Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age: An Insider's Alarming Discoveries about Cancer and Genetic Damage
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Essential reading for the 100 million Americans currently using wireless phones, this thoroughly researched and documented cautionary work stands alongside of such classics as Silent Spring and The Coming Plague. With news reports proliferating of the possible connection between brain tumors and cell phone use, Dr. George Carlo was hired by the cell phone industry in 1993 to study the safety of its product. In 1999 funds for Dr. Carlo's research were not renewed, and the industry sought to discredit him. Undeterred, Carlo now brings his case to the public with a powerful assessment of the dangers posed by the microwave radiation from cell phone antennas -- disruption of the functioning of pacemakers, penetration of the developing skulls of children, compromise to the blood-brain barrier, and, most startlingly, genetic damage that is a known diagnostic marker for cancer -- as well as a presentation of safeguards that consumers can implement right now to protect their health. "The authors raise serious questions about the integrity of the cell phone industry and the FDA." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Extraordinarily informative . . . [a] captivating story." -- Publishers Weekly Read more
Publisher : Basic Books; Reprint edition (February 9, 2002)
Language : English
Paperback : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 078670960X
ISBN-13 : 01
Item Weight : 14.4 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #1,656,201 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #191 in Mobile & Wireless Telecommunications #1,224 in Social Aspects of Technology #2,664 in Medical Social Psychology & Interactions
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Everyone needs to read this. Brief summary: in 1984, FDA allowed cell phones to be marketed w/o any premarket testing. In 1993, when woman died of brain tumor exactly underneath where cell phone antenna was located while she used cell phone, her husband and doctor told about the tragedy on national TV. This led to worldwide panic. Tom Wheeler, president and chief lobbyist of wireless trade assoc (CTIA) made an offer to the FDA. The industry would agree to fund and conduct a large, postmarket study on the safety of cell phones, if the FDA would agree not to regulate cell phones until this research was complete. Not having done its job back in 1984 before allowing cell phones to be marketed, the FDA potentially had as big a problem as the industry. Putting its own self interest before that of the public, the FDA accepted Wheeler’s offer. Tom Wheeler hired an epidemiologist and public health scientist named George Carlo to head the industry’s $25 million dollar research program intended to reassure the public that cell phones are safe. Carlo hired close to 200 leading scientists from around the world to perform the research that he would oversee. In addition, he created a peer-review board chaired by Harvard University School of Public Health’s well-respected Dr. John Graham. In 1995, Carlo discovered that his projected costs for the year were more than $6 million dollars over what the industry said was available. Eventually Carlo would learn that the $6+ million dollars had been spent on public relations by Wheeler. By 1996, Carlo’s research program was running a deficit. The financial crisis triggered a dispute between Carlo and Wheeler that became known throughout the industry, government, and among trade press journalists. That same year, the FCC began auctioning off radiofrequency bands in the microwave portion of the RF spectrum. The FCC agreed to finance a major part of the costs in exchange for a portion of the revenues from cell phones – and later Wi-Fi, which in 2000, would begin to be rolled-out on a massive scale. This extremely profitable arrangement, which cost the government nothing, secured the infrastructure for wireless technology, rather than fiber optic – which is almost 900,000X faster than wireless and has no health risks. On December 21, 1998, Carlo had his first alarming finding: 2.4GHz microwave radiation (used with cell phones, Wi-Fi, and other devices) appeared to cause micronuclei in human blood samples. This was particularly alarming in view of the strong correlation between micronuclei and cancer. After the Chernobyl accident in 1986, the presence of micronuclei in the blood was used to identify children at high risk for developing cancer. Not long after the startling results came in, Dr. Carlo’s house burned down. The authorities concluded that it was arson, but were never able to solve who did it. The following month, the micronuclei results were reproduced, providing conclusive evidence that radiation from a cell phone’s antenna causes cancer. At the February 9, 1999, wireless trade show, Carlo reported his findings, and urged the industry to take appropriate steps to protect the public. Although a voice vote was taken pledging to do the right thing, the vote was never recorded. In late October, Carlo shared the results of his research with the American public on national TV. He also informed viewers that, if they used a cell phone, they were twice as likely to suffer from brain cancer and rare tumors as non-users. Wheeler, who was given an opportunity to express his view, told 20/20: Our industry has gone out and aggressively asked the question, ‘Can we find a problem?’ And the answer that has come back is that there is nothing that has come up in the research that suggests that there is a linkage between the use of a wireless phone and health effects. The industry’s response to what it viewed as “Carlo’s betrayal” was to try to discredit the scientist – no small task, given that the actual research had been conducted by close to 200 leading scientists from around the world, and peer-reviewed by a board that was chaired by Harvard University’s Dr. John Graham. Two things the industry still had in its favor, however, were (1) the support of the US federal government, and (2) a lot of money. Despite accusations that the health effects of cellular phone radiation were being withheld from consumers by the wireless industry and the US government, the FDA proposed a collaborative project with the wireless industry to investigate the issue of whether cell phones presented a danger to the public. The “Cooperative Research and Development Agreement” (or CRADA agreement) that was subsequently signed had been rejected by the FDA back in 1993 as a “conflict of interest.” POST SCRIPT On May 13, 2013, President Barack Obama – apparently having forgotten about his 2008 presidential campaign promise “to close the revolving door that brings major industry players into positions in government that regulate those industries” – nominated Tom Wheeler to head the FCC. This is the same man who, in 1993, hired Dr. Carlo to conduct research to investigate the safety of cell phones— and then, in 1999, lied to the American people about the results of Dr. Carlo’s research. You can watch Dr. Carlo's videos on youtube.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2013 by Sharon K. Phillips
This is an excellent first book for someone to read that wants to know the real TRUTH behind how the cell phone scare first started and how the industry and it's high-powered and overpaid lobbyists buried the TRUTH about microwave radiation from cell phones (wireless routers, cell towers, cordless DECT phones, microwave ovens, etc.). Motorola paid $25 million to do a 5-year study that didn't even last the entire 5 years. Dr. George Carlo and his team were not given the money when they needed it most in the 3rd or 4th year of the testing phase. Why? What did the industry (CTIA, FDA, etc) have to hide? How does an industry that is supposed to PROTECT the consumer allow an electronic and radiation-producing device to bypass mandatory pre-market testing? Of all the devices of new technology coming online, how did this happen? This is absurd. And why was the FDA invovled? It's not a food or a drug... What are they doing even touching electronic devices? Maybe they need to change the name of the agency or just get rid of it altogether. Our food isn't safe either. Dr. Carlo's research about the truth of the dangers of cell phones was buried and they tried to make him a scapegoat. And since the book was written there are 100's of millions of more cell phones in existence, more cell towers and dumb SmartMeters in our homes. Do the research and start by reading this book. You will be shocked by the evidence. Then go visit truth seeker and award-winning journalist and researcher Will Thomas at [...] and read all of his free articles and purchase his 138 page e-book for under $8. It's full of evidence and it's well-researched. $8 is a steal. Then visit [...] to check out reasonably-priced professional and consumer-based radiation detectors. The only way you'll know how much radiation is in your work, home, community and retail-store environments is by being able to see what a detector picks up. You will be amazed and shocked! And pray that you don't have a cell tower near your home or in your neighborhood because your health will be at risk. Do your own research and don't listen to the corporate media! They're LYING to all of us! All they care about is $$$.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2011 by hyrpmz
When the tsunami of brain tumors (other growths in locations of cell phones on ones person) shows up, it will be too late to learn about what Dr. Davis and others having studied emfs and the damage these devices utilizing those frequencies produce. Learn NOW.
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2016 by Patrick Henry
Great for understanding today's wireless hazards and EMF problems. The research and information in this book is very relevant to today's technology and just simply a required reading for knowing the cell phone and wireless technology's health hazards .
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2014 by Gh Kline
It's common sense, but people don't want to know what they don't want to know so would most people read this if they are addicted to their cell phone? Probably not. To think of all the kids walking around with smartphones and what it could be doing to them is so frightening! Be wary of anything 'wireless', Bluetooth, WiFi, etc. I've been turning my WiFi off at night and turning my cell phone to Airplane mode since 2008 and on occasion when I cannot do this - my quality of sleep is noticeably affected.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2024 by TS
Another book that attempts to lift the lid on this fascinating modern health hazard.
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2015 by Bruce Rapley