FROM the 2012 Preface to the BioInitiative update:
The world’s populations – from
children to the general public to scientists and physicians – are increasingly faced with great
pressures from advertising urging the incorporation of the latest wireless
device into their everyday lives. This is occurring even while an elementary
understanding the possible health consequences is beyond the ability of most
people to grasp. The exposures are invisible, the testing meters are expensive
and technically difficult to operate, the industry promotes new gadgets and
generates massive advertising and lobbying campaigns that silence debate, and
the reliable, non-wireless alternatives (like wired telephones and utility
meters) are being discontinued against public will. There is little labeling,
and little or no informed choice. In fact there is often not even the choice to
stay with safer, wired solutions, as in the case of the ‘smart grid’ and smart
wireless utility metering, an extreme example of a failed
corporate-governmental partnership strategy, ostensibly for energy
conservation.
A collision
of the wireless technology rollout and the costs of choosing unwisely is
beginning and will grow. The groundwork for this collision is being laid as a
result of increased exposure, especially to radiofrequency fields, in
education, in housing, in commerce, in communications and entertainment, in
medical technologies and imaging, and in public and private transportation by
air, bus, train and motor vehicles. Special concerns are the care of the fetus
and newborn, the care for children with learning disabilities, and
consideration of people under protections of the Americans With Disabilities
Act, which includes people who have become sensitized and physiologically
intolerant of chronic exposures. The 2012 Report now addresses these issues as
well as presenting an update of issues previously discussed...ESPECIALLY Section 4: EVIDENCE FOR INADEQUACY OF THE STANDARDS
And from a 2013 review of the update:
RENSSELAER,
N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A new report by the
BioInitiative Working Group 2012 says that evidence for risks to health has
substantially increased since 2007 from electromagnetic fields and wireless
technologies (radiofrequency radiation). The Report reviews over 1800 new
scientific studies. Cell phone users, parents-to-be, young children and
pregnant women are at particular risk.
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