Microwave News

November 27… Science has conceded the error: More than one lab has in fact shown that cell phone radiation can cause DNA breaks. Back in August, reporter Gretchen Vogel claimed that Hugo Rüdiger at the University of Vienna medical school was the only one (seeSeptember 3, below). Now, Vogel allows that a team from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, had previouslyobserved DNA breaks in cells exposed to GSM radiation.

In a letter published in the magazine’s November 28 issue, Vini Khurana, a neurosurgeon in Canberra, Australia, advises that, “[T]here are many other peer-reviewed papers from laboratories in at least seven countries, including the United States, showing that cell phone or similar low-intensity EMFs can break DNA or modulate it structurally.” (Others have submitted similar complaints to the magazine’s editors.) In her response, Vogel writes, “My intention was not to imply that there were only two papers showing any effects of EMFs. There are many publications that show effects of EMFs on DNA, but the citations listed [by Khurana] do not directly contradict the quoted sentence.” That sentence which leads her August 29 article begins: “The only two peer-reviewed scientific papers showing that [EMFs] from cell phones can cause DNA breakage…” In an exchange with Microwave News, Vogel drew a sharp distinction between DNA “damage” and “breakage,” which, she said, allowed her to exclude many other papers, particularly one by John Aitken.

Khurana made international headlines earlier this year when he predicted that cell phone radiation would turn out to be a worse public-health disaster than either smoking or asbestos (see our April 10 post).

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Overloading of Towns and Cities with Radio
Transmitters (Cellular Transmitter): a hazard for
the human health and a disturbance of eco-ethics
Karl Hecht, Elena N. Savoley
IRCHET International Research Centre of Healthy and Ecological Technology
Berlin – Germany

diagnose-funk
1. A Very Serious Warning 36 Years Ago
“The electromagnetic radiations emanating for radar, television, communications systems,
microwave ovens, industrial heat-treatment systems, medical diathermy units, and many other
sources permeate the modern environment, both civilian and military.”
“Unless adequate monitoring and control based on a fundamental understanding of biological
effects are instituted in the near future, in the decades ahead, man may enter an era of energy
pollution of the environment comparable to the chemical pollution of today.”
“The consequences of undervaluing or misjudging the biological effects of long-term, lowlevel
exposure could become a critical problem for the public health, especially if genetic
effects are involved.”
These quotations are excerpts from the US government report “Program for Control of
Electromagnetic Pollution of the Environment”, which was published in December 1971. The
government report was drafted starting in December 1968 by an expert group made up of nine
people, “The Electromagnetic Radiation Management Advisory Council”. “The President’s
Office of Telecommunications Policy” issued the order. This report was an urgent warning for
the future.
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Powerwatch

13th November, 2008

In our last science update (October 2008), we covered a very important recent paper finding significantly increased neuronal damage in the brains of rats having been exposed to RF radiation from GSM mobile phones.

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Andrew Goldworthy

Mobilfunk

30th October, 2008

We are constantly being misled by elements of the mobile phone and
electronics industries (who have huge vested interests in the
infrastructure) into believing that the pulsed microwaves used in cell
phones and Wifi are harmless. Their sole justification for this is that
the radiation is too weak to generate significant heat when they are
absorbed by living tissues.

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