Are Mobile Phones The New Tobacco?

From SchNEWS

Dial M For Malignant

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People living near mobile phone masts “are effectively involuntary subjects in a mass experiment” - Dr Gerald Hyland, a board member of the International Institute of Biophysics.

When, in April 1994, CEOs of the leading US cigarette manufacturers testified under oath that they, “do not believe smoking causes death or that smoking is addictive”, they set a new benchmark for corporate honesty. They may have had their backs against the wall, but the message was received loud and clear in every boardroom on earth – they’d gotten away with it…

With more mobile phones in the UK than people, and one in ten seriously addicted, are mobiles the new ‘tobacco’? For years the mobile phone industry’s tag line has been ‘There is no evidence that radiation from mobile phones and masts is harmful.’ But then neither is there ‘evidence’ that smoking causes cancer – only an irrefutable correlation between smoking and lung cancer.

While companies talk of thousands of studies which ‘prove that current wireless technology is safe’, in 1993 a research team under Dr. George Carlo - overseen by Harvard university - was given $28.5 million by the mobile phone industry to research the health effects of the technology.

After realising that all previous studies were based on data from microwave oven tests, which all happily concluded that ‘if the power isn’t high enough to cook the food, then it’s safe to have your head in there while it’s on’, Dr Carlo got down to doing his own tests, which proved something else: That human cells do react to the microwave signals from mobile phones and, thinking themselves under attack, take steps to increase defences. The cell membranes harden, which inhibits their normal processes and leads to extra waste in the form of free radicals - effectively composed of poisons which damage the affected cells and more importantly, damage their DNA. It is a well established fact that DNA damage can lead to cancer.

According to a court submission by an independent research physicist, writing the Police Federation report on the new Tetra emergency services communications, “There is a plethora of extensive, well researched documents highlighting illnesses caused by microwave sickness around the world. These papers (in their thousands) highlight the illnesses caused by low level (below thermal) microwaves as arrhythmia, heart attack, cell death, diseases of the blood, interference to bone marrow, brain tumours, DNA damage, altered calcium level in cells, reduction in night-time melatonin, suppression of the immune system, arthritis, rheumatism, skin problems, lymphatic diseases, vaginal discharge, vascular system disease, tinnitus, leukaemia, childhood cancer…”

These cheerful little radiation waves are not only produced by mobile phones but by nearly every ‘wireless’ device on the market. But if the masses heard more about this they might not be so quick to sign up and chat or surf their day away. So what has the industry done to protect their profits?

Pay As U Glow

Well, the pattern is tried and tested. It took decades before it became accepted that tobacco was a major source of ill health. One would be naive indeed to think that the mobile companies haven’t already boned up on the tactics and are ready to wheel them out as needed.

First lesson leaned is to deny everything and spend huge sums sponsoring ‘research’ that suggests otherwise. Check! Plenty of sympathetic puff pieces all round in the big news media to follow… Check! Sponsor more universities and research facilities to make sure you can apply pressure and stop the more controversial studies before they get published. Check!

With a pyramid of vested interests, the mobile firms seem to have everyone in their pockets. The World Health Organisation provided them with one of their best argument-winners with its apparent lack of interest in the matter. Coincidentally, only recently Mike Repacholi, head of their Electromagnetic Field department (and the inaugural chairman of ICNIRP - International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection) left under a cloud after it emerged he received hundreds of thousand of dollars from…the mobile phone industry.

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