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The Wireless Elephant in the Room

In parallel with the growth of chronic illnesses since the 1990s, it is hard not to notice that the amount of wireless communication infrastructure in our midst has been exploding. Four and a half billion people use a cell phone today, whereas in the early 1990s most people didn’t own a cell phone. There are now millions of cell towers radiating the planet, many hundreds of millions WiFi networks and billions of wireless devices connected to them. Certainly, there has also been growth in other environmental pollutants during this period, and many people are over-drugged and suffer from drug interactions, with costly side effects, that also drive total costs.

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 Do I Need to Worry About Radiation From WiFi and Bluetooth Devices?

Recent research has resurfaced concerns among scientists about a potential link between cell-phone radiation and cancer. But that research—a 10-year, $25 million government study in rodents—left a lot of key questions unanswered. That includes how relevant the findings are to newer wireless technologies such as Bluetooth and WiFi that have become widespread since the study was designed in the early 2000s.

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5G Wireless Rekindles Decades-Old Fight Over Cellular Health Risks

It’s still too early to tell whether 5G deployment and small cells complicate things, according to Dr. Jerry Phillips, a professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Colorado. Phillips said studies taking a specific look at the health risks of 5G technology are virtually nonexistent, and that the risk of cumulative radiation exposure also needs a closer look. “Of concern here are not just the potential effects of 5G-associated radiation, but what might result from the combined impact of 5G-radiation with other sources of non-ionizing radiation in our environment,” Phillips said. “Certainly, a more careful and thorough assessment of the risks to human and environmental health are warranted.”

How Big Wireless Made Us Think That Cell Phones Are Safe: A Special Investigation

This article does not argue that cell phones and other wireless technologies are necessarily dangerous; that is a matter for scientists to decide. Rather, the focus here is on the global industry behind cell phones—and the industry’s long campaign to make people believe that cell phones are safe.

Scientists Warn Wireless Devices Could Pose Health Risks

A petition about the potential dangers of wireless and cellular devices has resurfaced. The 250 experts who signed the United Nations and World Health Organization petition in 2015 believe there is an association between cancer and the emission of non-ionizing electromagnetic fields or EMF.

Something in the Air

The coronavirus pandemic is sparking baseless theories about the dangers of 5G. But the fear that wireless technology is slowly killing us isn’t new—and it doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon.

The Wireless Revolution Hits Medicine

The fact that consumers will have this ability to have themselves—their genome sequence, their lab tests, their tissues—digitized on their smartphones and their social networks will reboot the way doctors interact with patients.

Why public health experts are worried about 5G, the next generation of cell network

It's a bit of a David and Goliath battle, as Big Telecom's PR and marketing teams have been busy hyping the possibilities of 5G, while watchdog groups struggle to get funding for even meager studies into potential health effects.

Wireless Health facts

The general public has been surrounded by sources of RF energy such as this for more than 100 years, since the introduction of radio broadcasting. The current consensus of scientific opinion has not changed—there are no known health risks from RF energy at the low levels approved for everyday consumer use. That is because RF is a low-frequency form of energy, meaning that it is not powerful enough to cause damage to your cells

Worried About 5G’s Health Effects? Don’t Be

There’s little reason to think 5G frequencies are any more harmful than other types of electromagnetic radiation, like visible light.

Don’t Fly Planes with Wi-Fi Says EMF Health Advocate

Avoid airlines with in-flight wireless, says EMF health advocate Camilla Rees, who notes an airline is a “metal cage” and is “an especially high risk environment for radiation.”

Effects of Wireless Devices on Human Body

The wireless devices have become the integral part of our everyday life. These devices are being used for many purposes such as for Internet and Telecommunication. Being a theoretical approach, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of wireless devices on human body.

The Daredevils Without Landlines — And Why Health Experts Are Tracking Them

For the first time in history, federal researchers report that a majority of U.S. homes rely on cellphones alone for a telephone connection, without a landline. The number of cellphone-only households predictably has been climbing over the years, surpassing the households with both a landline and a mobile phone and now reaching almost 51 percent. And it's tracked by — of all agencies — the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The truth behind claims Airpods cause cancer

No, scientists didn’t sign anything about the dangers of Airpods The scientist declaration referenced in all the news posts is actually from 2015, and was an appeal to governments to take seriously the potential health threats of the type of non-ionizing radiofrequency radiation emitted by cell phones and other wireless devices. Yes, those include Bluetooth devices, like Airpods. But it’s not that simple. We’ll get to that in a minute.

We need to talk about the health risks of wearable technology

Many agree the simplest cautionary measure is to maintain some physical distance from our radiation-emitting devices—but clearly that will be much more difficult when the device is strapped to one’s body.