The U.K.’s “Digital Economy Bill,” close to being adopted, has alarmed radiation health advocates who say it will unleash dangerous 5G microwave spectra without adequate testing.
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Ecologist Lynn Wycherley says “Evidence is emerging that the health hazards associated with wireless microwaves are at least comparable to, if not worse, than those associated with cigarette smoking.”
Her extensively documented article blasting the Digital Economy Bill, including criticism of FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler for proposing “unbridled massive deployment” of the new and more powerful 5G transmitters, was published yesterday by The Ecologist.
Writes Wycherley: “Anticipating ‘tens of billions of dollars’ of economic growth, with US telecoms ‘first out of the gate’, Wheeler warned: ‘Stay out of the way of technological development! Turning innovation loose is far preferable to expecting … regulators to define the future.’”
She charges that the July 14, 2016 adoption of 5G technology by the FCC made no mention of health-testing, carbon costs, or corporate responsibility. The Wycherley article has links to 14 scientific studies and papers on EMF.
“The FCC voted unanimously to go ahead by releasing swathes of untested high frequencies for private sector exploitation – so setting a trend,” she said. She asked, “How will our communities be affected by addiction to 5G multi-stream videos? How will it impact our spiritual communion with Nature?”
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Many American health activists, and cautioning scientists, are aghast, said Wycherley, noting that Joel Moskowitz, Ph.D., director of community health studies at the University of California, warns “precaution is warranted before 5G is unleashed on the world.”
“Drowning in Microwaves”
She quotes geneticist Dr. Mae-Wah Ho whose paper “Drowning in a Sea of Microwaves” called pollution from wireless technologies as a “pressing issue of our times.”
Anthropogenic radiation has “sky-rocketed” with the advent of radar, cellphones and “dense Wi-Fi networks,” says Wycherley.
“Although it is non-ionising and does not destabilize molecules directly, , evidence of other harm has been growing since the 1950's studies on radar workers.”
“But wireless-product marketing has a loud voice. Few of us realize that genetic effects and free radical damage—both disease risks over time—are the most common, cautionary findings. Device-crowded spaces, such as our peak commuter trains and all-wireless classrooms, may be creating a subtly toxic environment.”
The Digital Economy Bill has “sensible proposals for increasing country-wide access to fibre broadband, a technology that does not, in itself stoke microwave pollution though wireless add-ons do so,” she said. “But probe beyond the bill to the Office of Communication’s 5G consultations, and new EMF exposures emerge: part of a global trend.”
An illustrated version of the Wycherley essay was published by Global Research, Canada.
Moskowitz Adds Links
Moskowitz has added links to eight studies in commenting on Wycherley’s essay.
Included is a study on cellphones and radiation health threats and one on an increase in brain cancers link to an increase in cellphone use.
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