If the lamestream media bothered to check the facts before opening its piehole, this blog wouldn't have to keep running this feature periodically to correct the media's many errors.
San Francisco has a one-of-a-kind law that says cell phone stores must tell customers how much radiation each product emits. Naturally, CTIA (a cell phone industry group) is grousing about this new law, and it's filed suit - claiming it might make folks think one phone might be safer than another because of the amount of radiation.
Well, yeah. That's the whole point.
CTIA says the city is illegally trumping federal law by having such a law. Tough shit. Read the Tenth Amendment sometime.
But the Associated Press says, "Studies have not conclusively found that cell phone radiation is a health risk."
WRONG!!!!!
For years, cell phones have been known to cause brain cancer. In fact, a study just this year reported that "the 10% of people who used their phones most often and for the longest period of time - 30 minutes a day or more on average for at least 10 years - had a substantially higher risk of developing some form of brain cancer than those who didn't use a mobile phone at all."
In other words, the AP was wrong.
I guess the AP has moved on from publishing hit pieces against Howard Dean to carrying water for dangerous cell phones.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Correction Connection: cell phone cancer risks
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There is more and more discussion about the health effects of wireless technology and non-ionizing radiation. Even the American media can't stop the snowballing of one study after another that confirms the devastating health and environmental problems we will soon be facing if something isn't done to reel in this nightmare. Enough is not being done by cities, counties, states and the Federal Government. What is being done is everything to shield the telecoms from responsibility and liability. Initially cell phones were released with no pre-market safety testing. Health studies were suppressed and the 4 trillion dollar a year industry was given a pass with no consideration of the carnage that is and will be facing us. It is said that city governments are "not allowed" to discuss health issues when licensing the placement of towers. They should anyway. Is it not the moral and legal obligation of our governments to look after and protect our health and welfare?? When did this become an obsolete concept?
ReplyDeleteOn it's face, the 1996 telecommunications act is unconstitutional, a cover-up and a license to kill. A cell tower is a microwave weapon capable of causing cancer, genetic damage and a host of other very serious health problems. The telecoms are shielded from "health concerns" as a valid consideration when challenging the location of a cell tower. Free speech? We don't use it anyway. "Health Concerns" why? What do they know and when did they know it? The Government and the Military have known for over 50 years that radio frequency is harmful to all biological systems. Bees, bats, humans, plants and trees are all affected by it. While people complain about cell towers going in next to schools we allow the school board to install wi fi in all the schools and irradiate our kids for 6-7 hours each day before they go home and let their parents finish the job with DECT portable phones, wi fi and Wii's. A tsunami of cancers and early alzheimer's await our kids while the Portland School Board won't even consider adding to the health curriculum information on "safer" cell phone use and the dangers of wireless technology. We teach about alcohol, tobacco, drugs and safe sex but not about cell phone use. Young people under the age of 20 are 420% more at risk of forming brain tumors because of their soft skulls, brain size and cell turn over time. We are in a wireless trance and many scientists are in a state of panic as they see this thing expand with no safety testing or public education programs in place.
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