Two parts
- WARNING…
You Carry This Killer with You
Everywhere You Go
I’m going to tell you five stories about cancer victims. All recent. All sad. All true. All preventable.
History tends to repeat itself. Awful things happen, but we keep repeating the mistakes of the past.
Can we stop that vicious cycle?
1
A businessman presses his cell phone to his head before and after meetings, at his desk, walking to his car. He develops a large tumor on the very spot he held his cell phone.
Despite surgery, massive amounts of chemo, a second surgery, and more chemo, he died… leaving his wife and seven fatherless children.
2
Picture Barbara. She's in a doctor's office with her 16-year-old daughter... who’s been charging her cell phone on her nightstand since she was 12. For four years, she talked with friends for hours on end, usually with the phone against her ear. Worse, she slept with her phone under her pillow.
She has a tumor on her face, right where it was pressed against the pillow. She endured nine hours of surgery, only to have the tumor return a year later, requiring another nine-hour surgery… plus cosmetic surgery.
3
A 19-year-old man needs a total hip replacement. Odd, right? Turns out he carried his cell phone in his front pants pocket every day as a high school freshman. At 19, he jumped off a small rock while hiking and his hip shattered.
During surgery, they found a huge tumor exactly where he’d carried his phone. Once the surgeon got past the tumor, she found bone so weak she could push her finger straight through. He’ll need hip replacements every 20 years for the rest of his life, because the synthetic units wear out.
4
A grandmother tells of how her six-year-old grandson Jason was diagnosed with autism. For years, his mom used a WiFi baby monitor, every night and every nap. As a toddler, his techie dad taught him to use a smartphone; he played games on it for hours on end. Now, at age six, he has autism.
5
The following numbers represent what’s called a “cancer cluster” at one California middle school: 24 – 49 – 12 – 13 – 10 – 9.- 24 teachers/staff got cancer
- 49 former students got cancer
- 12 teachers, staff, and former students died from cancer
- 13 times the average rate of thyroid cancer
- 10 times the average rate of melanoma
- 9 times the average rate of uterine cancer
Can we prove causation? No. But when epidemiologist Samuel Milham, MD, measured the classrooms in this school, he found off-the-charts dirty electricity – from the cell tower next to the school.
All five stories are documented in Bill Cadwallader’s book Exposed: The Electronic Sickening of America and How to Protect Yourself. And as you’ll see in this and the next two Cancer Defeated issues on the developing EMF catastrophe, large population studies do exist to indicate the problem is real. It’s not likely the misfortunes above happened by chance.
Why place yourself in harm’s way when there are simple and easy preventive steps you can take? And don’t worry… most people don’t need to give up all technology. They just need to use it in safer ways.
But please don’t wait for the government or “big science” to start admitting the dangers of EMFs.
It took decades for the truth about smoking, DDT, and lead paint to be fully recognized.
Remember these claims that proved untrue?- Smoking is safe.
- OxyContin is non-addicting.
- Wonder Bread builds bodies 12 ways.
Speakers at the recent Cancer Control Society Convention convinced me that not only is this not safe, it may be a global disaster to make climate change look like a bad night at bingo.
What’s an E-M-F anyway?
It’s not a UFO, though it may seem to belong in the same camp, i.e. something for nut cases to worry about.
EMF stands for electromagnetic field. Wikipedia defines it as a physical field produced by electrically charged objects.
Since that’s probably about as clear as mud, we’re talking about invisible, silent, odorless signals flying all around us from our smartphones, WiFi, cell towers, smart meters, appliances, and even home electrical wiring.
The four horsemen of the EMF apocalypse
Each type of EMF radiation comes from different sources. Here are the basics.
1. Radio Frequencies (RF) and microwaves
The most common sources of RF radiation are cordless phones (900 MHz), smart meters, smart phones (3G, 4G, LTE), WiFi, microwave ovens, 5G networks, and Bluetooth devices. (The “G” stands for “generation” as in 5th generation. It indicates advances in cellular technology, mainly the constant expansion of bandwidth that enables these devices to carry more and more data, enabling people, for example, to watch movies on their phones.)
2. Magnetic Fields (MF)
Scientifically speaking, electric currents that run around the outside of a wire or other metallic object (for instance, a water pipe) create magnetic fields.
Common sources are chargers (phones, tablets, computers), high voltage power lines, electrical panels (breaker boxes), wiring in walls and appliances, water/gas pipes, freezers, electric clocks, toothbrushes, hair dryers, 3-way switches, cable TV lines, and more.
Power cord transformers alter AC wall outlet currents to the DC your devices need, forming a magnetic field that radiates several feet.
3. Electric Fields (EF)
The current flowing inside an electrical wire is the EF. (MFs or magnetic fields surround it.)
Comes courtesy of household wiring, power strips, ungrounded electronics, cords, chargers, lamps and lighting, buried and overhead power lines, laptops, clocks, and stoves.
Most people don’t realize that lamp cords emit electrical fields even when the lamp is turned off.
4. Dirty Electricity (DE)
Electricity is supposed to oscillate at a frequency of 60 Hz (in North America). But many of today’s items intentionally disrupt current flow multiple times per second, creating dirty electricity.
Dimmer switches change the ON/OFF status of your light bulb 120 times per second. “Energy-efficient” bulbs (like CFLs) are far worse, cycling ON/OFF at least 20,000 times – per second.1
That’s how dirty electricity is created… spiking of frequencies between 300 Hz and 10 MHz.2
Other exposures include fluorescent bulbs, chargers, solar panels, smart TVs, refrigerators, satellite boxes, DVD players, and more. Dirty electricity emanates from the wires you can see and the ones you can’t… even when the device is turned off.
Swimming in EMFs
Unless you live off the grid, you’re constantly bombarded with EMFs. If you hang out or work at Starbucks, travel through airports, or drive under power lines, you’re bathing in this invisible sea of EMFs – even if you can’t even tell they’re there.
They travel through air, wires, even through the ground.
Electricity has been around more than a century, radio for nearly that long, and TV for decades. Why is this a problem now? Because we’re exposed to manmade EMFs at levels 10 billion times higher than in the 1960s.3 The forthcoming “Internet of Things” (IoT) and 5G networks pose a staggering threat.
But not to worry, because science shows they’re completely safe, right? Right?
“Science” – not a thing or a person
If science were a person, we’d all run and hide from this bipolar monster. One day it says one thing… the next, something completely different.
Yet there’s a Grand Canyon-sized gap between the supposed safety standards protecting you and what the independent (non-industry funded) research shows.
When you analyze studies, ask these questions:
1. Are researchers truly independent? Many studies are merely puppets for industry. Tellingly, many scientists hired by the telecommunications industry to prove EMFs were safe were axed once their studies showed the opposite.
2. What does the study actually show? In 2016, the media went wild over a study that “showed safety.” But the study didn’t even look at phone use, just ownership.
3. Does a study cherry-pick the data or look for black swans?Industry and government desperately want EMFs to be safe, so they tend to report only those studies that prove their point. A safer approach is to look for the black swan, the anomaly. (Originally, it was believed a black swan was something that didn’t exist. Until it turned out it did.)
Don’t just look at the studies showing no effect… counting the white swans. Instead, look for harm. Every study showing that very low levels of EMFs do cause harm crushes the theory that they’re “harmless.” For one thing, most of us are no longer exposed to low levels. We’re exposed to very high levels.
The early studies of the relationship between cell phone use and brain cancer said there was no need to worry if you weren’t a “heavy user” of cell phones. How was “heavy use” defined? A half hour per day.
4. Who’s responsible? If you have to pay out for bad decisions, you’re more likely to think twice before acting stupidly. So… did you know that in 1996, U.S. telecom companies received total immunity from liability for negative EMF effects? And that no one can stop them from putting new antennas wherever they please? (Lobbying dollars hard at work.)