Monolith from 2001: A Space OdysseyThe monolith that starts screeching in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” when astronauts approach it, causing intense pain, was a wireless transmitter of an advanced culture—a harbinger of today’s wireless devices, say critics.

Those who say that the widespread use of wireless radiation must be tempered with the possibility of heath hazards have their sights set on the appearance Wednesday Feb. 10 at 6 p.m. of Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Sidewalk Labs, which is starting to install 7,500 high-powered wireless terminals in New York City.

The initial fixture was described in a Jan. 25 New Yorker piece by Ian Frazier.

Doctoroff will speak at the Center for Urban Science & Progress, located on the 19thfloor of the office building at One MetroTech Center, between Jay st. and Flatbush ave. extension in downtown Brooklyn.

CUSPAttempts to have a “literature table” showing health problems created by radiation and the program moved to an NYU facility in New York were rebuffed by a CUSP staffer.

Those preaching caution with respect to radiation emitting devices have often run into opposition from municipalities, corporations and institutions.

The concerned spoke up at a hearing on wireless utility meters and wireless “grids” that took place on Nov. 24, 2013 at the University of California Los Angeles which was the recipient of a “smart” federal grant for installation of wireless utility meters.

A YouTube segment shows the concerned waiting quietly until near the end of the program when they stood up to speak and would not be silenced. They had sprinkled the audience with supporters.

Legal Route Is Blocked

Concerned citizens in Maine have just suffered a defeat in a court ruling on the safety of wireless electric meters.

The culmination of a four-year legal battle was the decision Jan. 26 by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court that the meters were essentially safe.

The appeal, brought by Ed Friedman and others, argued in hearings before the Maine Public Utilities Commission that PUC’s decision allowing them “was not supported by substantial evidence in the record and that the two Commissioners offered extremely different arguments not resolved by their ultimate decision, thus making it arbitrary and capricious.”

“Even though the legal burden was on Central Maine Power to show smart meters were safe, the Court decided to ignore this question since they found the Commission decision supported by substantial evidence on the record,” said Friedman.

Maine statute requires that PUC “shall ensure safe, reasonable and adequate service,” he said.

He blasted as “doublespeak and flagrant disregard for the health and welfare of citizens” the following sentence from the decision:

“It’s one thing to make a finding that evidence is credible regarding potential harm and quite another to find there is a legally credible threat of harm—that a credible threat of harm is in fact credible: likely and probable to result in harm.”

Friedman would like the Court to explain its logic “to the many thousands injured by smart meters and all those who refuse to pay what amount to extortion fees to avoid the actual or credible threat of harm from RF exposure,” he said.