The BioInitiative Report – Biological Standards for Wireless
Cindy Sage, environmental consultant, talks about The BioInitiative Report: A Rationale for a Biologically-based Public Exposure Standard for Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF), which she editied with a team of international scientists. They document serious scientific concerns about current limits regulating how much EMF is allowable from power lines, cell phones, and many other sources of EMF exposure in daily life. The report concludes the existing standards for public safety are inadequate to protect public health. Find out more at: www.bioinitiative.org
Tags: Wireless, BioInitiative, Standards
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Ahem: Considering I’m anti-church (I really am) I still don’t like seeing ‘all the comments’ relating to churches – first-time viewers would likely be put-off (I know I would). I’ve seen this video before, many times, and am here again just so I can verify the link/video is still active so that I can send it to send to others. It’s a great video. Good information. Best to err on the side of caution.
It is not right for churches to promote special industry interests in ‘the back door’ to our most vulnerable places to live and raise children while hiding behind the industry mantra that “there are no proven health effects” or “we comply with FCC standards”. Legitimate questions remain about health risks.
Churches have become the telecom target of choice to place new wireless antenna facilities located in the heart of residential neighborhoods. In most cases, these cell towers would not otherwise get approvals. The invisible burden of constant radiofrequency radiation exposure for homes and schools in close proximity (up to 1000-2000’) can disrupt peace of mind. It can lower property values. Why do churches do this at the expense of friends and neighbors?
A conditional use permit (or CUP) is normally granted for churches on the assumption that they have light environmental impacts (traffic, lighting, noise, etc). They have historically been given the presumption in the past that they can be compatible neighbors in residential areas.
Churches are now courted by the telecom industry as willing partners for cell towers and antennas. Churches like the rest of us are facing hard economic times and the money looks good.
Its deeply unsettling to think that churches opt to use their privileged status to introduce commercial uses into residential areas that are widely acknowledged to make people sick. Church facilities typically need a conditional use permit from the municipality to build within land use zones that are designated for residential use. Since they are a ‘special use’, they need a special permit.
Its time to re-evaluate whether churches, like Trojan horses, should be permitted to ‘stealth’ wireless facilities into residential neighborhoods – and whether they deserve ‘special status’ conveyed by CUP status. These CUPs come up for renewal every so often. Have Church officials who lease out space for wireless telecom installations considered that offended and worried neighbors may show up at their next CUP hearing and say “no more extension of your permit to be here”?
Public health warnings were raised in the BioInitiative Report in 2007. It advised against the continuing deployment of sources of EMF and radiofrequency radiation from wireless technologies in advance of health studies, and argued for new biologically-based public safety limits to deal with emerging risks from new technologies. Results of the INTERPHONE study provide strong confirmation of the importance of these warnings.
David Carpenter MD MPH, BioInitiative Report co-editor and Director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at University at Albany, Rensselaer, NY says that It should also serve as a warning to governments that the deployment of new wireless technologies may bring risks to the public that are widespread, involuntary and increase long-term health care costs.
David Carpenter MD MPH, BioInitiative Report co-editor and Director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at University at Albany, Rensselaer, NY says that While this study is not perfect, the risks documented in it must be taken seriously as a warning to limit cell phone use, to restrict the use of cell phones, especially by children, and to call on manufacturers for redesign of cell phones and PDAs.
The INTERPHONE Study confirms previous reports showing what many experts have warned that regular use of a cell phone by adults can significantly increase the risk of glioma by 40% with 1640 hours or more of use (this is about one-half hour per day over ten years). Tumors were more likely to occur on the side of the head most used for calling.
CNN is endangering public health with its abysmal coverage of the new INTERPHONE cell phone-brain tumor results. The study found a doubling of risk of glioma where you would expect to find it – with long enough latency, even considering the underestimation of risks due to the study design and limitations. CNN must revise its TV crawler, and its media coverage of this important issue, or face real criticism for this very misleading headline.
@Meowbay “There has yet to be found proof.” Have you any idea how often that statement was made in defence of asbestos?
@Meowbay “But those health problems have no proven relationship…” Do you have any idea how many times that same statement was used in defence of asbestos?
@Meowbay Not to mention that just because someone might survive being shot 20 times is no indication that someone cannot die after being shot just once, or that bullets don’t and cannot kill. You understand?
@Meowbay The fact that you claim to have worked ‘very close to high power transmitters’ since the age of around 14 kinda tell me and anyone else who cares to read your comment seriously doubt your claims. You don’t state what kind of transmitters, microwave or non. So, do you think that because you might believe there is nothing wrong the universe will arrange itself so that your claims are made reality?
@Meowbay
Thats fine for you,
But there are more people then only you.
@arjunus But those health problems have no proven relationship with either wireless, mobile phone, cordless phone or micorwave ovens being present in their homes. I sleep just fine, better than ever before I might add. I have a 3G HSDPA cellphone near my head, a timer-radio close to my bed, power-converters, a wireless router a few meters away, a DECT phone plus station, a really old microwave oven and live 50 meters from UMTS/GSM provider’s power antenna, yet I don’t have any trouble sleeping.
@arjunus And we can only post comments under your video after YOUR approval. How obvious. Something to hide perhaps? You know, like: The Truth, Facts and Scientific Proof.
@CindySage Guess what? Prevention Magazine makes money on its existence by manufacturing such results. Obviously their so-called research is useless banter.
@Meowbay This report is available on line for FREE at many sites.
@sophiah88 Trust me, you don’t know what you’re dealing with. The Electromagnetic Fields Committee of the Health Council (here in The NL) is independent, does not get paid to manufacture results, and it has unanymously concluded that the BioInitiatve Report is not an objective and balanced reflection of the current state of scientific knowledge and does not provide any grounds for revising the current views as to the risks of exposure to electromagnetic fields. There has yet to be found proof.
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@sophia88two Please, before you make such unfounded accusations about me, you better be sure who you’re dealing with. My name is in this report:
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@rarosera I know the so-called research you’re speaking of here, and there has been not ONE proven link to brain tumour(s) and HF or LF radiowaves. I’ve worked very close to high power transmitters for about 30 years now, and I can honestly say there are effects, but not those that are claimed here or in many of the so-called scientific ‘reports’. If the effects would be significant, I’d be dead by now. The opposite is the case: I’m 44 y.o. yet my biological age is somewhere in my twenties.
why is this post removed also??
there isnt even a link in this.