cell phone users in Denmark and the accompanying editorial brings to mind the old saying: “Trust your mother, but cut the cards.” Be warned: Before you believe what you are told by the Danish Cancer Society or the Karolinska Institute or what
Read more →Adolescent in-school cellphone habits: a census of rules, survey of their effectiveness, and fertility implications Mary Redmayne (a), Euan Smith (a), Michael J Abramson (b), (a) School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand (b) Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health &
Read more →From investigative journalist Mona Nilsson: This article will be published in Swedish this week in Miljömagasinet and on my page www.mobiltelefoni.tv Mobile phones and children”s brain tumour risks: Researchers found the highest risk in Sweden “”but dismissed the risks based on under-reported Swedish brain tumour statistics. The “reassuring” results of a study on brain tumour
Read more →For all the other letters sent in to the BMJ on the Danish study see the web link: http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d6387 Scroll down to the letters below the abstract. Don
Read more →Re:Not enough data excluding cellphones’ morbidity http://www.bmj.com/letters Devra L Davis, Director Ronald B. Herberman, Yael Stein Environmental Health Trust Re: Use of mobile phones and risk of brain tumours: update of Danish cohort study. Frei, et al. 343:doi:10.1136/bmj.d6387 (BMJ. 2011 Oct 19;343:d6387 Frei et al studied tumours in the central nervous system among Danish mobile
Read more →Note that the article supplied by Mona Nilsson in the previous message was in fact a Google translation and was not translated by Mona. Don
Read more →1) From Mona Nilsson with a Google translation: Danish article in the “Ingenjören”: http://ing.dk/artikel/123444-who-ekspert-kalder-dansk-kraeftstudie-af-mobilstraaling-fejlagtig Criticism of the article in the British Medical Journal BMJ: Use of mobile phones and risk of Brain Tumour: update of Danish cohort study By Torben R. Simonsen, Friday 28th October 2011 pm. 07:12 In last week, Jorgen H. Olsen, head
Read more →From Microwave News: The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is playing some strange games, which will inevitably lead to more public confusion about cell phone cancer risks. IARC Is now saying that the Interphone study shows no association between brain tumors and the use of cell phones. Huh? We decided to look into
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