The age-old adage First Do No Harm should be the tempering goal of not only medicine, but government and industry, especially when they team up to deploy new technologies, set policies and serve the people.

This blog exists to reveal and analyze areas in which these powerful groups are failing to "first do no harm."

Monday, May 14, 2012

Arizona smart meter news story: "Smart meters causing mysterious ailments"

This FoxNews (Phoenix) smart meter story (print and video) came out May 10 at 10:10 p.m. It is titled, Smart meters causing mysterious ailments. Several electromagnetically sensitive people are interviewed (amazingly).



At least it sounds like customers will be able to opt out: "Our job is to respond to our customers needs and if they express a desire for whatever reason they don't want this on their home then it's our job to see if we can find a plan that accommodates that," says Gross." (utility representative)

The Arizona fight is also touching Prescott. Again, customer health complaints and pleas are rising there (see the comments, too, at the bottom).

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Motorola Insider's Book Exposes the Truth: Cellular Telephone Russian Roulette: a Historical and Scientific Perspective ...............by Robert C. Kane


Cellular Telephone Russian Roulette

Some have said this iconoclastic 2001 book has been buried, or even frantically bought up by the industry after it came out. Now you can only get rare copies for over $100, or check one out from a few libraries. But Michael Heiming of MESURES IN SITU, Mesures de champs électromagnétiques posted a copy of this important awareness-blasting writing online after following legal precedent to get permission. THIS IS A MUST READ and one to share widely. Thank you, Michael, for making sure this information gets out!

The following blurb comes from the site (which includes a well-known skeptic's illogical criticisms of this book in attempts to hide its information):

Robert C. Kane had been working as top developer inside Motorola for decades, developing mobile phones. He died from brain cancer a few years ago, not without leaving this planet with a message, which you can find in his book.

Robert C. Kane has been actively employed in the telecommunications industry for more than thirty years. He holds a BSEE from the Midwest College of Engineering, an MSEE with an emphasis in electromagnetics from the Illinois Institute of Technology and also at the Illinois Institute of Technology, has completed the full course of study and research leading to the Ph.D. in electrical engineering with emphasis in the fields of electromagnetics and solid-state physics.


As a research scientist and product design engineer, he has been directly involved with programs and projects for the design and development of portable cell phones, radio frequency mobile radios, microwave telecommunications systems, video display systems, and biological effects research.

Download Whole Book here;


This is a kamikaze book, and would, if it got the attention it deserved, eviscerate the cell phone industry. If I were Robert C. Kane, I'd hire a bodyguard. The men behind the megabucks being raked in by the wireless industry can't be happy about a book like this. In lucid, readable, decisive prose, Kane, an industry insider, systematically dismantles the wireless industry's pretense of product safety. There is no pussyfooting around here about how there "may" be health concerns, as the February issue of Consumer Reports puts it. Kane starts right in on page one by stating, "Talking on a cellular phone can be likened to holding a microwave oven to one's head." Check out the last two chapters, "Public Deception I" and "Public Deception II", and the quotes from Carl Sagan and Ayn Rand. Powerful stuff. And then throw away your cell phone.


Book journalists need to read August 17, 2007


In Cellular Telephone Russian Roulette, author Robert Kane, a former top Motorola engineer, traces the history of cell phone development (in which he was involved) and analyzes the cell phone radiation bioeffects research base from 1950 to 1996.

Despite industry's claim to safety, Kane's report suggests that there was much more information available indicating safety concerns than the industry has ever acknowledged.

The work includes a review of:

· The foundations of radiofrequency (RF) radiation research (starting with radar).

· The discoveries of bioeffects from RF exposure as early as the 1970's, and the discovery of "hot spots" in the brains of mobile phone users.

· The industry's influence on "safe" exposure guidelines in order to meet its own product needs.

· The ways research design can be manipulated to bias the outcome of lab studies.

· The red-herring requirement by industry that research must identify a single biological causation mechanism for adverse health effects from RF exposure before science can say there is proven harm.

·The emergence of a PR campaign to mask the risks of cell phone radiation to the user.

It needs a good index and some section headings, but this book is jam-packed with information, much of which you won't find anywhere else. It will be of interest to those who have already gained some familiarity with the RF radiation health issue and are not put off by some of the technical terms used (megahertz, S.A.R., etc.). Serious readers may begin to smell more-than-feint traces of tobacco.

Another good book to dig up is Nicholas Steneck's 1984 science-and-values overview of "The Microwave Debate" which shows there has been some concern about RF radiation's ability to affect biology for quite some time.

Monday, May 14, 2012

Arizona smart meter news story: "Smart meters causing mysterious ailments"

This FoxNews (Phoenix) smart meter story (print and video) came out May 10 at 10:10 p.m. It is titled, Smart meters causing mysterious ailments. Several electromagnetically sensitive people are interviewed (amazingly).



At least it sounds like customers will be able to opt out: "Our job is to respond to our customers needs and if they express a desire for whatever reason they don't want this on their home then it's our job to see if we can find a plan that accommodates that," says Gross." (utility representative)

The Arizona fight is also touching Prescott. Again, customer health complaints and pleas are rising there (see the comments, too, at the bottom).

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Motorola Insider's Book Exposes the Truth: Cellular Telephone Russian Roulette: a Historical and Scientific Perspective ...............by Robert C. Kane


Cellular Telephone Russian Roulette

Some have said this iconoclastic 2001 book has been buried, or even frantically bought up by the industry after it came out. Now you can only get rare copies for over $100, or check one out from a few libraries. But Michael Heiming of MESURES IN SITU, Mesures de champs électromagnétiques posted a copy of this important awareness-blasting writing online after following legal precedent to get permission. THIS IS A MUST READ and one to share widely. Thank you, Michael, for making sure this information gets out!

The following blurb comes from the site (which includes a well-known skeptic's illogical criticisms of this book in attempts to hide its information):

Robert C. Kane had been working as top developer inside Motorola for decades, developing mobile phones. He died from brain cancer a few years ago, not without leaving this planet with a message, which you can find in his book.

Robert C. Kane has been actively employed in the telecommunications industry for more than thirty years. He holds a BSEE from the Midwest College of Engineering, an MSEE with an emphasis in electromagnetics from the Illinois Institute of Technology and also at the Illinois Institute of Technology, has completed the full course of study and research leading to the Ph.D. in electrical engineering with emphasis in the fields of electromagnetics and solid-state physics.


As a research scientist and product design engineer, he has been directly involved with programs and projects for the design and development of portable cell phones, radio frequency mobile radios, microwave telecommunications systems, video display systems, and biological effects research.

Download Whole Book here;


This is a kamikaze book, and would, if it got the attention it deserved, eviscerate the cell phone industry. If I were Robert C. Kane, I'd hire a bodyguard. The men behind the megabucks being raked in by the wireless industry can't be happy about a book like this. In lucid, readable, decisive prose, Kane, an industry insider, systematically dismantles the wireless industry's pretense of product safety. There is no pussyfooting around here about how there "may" be health concerns, as the February issue of Consumer Reports puts it. Kane starts right in on page one by stating, "Talking on a cellular phone can be likened to holding a microwave oven to one's head." Check out the last two chapters, "Public Deception I" and "Public Deception II", and the quotes from Carl Sagan and Ayn Rand. Powerful stuff. And then throw away your cell phone.


Book journalists need to read August 17, 2007


In Cellular Telephone Russian Roulette, author Robert Kane, a former top Motorola engineer, traces the history of cell phone development (in which he was involved) and analyzes the cell phone radiation bioeffects research base from 1950 to 1996.

Despite industry's claim to safety, Kane's report suggests that there was much more information available indicating safety concerns than the industry has ever acknowledged.

The work includes a review of:

· The foundations of radiofrequency (RF) radiation research (starting with radar).

· The discoveries of bioeffects from RF exposure as early as the 1970's, and the discovery of "hot spots" in the brains of mobile phone users.

· The industry's influence on "safe" exposure guidelines in order to meet its own product needs.

· The ways research design can be manipulated to bias the outcome of lab studies.

· The red-herring requirement by industry that research must identify a single biological causation mechanism for adverse health effects from RF exposure before science can say there is proven harm.

·The emergence of a PR campaign to mask the risks of cell phone radiation to the user.

It needs a good index and some section headings, but this book is jam-packed with information, much of which you won't find anywhere else. It will be of interest to those who have already gained some familiarity with the RF radiation health issue and are not put off by some of the technical terms used (megahertz, S.A.R., etc.). Serious readers may begin to smell more-than-feint traces of tobacco.

Another good book to dig up is Nicholas Steneck's 1984 science-and-values overview of "The Microwave Debate" which shows there has been some concern about RF radiation's ability to affect biology for quite some time.