A British toddler was admitted to an addiction treatment center because she would not let go of an iPad. A 31-year-old man with Google Glass was admitted for Internet addiction disorder because he was online 18 hours a day.
When people with deep brain stimulators for Parkinson's ride in a Prius and the car breaks and recharges its battery, pulsed magnetic fields from the car's computers shut off the medical implant.
Men with erectile dysfunction are 2.6 times more likely to keep a cell phone in their front pants pocket. Now, we all want men to assume more responsibility with birth control; but I don't think this qualifies.
Lots of folks just don't feel well after they get Wi-Fi or a new mobile device or their utility installs smart meters or a cell tower goes up nearby. They don't sleep. They get headaches and memory problems. Their eyes strain. They get nausea and strange rashes.
European and Russian studies since the 1960s associate these symptoms and many more with exposure to radiofrequency radiation from radar and now mobile devices, cell towers, Wi-Fi and smart meters.
As for wildlife, a Spanish biologist studied a common frog habitat 140 meters from a cell tower. He built a metal box around some frogs. Two months later, these shielded frogs had a mortality of 4.2%. The unshielded frogs had a mortality of 90%.
While white stork pairs tried to build nests near antennas, they often fought over sticks. Their sticks fell to the ground. The nests did not get built. Chicks frequently died.
In a German study, 65% of bee colonies abandoned their hives when nearby cell towers went live. GMOs, pesticides and monocultures likely also play roles in colony collapse. But ill bees typically die in or near their hives. In this study, no ill bees were found.
Bees use cryptochromes, magnetically sensitive genes in their eyes, to sense the Earth's electromagnetic energy fields and to navigate. Exposure to EMR emitted by cell towers disrupts cryptochrome-based navigation.
Humans also have cryptochromes. They're involved in our sleep cycles.
Here's another red flag. Section 704 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act states that no health or environmental concern may interfere with the placement of telecom equipment as long as it complies with FCC emissions guidelines. Among other things, this means that even if you can prove that a cell phone caused brain cancer, you can't sue the provider.
So. Did Congress or AT&T know something they don't want us to know about how cell phones and towers affect health or wildlife?
And why doesn't the FCC employ even one person to routinely measure radiation emitted by those 300,000 cell towers?
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