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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsInteresting older NTY article on the source of 5G cell service disinformation
This article points to Russia - no surprise.
The Russian network RT America aired the segment, titled A Dangerous Experiment on Humanity, in covering what its guest experts call 5Gs dire health threats. U.S. intelligence agencies identified the network as a principal meddler in the 2016 presidential election. Now, it is linking 5G signals to brain cancer, infertility, autism, heart tumors and Alzheimers disease claims that lack scientific support.
Yet even as RT America, the cats paw of Russias president, Vladimir Putin, has been doing its best to stoke the fears of American viewers, Mr. Putin, on Feb. 20, ordered the launch of Russian 5G networks in a tone evoking optimism rather than doom.
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Moscows goal, experts say, is to destabilize the West by undermining trust in democratic leaders, institutions and political life. To that end, the RT network amplifies voices of dissent, to sow discord and widen social divides. It gives the marginal a megaphone and traffics in false equivalence. Earlier campaigns took aim at fracking, vaccination and genetically modified organisms. One show called designer tomatoes good-looking poison.
The network is now applying its playbook against 5G by selectively reporting the most sensational claims, and by giving a few marginal opponents of wireless technology a conspicuous new forum.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/science/5g-phone-safety-health-russia.html
Ponietz
(2,955 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,359 posts)Joel M. Moskowitz, PhD, is director of the Center for Family and Community Health in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been translating and disseminating the research on wireless radiation health effects since 2009 after he and his colleagues published a review paper that found long-term cell phone users were at greater risk of brain tumors. His Electromagnetic Radiation Safety website has had more than two million page views since 2013. He is an unpaid advisor to the International EMF Scientist Appeal and Physicians for Safe Technology.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)dchill
(38,462 posts)kcr
(15,315 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)epidemiologist and Clinton appointee Devra Davis wrote a detailed rebuttal to that article. (Disclosure: I've never owned a cell phone, but not really out of fear of its health consequences).
William J. Broad, author of the Times unusually placed opinion piece, is an award-winning investigative journalist, known for searching studies of complex technical issues including matters of space exploration and national intelligence. By relegating concerns about 5G to a Russian ploy, he misses altogether the fact that the purportedly independent international authorities on which he relies that declare 5G to be safe are an exclusive club of industry-loyal scientists. China, Russia, Poland, Italy and several other European countries allow up to hundreds of times less wireless radiation into the environment from microwave antennas than does the U.S.. Moreover, while many other countries regularly monitor levels of environmental radiation, the last EPA report on the topic was released in 1986, back when a gallon of gasoline cost less than one dollar and streetcars still ran in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Environmental levels of wireless radiation in the U.S. and worldwide are growing exponentially.
The history of research on the environmental and public health impacts of radio frequency microwave radiation (wireless radiation) reveals some uneasy parallels with that of tobacco. In the 1950s and 1960s, scientists who showed the harmful impacts of tobacco found themselves struggling for serious attention and financial support. The validity of their views was only accepted after the toll of sickness and death had become undeniable. For health impacts from wireless radiation, a similar pattern is emerging. Each time a U.S. government agency produced positive findings, research on health impacts was defunded. The Office of Naval Research, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Environmental Protection Agency all once had vibrant research programs documenting dangers of wireless radiation. All found their programs scrapped, reflecting pressure from those who sought to suppress this work.
Russians 50 years of research on electromagnetic radiation since the Cold War has led to their clear understanding that this exposure does have biological effects.
https://medium.com/swlh/5g-the-unreported-global-threat-717c98c9c37d
Devra Lee Davis, (born June 7, 1946) is an American epidemiologist and writer.[1]
She has also authored more than 190 publications in books and journals ranging from The Lancet and the Journal of the American Medical Association to Scientific American and The New York Times, and writes for blogs such as Freakonomics in the New York Times, in The Huffington Post, and elsewhere.[4] She co-founded the Environmental Health Trust in 2007,[4] with David Servan-Schreiber.[citation needed]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devra_Davis
Just so people know that not everyone asking questions about 5G is automatically a "quack." Her book, The Secret History of the War on Cancer is very good.
Ponietz
(2,955 posts)Exposure of Insects to Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields from 2 to 120?GHz: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22271-3
Risk to pollinators from anthropogenic electro-magnetic radiation (EMR): Evidence and knowledge gaps: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969719337805
kcr
(15,315 posts)She also advocates for removing wi-fi from schools.
Initech
(100,054 posts)And can we please as a world society, collectively cut Russia off from the rest of the internet already? They've done way more harm than good at this point.