Pai - A possible Refuge - Butterflies

Yeah! That was me who wrote that! I tell people and some I convince and some I don't. But I make a pretty good case. I am in Pai now and I made a pretty good case to all the people on the minibus over here. Showed them the red blood studies, pictures of the deformed farm animals etc. Told them my story of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, how all these people started to mysteriously get sick in 1984 just as they set up the first commercial cell phone networks in the United States. About Dr. Carlo, about how the first lawsuit was won against the cell phone industry for a brain tumor. About the drastic rise in Autism, the disapearance of frogs all over the world, about the guy who responded with a nasty note to my story, but changed his tune when his nephew got a brain tumor - and on and on and on. I know they got sick of hearing about it, but I made - I think - them think about the topic seriously.

Also, met an American, who had been a math teacher in an Internet cafe in ChiangMai who has decided to change careers and is working on his MD in SF - and who had had chronic fatigue syndrome and I showed him the blood studies and he knew exactly what was happening "Yeah, red bloods cells usually carry a positive charge on the inside and a negative charge on the outside, which makes them repel each other. Looks here like they are being depolarized. Interesting."

I met another guy this morning who also had CFS for many years and went to this spa in Chiang Mai and some kind of ozone treatment and a 13 day fast and paid 350 dollars a day to do it. When I told him it was the microwaves, something clicked in his head and we had a long conversation about it.

But talkig to people in Japan about it is like talking to a brick wall. I know what you mean. People who travel seem to be a bit more open-minded.

The city of Pai itself has lots of towers, but once you get out of the city there are many places that have zero readings. I went to a hot spring around 6 kilometers out of town. I noticed lots of butterflies flying around. I don't see any butterflies - though - in the city of Pai itself, where the reading are usually hitting around 100% of level 4 of my Zap Checker at the most sensitive readings.

Also, in Auroville, I noticed lots of beautiful butterflies where the readings were zero, but did not see any butterflies in other parts of India. It reminds me of last summer in Japan when I was driving up past Gujo and found some places which read zero and could see butterflies flying around but when I got near the towers I noticed that the butterflies had trouble flying and were just fluttering on the road.

I met a woman who owns an Organic Juice Bar in Chiang Mai, and also works on an organic farm, who had a friend living in Auroville. She said she wanted to start an Auroville type of place in Thailand. Anyway the area here is very beautiful but unfortunately it is starting to become commercialized by money coming in from investers from Bangkok and Chiang Mai.

Dear Refugees,

I'm all confused about who was writing what below, but I think it was Paul describing a conversation with a "user." If the shoe fits... At first, I used to try to talk to everyone about the dangers of cellphones, but it became quickly apparent that I was taking a big risk. Isn't the girl's behavior just like that of a cigarette smoker? You can talk to them about anything under the sun, but better not mention the habit! This is really what is at the heart of the apathy in Japan and the willful ignorance in America and elsewhere. You can present overwhelming evidence, and all they do is get defensive. They are incapable of viewing this subject rationally. The companies know this and are using it--stoking it--to benefit their bottom line. (I want to kick them in their bottom line!));

peace

paul

Cell Phone Wars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEqCkwPmQ_w

Invisible Cell Phone Dangers

Invisible Cell Phone Dangers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSPb-8XtdzI&mode=related&search=

It's The Microwaves, Stupid!

In 1992, the phrase, "It's the economy, stupid" was coined by Clinton campaign strategist James Carville to prioritize the importance of improving the economy and it thus became the overriding slogan for the presidential campaign. 

With the advent of wireless technologies and with it the drastic increase in ambient levels of electromagnetic radiation in our environments we have also seen a drastic increase in numerous health and behavioral issues. There is not only correlation here but thousands of studies showing biological effects, and hence causation.

Thus, this blurb is titled "It's the Microwaves, Stupid" to emphasize the overlooked microwave factor in the present world-wide health crisis.

This information is offered as a public service in order to raise awareness about this issue that affects us all. And with this information it is hoped that an increasing number of people will start taking action. And thankfully this is exactly what a number of conscious intelligent people are doing. Unfortunately, there are always seemingly small-minded and cowardly people who will use this information against those who speak the Truth. So be it. By doing what is just and right and Speaking the Truth to Power, I believe the truth seekers/speakers will be Vindicated. We will get our Social Justice.

In 2005 I started to develop a number of strange symptoms which I learned were identical to those found in what has been described as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). Though very few people apparently do, I was able to eliminate all symptoms found in this CFS syndrome and was pretty much cured but then continued to experience what is called Electrosensitivity (ES) for some time after that. Now, I can confidently say that I am completely healthy and only slightly experience feelings of discomfort when exposed to relatively high levels of this unnatural microwave radiation in our environment. I had all the symptoms found in CFS, and because of my weakened immune system became subject to opportunistic infections also found in this illness. All my symptoms have gone - and as long as I limit my exposures to electromagnetic radiation (I sleep under a special net) I feel absolutely fine. All I can say is that I am confident in stating that it is indeed the microwaves and other forms of electromagnetic radiation that are a main causal factor in many of the mysterious and unexplainable disease states that people are experiencing these days. 

I wrote the following letter because I felt it was my duty to speak the Truth in order to help people realize that this is indeed a major health issue that has been elaborately covered up for years by the military-electronice-industrial complex. Now, there is fortunately a growing worldwide awareness about this issue.

When something is out of sight, it is also out of mind - and microwaves from cell phone towers are invisible, tasteless, oderless, and cannot be sensed with touch - so naturally it is difficult for many - especially doctors - to fathom them as being the culprit. More and more people worldwide are starting to realize what is indeed the cause of their previously mysterious symptoms. Many of these people become noticeably ill when exposed to this invisible source of pollution. People with an inordinate amount of metal toxicity seem to be particularly sensitive. When people realize the problem, and come together to find solutions, progress can be made.

Peace,

Paul Doyon

Dear friend,

Dr. Robert O. Becker wrote 21 years ago in his book The Body Electric the following regarding EMR:

"The dangers of electropollution are real and well documented. It changes, often pathologically, every biological system. What we don't know is exactly how serious there changes are, for how many people. The longer we as a society, put off a search for that knowledge, the greater the damage is likely to be and the harder it will be to correct." p. 304

You may not realize this - and unfortunately you may not want to hear it or believe it - but your cell phone (if you own one - and most people do) may indeed be negatively affecting the health of yourself and those around you. Now it seems as if a growing number of people able are starting to think beyond their selfish psychological addictions (and it is an addiction) and are starting to consider this issue a little more seriously.

In line with the growing amount of ambient electromagnetic pollution in our environments, you may have noticed an unusual number of people around you becoming sick with a wide range of not so normal illnesses. Just as cell phones were starting to become popular, I remember a student of mine's three-year-old daughter dying of influenza. This was the first time I ever heard of a little girl dying of influenza, though apparently it is increasing more common and one has to seriously consider the fact that all this electromagnetic radiation we are being exposed to 24/7 might in fact be weakening our immune systems. It seems that when people catch colds nowadays that it takes them longer to recover -- whereas instead of the normal 3-4 days we are now seeing people sick for up to two weeks or longer.

Since that time, I know a number of people who have committed suicide, developed or died of cancer, had their children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ADS) or ADHD, developed brain tumors, have been diagnosed with intestinal disorders (Crohn`s Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Colitis), have developed vision problems, had strokes, and have been diagnosed with epilepsy. I have also known women who have had miscarriages where the children were deformed. This has become the norm -- but it is not normal. Also, every year here in Japan more and more people are suffering from heat stroke in the summer. Well, since it is a fact that exposure to ambient EMR negatively affects our autonomous nervous system, it does not take that much imagination to postulate why.

In April of 2005 I had a hard time recovering from some kind of viral flu. By May I started to exhibit the symptoms of what has erroneously (in my opinion) become known as"Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" after it was misleadingly dubbed this in 1998 by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). (It had originally been dubbed by the media as "Yuppie Flu," because it started to originally affect Young Urban Professionals working in the Silicon Valley in the mid 80s just as cell phone networks and microwave relay stations were being set up across the country. The "Yuppies were also among the first to own cell phones and computers.)

The symptoms included (1) excessive thirst, (2) night sweats, (3)brain fog, (4) swollen lymph glands, (5) fatigue (6) insomnia, (7) a weakened immune system, (8) nausea, (9) heart pain, (10) back pain,(11) unexplained anxiety, (12) neurological symptoms, (13) vision problems (14) testicular pain, (15) loss of appetite, (16) rapid weight loss, (17) frequent urination, (18) dry eyes and mouth, (19) impaired memory, (20) inability to concentrate, (21) impaired temperature regulation (i.e. chills) and so on.

I didn't know what was happening to me. I went to several hospitals and had blood tests but they always came up normal. I even had two HIV tests - just to double check - (they both came up negative.) I finally concluded that I had all the symptoms of what is inappropriately labeled "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" (CFS) or "Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome" (CFIDS) but also called Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and Neuro Immune Disfunction Syndrome (NIDS). I went to a local hospital, where they confirmed my diagnosis and added the additional diagnosis of "autonomic nervous system disorder"(jiritushinkeijicchoushou in Japanese). I read "The Ampligen Diaries" and was frighteningly surprised at how similar to my own situation was to this woman's - since I also taught at a university and remember feeling the same way not being able toconcentrate in front of the computer: http://www.cfids-me.org/marys/mystory.html

After being ill every day for around 6 months, I began to suspect the microwave radiation emitted by the cell phone towers and WiFi (Wireless Internet) devices as perhaps being the culprit. I did some research and found that the symptoms of CFS were almost identical as what had been termed as "Radio Frequency Illness" from experiments done in Russia during the Cold War with electromagnetic radiation - but in modern parlance now called "Microwave Illness". Further research has shown that these symtpoms also frighteningly resemble "radiation sickness."

http://www.megadisc.com.au/index_files/rfsickness1.htm

http://www.stetzerelectric.com/filters/research/radio_wave_sickness_symptoms.pdf

I finally decided to rent a cabin up in the mountains of Saga Prefecture, Japan - out of cell phone range (one of the very few places) - and immediately started to feel better with the dissappearance of many symptoms in a 24 hour period and with most of the rest of my symptoms gradually disappearing over a two month period. However, at the time, whenever I would get into cell phone range, these symptoms would drastically start to come back. I would feel my head starting to swell, I would feel nauseous, I would feel pain in the lymph nodes under my right arm and in my right testicle. Fortunately, now this is not a problem for me though I am aware of its negative impact.

Fortunately, through multiple chelation treatment modalities (Homeopathy, Chinese Medicine, Alpha Lipoic Acid, DMSA, and IV EDTA) of chelating the metals out of my body, having all the metal removed from my mouth, and by taking lots of antioxidants, I have been much better able "tolerate" the EMFs now, and rarely ever feel sick (nausea, heart pain, lymph node pain, inability to concentrate, etc.) when I am around people with cell phones and when I am in places with high levels of electrosmog. Chinese medicine, Acupuncture, antioxidants, and homeopathy I thank for this.

I stayed in an EMF-free zone in the mountains for four months but realized that I could not stay there forever. All this was breaking me financially and there was no support, not to mention acknowledgment, for this problem.

At the time I was on sick leave and was collecting 50% of my salary. And while I had been feeling much better, I decided that it was probably not a good idea to go back to my university position.

I bought a High Frequency Meter from LESSEMF for measuring microwaves - and found where I lived to be extremely high - naturally due to the fact  there were three microwave/cell phone towers within a hundred meters of my apartment.

From all the research I have read on the subject now over the years, I am absolutely sure that the combination of microwave and other forms of electromagnetic radiation emitted by cell phones, cell phone towers (or masts or base stations), WiFi, WiMax, Digital Broadcasting, DECT phones, Smart Meters and so on is a major causal factor in CFS -- and I also believe  behind autism, ADD or ADHD, and Alzheimer's disease - and in Japan, responsible for falling academic abilities, school refusal, increases in leukemia, increases in depression, increases in suicides, infertility, and increased violence and crime.

Mycoplasma infections are common in people with CFS, autims, ADHD, and Alzheimer's - which can be attributed to a drastic reduction in the body's Natural Killer (NK) cells. Numerous studies have shown that microwave radiation reduces the body's NK cell count drastically. Mycoplasma infections are also common in people who have been exposed to radiation (e.g. nuclear power plant workers).

Could there be asimilar process here between exposure to the ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation (microwaves)? I believe so but in the latercase, it is more long term, slow, and insidious! Is it a coincidence that most of the symptoms in CFS are also found in Microwave Sicknessa nd Radiation Sickness:

Symptoms of :

                                       (1) CFS            (2) Microwave Sickness              (3) Radiation 

Fatigue                                 *                           *                                           *
Swollen Lymph Nodes            *                           *                                           *
Nausea                                 *                           *                                           *
Weakness                             *                           *                                            *
Intestinal Problems               *                           *                                           *
Impaired Memory                  *                           *                                           *
Impaired Concentration        *                           *                                            *
Insomnia                              *                           *                                            *
Loss of Appetite                   *                           *                                            *
Weight Loss                          *                           *                                            *
Skin Rash                              *                           *                                            *
Anxiety                                *                            *
Weakened Immunity             *                            *                                            *
Night sweats                        *                            *
Heart Problems                    *                            *                                            *
Visual Disturbances              *                            *                                            *
Chills                                   *                            *                                            *
Dry Eyes                              *                            *
Headaches                           *                            *                                            *
Flu-like Symptoms                *                            *                                            *
Depression                           *                            *

This is what happens to the blood after someone makes a 1.5 minute phone call. The first picture is normal blood, the second picture is blood taken after a 90 second phone call, the third picture is the blood taken after 20 minutes and the fourth is the blood taken after 40 minutes:

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/cluster.jpg

In the following video clip, Dr. Robert Young states the following:

http://www.qlinkworld.co.uk/media/london.html"

"When we are exposed to lower frequencies ranging between 10 hertz and 100 hertz, those particular frequencies have a tendency to disturbcells significantly that they start disorganizing, breaking apart, andgiving birth to perceived viruses, bacteria, yeasts, and molds." 

And this is exactly what happens to people with CFS - their immune system is weakened and they start getting viral, bacteria, yeast, andmold infections. In fact, microwaves have been shown in one study to stimulate the genome for the Epstein Bar Virus. We can only speculate at this point that it also does so for many of the other viruses shown to be reactivated in people with CFS: Coxsackie, Cytomega Virus, and so on. Dr. Coghill exposed one blood sample to the radiation emitted by a cell phone in standby mode while the other sample was not exposed to any electromagnetic radiation.  

"Mr Coghill took white blood cells, known as lymphocytes, from a donor, keeping them alive with nutritients and exposed them to different electric fields." 

He found that after seven-and-a-half hours, just 13% of the cells exposed to mobile phone radiation remained intact and able to function, compared with 70% of cells exposed only to the natural electromagnetic field produced by the human body."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/194065.stm

Furthermore, the REFLEX studies performed in twelve European countries have clearly proven that this is indeed what is happening. If one puts a frog in boiling water, the frog will become scalded and will immediately jump out of the water. However, if you put a frog in cold water and slowly heat the water, you can cook the frog. If you expose people to large doses of continuous ionizing radiation (e.g. Chernobyl or nuclear fallout) they will immediately become ill with radiation sickness. However, if you expose people gradually to low doses of non-ionizing radiation, their bodies will try to adapt, the effects will be more subtle, and hence they may not notice they are sick until it is too late (i.e. they develop cancer or some other serious disease).

At the time, I decided to leave Japan – one of the most electropolluted countries in the world – to look for a new place to live. I lived in China, India, and Thailand before returning again to Japan. 

More and more people are getting sick from long-term exposure to electrosmog and urgently seek a place – a refuge – in this world where they can heal in a place where there is no or little EMR emitted by cell phone towers and other sources. Such places are now being called Zone Blanche (or White Zones) and there are now communities in Japan, West Virginia, France, and Italy.

With the advent of cellular-phone microwave technology and WiFi and the drastic increase in the ambient electromagnetic radiation it has produced, the world has seen a major increase in disease states like Autism, ADHD, Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) (AKA ME [Myalgic Encephalomyelitis] in the UK), Insomnia, Behavior Disorders, Allergies, Asthma, Alzheimer's, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), all forms of cancer (e.g. Brain Tumors, Breast Cancer, Leukemia, etc.), and so on.

At present, brain tumors are the leading cause of cancer death in children in the USA surpassing leukemia in 2002. A recent British newspaper put the present rate of Autism at one in forty (while more conservative estimates in the USA are putting it at one in one hundred). Forty million Americans now take sleep medication for insomnia (up 60% since 2000) while 60% suffer from sleep disturbances. A recent survey by the CDC also put the number of people with CFS (PWC) at one in forty.

In 2002, a number of German doctors – belonging to the Interdisciplinary Society of Environmental Medicine – issued the Freiburger Appeal (with close to 40,000 signatories) after noting a cause-and-effect relationship between the increase in wireless technology (cell phones, WiFi, DECT, etc.) and "a dramatic rise in severe and chronic diseases" like behavioral disorders, ADD, blood pressure disorders, heart attacks and strokes, brain-degenerative diseases, and cancers like leukemia and brain tumors.

In 2005, the World Health Organization (WHO) finally and officially recognized electro-sensitivity as a bona-fide disorder – in spite of the fact that collusion with the cell phone industry is well known.

Also in 2005, the Vienna Doctors' Chamber (Wiener Arztekammer) – after the REFLEX Study clearly showed genetic damage – created posters (posted in hospital waiting rooms) warning of dangers and listing rules for use.

In Aug. 2007, a report – issued by an international group of renowned scientists, researchers, doctors, and public health experts – entitled the BioInitiative (www.bioinitiative.org) warns

"Wireless technologies that rely on microwave radiation to send emails and voice communication are thousands of times stronger than levels reported to cause some health impacts. Prolonged exposure to radiofrequency and microwave radiation from cell phones, cordless phones, cell towers, WI-FI and other wireless technologies have been linked to physical symptoms including headache, fatigue, sleeplessness, dizziness, changes in brainwave activity, and impairment of concentration and memory."

In Sept. 2007, the German government warned its citizenry not to use mobile phones (only in emergencies) and WiFi. In Italy, Japan, and a growing number of other countries children are now banned from bringing cell phones to schools. In Nov. 2007, the city of Paris voted to ban WiFi in Public Libraries. In Dec. 2007, an Australian Democrats commissioned discussion paper found microwave radiation from cell phone towers to very likely be behind the drastic rise in disease states like cancer, diabetes, asthma, allergies and Alzheimer's disease, etc.

In recent years there has been a severe disappearance in insects, amphibians (frogs, snakes, etc.) and birds. Research has indeed connected this disappearance with the global rise in ambient EMR in our environment.

In many places in the world (including the USA) there has been nothing but a media blackout regarding the danger this is posing to life on our planet. And now it seems that since they can no longer ignore the problem certain media outlets have unfortunately resorted to planting disinformation and trying to belittle this extremely serious problem by ridiculing it and the people aware they are being affected by it.

It is interesting to hear numerous people who know nothing whatsoever about this problem trying to argue with you by spewing out vacant clichés they heard or read somewhere (probably on TV or in the newspaper). However, these baseless arguments soon crumble like dust. It is unfortunate what people in the advertising (i.e. propaganda) industries know to be too true: That if you repeat something enough times, people don't just start believing it, they will actually start repeating it themselves – in other words, “Doubt is Their Product.” It just shows the sad state of our educational system which teaches us to repeat, memorize, and regurgitate and this seemingly prepares us to be voracious consumers of mindless information programmed into our minds via TV programming.

Sincerely yours,

Paul Doyon

Stupid Ignorant People: A Cautionary Tale

I have the same problem. People who think it is funny to wave their cell phone in my face or people who secretly leave it on to see if I really react. It happens all the time in my Chinese class. Someone will forget to turn it off - by design or not, I do not know, but I can usually detect it and will feel ill for about 20 minutes afterwards. It makes me quite nauseous and affects my ability to concentrate - also makes me wonder about ADD and ADHD. Actually, I am sure that it causes these too. And I don't need any dammed so-called "Scientific Proof" (though there is a massive pile of evidence out there). I know! I know! With my body, I know! How many people will have to suffer before the unconscious wake from their slumber?

peace

paul

On 6/3/07, ehs-sanctuary wrote:

Dear Paul,

A cautionary tale follows.

This week we had visitors, a retired couple who live in our old home town and share their home with their adult son who works for PCWorld. The home has every wifi gadget imaginable - their sons "toys". The wife of the couple has chronic lung congestion that is life threatening in its severity.She gasps for every breath. She also has a severe and prolonged cellulitis infection in her leg that is not responding to multiple antibiotic treatments. They came to stay in my area which has few masts and is known for the clear Atlantic air. I thought providence was smiling on her at last when the Tom Tom GPS system in the car broke down and remained inactive for all the time they were here.

We asked the husband not to bring his mobile in our home but to leave it in the car. After four days the woman's colour was much better - pink again instead of grey - presumably because her oxygen uptake was improved. But even more remarkable - her leg has improved dramatically and is visibly healing.

She has been a good and kind friend to me over many years. So I took her husband aside and didn't mince words. I told him to get rid of the damned wifi systems at home or by next year his wife would be dead.He protested he couldn't part his son from his toys. I spelt it out in words of one syllable and told him to grow up and look after his wife and be damned to his spoilt son and his toys. I couldnt have imagines the consequences.

A short while later he secretly brought an active mobile phone into our home and sat less than six feet from my EHS son with it. My son became very ill in minutes and sensed what was responsible. Cornered my guest looked horrified and pulled out the phone to switch it off. That causes a peak in the signal that my son finds even more painful. I made the guy take it outside. His horror was not that he had done something so mean and stupid but that his pompous arrogant theory that this was a psychosomatic complaint had been proved so obviously and quickly wrong. There was no apology except fom his horrified wife.

He made on brief visit to return some things the next day and found my son still very ill and unappreciative of his attempts to make light of what had happened with jokes only he was laughing at.The silence was icy.

What the hell do we do when even our oldest "friends" can behave in such a cruel and calculated way - and still be in denial when his wife is healing and my son is made so ill? I am so angry that she will die through this and he will live to bemoan his lot and actively refuse to believe he contributed towards her death.. How do we get through such levels of denial?

Beth

Dr. Carlo Offer Support Against Vicious Web Attacks on Professor Olle Johansson

These are typical tactics of the Cell Phone Industry's Bull Dogs to attack and attempt to discredit anyone who tries to warn us of the extreme dangers posed by this technology. I have seen the same kind of websites attacking and trying to discredit other researchers who try to tell us the truth about these dangers. Why? Because their words threaten a multi-billion dollar industry that cares more about profits and keeping people unconscious than it does about the fact that this technology is indeed making people sick and destroying people's lives.

Very typical and very unconscious. Unfortunately, the unconscious at the bottom of the food chain support - and even in many cases admire - the unconscious at the top of the food chain.

peace

paul



Please read support for Professor Olle Johansson from Dr George Carlo.

Eileen O'Connor, Trustee–EM Radiation Research Trust


Earlier today, I was appalled to read a blog site launching vicious personal attacks on Professor Olle Johansson of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm deriving from a well-done news report by the BBC's Panorama program. It is especially distasteful because the work of Professor Johansson and the Panorama group that garnered the unwarranted criticisms was aimed at protecting children from the dangers of WiFi in schools. We have come to a very sad state of affairs where pressures from the mobile phone industry can be used to turn saving the lives of children into a perceived vice.

Professon Olle Johansson is truly a uniquely courageous scientist who for years has put the protection of public health above his own personal and professional reputation. His scientific work is honest and impeccable, published in the open, peer-reviewed literature and cited by myself and others in the field of EMR protection as definitive reference. Indeed, many of us in the field have had discussions where Professor Johansson's name has been raised in the context of nomination for a Nobel Prize. In reality, the people leveling these fraudulent and slanderous attacks on the reputation of Professor Johansson do not even warrant mention on the same page with him. Were it not for the fact that unsubstantiated criticism makes it instantaneously around the world via the Internet, even responding to such silliness would be unnecessary. It is the irony of ironies.

The measure of the man is reflected in how he is viewed by those professional colleagues who know him best. Professor Johansson is one of my personal heroes and I am proud to call him a friend. To be sure, the world owes a debt of gratitude to him.

The power of his work and message underscores why he is a major threat to those who stand to profit from the dangerous practices that he opposes. It is therefore important to make this context public. His message is far too important to be muted by the influence of vested interests.


Dr. G. L. Carlo

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Schools and Families Rushing to Remove Wi-Fi systems

Worried families ditch their Wi-Fi after watchdog voices health concerns

By Geoffrey Lean and Alex Hanks
www.independent.co.uk
Published: 03 June 2007

Schools and families are rushing to remove Wi-Fi systems after the Government's chief health protection watchdog voiced concerns over their safety.

Sir William Stewart's call for a "timely" review of the possible effects of the technology - originally reported by The Independent on Sunday in April and featured by the BBC's Panorama programme last month - has led to an unprecedented reaction from the public, according to one large dealer.

The London-based Scooter Computer call-out service said last week that it had received hundreds of calls recently.

Will Foot, for the company, said: "I have never seen such a reaction. It's completely out of the blue. More than 50 per cent of inquiries were from people worried about Wi-Fi access." He said that the company had already removed 25 systems.

Nicola Hart, of Dartmouth Park in north London, was so concerned about the radiation emitted from the systems that she removed Wi-Fi from her home, and persuaded her neighbours and her daughter's school to do the same.

She said last night: "We put the system in about four months ago because my 17-year-old son wanted to have access to the internet at the same time as us. I did not really think about any effects it might have."

While it was in, she said, she suffered "a lot of funny symptoms" which she thought were due to "an early menopause". But once she had the system removed she began sleeping and feeling better.

Her neighbours followed suit, then she approached her six-year-old daughter's school, the Trevor-Roberts School in Belsize Park, which also agreed to remove its system.

"A lot of the parents were very pleased," she says, "and a lot of my friends are very keen to have it taken out of their children's schools."

Sinead Griffiths, a researcher from Walthamstow, north-east London, also had Wi-Fi removed from her home. She says: "There is not enough information available on the subject. I don't want to take any risks. You just don't know what all this technology in the home is doing to us." She said her main motive had been to protect her children, but that she had suffered from headaches and lethargy.

The Independent's Green Goddess columnist Julia Stephenson reported last week that she too had disconnected her Wi-Fi, on the advice of her naturopath.

Sir William - the chairman of the Health Protection Agency and a former Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government - has chaired two inquiries into the effects of mobile phones and their masts. He warned against dangers from them and made safety recommendations, but was largely ignored by ministers.

In the past 18 months alone, 1.6 million Wi-Fi terminals have been sold in Britain for use in homes, offices, and a host of other buildings. By some estimates half of all primary schools, and four-fifths of all secondary schools, have installed them.

Further browsing: Sir William Stewart's first 2000 report can be read at www.iegmp.org.uk