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反对置无线上网　公园是休闲不容受辐射

2011-09-16T01:50:00.000-07:00

■ 李斯杰、涂仲仪、王美丽于记者会上发言。

光华日报

二零一一年九月十六日凌晨十二时四十三分

（槟城15日讯）槟州电磁辐射公害防护联盟呼吁当局在生活环境中采取“预警原则”，勿在槟岛市政局公园（前称青年公园）装置无线上网设施，如果真的要安装，可设立一个小亭提供上网服务，并表示去公园是休闲，不容受到辐射！

预警原则定义为尤其在学校、公园、医院和人口密集的住宅区，尽量让上述设施远离这些敏感地区。日前报道指岀，立通公司将在槟岛市政局安装免费上网热点，让民众可在公园内上网，工程预计10月安装完毕，年杪料可启用。

槟州电磁辐射公害防护联盟秘书王美丽于周四的记者会上表示，站在预警原则的角度，该联盟不赞同辐射性的上网设施安装在公园、学校等地，而站在人道立场，希望相关单位谨慎处理，同时不应太过迁就一些人的需要而伤害其他人。

她说，如果有关单位欲在市政局公园安装相关系统，可设立一个亭子提供上网服务，没有必要覆盖100％范围。“吸烟有禁烟区，如果可固定一个地点为无线上网区，这样就可照顾敏感的一群。”

她说，槟地方政府委员会主席曹观友也认同有关预警原则，同时在去年11月的槟城论坛上也有商讨此问题，因此，将致电曹观友，向他反映此事。她提及，无线上网与电讯塔结构虽然不同，但同样可发出不同程度的电磁波辐射。

她提及，也将通过电邮的方式发出公开信予槟国、州、市议员，向他们传达此讯息。

联盟副主席李斯杰表示，赞赏槟首长林冠英于2007年，谴责马六甲州政府在一所学校附近架起电讯塔，因此希望首长来到槟城后，也关注槟城的情况。

联盟医药顾问涂仲仪医生表示，在预警原则的前提下，地方政府应采取积极的态度，先告诉电讯公司和立通公司应远离敏感地点。

他说，如果要装也应装置在特定地区。“去公园是休闲，不是受到辐射，据了解，一些患病者早上前往市政局公园进行能量修复和运动，政府应阻止有关公司在该处设立无线上网系统，避免不必要的辐射影响。”

王美麗：根據預警原則公園不應設無線上網

2011-09-15T09:14:00.000-07:00

中国报北馬

15/09/2011 21:55

（檳城15日訊）檳州電磁輻射公害防護聯盟秘書王美麗認為，檳島市政局公園不應裝置免費無線上網，因為在“預警原則”中，是不應讓公園暴露在射頻輻射下，她建議將上網熱點設在公園某特定角落。

　她是對負責裝置全檳無線上網的立通國際有限公司，日前向媒體指出該公司將在上述公園設無線上網熱點一事，如是指出。

　“該聯盟也致函檳州政府、檳島市政局及立通國際有限公司，要求關注此事。”

　她指出，根據預警原則，是不認同具有輻射的設施建立在學校、公園、圖書館、醫院等，因此有關當局，不應在這些敏感地區裝置無線上網。

　“大部分到公園的人都是去運動，很少會帶手提電腦上網。”

　她指出，既然設有抽煙區和禁煙區，就應也設有無線上網區和非無線上網區。

建議設在特定角落

　王美麗是今日召開記者會上，如是指出。

　出席者包括該聯盟副主席李斯傑、醫藥顧問涂仲儀醫生。

　王美麗指出，檳安醫院與韓江學院也有免費無線上網，這些都是不應該的。

　她說，會在今日將公開信電郵給全檳國州市議員與立通公司，並將致電掌管檳州地方政府委員會的曹觀友，表達在市政局公園裝置無線上網的意見。

　她說，曹觀友在去年4月已接受預警原則，取消原本設在五條路公園還未操作的上網設施，這證明州政府實施預警原則。

WiFi Is Not Safe For Kids

2011-08-06T09:26:00.000-07:00

Jun 14, 2010

British military expert, Barrie Trower, tells us why wireless computers, cell phones, cordless phones and other microwave radiation devices are NOT safe for children. Share with everyone you know and I have blogged a lot about this issue at:
http://www.ListenToYourGut.com/blog

反對台北市政府設置「WiFi無線上網」聲明

2011-07-03T08:53:00.000-07:00

2011-07-02

反對台北市政府設置「WiFi無線上網」聲明

台灣電磁輻射公害防治協會聲明新聞稿 2011//7/2

反對台北市政府設置「WiFi無線上網」聲明

反對食品博士郝龍斌市長讓台北市民吃

「WiFi無線上網電磁波」(2B致癌劑)

「WiFi無線上網電磁波」等同「無形塑化劑」，為「2B致癌劑」

本會反對台北市政府於醫院、公車、捷運站及市府等公共空間設置「WiFi無線上網」，因為其會發出為射頻電磁輻射，屬於「2B致癌劑」，而司機可能長時間暴露，引發心臟血管疾病、可能導致交通危險事故，病患可能到聯合市立醫院就醫暴露而導致病情加重，吾等認為身為食品博士又擔任過環保署長的郝龍斌市長做了不好示範及決策，本會要求郝市長應重新審議「WiFi無線上網」危險性及必要性，暫緩或廢止該計畫，也希望郝市長能儘速舉辦公聽會，讓市民大眾了解電磁波2B致癌物的危險性，本會反對理由如下:

一、世界衛生組織附屬單位癌症研究機構IARC已於2011年5月31日將射頻電磁輻射定為2B致癌物，「WiFi無線上網電磁波」為射頻電磁輻射，同塑化劑、DDT等，都屬於2B致癌物，郝龍斌市長為食品專家，相信其反對吃塑化劑，但為何其卻要於醫院四處設置可能會導致癌症的「WiFi無線上網」，要讓病患、民眾無知暴露於「WiFi無線上網電磁波」下，無知長時間”吃”「無形的塑化劑」(電磁波)?

二、「WiFi無線上網」設備如同小型基地台，其發出射頻電磁波為看不到、聞不到、聽不到，但長時間接近暴露之危害性已被認定為2B致癌物，而公車司機長時間暴露，更可能引發身體不適而導致交通事故，萬萬不可!

三、郝市長為食品專家，認定塑化劑2B致癌物應禁止，卻在世界衛生組織認定射頻電磁輻射為2B致癌物後，還鼓勵「WiFi無線上網」設置，無視電磁波存在，郝市長專業出身，更應確認其安全性，否則郝市長無異「決策害人」。

四、「WiFi無線上網電磁波」不同於咖啡，雖二者都是2B致癌物，而電磁波有血癌及腦部癌症罹患可能，而咖啡，雖IARC將其歸類於2B，但其僅屬膀胱致癌性(喝大量)，其他器官致癌性不屬於2B，人類非24小時喝咖啡或吃塑化劑，但卻有可能長時間暴露於電磁輻射，故不能拿咖啡致癌性與電磁輻射相比。

WiFi in schools proven dangerous.

2011-04-13T03:30:00.000-07:00

Uploaded by safeschool on Oct 17, 2010

WiFi causes heart problems, headaches and other neurological disorders in children. Canadian Documentary exposes the truth. More info athttp://www.magdahavas.com

You can't see it but it's everywhere. WiFi connects computers to the internet, no cords required. Now kids are using it in wireless classrooms across the country. But is it an invisible danger? Carolyn Jarvis investigates why some parents say WiFi in schools is making our kids sick.

Microwave radiation dangers in your home

2011-04-13T03:28:00.000-07:00

Uploaded by magdahavas on Oct 19, 2010

Magda Havas demonstrates how WiFi connects your laptop, iPhone and iPad to the internet via microwave radiation. You will also learn how WiFi base stations, portable phones and baby monitors constantly radiate microwave radiation. The Swiss Government feels that all of these devices have the potential to do great harm if used incorrectly and warn their citizens.

This is a link to the web page that has additional information.
http://www.magdahavas.com/2010/10/20/free-internet-access-in-swiss-schools-no...

Download the patents and related studies in PDF that are mentioned in this video -
http://www.magdahavas.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/WiFi_Supportin...

While the rest of the world rushes onwards with the wireless revolution, Switzerland -- the country that invented the World Wide Web -- and the largest telecom provider -- SWISSCOM which is owned (52%) by the Swiss government - have decided to light up the public school's wired networks using fiber optics FOR FREE!

But there is one catch -- the schools must use LAN -- local area networks. Specifically, the Swisscom application documentation states that the schools pay for the internal wiring and connect their devices (PC, printer) via an Ethernet LAN/10BaseT/RJ45 and then connect it to a Swisscom AG's CISCO router on site. Swisscom then brings the fiber optic connection to the school.

Most schools in North America are opting for a WiFI wireless local area network (WLAN) that allows computers and laptops to be connected to each other without wires. But the Swiss government prefers -- LAN -- wired networks that do not emit microwave radiation. For example, on their public health website, they specifically warn about the dangers of WiFi:

"Only switch your WLAN (WiFi) on when you need it. With laptops, in particular, it is a good idea to switch the WLAN (WiFi) off as otherwise the device will repeatedly try to connect to a network, leading to unnecessary radiation...and caution should be exercised primarily when using devices held close to the body, such as laptops, PDAs and Internet telephones".

「手機上網」電磁輻射，安全嗎?

2011-04-04T08:35:00.000-07:00

台灣電磁輻射公害防治協會記者會新聞稿 2011/3/31

「手機上網」電磁輻射，安全嗎?

99%民眾不知手機SAR值、NCC應要求業者標示SAR值於手機上

「手機上網」電磁輻射，安全嗎? 雖至今危害與否仍無定論，但因世界衛生組織已有長久使用手機腦瘤危害發現(世界衛生組織實況報導第193號)，故今天由台灣電磁輻射公害防治協會理事長陳椒華及田秋堇立法委員共同召開記者會提出警告，呼籲重視「手機上網」電磁輻射的安全問題，呼籲不使用時手機勿繼續上網，以免暴露過多電磁輻射。而且要求NCC應要求業者手機明顯標示SAR值，以提供消費者選購安全手機參考。今天記者會也由經常使用手機上網的何宗勳理事現身說法，示範手機上網可能受到的電磁輻射暴露及可能的危害。

一、手機上網有電磁輻射嗎? 答案: 有

本會檢測各廠牌92支手機，皆測到電磁輻射(表二)，其中最高達30 W/m2，而手機上網的電磁輻射值普遍為數十 mW/m2。

二、手機上網應離多遠可以較少暴露於電磁輻射? 答案: 30~40公分

根據世界衛生組織實況報導第193號(2010年5月)，手機打開時才傳輸功率。隨著手機傳輸距離不斷加長，功率（以及用戶射頻輻射接觸量）迅速衰減。因此，與身體保持30-40公分距離使用行動電話者，如發送短信、上網或使用“免提”裝置(喇叭或耳機)，射頻場接觸量會大大低於把手機放在耳邊接聽者。

三、常用手機上網有危害嗎? 答案: 可能

根據世界衛生組織實況報導第193號(2010年5月)，國際癌症研究機構協調組織了一項名為INTERPHONE的回顧性病例對照研究，目的是探討成年人使用行動電話是否與頭部、頸部癌症有關聯性。13個參加研究國家的資料匯總分析表明，使用行動電話10年以上者，雖未發現罹患膠質瘤和腦膜瘤的風險增加，但一些跡象顯示在10%行動電話累計時間最長使用者中，顯示罹患膠質瘤的風險增加。除此之外，本會也建議有心臟疾病者，應注意避免長時間利用手機上網或將手機靠近心臟及生殖系統。

四、NCC訂定”安全手機或低SAR值標示”嗎? 答案: 沒有

本會針對手機SAR值標示進行問卷調查，回收有效問卷448份(表一)，其中97%不知道手機之SAR值 (W/Kg) 為電磁波能量吸收比值，德國SAR值低者(小於0.6 W/Kg)可以貼上”藍天使標章”， 99%不知道自己的手機SAR值 (W/Kg)為多少? 99%贊成手機SAR值應標在手機醒目位置，如手機背面電磁蓋上面，購買手機時可參考。本會要求NCC也應比照辦理。

SAR值說明:

SAR(specific absorption rate)值 (W/Kg) 為電磁波能量特定吸收率。國內的手機發射強度標準乃依循美國聯邦通訊委員會(Federal Communications Commission, FCC)所訂的特定吸收率SAR值，為1.6 W/kg。德國藍天使標章規範SAR值為0.6 W/kg。2007年出版之電磁波Bioinitiative報告，學者建議SAR值應降為 0.1 W/kg。目前經濟部標準檢驗局並未要求廠商手機需標示SAR值，至今也無經驗可評估SAR值(1.6 W/kg)標準是否適合防護可能的健康風險。

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歡迎民眾撥打04-6421591詢問‧檳免費上網熱線啟動

2011-03-19T09:30:00.000-07:00

北馬 2011-03-19 11:22

黃泉安所指處為檳城免費無線網絡介入器，只要關閉建築物電源，它便停止操作。（圖：星洲日報）

（檳城18日訊）檳州政府推出檳城無線網絡投訴熱線電話04-6421591，以便負責的REDtone通訊公司可以協助解決人們無法上網的問題。

檳城免費無線網絡幕後推手國會議員黃泉安昨日（18日）在新聞發佈會上說，有關熱線電話將取得“公民監督”，和回饋用戶經驗的功能。

上網若遇障礙
須提供詳細資料

人們尋求檳城無線上網服務面對障礙進行投訴，必須提供發生障礙的地點、時段、大致情況等資料。

他說，有時問題可能出在用戶所在的地點並非檳城無線上網熱點據點，或遠離據點，見到的是流浪無線訊號（Stray Wireless Signals），無法接通。

他說，有時用戶身在熱點據點，可是涉及的無線上網介入器所在的建築物電源關閉，由於沒有電源而停止服務。
他說，有時問題出在用戶使用的是舊式手提電腦，或舊式手機，追不上它的要求，有時問題出在新的操作版本無法和它相容，如智慧式手機或電腦的FLASH版本不受支撐。

每隔15分鐘會自動斷線

他說，檳城免費無線網絡也有自動斷線的設立，每隔15分鐘便中斷，必須重新登錄，世界上的許多大城市免費無線網絡都有這種自動設定。他說，人們必須登記成為檳城免費無線網絡的註冊用戶，才能享有服務。人們也可以上http://www.pdctelco.com.my或http://www.redtone.com查詢。

針對胡棟強投訴不能免費上網
吉寧萬山無網絡介入器

針對檳州民青團團長胡棟強在報章上投訴，在吉寧萬山附近的新街無法通過檳城免費無線網絡上網，黃泉安說，當地不是熱線據點，沒有任何免費無線網絡介入器。

星洲日報／大北馬‧2011.03.18

WORLD HEALTH Urgently Needs lower EMF Standards

2011-02-05T09:35:00.000-08:00

PRESS RELEASE of the International EMF Alliance, 3 Feb 2011

New International EMF Alliance Announces far-reaching Acientific Consensus Statement, Published Today:
WORLD HEALTH Urgently Needs lower EMF Standards

Oslo, Norway, February 3, 2011. The International EMF Alliance (IEMFA) today announces a new published report and scientific Consensus Statement concerning health hazards of electromagnetic fields (EMFs). Led by Olle Johansson, PhD of the Karolinska Institute, the report published by a consortium of international scientists urges global governments to adopt significantly lower human exposure standards for electromagnetic fields. The recommendations are based on the latest body of evidence in biological sciences, and the public-health implications of the unprecedented global exposures to electromagnetic fields from telecommunications and electric power technologies. The scientists recommend specific exposure limits for different frequency fields, including microwaves, used in wireless communications, and ELF electric fields and magnetic fields.

According to the international scientists, called the Seletun Scientific Panel, it has become obvious that new, biologically-based public exposure standards are urgently needed to protect long-term public health worldwide. Current public-safety EMF-exposure guidelines used world wide, based on physics models and calculations, currently only protect for damage generated by a heating effect. With respect to prolonged, low-intensity exposures that nowadays frequently occur, but do not have a heating effect, the guidelines, say the scientists, are inadequate and obsolete.

An 18 minutes video of Olle Johansson, PhD of the Karolinska Institute, Chair of IEMFA’s Seletun Scientific Panel that issued the report is available here: http://vimeo.com/18018440

The report and consensus statement, published in the journal Reviews on Environmental Health http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21268443 include ten Key Points:

1. The global Populations are insufficiently protected, thus currently at Risk;

2. Sensitive Populations are extra vulnerable;

3. Government Actions are urgently warranted now, based on Evidence of serious Disruption to Biological Systems;

4. The Burden of Proof for the Safety of radiation-emitting Technologies should fall on Producers and Providers, not Consumers;

5. EMF Exposures should be reduced in advance of complete Understanding of Mechanisms of Action;

6. The current operative measure of Radiation Risk - the specific absorption rate (SAR) - is inadequate, and misguides on Safety and Health Risks;

7. An international Disease Registry is needed to track Time Trends of the incidence of Illnesses to correlate the Illnesses with Exposures;

8. Pre-market health Testing and Safety Demonstration is needed for all radiation-emitting Technologies;

9. Parity is needed for occupational Exposure Standards, compared to those for the General Public;

10. Persons with Electrohypersensitivity need the classification Functionally Impaired.

The International EMF Alliance has rapidly grown in 2010 into a global collaboration of over fifty health advocacy groups focused on electromagnetic fields (www.iemfa.org). Its principle aim is to disseminate coherent, health-oriented information and advice to the public worldwide on the ever-expanding body of knowledge on biological disruptions observed in living tissues after acute and long-term exposure to non-ionizing electromagnetic fields. The Alliance benefits from the support of a large number of life scientists and medical experts from fifteen countries who collaborate worldwide to address emerging threats to public health.

For more information:

Alex Swinkels, Spokesperson and Board member IEMFA, info@iemfa.org (Netherlands)
Brian Stein, Board Member IEMFA, brian.stein@SamworthBrothers.co.uk (United Kingdom)
Camilla Rees, Board Member IEMFA, crgr@aol.com (United States)
Don Maisch, PhD, Board Member IEMFA, dmaisch@emfacts.com (Australia)
Daniel Oberhausen, Board Member IEMFA, danobe68@aol.fr (France)
Eileen O'Connor, Board Member IEMFA, eileen@radiationresearch.org (United Kingdom)
Sissel Halmoy, Chairwoman IEMFA, sissel@stralevern.no (Norway)

Links:

Read the summary on PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21268443
To read the full recommendations of IEMFA's Scientific Seletun Panel, please go to: http://iemfa.org/index.php/publications/seletun-resolution

黃泉安：為民聯加分無線上網非檳負資產

2011-01-20T16:52:00.000-08:00

北馬 2011-01-19 18:36

黃泉安：我和檳州免費上網計劃不會拖累檳州民聯。

（檳城19日訊）檳州政府電訊基設特別工作隊主席黃泉安指出，他本身將以“績效”來證明，他大力推動的“檳州免費無線上網”計劃不會拖累檳州民聯，反而會讓檳州變成一個高速上網的州屬，以配合檳首長林冠英有意把檳城打造為國際城市的步伐。

根據一份中文免費週報的報導，指黃泉安推動的免費無線上網計劃已經“觸礁”，這將會拖累檳州民聯的事項，黃泉安極力否認，他強調，他絕對不是檳州政府的負資產，而且該項免費上網計劃也不會拖累民聯。

“我和檳州免費上網計劃會不會拖累民聯，還是為民聯加分，到了大選，他們就會知道。”

擬引進4G技術

他說，他個人不想針對這個沒有根據的指責做出回應，但將會以行動證明，他推動的這項計劃，將會讓人民受惠，這包括準備在29個民聯中選的州選區中，增加免費上網的熱點。

他指出，目前他準備大力推動兩項計劃，以讓檳城成為一個高速上網的城市，第一，就是將在今年內再增設750個免費上網熱點，把熱點增加至1500個，覆蓋範圍延伸到郊區。

他披露，這全新的750個熱點，將會專注在人口密集的地區，尤其是在民聯中選的州選區安裝，此外，也將會延伸到郊區，讓更多人民受惠。

他披露，第二，他將會協助州政府，引進需付費的高速4G無線上網技術，目前楊忠禮集團屬下的YES公司，有意引進這方面技術。

光明日報

If WiFi harms trees, what about children?

2010-12-01T07:52:00.000-08:00

November 24, 2010.

The debate about WiFi being used in schools continues to escalate as new research from the Netherlands shows that when ash trees are exposed to radiation emitted by WiFi base station antennas, the leaves discolor and gradually die.

The study reported that 70% of all trees in urban areas (but not those in dense forests) show the symptoms, compared to 10% five years ago. Although this is a preliminary study, which has not yet been published, it should be taken seriously.
Wageningen University was commissioned by the municipality of Alphen aan den Rijn to determine if electromagnetic radiation from cell phone towers or WiFi masts could play a role in the deteriorating health of the city’s ash trees.

For the experiment, six WiFi access points where erected at various distances from the trees that were continuously exposed for more than three months. The frequency was 2.4 GHz (WiFi) with a power output of 100 mW EIRP, which is the maximum power allowed for use by portable laptop computers. Leaves that were two feet from the WiFI access point developed a metallic luster appearance, a discoloration of the leaves that appeared to result in the disappearance of the outer cell layer of the leaves. The metallic luster was then followed by desiccation and death of a portion of the leaf.

If three months of exposure to WiFi microwaves adversely affects the leaves of trees what is it doing to the growing bodies of children who sit for hours each day in school two feet away from a WiFi enabled laptop computer or a ceiling mounted WiFi access point?

Recent studies show low level Radio Frequency (RF) harm Aspen trees

Aspen decline has been reported in North America over the past half century and rapid mortality of aspen clones has been observed in Colorado since 2004 and has become a major concern for environmentalists, scientists, and foresters.

In one experiment, published February 2010 in The International Journal of Forestry Research, scientists constructed mock-shielded cages and faraday-shielded cages in the forest just outside of Lyons, Colorado. The mock cage shielded aspen seedlings only from direct light – while the faraday cage shielded seedlings from all forms of radio frequency radiation originating from the town of Lyons in the frequency range of 1 MHz to 3 GHz. This includes radio broadcast signals as well as cell phone and WiFi signals.

The researchers discovered that the tree seedlings growing inside the radio frequency-shielded cages were much larger and healthier than those in both the mock-shielded cages and in the unshielded controls.

The authors report that the background levels of radio frequency radiation may be adversely affecting leaf and shoot growth and inhibiting fall production of anthocyanins (these are the pigments associated with leaf senescence in trembling aspen seedlings). These results suggest that exposure to the RF radiation generated by our wireless technology may be an underlying factor in the recent rapid decline of aspen populations.

In the figure above, mock-shielded seedlings on the left and RF-shielded seedlings on the right, the latter showing more total leaf area, stronger fall leaf coloration, and minimal leaf necrosis.

WiFi Smart Meters for “Do It Yourself” home studies

If the electrical utility has recently installed a new wireless Smart Meter on the side of your house, you might be able to do your own plant experiments using simple before and after photography.

Green euonymous plant that shows the progression of vegetative decay around a wireless smart meter. Before the smart meter was installed, vibrant green healthy foliage completely surrounded the meter and a robin nested above the meter. Now, the leaves closest to the meter are damaged and the robin is gone.

http://www.magdahavas.com/2010/11/23/if-wifi-harms-trees-what-about-children/

WiFi 辐射让树木受损,树叶枯死恐也危害健康

WiFi无线网络越来越普遍，但荷兰研究发现，一些近WiFi网络生长的树木受损、树叶枯死，令WiFi辐射可能有损人体健康亮起警号。

荷兰莱茵河畔阿尔芬市政府，5年前发现当地很多树木树皮和树叶枯萎，于是委托荷兰瓦格宁根大学研究。

研究员疑树木坏死跟辐射有关，因此将20棵白蜡树暴露在距离6种不同来源辐射51公分的位置3个月，结果发现最近WiFi辐射的树，叶子上下两层表皮都枯死，且有70%在城市生长的树都如此。

香港WiFi城市的隐忧

2010-11-26T08:32:00.000-08:00

　
加拿大安大略省湖岸大學去年一月全面禁用Wi-Fi。該校傳訊處處長Eleanor S. Abaya回覆本刊指，由於有學生及教師反對使用Wi-Fi，校方遂在教學大樓內的智能課室及機械實驗室加裝寬頻線，鼓勵他們改用有線網絡。校長Fred Gilbert認為，有很多文獻指電磁波可能導致血癌及腦瘤，不希望學生及教師的健康受威脅。

　　英國《星期日獨立報》早前報道，一名教師在學校安裝Wi-Fi後出現頭疼及噁心，懷疑患輻射敏感，校方於是拆除部分發射器。英國教協及獨立組織衛生防護局促請教育大臣調查Wi-Fi會否影響學童健康。

　　英國去年十一月有至少三間學校，拆除Wi-Fi改用有線網絡，認為小童腦殼較薄，神經系統仍在發展，容易被電磁波傷害。各國至今沒有研究針對Wi-Fi對健康所造成的影響。世界衛生組織估計，全球每一百人中有三個對電磁輻射敏感。

台Wi-Fi超標最多350倍

　　在台灣，環保聯盟一月到台大圖書館，測試Wi-Fi無線網絡強度，錄得每平方米三百五十微瓦電磁波。當地環保署、通訊傳播委員會及台大進行同樣測試，每平方米最高達三百三十微瓦，最低為九微瓦。

　　全球對Wi-Fi電磁波仍未有統一安全標準。奧地利訂定的室內安全值是每平方米一微瓦，德國則規定每平方米住宅不可超過五微瓦。台灣的測試結果超出這些標準約二至三百五十倍。

　　聯盟發起「向電磁波說No!」的行動，呼籲市民遠離發射器，又促請所有學校在發射器上貼出告示，提醒學生不宜停留過久。台灣嘉南藥理科技大學副教授陳椒華向本刊記者解釋，長期使用Wi-Fi可能導致頭疼、記憶力衰退、胸悶及脫髮，甚至引發癌症、白血病及孕婦流產，影響中樞神經及生殖系統，市民不應將胸部及腹部靠近電腦，孕婦及小童更不宜使用。

10,000微瓦升1度　影響微
　　香港中文大學社區及家庭醫學系教授余德新表示，Wi-Fi電磁波屬於射頻，對人體產生熱效應：「就像微波爐的微波，過量接觸會增加患白內障的風險，但強度達一萬微瓦，身體組織才會升高一度。」他認為，台灣的測試結果距離最低風險起碼少三十倍，目前仍未有研究證實電磁波會致癌、影響免疫力及神經系統。

　　電訊管理局助理總監陳子儀接受本刊專訪時解釋，本港的Wi-Fi上網熱點平均分布各區，相信電磁波不會太強：「例如發射器會裝置在燈柱較高的位置，離行人起碼十米，危險性不大。」

　　互聯網供應商協會主席莫兆華也指：「除非頭部貼近發射器，否則Wi-Fi的影響遠比手提電話低。」

　　電訊局目前採用國際非電離輻射防護委員會(ICNIRP)，以及美國國家標準學會與電機及電子工程師學會(ANSI/IEEE)的安全標準，監管手提電話發出的電磁波。兩者分別建議人體每公斤最多吸收兩瓦及一點六瓦輻射。

　　工商及科技局發言人回覆本刊表示，會根據ICNIRP守則作指標，在標書中列明承辦商需遵守有關守則。

　　政府年底將會外判公共設施，讓供應商安裝Wi-Fi服務。兩年內，無論室內室外，市民都可使用無線上網。要在燈柱下邊看電郵、邊等朋友，用電子手帳在維園寫網誌，或在登機前到網上聊天室跟朋友道別，都不成問題。

　　目前本港的Wi-Fi市場，由約三十間網絡供應商自行營運。工商及科技局數字顯示，截至二月全港有一千零七十一個熱點，主要在中環、銅鑼灣及油尖旺。市民只要帶同手提電腦或電話，到咖啡室或商場等上網熱點，便可使用收費的Wi-Fi服務。

　　不過，國際機構JiWire的統計顯示，香港的熱點數目在全球排名中十甲不入，輸給台北、首爾和新加坡等。電訊局助理總監陳子儀承認，去年十二月本港舉辦世界電信展期間，Wi-Fi覆蓋面不足，認為「香港要加把勁追上其他城市」。

　　政府為使Wi-Fi達至全城覆蓋，首次在今年預算案撥款在公園、博物館及圖書館等公共場地，提供免費Wi-Fi，又出租市面街燈、路標及天橋予供應商，雙管齊下增設熱點。

街燈遍港九新界

　　政府先開放各區燈柱、橋躉、路標、隧道及交通燈，讓供應商以每年象徵式一元租金安裝Wi-Fi發射器。陳子儀表示，在街燈安裝熱點有助建立全城覆蓋：「港九新界及離島都有燈柱，覆蓋面夠大，又可以供電給發射器。」他估計，要約兩萬個熱點才可覆蓋全港。

　　局方目前收到五宗查詢，其中電訊盈科及香港寬頻兩間供應商已獲發牌，另一宗申請仍在審批。

　　兩大供應商電盈及香港寬頻都對Wi-Fi市場虎視眈眈。前者將在便利店、地鐵、酒店及九間大專院校增設熱點，總數由目前一千三百個加至三千個。後者則投資五千萬元，在酒吧、卡拉OK及部分屋苑電梯大堂，提供Wi-Fi服務。

　　另外，陳子儀指，每個熱點可覆蓋五十至一百米範圍，當局會確保設施不被壟斷：「無須全條街都租給一個人，隔幾支燈裝一個都可覆蓋到。」

業界為主　政府為輔
　　今年預算案其中一項「派錢」措施是撥款二億三千萬元，在三百五十個公共場地提供免費Wi-Fi服務，包括公共圖書館、博物館、文化中心、運動場、大型公園、社區會堂、民政事務總署服務中心，以及部分人流較多的政府部門，如運輸署牌照事務處、入境處人事登記處等。

　　網絡供應商為用戶提供收費Wi-Fi服務，政府卻又計劃提供公共免費Wi-Fi。數碼通總裁黎大鈞曾批評「政府以公帑補貼全世界」，有可能迫使供應商同樣提供免費Wi-Fi服務。

　　但互聯網供應商協會主席莫兆華認為，政府與業界各有空間：「政府只是畫龍點睛，不會覆蓋全港，業界仍可投資私人地方。」他指市場競爭激烈，相信供應商提供的上網速度，會比政府場地快，而業界長遠會靠其他增值服務，經營收費Wi-Fi服務。

　　陳子儀解釋，政府場地未必得到業界垂青：「供應商未必有興趣走入一些偏遠地區，如元朗民政署、坪洲鄉公所等，但政府不可忽略市民的需要。」

官商唱好　用量成疑
　　副政府資訊科技總監麥鴻崧在立法會一個委員會上指，新熱點可以方便市民學習及娛樂，同時有助商人進行電子貿易活動，提升本港形象。

　　不過麥鴻崧強調，此非純粹讓市民上網消遣，相信加裝熱點後會有人上網打機消磨時間。當局會加設過濾及保安軟件，阻止市民進入色情網站，又計劃將服務時間與辦公時間掛勾，例如圖書館晚上關門會同時中斷無線上網。

　　政府與業界紛紛唱好，但有學者質疑市場需求不大。大學聯合電腦中心主任吳南認為，現時Wi-Fi未能打入年青學生市場。港大在三月統計校內Wi-Fi使用率，發現只有一成二學生曾使用過。吳南解釋，校園有足夠電腦設備連接有線網絡，Wi-Fi未算吸引。

　　無線科技商會主席趙志洋也擔心，即使政府大力推動，市民的使用量也未必會高：「如果只有科技，沒有內容，就沒有人用。」他建議供應商為客戶提供多元化服務，如新聞、音樂、電子商貿等服務，以內容留住客戶。「市場個餅非常大，公家私家沒有重疊，但要突圍，就要內容吸引。」

　　當局五月中會向立法會財委會申請撥款，然後招標，挑選外判商安裝及營運，十一月展開首批工程，預計最快明年六月完成。資訊科技界議員單仲偕認為，政府應先在人流多的地點安裝熱點，並定期評估用量：「裝太多但沒人用，審計署之後又會算賬。」

Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick, Study Says

2010-11-21T20:48:00.000-08:00

Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick, Study Says

City trees are becoming sick from wireless radiation from local area networks and mobile phones, according to a European study.

By René Schoemaker , IDG News Nov 20, 2010 5:09 am

Radiation from Wi-Fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark, according to a recent study in the Netherlands.Radiation from Wi-Fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark, according to a recent study in the Netherlands.

All deciduous trees in the Western world are affected, according to the study by Wageningen University. The city of Alphen aan den Rijn ordered the study five years ago after officials found unexplained abnormalities on trees that couldn't be ascribed to a virus or bacterial infection.

Additional testing found the disease to occur throughout the Western world. In the Netherlands, about 70 percent of all trees in urban areas show the same symptoms, compared with only 10 percent five years ago. Trees in densely forested areas are hardly affected.

Besides the electromagnetic fields created by mobile-phone networks and wireless LANs, ultrafine particles emitted by cars and trucks may also be to blame. These particles are so small they are able to enter the organisms.

The study exposed 20 ash trees to various radiation sources for a period of three months. Trees placed closest to the Wi-Fi radio demonstrated a "lead-like shine" on their leaves that was caused by the dying of the upper and lower epidermis of the leaves. This would eventually result in the death of parts of the leaves. The study also found that Wi-Fi radiation could inhibit the growth of corn cobs.

The researchers urged that further studies were needed to confirm the current results and determine long-term effects of wireless radiation on trees.

快拆線

2010-11-05T08:23:00.000-07:00

中国报专栏《四方城》
作者　愚公移山
2010年11月5日

國際著名的環境健康學者蕾薇施博士（Dr Devra Lee Davis）兩個月前出了一本名為《拆線》（Disconnect），講述手提電話對人體健康影響的著作。

曾經是流行病學教授的蕾薇施博士，目前是美國好幾所大學的客卿講師，其中包括了美國的哈佛和喬治市等名校。在其大半生的學術研究和事業裡，積極的投入精神與努力，尤其是環境對於人體健康的重要課題。

《拆線》一書提到，目前全球大約共有40億位手機使用者。這個通常都放在口袋和緊貼耳朵和頭部的通訊儀器，就像極了安置在我們身旁的小型電訊塔，全天候的向我們的身體發射電磁波。更令人擔憂的是，有整20億的手機用戶是20歲以下的青少年和孩童。

蕾薇施博士的《拆線》開始出售時，正好是檳州電磁波輻射公害防護聯盟正在草擬着提呈給大馬通訊與多媒體委員會有關於電磁波輻射的準則、要求與規劃等相關的懸而未決的事項。

手機和無線上網的普及，使到新世紀的全球人類都得面對大量的電磁波輻射的影響。然而，就像美國這樣一個被喻為全球科學與工藝最為先進的國家，對於手機的安全準則令人驚訝和不解的還停留在整30年前的標準。

大馬通訊與多媒體委員會這一次在其官方網站發佈訊息，接受來至於公眾對於電磁波輻射問題的建議，是值得讚賞的。當然，我們更是希望當局是有誠意和魄力去解決，一直以來困擾著人民百姓的電磁波輻射的問題和威脅。

政策的改變和改善需要一股強大的力量！檳州電磁波輻射公害防護聯盟義不容辭的向大馬通訊與多媒體委員會提出具體的建議的同時，更是希望那些如今已經掌權了的火箭諸公，能夠扮演積極、務實和負責任的態度，向有關當局提出他們的意見和看法，包括必要的施壓。

一再延長非法電訊塔寬限期的檳州政府，這一次會總結火箭從在野到在朝對電訊塔和電磁波輻射的經驗，提呈解決方案給當局嗎? 還是會繼續縱容它的蜀中大將放話用煽動法令來抓反電訊塔的人士?

And Now … Tinnitus

2010-07-01T23:42:00.001-07:00

June 30

Users of cell phones have another reason to be cautious. An Austrian team has found that the risk of developing tinnitus, a ringing in the ears, doubled after four years. This is one of the first epidemiological studies to investigate the long-term effects of mobile phones on hearing.

Hans-Peter Hutter of the Institute of Environmental Health at the Medical University of Vienna, and coworkers report that the observed association is "unlikely" to be spurious and could have important implications for public health. Their new epidemiological study, based on 100 cases and 100 controls, will appear in an upcoming issue of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

The "possible association of mobile phone use and tinnitus is plausible," according to Hutter, "because the cochlea [the inner ear] and the auditory pathway are located in an anatomical region where a considerable amount of the power emitted by mobile phones is absorbed." The risk of tinnitus was greatest on the side of the head the phone was used. The doubling of the incidence after long-term use is of borderline statistical significance. Hutter also raises the possibility that other factors may be responsible: For instance, blood flow near the ear could be affected when the user is in a constrained posture while on the phone.

Two large European research projects, GUARD and EMFnEAR, have investigated the possible impact of cell phones on human hearing. But both have focused on short-term exposures —mostly for just 10 or 20 minutes— and have generally found no effects (see, for example, a recent paper in Radiation Research.) These two projects cost a total of $3-4 million.

Michael Kundi, the head of the Vienna institute and a coauthor of the new study, told Microwave News that more studies of long-term exposures and hearing are needed. "It is complete nonsense to look for short-term effects," he said. Kundi explained that the lack of studies on prolonged use of cell phones is not surprising, given the official view that microwaves can only cause heating. "If the position is that thermal effects are all that count, there cannot be long-term effects," he said.

A 2007 study of students in the U.K. found no increase in tinnitus or adverse effects on hearing and balance. Tinnitus is more common among older people.

Dect Phones and Microwave Radiation on the Electrosensitive

2010-06-15T09:07:00.000-07:00

magdahavas — March 23, 2010 — Study shows, unequivocally, that microwave radiation from a cordless DECT phone immediately affects the heart causing arrhythmia and tachycardia (irregular and rapid heart rate) at non-thermal levels well below federal guidelines.

WiFi in schools and health effects of microwave radiation

2010-06-15T09:05:00.000-07:00

magdahavas — April 27, 2010 — In this video, Trent University professor Dr. Magda Havas and Dr. Fred Gilbert from Lakehead University explain why wireless technologies known as WiFi should not be used in schools because of the known health effects from microwave radiation. Testimonials are also provided by the students of Mountain View School who feel that their ill health could be directly related to microwave radiation emitted by the wireless internet transmission towers that have been installed inside the school.

WiFi concerns at Mountain View School in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada

2010-06-15T08:56:00.000-07:00

WiFi concerns at Mountain View School in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada" was written on the June 13, 2010 at 5:40 pm on "EMFacts Consultancy".

From Magda Havas:

For distribution:

Hello Everyone,

As some of you already know, there are several students in Mountain
View School in Collingwood, Ontario (Canada) who are complaining about
ill health after the school installed WiFi. Rodney, a concerned
father, invited me to give a talk in the Community this past week and
the room was packed with parents, health care professionals, people
from the community, and the media so I hope it will generate more
interest once the articles begin to appear.

See video clip of interviews with some of the students at the school.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-TJXRc5fzo feature=player_embedded

See video documenting tachycardia in adults during provocation with a
cordless (DECT) phone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EI9fZX4iww

What is disturbing is that several students have complained about ill
health, two students are now on heart medication and one young girl is
scheduled for heart surgery on Monday June 14th. A student in a
Toronto school (also with WiFi) fainted while standing in the hallway
near a WiFi antenna. The students with heart conditions have been
diagnosed with one of the following: vaso vagal syndrome,
supraventicular tachycardia (SVT), or Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW)
Syndrome (abnormal connections or accessory pathways in the heart) a
form of atrioventricular reciprocating tachycardia (AVRT).

Symptoms for SVT include: dizziness, shortness of breath, chest pain,
a pounding sensation in the throat or neck, weakness, fatigue,
lightheadedness, fainting (especially in the case of underlying heart
disease) and resemble EHS symptoms.

Prevelance rate for tachycardia is about 1.6% to 2% for adults.
http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/t/tachycardia/stats.htm
Prevelance for WPW is 0.15% in children. See:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2363719/ Epidemiology of
Arrhythmias in Children, by R Prem Sekar. Indian Pacing Electrophysiol
J. 2008 Apr–Jun; 8(Suppl. 1): S8–S13.

I recently heard that all the schools in my district (Kawartha Pine
Ridge) are going to have WiFi installed soon. Where are these schools
getting information that this technology is safe? I find this
situation most disturbing. If these heart conditions are related to
WiFi then I think the schools and those who make the statement that
this radiation is safe (Health Canada and local Health Boards) are
culpable.

Have received emails from several of the people who attended the
presentation this past week and learned that some parents are also
having heart palpitations and rapid heart rate because of WiFi in the
home. They didn't know this was contributing to their heart problems
and have, since the talk, disconnected their wireless devices.

Why are doctors not better informed? Anyone who suddenly experiences
a heart irregularity should be asked some specific questions about
whether or not they have wireless routers, cordless phones, energy
efficient CFL bulbs, nearby cell towers, etc. as routine questioning.

The heart problem (arrhythmia or tachycardia), which can be easily
measured, may be a very important test for those who are EHS. Please
spread the word and ask your friends if they experience symptoms of an
irregular or racing heart and if they do ask them when it started,
what changed at that time, if it is occassional-when they experience
it and what they are doing about it. The more information we can
gather the more impact it is going to have on school boards. Getting
rid of WiFi is more difficult than preventing it from being allowed
into a school in the first place.

Please distribute this email to your friends and let's get a better
understanding as to how widespread this heart problem is and the
degree to which it relates to wireless technology and electrosmog
exposure.

Thanks for your help,
-magda

p.s. If you or someone you know is experiencing heart problems, which
may be related to electrosmog, please contact me with your symptoms
and your experience and send a copy to: info@safeschool.ca

http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?p=1315

International EMF Conference 2009 Stavanger Norway PhD Henry Lai

2010-06-14T10:26:00.000-07:00

This video is for educational purpose. The video is taken from the International EMF Conference 17th of November 2009 in Stavanger, Norway. Speaker in this video is PhD Henry Lai (USA). The conference was held at Clarion Hotel with several international speakers talking in the subject of EMF-Electromagnetic Fields and radiation. The exposure to electromagnetic radiation has been documented to have major biological effects on living tissue. The exponential increase in the use of wireless technologies will most likely present serious, global public health consequences in the near future. Despite mounting evidence of severe health effects, the scientific facts are generally ignored by most governments. For pure commercial reasons, the Telecom industry continues to refer to outdated and irrelevant safety standards, blissfully endorsed by their respective regulators.

International EMF Conference 2009 Stavanger Norway PhD Henry Lai

International EMF Conference 2009 Stavanger Norway PhD Devra Lee Davis

2010-06-14T10:23:00.000-07:00

International EMF Conference 2009 Stavanger Norway PhD Devra Lee Davis

「電子書包」安全嗎?

2010-06-10T09:51:00.000-07:00

無線上網安全問題-探討電子書包政策「電子書包」安全嗎?

取自台灣電磁輻射公害防治協會

電子書包存在無線上網電磁波安全性、價格昂貴、學童使用視力變差、可能引起城鄉差距等問題，要求教育部應再檢討

針對教育部推動「電子書包」政策，已補助部份學校使用，尤其已從小學開始採用，且此政策已擴及各級學校，預定推動電子書包政策。5月28日由田秋堇立法委員及台灣電磁輻射公害防治協會陳椒華理事長共同召開記者會，提出「電子書包」存在無線上網電磁波安全疑慮、價格昂貴、視力健康、城鄉貧富差距、書寫能力降低等疑慮，要求教育部應再審慎評估並提出安全防範對策。立法委員翁金珠、台灣教師聯盟理事長吳麗慧及余姓家長及小孩亦應邀參加，並現場模擬示範學童使用無線上網電磁波存在情形。

田秋堇立法委員表示，在與台灣電磁輻射公害防治協會合作舉辦使用「電子書包」問卷調查，得出492份問卷中，發現有63.21%表示不贊同「電子書包」政策，而且有73.17%民眾擔心「電子書包」存在無線上網電磁波安全疑慮，所以請教育部應再審慎評估並提出安全防範對策。

台灣電磁輻射公害防治協會陳椒華理事長表示，德國教師團體因無線上網存在電磁波安全疑慮，要求德國學校不要使用無線上網，法國、加拿大、英美等許多學校已全面拆除無線上網IP, 另外，「電子書包」價格昂貴，長期使用學生視力會變差，而且也會使負擔不起的學生產生自卑感，並也易拉大城鄉差距，故未釐清相關疑慮前，不宜由教育部鼓勵推動或擴大補助範圍。

使用「電子書包」無線上網會產生電磁波，就如同使用手機會發出電磁波，我們建議與孕婦同，使用無線上網要以防射頻電磁波之防護布(含超細不鏽鋼金屬纖維混紡織造)防護，重點防護部位為腹部，可阻擋九成以上電磁波；不過兒童頭部離電腦近，頭部難防護，所以建議學童應儘量使用有線上網。

「電子書包」問題：
★★★★★ 安全性：使用無線上網之電磁輻射問題，如何防範
★★ 價格：部份學生買不起，易讓買不起學生產生自卑感
★★ 書寫問題：使用電腦越多、越來越多小學生不願寫字、不會寫字
★★ 視力問題、沉溺問題

槟城医生涂仲仪的忠告！Advice of a Penang Medical Doctor!

2010-04-13T20:32:00.000-07:00

1. medical and scientific evidences of electromagnetic radiation are plenty out there,

2. for those who are very critical and sceptical about the potential adverse health effects from electromagnetic radiation, i humbly recommend them to look into the website of International Commission of Electromagnetic Safety(www.icems.eu)

3. for those who claim until today, the modern medical world is still has not concluded the risk of electromagnetic radiation, perhaps it is crucial to get to know at least Prof Dr Henry Lai of USA, Dr Carlos Sosa, 雷久南博士 pertaining to the studies thy published,

4. for those who look into the above mentioned 3 points, then only it is not difficult to understand why WHO keeps on delaying the results of Interphone Study.

5. for those who understand the history of medical profession getting the world to accept and acknowledge the risk of cigarette smoking and the history of occurrence of Manimata Disease in Japan, it is not so difficult to realize why Electromagnetic Radiation is still considered safe by certain segments of professionals and industrial players.... See More

6. again, i would like to humbly share with you that as far as i know, there isn`t a group which is anti Wifi, but instead there is a group called Electromagneic radiation awareness alliance with the main concern of bringing awareness to the public pertaining to this issue as well as the practical ways to minimize the risk and exposure to electromagnetic radiation.

7. i am keen to interact with those who concern about this issue and keen to learn more for my own knowledge.

tq.
Sun at 3:47pm

雷久南博士关爱生命远离电磁波

2010-04-02T19:25:00.000-07:00

图文摘自光华日报

二零零九年十月二十五日下午十二时三十一分

我们生活中充斥着电磁波，大家视之为伟大发明，却无视于那隐形的伤害。琉璃光养生世界创办人雷久南博士曾说过，地球上人为的电磁波，已经是100年前的100万倍，我们身上的生物钟是依日夜光线的改变、24小时地球磁场的变化运作的，但是电灯产生了人为的光，电磁波干扰大脑腺体、直接影响人类接收地球磁场。所以人类体内的生物钟受到破坏，身心的内分泌混乱，自然衍生出疾病。她说，人类必须取舍生活中会散发电磁波之物，舍下一些给你一时方便的东西，你将会得到更多的生命能量。

频用手机危害胚胎

电磁波甚至是目前大家说的“草莓族”之肇因之一，雷博士表示，在妈妈们怀孕胚胎成长过程，妈妈如常生活，频密使用手机，也照样用无线网络上网，小小胚胎在妈妈的子宫里头就吸收了辐射，因此中枢神经系统特别衰弱，抗压的能力也不强。

除了怀孕者频密使用电子器材会危害子宫里的胚胎，周遭人们若也在怀孕者附近使用手机等，也会造成不可磨灭的伤害。博士举了一个实例说，有些男子会透过手机，拨电给怀孕的妻子，希望她把手机贴近肚皮，让他可以和未出生的孩子说说话，他不知道，这行为如同在谋杀孩子，就曾有个婴儿一出生就没有耳朵，肇因就是婴儿的父母在他还是胚胎时，用手机发射出的电磁波伤害了他，致使他没有健全的身体。

目前很多家长都给孩子买手机，以便随时联络上孩子，博士表示，小孩子的脑部尚未发育完全，吸收辐射的数量是成人的4倍。其实孩子没手机可用，就可避免受电磁波侵害。她语重心长地说，父母千万不要贪一时方便，而断了下一代的生路。

但是话说回头，现代人若要远离手机和无线网络，一般人都似乎说易行难，而手机和无线网络的覆盖范围越来越广，博士说，我们只能实践自我保护方法，如使用可防止电磁波、微波干扰，帮助调时差并可保护及修复生命场、提升能量的色彩精油、电源磁化能量片等等。

适时舍掉“方便”

科技日新月异，但是却间接地一直在伤害着人体。雷久南博士说，我们和大自然脱节了，是时候慢下脚步，看看生活里什么是重要的，什么是不重要的，电子产品给予生活起居很大的方便，但是人们必须适时舍掉“方便”，以免付出很大的代价。

她表示不是要大家回到远古时代过原始生活，而是希望人们可折衷衡量使用电子器材，无线的物品就是释放辐射的物品，大家将家中所有无线设施改为有线，如无线家用电话改为有线、无线上网设施改为有线上网，这些举动均有一定的防护作用。

她建议人们应思考生命的价值究竟是什么，她说，目前地球处在过度期，要从一个旧地球走向新地球，目前天灾不断，这是个考验，我们所做的一切都要以爱出发，爱护地球，不能再自私自利，如我们再不反思，大自然会反扑，地球会淘汰人类。

推广有机农耕

人为因素如化肥、杀草剂、杀虫剂、水源污染等，已经造成我们的粮食充满不良的因子。雷博士的一篇文章就提到，第一次世界大战期间，英国为了提高粮食生产量，大量生产生长剂，配合化肥施进农地。人类智慧学创始人史丹勒(Rudolf Steiner)博士当时曾说，吃此粮食的人短期看不出有什么不好，但他们的下一代神经系统会变衰弱，他多次强调农业上的问题经常在第二、三代才出现，但那时并不知问题的根源。

极力推广有机农耕的雷久南博士来到大马，特别关切大马的农业，她说，有机农耕的农夫也是在执行一项慈善事业，让人们吃到没有农药的蔬菜，她希望我国的政府机关和社区团体也能够护持以及关注自然农耕，因为我们不能继续再制造神经系统脆弱的下一代。

多跟农人沟通

她在一篇著作上有提到，在美国，已经很多人选择到农人市场购买没有农药的蔬菜，还可以直接跟农人沟通接触。雷博士也在文内教导我们一个可行的方法，即把消费者组织起来，直接与有意改变种有机蔬菜的农人约好，包销他们的蔬菜。那么他们也不必担心种不出菜来或没有人买他们的菜。在美国，这种利用社区力量来支援农人有机耕种的方式取得相当不错的成效。

有人一直以有机农耕的蔬果售价比一般蔬果昂贵，对此，雷博士简洁却又一针见血地指出，有机耕种出来的蔬果，营养成分比任何药物都好，售价也比药物便宜呢！

我们很难透过身体感官，去感觉电磁波的存在，什么是电磁波？电磁场是以“波”的形式产生辐射，它存在于我们周遭，电脑、手机、无线网络等等，都释放大量的电磁波，但是由于人们看不到一个实体，很多人对于电磁波是不是真的对健康有害，一直存有怀疑，甚至不愿相信电磁波会对人体造成伤害。

因应马来西亚琉璃光养生世界与《光华日报》联办，槟城菩提国民型华文中学家教协会协办的雷久南“回归灵性的喜悦”讲座会，琉璃光养生世界创办人雷久南博士来到了睽违10年的槟岛，近年来不断地向人们提供电磁波和无线电波对人、对动物和对大自然伤害的资讯的雷博士，殷切地希望马来西亚人也能关照自己的健康，别再让无形的杀手毁灭生命。

伤害中枢神经系统

一般民众不知道，收发功能越好的手机，辐射也越高频，雷博士说，近年来提供无线上网之公共场所骤速增长，手机网络覆盖的层面也越来越广阔，因此，人体全身上下都在吸收这些辐射，严重伤害了中枢神经系统，长期下来，中枢神经系统就会崩溃。

雷博士表示，辐射不止会伤害身心，还会把灵感和创意给消灭掉。她举例说，我们常常可以看见一群在天空翱翔的候鸟，在经过电磁波发射台时，突然集体往下冲撞，人们以为这异象是集体自杀，但是事实是，鸟类的脑袋里有一指引方向的磁片，磁片被电磁波干扰，鸟儿突然失去方向，才会作出如此异常的行为。

人类也一样，脑内也有个指引方向的磁片，她说，我们每天频密使用手机、无线网络，可是我们真的可以消化这么多资讯吗？况且在使用这些物品时，我们人体也直接吸收了大量电磁波，当电磁波干扰了脑内的指引针，内在的灵感和指引都消失了。

干扰了灵感和创意

她说，人体就是一根天线，人只是在小宇宙里生活，而灵感的来源就来自大宇宙，人体就是接收灵感的媒介体。当我们的天线失灵，就无法再产生灵感或创意。有研究显示，电磁波特强的办公室，员工也特别没有创意。雷博士也有个切身经验，她曾住在近电磁波很强的区域，那段时间没办法写作，一点灵感也没有，她只好到公园去写作，这就是一个很好的例证。现在很多人躲在办公室，和一堆电子仪器共聚一室，猛说没灵感，其实归根究底，就是太多电磁波干扰。

大马成天灾袭击对象

近年来，鲜少受天灾袭击的大马，也因为人类大量侵犯破坏大自然后，成为天灾的袭击对象之一，海啸、余震，这些祖辈都不曾听过遇过的景况，全都在这几年间实实在在地在国内发生，也让原本在安逸羽翼下生活的国人，犹如惊弓之鸟，一有余震，大家就怕海啸再来袭。

雷久南博士说，灾难过后，很多人受了惊吓，不清除这些惊吓的意念，会“吸引”更多惊吓的情绪，人的心念像个吸铁石，如果小时候受过创伤惊吓，接下来就会吸引更多类似的感觉。她教导说，人们如果受惊吓，左右双手交叉环抱自己，轻拍自己，那犹如母亲在孩子受惊时轻拍孩子背部般的感觉，会使情绪得到抒解。

雷博士也教导易学且颇有效果的“眼球转动法”，来舒缓不安定的情绪。首先，眼睛顺时钟转3次，然后再向左转（逆时钟）转多次，直到情绪得到抒解。还有借着深呼吸，把呼吸频率拉慢，也是舒缓情绪的好方法。

简介：

琉璃光养生世界创办人。毕业于麻省理工学院，她取得化学博士后，随及进入德州大学癌症中心，以10年的心血，致力于癌症的预防与治疗，并在1991年于加州创立琉璃光养生中心。

雷博士提倡身心灵整体健康，强调整体健康根源于整个地球的健康，倡导环境生态的保健，自然资源的爱惜，以及有机农业的推广。让‘地球人’重新享有清新的空气，纯净的水源，甜美安全的鲜果蔬菜。每年定期在大马、美国、中港台及新加坡等地巡回演讲，将整体健康的种籽散布到世界各地。

Parents threaten to remove children from Formby school over Wi-Fi installation

2009-11-17T06:53:00.000-08:00

Article in http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk
Oct 21 2009 by Lyndsay Young, Liverpool Daily Post

PARENTS have vowed to take their children out of a Merseyside school if Wi-Fi laptops are installed.

They fear their children will be exposed to “emissions” from the 50 new wireless computers at Woodlands primary school, in Formby.

A petition signed by 32 parents was gathered against the equipment, which is set to be installed in the next week.

Phil Hughes, 58, a homeopath, said he selected Woodlands primary for his daughter Serena, nine, because there are no mobile phone masts nearby.

He said he will take his daughter out of the school if Wi-Fi is installed.

Mr Hughes is calling on staff to meet with parents before the equipment is put in place.

He said: “We have evidence in our possession showing there are levels of danger with Wi-Fi.

“We wanted a meeting to put our case to other parents. You cannot make a decision if you have not got all of the information.Parents should at least be informed.”

Andrea O’Shaughnessy, 39, and her husband William, 35, also vowed to take their two children out of the school and want laptops to be hardwired instead.

She said: “We decided we will take them out if Wi-Fi does go in.

“We believe it emits radiation and my fear is they would be around that for six hours a day, whether it is low level or not.

“It could show in 10 years’ time, when they get a brain tumour or some kind of cancer.

“They put asbestos in schools years ago and said it was safe, and it is only just coming out now it is not.”

你割咗未啊@千萬別割

2009-10-30T23:37:00.000-07:00

文摘自
http://teongee.blogspot.com/2009/10/blog-post_31.html
2009年10月31日

你割咗未啊？的廣告主題，沒有出乎意料地，受到某些人以‘意識不良’為理由而做出抗議。周美芬開聲嗆了。但王國慧（檳州行政議員）卻認為這則廣告沒有什么不妥。兩人恰巧皆是“巾幗英雌”。這個隱藏著要割掉男人那一片皮的廣告，怎么沒有男人出來說上兩句話呢？

說的也是，這種隱隱約約的廣告說詞，就算是吵個三天三夜，我看也吵不出一個所以然來。淫穢與否，有時還得讓衛道人士或圣人賢者來作出評論。就像當年，一些組織和機關提倡使用安全套來預防致命的性病時，有些人便大力鞭撻，說這會是在鼓勵性愛自由，有違東方價值觀念。

用那片包皮來傳達訊息，這回也不是頭一遭。不久前，15Malaysia 的錄影短片里頭的 Potong Saga 也借用了這片包皮娛樂了不少國民。Yasmin Ahmad 在幾年前的一則廣告短片，也用了這包皮來傳達國民親善諒解的精神，感動了不少人。

在這里我們就談割不割。但不是談割包皮，而是談，割不割傳統的有線網絡連線（ landline internet connection）。無線上網用的是電磁波。這電磁波和手提電話、家用無線電話和電訊塔的電磁波的性質是一樣的。國際電磁波輻射專業組織，至今發現有越來越多的危害健康的病例。但是，在一個科技是潮流、商業集團有力量的社會，就連應該如何小心和正確的使用，涉及電磁波輻射科技的勸告和注意事項也不受重視。

為了方便而盲目的使用無線上網科技，尤其是毫無節制地24小時暴露在電磁波輻射里，到時不單單只是割不割皮的小事，而是連“蛋”都會熟去。周美芬和王國慧應該更關注這一點。

抽煙和無線上網

2009-09-18T18:15:00.000-07:00

文摘自光明日报专栏(作者：陈建业)

檳州政府揚言要把檳州打造成無煙州，近日來積極推廣各項禁煙運動，如擴大禁煙區、取締在禁煙區抽煙的煙客、鼓勵公務員參加戒煙課程等。

眾所週知，禁煙是一項不簡單的任務，我國政府多年來馬不停蹄禁煙，每年調高煙酒稅，如今更在煙盒外印上恐怖圖案，但都無法有效禁煙。

雖然科學研究已經證明抽煙危害健康，但是世界各國都不能做到全面禁煙，因為禁煙涉及侵犯個人自由的問題。檳州衛生委員會主席彭文寶也說，雖然當局要嚴厲執法，但是也必須顧及抽煙者的人權。

在民主的社會裡，每個人都享有個人自由，這包括選擇的自由，不管他的選擇是對或錯。雖然吸煙危害健康是事實，但是每個人還是有權力選擇要不要抽煙。

有人或許提出政府應該為了人民的健康著想而禁止人民抽煙，如果這說法成立的話，那政府也應該為了人民的健康著想而禁止人民喝汽水，或吃零食。

當然，有人會舉出二手煙損害其他人的健康。當一個人的行為已經對他人造成傷害時，政府就有干涉的理由。這也是各國政府都在做的事，包括檳州政府，就是不斷擴大禁煙區，但是為了尊重個人自由，則會增設抽煙區，讓煙客可以在不危害他人健康的前提來行使他們的自由權力。

我們在禁煙課題上知道如何尊重煙客的個人自由，為何在推行全檳無線寬頻上網計劃上卻沒有尊重不要無線寬頻者的個人自由呢？

檳州民聯政府想要推行全檳無線上網計劃，但這計劃受到少部份市民的反對，提出無線寬頻危害健康。檳州政府舉出科學證據表明無線寬頻對人體無害來回應。

這情況就像禁煙課題，雖然有科學證據證明抽煙危害健康，但是仍然有很多煙客選擇照抽不誤，這是他們的個人自由。

在全檳無線上網的課題上，同樣也有很多科學證據證明無線寬頻對健康無害，但是也同樣有一批人選擇不要被無線寬頻籠罩，這應該是他們的個人自由。

我們可以尊重煙客抽煙的自由，為何不能尊重人民不要無線寬頻的自由呢？

反對全檳無線上網計劃運動，其實與無線寬頻對健康有沒有害無關，因為這只會陷入永無止休的爭論。這只是州內一些人民在要求政府尊重他們不想被無線寬頻籠罩的自由權力。

檳州政府可以提出千萬個無線寬頻多好的理由，但是有些人就是不想被無線寬頻籠罩。在這方面，檳州政府應該仿傚設立禁煙區的作法，在檳州打造沒有無線寬頻籠罩的無無線寬頻區（Wifi Free Zone），讓那些不想要無線寬頻的人民可以享有選擇的自由。

煙客要抽煙可以去抽煙區，人民不要無線寬頻要去哪裡呢？

Wi-fi - Why I Don`t Think It`s as Safe as We are Led to Believe

2009-09-05T07:21:00.000-07:00

Article in http://bluejeansblog.com

August 30th, 2009 . Posted in blue jean

I spend several hours each day on my computer and I must admit I often feel very "weird".

When I explained my symptoms other than family members, which I dismissed as neurotic and mood when I get my bio Guard hanging on the neck to protect from electromagnetic fields.

If I use my cell phone to the left side of my face burning, my tongue and lips Tingle, I feel a tightness in the chest, as if I can not breathe well and gives me a strange pain in my left temple. I also feel sick and disoriented.

I get the same effect if I use my computer for any length of time, especially if I'm in the room where we installed Wi-Fi frame. For those unfamiliar with Wi-Fi stands for Wireless Fidelity and is a means by which people with laptops can move and still be able to access the Internet.

We used to use a cable broadband, but because there are three people who sometimes want to be on a team at the same time, we have found wireless.

But last night on TV there was a Wi-Fi program. that made me sit up and take notice, because we have some others who have experienced the same problems.

It seems likely that I suffer from electro sensitivity. Of course, I suspected for a long time, so I wear protective bio, but I've never done a wireless link established earlier. I always thought it was the computer.

In Sweden, the problem is recognized as an official disability and affects approximately 3% of the population. If a similar figure exists in the UK, I have about 2 million other women. It is therefore strange that the government now insists there are none.

I think not.

Of course, my skepticism might be because I have been personally affected by two procedures that the government also insists that they are "safe". I've written books on these two issues so I can say no - at least not now.

Both mercury from dental amalgams and maternal mortality are controversial issues and, despite the fact that affect millions of people around the world, the government insists that all evidence is "anecdotal".

Who am I to argue?

However, the government based on international guidelines in preparing their statements and the World Health Organization (WHO), which are a major public health organizations around the world have said that, provided that such Wi-FI and the radiation emitted by mobile phone masts, there is "no adverse health effects from exposure to low level long term."

Not me.

After all, how do they know? I'm certainly no expert, but WiFi and mobile phones is relatively new, so do not think anyone has lived, from the cradle to the grave to be exposed to substances that pose the question - What is the duration of the long exposure long term?

Again the experiments in Sweden have been conducted using the lower levels of radiation emitted by wi-fi and the result was the chromosomal damage, a decrease in short-term memory, electro hypersensitivity and increased cancer.

I met in the program that government guidelines are somewhat influenced by the industry and are based on the effect of "heat" instead of "biological effects" of these radio waves.

This means that in fact their bodies are heated before they can be considered dangerous enough to require restrictions on its use.

In most cities you can find Wi-Fi, where you can use your computer. Most people have no idea when they walk along they are exposed to radiation.

Even when I turn on my home computer, I said I'm in the range of different wireless connections than mine so clearly that I am not sure on the inside either. Infact when I was still connected to broadband internet through my neighbor came round with his laptop and was able to connect via Wi-Fi next door!

At the time I thought it was fantastic. None!

In schools also, it is increasingly common to install wireless networks, and currently about 70% of secondary and 50% of primary schools.

Now, parents express concern about the potential long-term health of their children. After all their skulls are thinner and still forming and until there is conclusive evidence of the contrary, "there are no known health effects" is not very reassuring statement.

Protests are held regularly in the establishment of mobile phone masts near schools, but most people do not WI-FI is equally dangerous. Apparently, the United Kingdom, where this program was produced (2007) had 3,000 points Wi-Fi and 50,000 mobile towers for mobile telephony.

On the agenda of a radiation monitor is placed near a laptop in a classroom in almost exact position on the head of a student. The result was that the student was exposed to 3 to 4 times more radiation than not stood in the main beam of a mobile phone mast.

Afraid, huh?

People have the option of using a mobile phone, but wireless networks in classrooms to delete this personal decision. The programmers did not say what level of exposure would not be any time but especially during downloads. However, as most people use computers for Internet access, which could very likely that a considerable amount of time.

Despite all this evidence "anecdotal," the government still insist on WI-FI is safe. Until the adverse health effects have been created in a laboratory and science can not prove that there is a risk that is likely to remain in place.

I think not. Do you?

I’m allergic to wi-fi waves

2009-07-27T00:17:00.000-07:00

Torture ... wi-fi makes Steve Miller ill

Aricle on http://www.thesun.co.uk

By DAVE MASTERS
Published: 24 Jul 2009

FOR Steve Miller a trip to his local High Street is a living hell that makes him sick, dizzy and confused.

Pubs make him feel the same and he can't use trains, airports or hotels without experiencing head-banging agony.

But Steve doesn't suffer from some strange phobia. He is allergic to wi-fi.

And sadly for him - and the other two per cent of the population with Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity - the number of people pumping out the wireless internet signal is on the rise.

Steve said: "I feel like an exile on my own planet. It's almost impossible to find somewhere without wi-fi nowadays.

"If I fancy a pint I have to travel three miles to the only pub in my area that doesn't have it. I can't just go to the shops because huge parts of the High Street affect me.

"If I go somewhere, I can instantly sense the wi-fi and have to leg it."

Being extra-sensitive to this "electrosmog" has made moving house a nightmare for Steve, as stray signals from neighbouring buildings could make him ill.

It has also cost the top DJ thousands of pounds in lost income.

Steve, who had a residency at huge Ibiza club Pacha before his allergy, said: "I've missed out on loads of European DJ gigs as I can't find accommodation without wi-fi. Most hotels have it, as have all the airports. I can't even catch a train because they have it."

Steve is safe in his current home, a detached house in a village near Falmouth, Cornwall, as it is isolated and has 18in-thick granite walls.

But since he and girlfriend Linda decided to move, it has been hard to find anywhere remote enough to avoid signals.

Steve said: "I can't live within 50 yards of anyone. I wouldn't be able to stand it feeling ill in my own house.

"There's no medication you can take."

Steve - better known to clubbing fans as Afterlife - now carries a wi-fi detector with him wherever he goes so he can avoid problem areas.

Steve only realised he suffered from the condition two years ago after turning up at a mate's studio that had recently installed wi-fi.

He and his pal were both feeling ill with headaches and dizziness and struggling to concentrate so they turned off the machine to see if they felt better... and they did.

Steve said: "Some of my friends, or members of their family, are equally affected by wi-fi but are only just starting to notice as its use spreads.

Headaches

"Even now there's very little education about it."

There is no hard evidence that wi-fi is dangerous to your health.

But just three months ago teachers called for it to be banned in schools over health fears, and for a Government investigation into the biological and thermal effects.

A couple of years ago the German government even urged people to avoid wi-fi in favour of "conventional wired connections". Steve believes the issue needs looking into and that many people are suffering from his condition without realising.
He added: "I certainly believe most of the headaches people get at work are caused by it.

"I've spoken to friends who work in offices who have ended up living on painkillers because of their daily headaches. They tried turning off their transmitters and found their headaches stopped.

"There's a lot of anecdotal evidence that the radiation has made people feel ratty and tired, caused disrupted sleep, rows and even the break-up of relationships.
"I'd advise people to turn off their wi-fi at home and see if it changes the way they feel. They just might get a surprise."

退后原來是向前

2009-06-23T23:46:00.000-07:00

article in http://teongee.blogspot.com
2009年6月17日

上周提到武吉安滿村三埃采金的爭論。既得利益集團、受影響村民和立法者的糾纏。當問題得用科學的根據來下定論時，問題便產生了。那是因為科學有它的盲點、有它的不足。既得利益集團常常以一句“沒有具體的科學根據”，四兩撥千斤的擺脫受影響的百姓的哭訴。

這便是一個名副其實的濫用科學之名來達到私利的典型例子。進一步的思考“沒有具體的科學根據來證明有危害”這句話的同時，也意味著“沒有具體的科學根據來證明絕對安全”。在還存著爭論的事件上，人民的利益，尤其是健康，應該是不能被妥協或輕視的。

科學根據真的那樣的難以得到嗎？學醫和學科學的都懂，科學的研究是需要時間、經費和人力資源的。科學研究的結果不是賭場里的開盤，非大則是小（不是黑便是白），常常里頭便硬是有個灰色地帶。科學研究更不是煮快熟麵。涉及的研究范疇包括了在子宮內（in utero）、在活體內（in vivo）、在體外（in vitro）和流行病學（epidemiology）。

一位在國外生活的網友對我說，在西方國家，沒有明言可以碰的工業，你最好別碰。不然會被環保團體、衛權份子，搞到你傾家蕩產。而在發展中國家，沒說不可以做的，你就可以放手一搏。搭通天地線，自有護航者為你開路。在發展中國家，主流思想是“發展是硬道理”。誰反對發展，誰便是阻止國家進步繁榮，誰便是斷人衣食。因為這樣的刻板思維，很多時候我們的基本權益便被擱置在一旁。

因為三埃采金事件的爭論，我想到一群默默的在面對著電磁波輻（electromagnetic fields）的危害而做出努力的非政府組織的成員。這個名為“電磁波輻射醒覺運動”的組織自動自發的給人民提供有關電磁波輻射危害的訊息和如何的減低有關輻射對人體所帶來的負面影響。

對于這個手提電話、電訊塔、家用無線電話和無線上網（WiFi）所涉及的電磁波輻射，幾乎所有的使用者都不認為它會對人體帶來危害。一部份的人認為，若是有危害的話，政府或是業者一定把它給禁了。再說，似乎從來沒有媒體真正的傳達過有關電磁波輻射危害的訊息。因為大多數人的主觀成見和不積極探索新知識，很多時候大多數人，尤其是知識份子，常常妄下定論。

我從這個組織的負責人拿來一大疊的資料。接觸了幾位國際上研究電磁波輻射的學者和專家、翻閱了許多的研究報告、接觸了受電磁波輻射影響的電磁波敏感群，才驚覺這個我每天都在接觸和使用的科技，我對它的認識是這么的有限。尤其是防范和安全措施的知識，近乎等于零。

今天幾乎所有城鎮的每個角落，電訊塔林立。仿佛一百巴仙的無線電話的涵蓋率便是一項成就、便是步向先進國的象征。政府都很寬容業者，總是讓業者在低障礙下設立它們的電訊塔。如今政府打著縮短城市和鄉鎮數碼知識的鴻溝，大力推廣和落實全州無線上網。今天我們居住的四周布滿著了其實可以用有線電話和有線上網來減少的電磁波輻射。

我一直在強調，孩童生活和學習的地方，尤其是學校、圖書館、病老者養病的地方、我們休閑和運動的公園與忙碌了一整天後歇息的住家，其實不需要也不適合被這個電磁波輻射每天24小時的籠罩著。

當西方國家漸漸的將電訊塔和無線上網發射器搬離學校和密集的住宅區時，我們卻打著朝向先進之名將全州給籠罩在電磁波輻射底下。我想到這首禪詩：手把青秧插野田，低頭方見水中天，六根俱靜方為道，退后原來是向前！

School Wi-Fi Campaign:Hérouville-Saint-Clair freed from wi-fi microwave radiation at 2450 MHz

2009-05-20T22:26:00.000-07:00

A Council technician takes away the first wi-fi antenna

The first wi-fi antenna removed is handed over symbolically to the mayor Rodolphe Thomas

29 04 2009:
The mayor of the second largest city in Calvados
is removing the wi-fi network from local schools.

School Wi-Fi Campaign:Removal of all the wi-fi antennas
Replacement with Exthernet wired connections

Hérouville-Saint-Clair freed from wi-fi microwave radiation at 2450 MHz

Furthers link http://www.next-up.org/France/Calvados.php#1

Holland: Doctors issue an appeal against radiation risks

2009-05-08T00:06:00.000-07:00

Article in next-up.org

Holland:
Doctors issue an appeal against radiation risks:
"Reduce exposure to ElectroMagnetic Fields"

On 8 April 2009, 50 doctors presented an appeal to Dutch political
leaders and government health authorities at The Hague.

On the basis of their experience and observations, they call for
measures to be taken to minimise exposure to artificial radiation from
electromagnetic fields.

The signatories note a general increase in serious medical conditions
of unidentified origin. This increase in health problems and illness
parallels the explosive increase in exposure to radiation from
electromagnetic fields in the environment.

This appeal is a request to reduce exposure to these artificial fields
and a plea for a more careful use of electrical and wireless
technologies. In addition it calls for a policy based on independent
research and expert opinions published in international scientific
journals.

The signatories are all doctors, general practitioners, medical
scientists and specialists.

Among them is the general practitioner Dr Liesbeth Adriaansens, who
recounts some of the cases from her practice. More evidence comes
from a patient who describes the symptoms they have suffered as a
result of exposure to electromagnetic fields.

The symptoms that patients and scientists ascribe to low and high
frequency electromagnetic fields include palpitations, problems with
concentration and memory, headaches, fatigue, stress, sleep
disturbances and so on. These sometimes improve with simple
measures such as replacing a cordless DECT telephone by one with
a wired connection. Some scientists link electromagnetic exposure to
a risk of Alzheimer's disease and cancer. The commonest sources of
electromagnetic fields are relay antennas, wi-fi, cordless phones,
electric wires, etc.

Given that there is still no adequate information on the health hazards
of EMFs available to the public, in spite of the mounting accumulation
of scientific proof, the Dutch organisations the National Platform on
Radiation Risks, the Foundation for the Electro-hypersensitive and
the Report on Environmental Health and Telephones for Children
have decided to publish in the near future an information booklet on
'Using a mobile phone safely'.

For more information:
Alex Swinkels – Dutch National Platform Radiation Risks
T. : +31-181-785587, .
info@stralingsrisicos.nl, www.stralingsrisicos.nl

Dr. J-P. Mossink and Dr. Liesbeth
Adriaansens during the presentation of
the Appeal to the media.

The mayor of the second largest city in Calvados is going to remove the wi-fi network from local schools.

2009-05-06T02:19:00.000-07:00

Article in
www.next-up.org

27 April 2009

The mayor of the second largest city in Calvados is
going to remove the wi-fi network from local schools.

HEROUVILLE-SAINT-CLAIR (AFP) — The town council of Hérouville-Saint-Clair (Calvados-Normandy) is going to remove the wi-fi network (wireless Internet) in its schools before the end of the year, it announced on Monday, four days after the launch of the "Radiation Round Table" in Paris.

"We are going to apply the precautionary principle. Our
job is to protect people's health," declared the mayor
Rodolphe Thomas during a press conference.

In this new town of 24,000 inhabitants situated on the
outskirts of Caen, the wi-fi network has provided local
schools with a wireless connection to the Internet, via the
town hall. The dozen sites concerned will now have
independent Internet access.

In addition the Council are going to finance ten or more
measurements of electromagnetic fields in the town, at a
total cost of 4-5000 euros, added Laurent Mata, chief
deputy mayor in charge of sustainable development.

The intention is to change or relocate certain antennas if
the radiation is too intense. "We'll take them to court" if the
phone companies refuse to do this, affirmed M. Mata.

The mayor of Hérouville-Saint-Clair, Rodolphe Thomas

In September Hérouville Saint-Clair is going to launch a
campaign about the precautions to take to protect oneself
from radiation, aimed at the general public, the telecom
operators and the landlords "who receive 1500-2500
euros per month for the rent of the roof where the relay
antenna is installed", according to M. Mata. He estimates
that overall these plans will cost the town 15,000 euros.

Criirem (Centre for research and independent information
on electromagnetic radiation), which claims to be the only
independent organisation taking measurements of
electromagnetic fields, has indicated that about 20 town
and city councils in France have asked them to carry out
assessments of this kind.

A relay antenna installed on the roof of an apartment
building in Hérouville-Saint-Clair (Calvados) 27 04 2009

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Untested technology

2009-04-25T22:45:00.000-07:00

Article in http://www.wiredchild.org

Untested technology

Cordless phones, Wi-fi, digital baby monitors and other wireless products have become ubiquitous. While their health effects are largely untested, there have been numerous studies of the effects of the electro-magnetic radiation emitted from these devices. All scientists agree that this radiation is dangerous at high levels but it is hoped that the low levels emitted from these household devices are safe. We are not convinced.

Radiation 24/7

The levels of radiation emitted from mobile and cordless phones on standby, and of wi-fi routers, digital baby monitors and bluetooth are a fraction of those of a mobile or cordless phone in use on a call. But this does not mean they are safer.

The radiation exposure from wireless products is a "chronic" exposure, constantly at a low level rather than short bursts of high power. There is evidence that this type of exposure might be more damaging in the long-term. It is thought that when the body first experiences a new source of radiation, it reacts by strengthening its immune defences, but then the immune system begins to weaken progressively as the radiation exposure continues. Read more at http://www.wiredchild.org/sciencealias/43-what-the-science-tells-us/69-health-effects-.html

There is evidence that long-term chronic exposure to electro-magnetic radiation has a range of health effects. We also know that children are more vulnerable than adults.

The German and French governments have advised against the use of wireless products like wi-fi and cordless (DECT) phones at home. Read more at http://www.wiredchild.org/government-alias.html#Germany

A phone mast in your home?

The clearest evidence that this day-in-day-out low-level exposure might be dangerous is from the studies of the health effects of mobile phone masts. Two studies have shown significantly increased levels of cancers amongst those living within a few hundred meters of a mobile phone mast. Other studies have demonstrated a host of other symptoms linked with exposure to mobile phone mast radiation. One study has shown directly that wi-fi can affect children's cognitive skills like memory, attention and reaction time.

The radiation exposure from a wi-fi router at 5 meters' distance, a cordless DECT phone base unit at 3 meters' distance, or digital baby monitor at less than 1 meter are all experienced at roughly the same level as a mobile phone mast only 150 meters away. If any of these are closer, for example if you sleep with a cordless phone next to the bed, it is equivalent in radiation terms to being only about 50 meters away from a mast. Read more at http://www.wiredchild.org/parents/58-which-products-are-most-dangerous.html

There is now much annecdotal evidence of people experiencing symptoms in the short term, like headaches, nausea, dizziness and loss of concentration. Read more... For this reason, some government and public bodies have stopped the introduction of wi-fi in some public places and schools.

Read more about the health effects of cordless (DECT) phones at http://www.emfacts.com/papers/dect.pdf...

Wifi may be more damaging to some people than mobile phones...

Cumulative exposure

Even if the power level of one wireless router or computer is small, a child's environment may include many of these devices at once. Radiation exposure from a wi-fi system comes from the router and each of the computers. A cordless DECT phone emits radiation from the base stations and the handsets. A mobile phone on standby, or worse on a call, also adds to the radiation "load".

At school, a set of wirelessly connected computers in a classroom is known to result in exposures much higher than one computer being used alone. The radiiation level has been found to be equivalent to being in the main beam of a mobile phone mast (which official guidelines state should not fall on school grounds without the consent of parents and the school). In 2007 a BBC Panorama programme found that the readings next to a classroom laptop showed radiation at double the level experienced only 100 metres from a mobile phone mast. This exposure from wi-fi is additional to mobile phones, cordless DECT phones and bluetooth used around the children in schools.

So at any one time a child may be exposed to cumulative levels of radiation much higher than each product emits alone. They may be exposed constantly at school and at home, even when asleep.

Formative exposure

This exposure generally starts young and continues throughout children's lives. Children are now being exposed to wireless products from a very early age and often throughout their developing childhood and teenage years. This is experimental - no-one has any idea of the cumulative effect of such long-term exposure starting at such a formative age.

We know from the scientific studies relating to mobile phones that children are more vulnerable to this type of radiation, absorbing more radiation than adults through their thinner skulls. Given the many studies that show this radiation could be very dangerous, do we not have a duty to protect children from the possibly serious future health effects of this exposure?

Read about the dangers of mobile phones at http://www.wiredchild.org/sciencealias/43-what-the-science-tells-us/66--what-the-science-tells-us-mobile-phones.html

Read more about children's greater vulnerability at http://www.wiredchild.org/sciencealias/43-what-the-science-tells-us/66--what-the-science-tells-us-mobile-phones.html#children

Read more about this global experiment at http://www.wiredchild.org/sciencealias/43-what-the-science-tells-us/59-children-as-guinea-pigs.html

Re: Free wireless Internet plan remains in limbo

2009-04-25T22:26:00.000-07:00

Letter by Carl Katz to the Editor in Vancouver Courier on Wi-Fi Projects

To the Editor:
Re: Free wireless Internet plan remains in limbo, April 10

I am astounded that our city councilors are still trying to find a way
to roll out Wi-Fi in pubic buildings without considering the emerging
body of science that is saying that Wi-Fi represents a considerable
health risk.

I have heard those in favour of pubic Wi-Fi cite the World Health
Organization (WHO) and Health Canada (who bases their radiation safety
guidelines on the WHO’s guidelines) and as two public bodies that say
Wi-Fi is safe and falls within their safety guidelines. In reality, Wi-
Fi does fall within these guidelines, however there are the following
important points to consider:

Health Canada’s Safety Code Six is based on thermal guidelines. It
allows human tissue to increase in temperature by one degree Celsius
over a six minute period when exposed to microwave radiation. All the
deleterious health effects from microwave radiation that are
documented in current peer reviewed research occur at levels thousands
of times lower than Safety Code Six. Some of these health effects
include headaches, dizziness, cognitive difficulties, sleep
disturbances and unexplained anxiety. At a biological level, leakage
in the blood-brain barrier, DNA breakage, and disruption in
intracellular communication have all been documented.
If you watch the BBC Panorama episode “Wi-Fi: A Warning Signal” at
mastsanity.org, you will hear Sir William Stewart, U.K.'s top
scientist and former science adviser to Margaret Thatcher and Tony
Blair saying the WHO is wrong about safe levels of non-ionizing
radiation and that the whole basis of their safety limits are
inadequate to protect the population, especially our children.

Ditto for the German government, who in 2007 warned all citizens not
to use Wi-Fi. Then there are Doctors Gerd Oberfeld and Henry Lai, who
are world renowned for their research into electromagnetic radiation
and biological effects - they both said they would pull their children
out of any school that had Wi-Fi. Professor Olle Johansson of the
world renowned Karolinska institute in Sweden, has found biological
effects at radiation levels lower than those associated with Wi-Fi.
In 2002, following research on wireless radiation in the ‘90’s, the
global insurance industry pulled liability coverage for the health
effects from wireless technology. Given that insurance companies
quantify risks and then associate a dollar value on that risk, this
represents a huge liability issue for cities, school boards and anyone
who rolls out wireless technologies – they are virtually uninsured.

Last December, in an effort to improve traffic flow for buses by
wirelessly controlling traffic signals, Translink rolled out a Wi-Fi
network along Main Street from 57th Avenue all the way downtown, with
no public consultation or transparency. This Wi-Fi network subjects
all residents and businesses along Main street to radiation without
their awareness or consent. Now there is serious talk of putting Wi-Fi
into all community centres in Vancouver, which will expose our
children, the employees and the general public - all the while schools
all over Europe are pulling out Wi-Fi based on the aforementioned
warnings. Lakehead university in Thunder Bay has held off on
implementing campus-wide Wi-Fi for the same reasons.

City council and the city of Vancouver must take a step back and look
at independent the body of research that is clearly saying we may have
a huge public health problem in the future. For the sake of our
children and all our citizens, the City of Vancouver must apply the
Precautionary Principle, and hold off on implementing this technology.
Anything less would be irresponsible.

Carl Katz
Vancouver

電磁波敏感症-生理傷害

2009-04-23T18:39:00.000-07:00

文取自：台灣電磁輻射公害防治協會

電磁波過敏症問卷

Posted: 22 Apr 2009 07:55 PM PDT

問卷說明：下面問卷可測試您是否有電磁波敏感症狀，有25題問題，請仔細思考您曾經遭受過這些電磁波過敏症狀，如您有遭受過下列情況症狀，如是—“經常，得2分”, “偶而，得1分”，”不曾，得0分”，把每題得分寫在括號內，統計總分，判定是否有電磁波敏感症狀。

評分標準：
( )1.四肢或關節有感到麻木、軟弱或刺痛：經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )2.不能從日常生活作息去解釋不正常的疲憊或軟弱：經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )3.依據您個人的位置，會影響日常生活的思緒或不能專心：經常--(2分),偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )4.會癢、痛、抽稸或肩膀、手臂、腿、腳、腳踝、手肘、骨盆、等關節附近的肌肉痙孿：經常--(2分),偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )5.頭痛：經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )6.緊張：經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )7.不安定性，焦慮：經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )8.喪失記憶：經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )9.睡眠干擾，失眠：經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )10.微弱，暈眩，震顫：經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )11.會有皮膚紅腫、癢、起疹子、痛或皮膚乾燥：經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )12.胃腸痛、消化系統問題、腸子不規則蠕動：經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )13.感覺很熱，會發燒：經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )14.刺激性感覺，眼睛感覺刺痛有如一沙子飛入眼中。視野模糊或眼前看東西會閃爍：
經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )15.流鼻血或血壓改變：經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )16.心律不整、心悸或胸口痛：經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )17.牙痛或神經痛：經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )18.易掉髮：經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )19.耳鳴 (如咑咑聲、嗡嗡聲、噓噓聲等聲音)或高頻嗚咽聲：經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分)
不曾--(0分)
( )20.對光會過敏，尤其是螢光燈或電腦螢幕。(有罕見的會對陽光過敏) ：經常--(2分), 偶而—(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )21.會反覆感到焦躁、憤怒、暴力、破壞力及感到敵對：經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )22.甲狀腺問題：經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )23.推斷有持續一段急性流行性感冒的感覺：經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )24.沮喪：經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)
( )25.漏失時間 (例如不知道自己於的時空) ：經常--(2分), 偶而--(1分) 不曾--(0分)

總分:___________ (您的分數高於25，您可能已有電磁波過敏症，如果您的分數介於10 ~15分，您可能是遭受一些程度的電磁波。)

資料來源: http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/

電磁波敏感症

Posted: 22 Apr 2009 07:46 PM PDT

翻譯：鄭美莉

How many people suffer from ElectroSensitivity?
有多少人具有電磁波敏感症

瑞典已將電磁波敏感症正式視為一種生理傷害，該國有超過230,000人（佔總人口2.5%）具有電磁波敏感症。

除了瑞典之外，其他國家沒有正式的數據，如果套用2.5%的比例，則英格蘭的電磁波敏感症的人數可能達到一百五十萬人，美國則有六百五十萬人。

在2002年有兩個電磁波敏感症人口的研究，第一個研究[Hillert等人所作] 利用的是隨機寄發問卷的方式（10600份），結果回信的人有1.5%表示具有電磁波敏感症。第二個研究[Levallois等人所作]利用電話隨機訪問2000人，結果有3.2%表示具有此症，而0.5%表示他們高度敏感。

Is ElectroSensitivity recognized by the medical profession and/or the authorities?
醫界或有關當局是否已承認電磁波敏感症?

世界衛生組織WHO 承認電磁波敏感症是一種確實的病症，有時甚至是一種殘障的情況。然而，大多數的政府並未將此症視為一種殘障。遺憾的是，在政治上體認電磁波具有負面健康危害的程度，就如同將這事實當作是一種尚未全面了解的新情形，這兩種程度一樣的低。

目前瑞典是唯一一個將電磁波敏感症正式視為一種生理殘障的國家。

what other names is it known by?
類似的名詞

Electrical HyperSensitivity(EHS) 電磁波高度敏感---最常用的詞，同於ElectroSensitivity.

VDT Sickness -- 描述一群電磁波敏感症患者，這種患者在電腦螢幕前時，會有灼熱感、刺痛感、疼痛感這些電磁波敏感症狀。

Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance (IEI) -- 這是世界衛生組織在2004年提出的詞，但並未取代常用的詞。

其他的詞

Electromagnetic Sensitivity
Electromagnetic Oversensitivity
Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
Electrical Sensitivity
Electrical Supersensitivity
Elcetrical Oversensitivity

What can I do to help someone who is affected?
可以為電磁波敏感症患者做什麼?

通常無法尋求正式的幫助或治療，大多數醫生會一笑置之，專家不把這些情形當作一回事，有時甚至朋友或家人會嘲笑這種事，你會覺得非常孤單，但最重要的，當患者說他們對電磁波敏感症的時候，你可以相信他們的話；當患者採取步驟來屏蔽電磁波或避免敏感物時，你可以支持他們的行動。

Have there been any high-profile cases?
有任何備受矚目的案例嗎？

前任挪威總理以及世界衛生組織Director-general Gro Harlem Brundtland 是電磁波敏感症患者，她被選為近二十五年內最有影響力的歐洲人，她名列第四，僅在教宗聖保祿二世、戈巴契夫、柴契爾夫人之後。她對手機和電腦都會敏感。她本身是位合格的內科醫師。

她說 “一開始我感到耳朵附近有溫熱感，之後痛苦加重，轉成強烈的不適與頭痛，只要使用手機就會發生.... 不是只有對聲音有反應，而是對電磁波有反應。我的高度敏感症嚴重到只要離手機不到四公尺就會有反應。”

她接著談到嚴重性”我相信這情形應該認真看待。有些人變得對手機或電腦所發出的電磁波敏感，究竟這樣的敏感性會不會導致健康的負面影響，例如癌症或是其他疾病？我們還不知道！但我認為我們應該遵循預警原則，特別是在牽涉我們的子女的時候。”

1998年，易利信的一家子公司裡，發現在公司屋頂架設手機基地台之後，有60名員工出現電磁波高度敏感症。公司因此試著保密，然而該公司收到一筆來自瑞典基金會的資金，要利用這筆資金 ($1,000,000) 來改善工作環境。現在那些員工中還是有許多人仍然患有敏感症。

Who was the first person to suffer from Electrosensitivity?
誰是第一個患有電磁波敏感症的人?

一般相信，第一名電磁波敏感症患者是 Nikola Tesla 特斯拉，他是發明家，物理學家以及機械工程師，被譽為天才，公認為最偉大的工程科技科學家之一，在他的晚年，他患有嚴重的症狀，這些症狀被認為是因為他一生接觸了高劑量的電磁場所導致的。

特斯拉的傳記曾獲普立茲獎，作者是特斯拉的好友 John O’neill，書中描述：
“有名望的內科醫生表明--醫學幫不了他，其中一種症狀就是他敏銳的感官，一直以來他的感覺就很敏銳，但後來敏銳的程度變得很誇張，效果如同是一種折磨，三間房間之外，一只手錶的指針移動聲，對他而言，就好像鐵鎚敲打在鐵鉆上一樣；車輛經過的震動，透過椅子的傳遞，會讓他的身體感到鼕鼕地震動，因此他需要在床的四根柱子上加裝橡膠墊來消除震動，普通的說話聲在他聽來如同打雷；輕輕的碰觸所造成的生理影響就和拳擊一樣，日光照射在他身上就好像他的身上發生爆炸；即使在黑暗中看不到數呎外的物體，他也能感覺到物體的存在，憑藉的是他前額麻麻的感覺。他全身時常遭受痙癵發抖的折磨；他說，他的脈搏有時每分鐘只微弱跳動幾下，有時每分鐘超過150下，由於這些莫名的症狀使得他極力想要恢復正常。”

在 Electromagnetic Man 這本書中補充提到：
“這麼一位號稱是電機工程之父的人身上，他勢必接收了相當劑量的長期電磁波照射，以他在工作中沉迷於電機工程的程度而言，他是第一個電磁波敏感症的最佳候選人。”

特斯拉逝世於1946年，享年87歲。

Does sensitivity mean allergy?
敏感症就是過敏症嗎?

大多數的情形，答案是否定的，過敏指的是免疫系統對於外侵物的特殊免疫反應，包括抗體。電磁波敏感症的機制還不確定，但是通常與抗體無關。

然而在描述電磁波敏感症時，過敏這個詞有助於理解。

Why is it sometimes difficult for ElectroSensitive’s to work out what they are reacting to?
有時為何難以判斷出電磁波敏感症的反應來源?

很多情況下，當人們找出敏感或過敏物質(例如化學物質或金屬物質)時，往往是經過一系列錯誤嘗試才找出來的。

例如，假設一個人出現蕁麻疹，他們如何得知起因呢? 可能是他們開始對金屬材質的珠寶或新的噴劑起反應，有可能是他們的工作場所開始使用新的清潔化學品，而他們對那種化學品起反應，可能是食物引起的，可能是他們新使用的洗髮精，可能是油漆或地毯釋放出來的化學物質--可能性有無限多種，要找出過敏原可能要花費數月甚至更長的時間。

通常，電磁波敏感症的敏感來源很明顯，然而，高度敏感症患者有時對許多其他事物都會起反應，這種情形下就不容易找出來源，也就要花許多時間才找得出來。此外，

. 有時電磁波敏感性也對一系列的化學品有敏感性，化學品引發的敏感反應和電所引發的敏感反應一樣。

. 如果對多重事物都會起敏感反應，多重敏感物所引發的反應會比單一敏感物嚴重。
. 反應可能會延遲一兩天才會發生。

(資料來源：http://www.electrosensitivity.org/qa.htm)

槟州电磁辐射公害防护联盟等拜会槟州民主行动党主席曹观友行政议员等

2009-04-02T01:29:00.000-07:00

槟州电磁辐射公害防护联盟及居民代表一行人拜会槟州行动党主席曹观友(前排右三)；左起詹义华、陈瀚威市议员、郭庭恺州议员。

(槟城2日讯)槟州电磁辐射公害防护联盟于日前联同州内多个受电讯塔影响的各区居民代表礼貌拜会槟州民主行动党主席曹观友行政议员，针对州内电讯塔及槟州政府推行中的“全槟无线”计划提呈备忘录及提出建议。

槟州电磁辐射公害防护联盟成员包括发言人温秀枝医疗师、顾问陈奕权医师、顾问林怡保医生、顾问涂仲仪医生、成员王美丽、成员李斯杰、成员蔡昌卫，成员李翠华(丹绒武雅)；各地区代表包括来自大山脚的詹义华、日落洞柴埕居协主席李健义及居民、垄尾家乐阁居协主席王海清及居民、亚依淡居民代表张女士、比南利区居民代表雷翠梅。

陪同曹观友出席会者尚包括槟州行动党秘书郭庭恺硕士州议员、财政陈瀚威会计师市议员及曹观友助理。

一行13人在早上11时向也是槟州地方政府委员会主席的曹观友报告了对电讯塔及槟州政府推行中的全槟无线计划潜在的电磁辐射对健康带来的隐忧提呈备忘录；会上也提出优先解决面对电讯塔困扰的受影响地区。对话会在融洽气氛下进行及完成，会上也要求在一个月后能重回桌上针对同样问题再次进行探讨。

Wi-fi and Wi-max - Why You Shouldn’t Use Them

2009-02-24T03:17:00.000-08:00

The hot new craze in Internet access is Wi-Fi and its soon-to-be big brother Wi-Max. Wi-Fi is a wireless connection that allows users to access the Internet without the computer being connected to a cable. And yes, it’s very convenient. Imagine walking from the sofa to the bedroom with your laptop and never loosing your connection. Imagine the freedom and flexibility afforded schools and office workers. No more ugly bothersome cables to tie you down. You’re free to roam the Internet with your fingers while roaming your home, school or office with your feet. Freedom to move and freedom to surf. Perfect for the individual who is on the go and up to date with the latest technology. You can even have free Internet access at your local coffee shop. Same for airports. What a great idea. Or is it?

What exactly is Wi-Fi? Wi-Fi is a common term that stands for ‘wireless fidelity.’ It simply means that a computer can access the Internet without wires or cables. In other words, it allows one to have a wireless connection to the Internet. It’s like taking a cell phone base station and placing it in your home, schoolroom or office area. Wi-Fi is basically the same type of connection as used to operate a cell phone. It’s a product of convenience as it allows one to access the Internet with a desktop or laptop computer without the need for connecting cables. Moving from room to room with a laptop computer and no cables is a nice convenience although it certainly isn’t a necessity.

How does Wi-Fi work? Wi-Fi is really very similar to your cell phone. Radio signals are transmitted from the computer or Bluetooth device to a wireless router, sometimes called a wireless access point (WAP) or wireless local area network (WLAN). The router then sends the signal to the Internet through a cable modem. So this router or wireless access point is really the device responsible for transmitting the harmful radio waves. Any number of computers or devices can be configured to connect to one wireless router to make Internet connections. The workable distance is about a range of 300 feet or more from the wireless access point while most distances for good connections are maintained at about 100 feet. And, of course there are many variables that can affect this connection. Laptop computers and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) are the most common devices utilizing Wi-Fi technology.

Wi-Fi Emits Radio Frequencies Wireless connections emit radio frequency signals, or radiation, just like cell phones, cell phone towers and other wireless devices. Wi-Fi usually transmits its signal at frequencies in the range of 2.4GHz to 5 GHz. Cordless phones often transmit in the 2.4GHz to 5 GHz range, too, and this often causes the cordless phone to interfere with a wireless internet connection to a nearby computer. The Wi-Fi frequency is considerably higher than the frequencies used for cell phones which operate in the 850 MHz to1900 MHz range. This higher frequency allows more data to be carried. However, as we’ll see later, it is not the frequency of the signal that does the damage to our health. So the higher Wi-Fi frequency isn’t really the issue at all when it comes to health considerations.

Wi-Fi Hotspots Now In Schools Wi-Fi has become popular in the home, office, the airport and coffee shops. Many cities are now installing “hot spots” where one can take a laptop computer and freely access the Internet over the provided network. This is what is known as a “hot spot.” It’s a place to make a wireless connection to the Internet. And they are springing up everywhere. Entire cities are becoming wireless allowing one to connect to the Internet from anywhere in the city. And due to the ease of convenience Wi-Fi connections in schools are now becoming quite popular, too. No longer are computers hard-wired to a connection in a classroom. Connections are now virtual and allow the user, student or teacher, the freedom to connect anywhere in the school without the burden of being restricted by cable connections.

Why Wireless Connections Are Harmful There are two potentially harmful mechanisms in which Wi-Fi users, including school children, may be harmed. The first mechanism involves the exposure to radiation from the distance or proximity of the user to the computer monitor. This form of exposure originates from the electromagnetic field being given off by the monitor itself and has nothing to do with the wireless connection. Electromagnetic radiation is given off by the computer screen regardless of whether the connection is wired or wireless. Any and all computer screens produce electromagnetic radiation. These electromagnetic fields can be substantial in strength and can reach levels much higher than the 1 milligauss (1 mG) threshold level of exposure recommended by experts as being safe. Such a field can easily be measured with an inexpensive instrument called a gauss meter.

The second mechanism of harm comes from the radiation or radio wave itself. The wireless signal, oscillating at 2.4 to 5 GHz, moves much too fast for the body to recognize. So this wave isn’t doing the damage. However, anytime any data or information is transmitted, say through our voice, through text messages or through the sending of information, the data is packaged and “piggy-backed” onto the first wave. This creates a second carrier wave and this wave is called the information-carrying radio wave, or ICRW. It is the information-carrying radio wave that is producing the harm. Here’s how this happens. This second carrier wave, or ICRW, oscillates in a much lower Hertz (Hz) range that is easily recognized by the body. When the ICRW comes in contact with the body the body recognizes this wave and responds to it as if this carrier wave were some type of foreign invader. When this happens certain physiologic changes occur which are very significant. First, at the cellular level, the cell membrane becomes hard and inflexible. This occurs because the active transport channels shut down as the cell goes into a protection mode. This hardening effect of the cell membrane also causes the cell to lose its permeability, meaning needed nutrients can’t get inside the cell where they are needed. In other words, the cell doesn’t get nourished.

Conversely, since the cell membrane is hardened and less permeable, the toxins and free radicals that build up inside the cell, as a natural part of our daily metabolism, can’t get out. The buildup of toxins and free radicals inside the cell causes other problems. These toxic products damage the mitochondria in the cell. If you’ll remember from biology class the mitochondria are where energy for the body is produced. When this energy-producing process is damaged the cell begins to lose its ability to function.

In addition, cells lose their ability to communicate with one another. When one cell can’t communicate with another cell and messages don’t get sent or received the body can’t respond properly to any type of stress, injury, or invasion. Furthermore, the DNA inside the cell becomes damaged. Fragments of DNA break off and form something called micronuclei. Micronuclei are precursors to cancer formation. And when enough energy is lost and when enough malnourishment occurs the cell eventually becomes dysfunctional and dies. When enough cells die the tissues are affected. When enough tissue is affected organs become damaged and don’t work properly. And the cascade of damaging events begin that can lead to a multitude of symptoms and failure of the body’s defense mechanisms to act appropriately.

The Wi-Fi Problem Think of Wi-Fi this way. It’s really nothing more than a small version of a cell phone tower placed in the classroom or office. Or, it could be similar to having a cordless phone in your home with multiple handsets throughout the house. The base station is the access point and all the peripheral phones connect with it wirelessly. The radio frequency radiation being emitted is the same. The information-carrying radio wave is being transmitted continuously 24 hours a day. The connections from the computers and other wireless devices throughout the school, office or home to the wireless access points cause any user around them, (children, teacher, staff, etc.) to be continuously exposed. Everyone in the building is caught in the crossfire of the continual access to the wireless access points. Even non-users are exposed because of the blanketing effect of these wireless access points throughout the building. So no one escapes the exposure.

In understanding the danger of Wi-Fi we must remember that it is not the type of device, in this case a wireless access point or router that is important. Rather it is the type of radio frequency radio waves that are being produced by the device that are significant. Whether from a wireless router, a cell phone, a cell phone tower, or personal digital assistant (PDA), electromagnetic frequencies are produced by all these devices. We must look at the technology being used by these devices and not the device itself as the problem. This should be the primary concern as we evaluate their safety, particularly in the classroom.

Another important aspect of Wi-Fi exposure is that of modulation. Modulation refers to whether or not the signal frequency is constant or pulsed. The new digital cell phones operate on a pulsed frequency, as does all wireless technology. Studies have shown that these pulsed signals are a greater risk than analog, non-pulsed signals. 1

Certainly, by the addition of any type of wireless we are adding to the burden of electropollution we are all currently exposed to. Special consideration should be given to the additional exposure that Wi-Fi technology would bring to those in a classroom, including the instructors, teachers, staff and certainly students.

Children Are More Vulnerable Concern about the increased vulnerability to electropollution by children has valid reasoning. Since the skull bones of the head don’t fully harden until about age 22 the skull bones of a child’s head are softer than that of an adult. A softer head bone translates to easier penetration through the skull and into the head by radio frequency radiation. Furthermore, the head of a child contains more water since the brain is not fully developed. It would make sense then that water will act as a conductor to electromagnetic radiation increasing the possibility of even further damage. And since a child’s brain and nervous system is still developing it only stands to reason that the potential damage would be greater since cells that are in a growing phase are more easily damaged.

And finally, exposing children in the elementary schoolroom will add to both the amount of electromagnetic radiation exposure and the accumulated length of exposure over their lifetime that they will be exposed. No one can argue that the children of today’s generation will be exposed to far greater amounts of electromagnetic radiation and will be exposed to it for a much longer period of time than any generation before. We simply don’t know the consequences of this increased and cumulative exposure. And it’s an experiment that we shouldn’t place our children in. Why set up these networks without understanding any of the long-term consequences? Did we not learn a lesson from the tobacco and asbestos industries?

Effects of WirelessRadio Frequency Radiation Although no studies have been done on Wi-Fi per se there is a generous amount of research that has been carried out on cell phones, cell phone towers and masts. Since the Wi-Fi signal is the same type of radiation (only the frequency is different) one can assume with reasonable assurance that the effects of exposure to Wi-Fi will follow the same pattern of exposure to cell phones and cell phone towers.

Here’s an example of what can happen. Let’s say one works in a schoolroom or office where wireless access, or Wi-Fi, is used. In other words, we are continually exposed to a constant bombardment of electromagnetic radiation waves. Over time, sitting or working in this classroom or office, the cells of the body gradually loose their energy and consequently their ability to communicate. What if the function of a particular group of cells was to maintain the integrity of the blood-brain barrier? The blood-brain barrier is an intricate membrane that keeps harmful substances and toxins from contacting sensitive brain tissue. But what if the cells of the blood-brain barrier can’t communicate or don’t work any longer? The barrier would break down and this would allow harmful substances to enter. Those substances would then come in contact with sensitive brain cells. The result would be injured and damaged brain cells. This is just one example of how a particular group of cells can be adversely affected by electromagnetic radiation. In fact, studies have shown that placing a call on cell phone for just two minutes can disable the blood-brain barrier. 2 The same case could be made for the immune system and any other major “system” of the body since different cellular groups perform different functions to keep us healthy.

There are more than a dozen studies linking an increased risk for brain cancer and acoustic neuroma (tumor of the auditory nerve) to radio frequency radiation from cell phones and cordless phones. 3

Even the World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned about the effects of radiofrequency radiation on children’s health. In a recent WHO publication they wrote:

“The possible adverse health effects in children associated with radiofrequency fields have not been fully investigated.”

“Because there are suggestions that RF(radio frequency) exposure may be more hazardous for the fetus and child due to their greater susceptibility, prudent avoidance is one approach to keeping children’s exposure as low as possible.”

“Further research is needed to clarify the potential risks of ELF-EMF and radiofrequency fields for children’s health.”

Neurobehavioral effects of inhabitants living near a cell phone tower base station have also been studied. The following neuropsychiatric complaints were reported: headache (23.5%), memory changes (28.2%), dizziness (18.8%), tremors (9.4%), depressive symptoms (21.7%), and sleep disturbances (23.5%). 4 In addition, tests of attention and short-term auditory memory were significantly lower in the exposed participants than in control groups.

Obviously, people living close to cell phone towers have an increased risk for developing neurobehavioral problems.

Will We Medicate Our Children Unnecessarily? If indeed neurobehavioral symptoms are produced by radio frequency radiation and these frequencies are continually emitted throughout our schools what might this suggest about the abnormal behavior of students in the classroom? Might parents be inclined and persuaded to medicate their children so that these undesirable symptoms can be controlled? If so, how many of these children would be medicated unnecessarily? Studies now show that the frequencies such as that emitted by cell phones cause abnormal brain hyperactivity. Such artificially induced hyperactivity would cause an unnecessary risk and expense to students who would be placed on some form of pharmaceutical intervention to aid in controlling these symptoms. Many of the drugs used in controlling hyperactivity, such as Ritalin, Concerta, and methylphenidate are in the amphetamine-like class of pharmaceuticals. What a tragedy it would be to find out years later that this form of medication was unnecessary and could have been avoided if we would have chosen precaution over convenience.

Learning Issues As discussed earlier, the mechanism of harm caused by electromagnetic frequencies occurs at the cellular level. The eventual outcome of this harm is disruption of cell-to-cell communication. When the disruption of cell communication occurs cells can’t “talk” to each other. When cells can’t communicate cognition is affected, the ability to learn is affected, the ability to retain information is affected, and behavioral problems can occur.

Makes Kids Susceptible To Other Stressors Radiofrequency radiation is also a stressor to the body. The mere fact that the cells of the body react to these frequencies as discussed earlier indicates that they are harmful. When the stress response occurs from exposure to electromagnetic frequencies the body responds by releasing stress proteins, also known as heat shock proteins, to minimize the ensuing damage. The release of heat shock proteins is just one stress response mechanism that has been identified. Other mechanisms include the triggering of adrenal hormones like adrenaline. Continual stress is not healthy as it can eventually fatigue the adrenal gland, suppress the immune system, and lead to fatigue causing difficulty in concentration. Sleep disturbances may also occur.

Immune System Affected Evidence also exists that radio frequencies produced by such devices as cell phones, Wi-Fi, computers, televisions, etc. can trigger skin reactions.5 Microwave frequencies can trigger the release of chemicals from mast cells. Mast cells in the skin will break open and release chemicals that cause the symptoms of allergic skin reactions. 6 One of the chemicals released by mast cells is histamine. Histamine is often responsible for the symptoms of allergies such as runny nose, watery eyes, inflammation and difficulty breathing. Histamine also constricts the airway leading to or worsening the symptoms of asthma. It is of interest to note that the rate of asthma in children has doubled since 1980 and asthma now affects one in 10 children. The cell phone was introduced in1983 and has seen explosive growth in use in the last decade. Could there be a correlation between the rising rates of asthma, an immune system problem, and the escalating use of cell phones and wireless technology? Certainly, one could anticipate that chronic exposure to these radio waves over time can lead to chronic inflammatory responses.

Electromagnetic Radiation Connected To Autism A recent study has now suggested a direct link between autism and electromagnetic radiation. It appears that EMR may accelerate autistic spectrum disorders. 7 It is noteworthy that the increasing rates of autism parallel the growth of the cell phone and wireless industry. This appears to occur as a result of the trapping of heavy metals within the cell and the inability of the body to excrete the toxic metals present that are often introduced into the body through vaccinations. Heavy metals are neurotoxic. When this excretory process is prohibited these heavy metals, such as mercury, lead, beryllium, and aluminum, damage nerve structures and interfere in inter-cellular communication. This leads to neurological problems and conditions like those found in autism spectrum disorders. This particular study has shown that when electromagnetic radiation is largely eliminated the efficiency of heavy metal detoxification and removal was dramatically increased. In other words, the body was able to excrete and eliminate heavy metals when it had not been able to do so previously. This leads to the suggestion that (1) we need to reduce or eliminate electromagnetic radiation from any child’s environment and (2) measures need to be taken to repair the damage that has already been done by electromagnetic radiation. Although this study looked specifically at autism the same case could be made for attention-deficit disorders and related conditions.

Occupational Hazard For Teachers And School Staff Children will attend school in a particular building for a finite number of years and then move on. For a child the length of time spent in a particular building or location is predetermined. Therefore their exposure levels to this form of radiation will probably change. But what about the teachers and staff members who continue to work in the same building for many, many years? For these workers and teachers the exposure in their building from Wi-Fi networks and radio frequency radiation is continual. What are the effects of this exposure after years and years of time? Will teaching in a Wi-Fi enabled school become an occupational hazard like that of an electrician? These are questions that must and should be answered before, rather than after, any installation of radiation-generating equipment is placed in service.

Wi-Fi In European Schools The European Environment Agency is calling for immediate steps to be taken to reduce exposure to Wi-Fi, cell phones and cell phone towers and masts. Recent international scientific reviews have concluded that electromagnetic radiation safety limits are “thousands of times too lenient” and one official British report came to the conclusion that the development of cancer from cell phone use could not be ruled out.

Sir William Stewart, chairman of the Health Protection Agency in the UK, is calling for a formal investigation into the hazards of using wireless networks in schools. He’s asking that students be monitored for health problems from the networks. Joining him in health concerns over Wi-Fi installations in schools, the Professional Association of Teachers are calling for the Secretary of State for Education in the UK to begin an official inquiry into the issue.

Recently, parents of children at an English school have won a major battle in getting a mast tower removed from their school. Parents indicated that both students and staff complained of symptoms such as insomnia, headaches and numbness. It seems 56 percent of children had trouble sleeping, 54 percent developed headaches and migraines, and 46 percent reported dizziness and numbness. 86 percent of staff members had problems sleeping, 59 percent reported headaches, and 95 percent of staff reported fatigue and numbness. Nosebleeds, nausea, and dizziness were also reported. 8

Dr. Gerd Oberfield, head of environmental health and medicine in the province of Salzburg, Austria, calls the installation of Wi-Fi “dangerous.” In fact, the government in Salzburg has been advising schools not to install Wi-Fi for well over a year now and is considering a complete ban on Wi-Fi networks.

Stowe School in Great Britian recently removed its Wi-Fi equipment from its building. One of its schoolmasters who had taught there for 28 years developed headaches and nausea immediately after Wi-Fi was installed.

International Association of Fire Fighters In 2004, the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) voiced its opinion on cell phone towers and antennas by opposing the installation of cell phone antennas on or near fire stations until a credible study can be done to establish their safety. In studying the available science the IAFF found over 49 references that led them to conclude that they should oppose the placement of cell phone antennas on fire stations. Some of the effects that have been documented by fire fighters include slowed reaction times, sleep deprivation, severe headaches, lack of focus, tremors, and vertigo. 9

What About Wi-Max The latest development in the world of digital communication is something called Wi-Max. Wi-Max is intended for use as a network for large metropolitan areas. Where Wi-Fi is limited to a range of about 100-300 feet, Wi-Max can provide broadband wireless access up to 30 miles from fixed base stations and 3-10 miles from mobile base stations. It’s been described as Wi-Fi on steroids. It’s used in much the same way as Wi-Fi and will soon become the standard for Internet access. Imagine the implications. Whole metropolitan cities blanketed with Wi-Max wireless coverage. How convenient and “connected” do we really need to be?

Conclusion We currently have no studies that are specific to Wi-Fi. However, when assessing the safety issue we can and should look at technologies that are similar and relevant to Wi-Fi to draw our conclusions. This would seem appropriate since Wi-Fi operates in the same manner as other more heavily studies similar technology and the basic mechanism of harm from all wireless technology is the same.

There are countless reports and studies raising caution signals about the effects on human health from exposure to cell phone radiation, cell phone towers, Wi-Fi, and wireless technology in general. The fact remains that wireless technology is a potential carcinogen. So was tobacco. So was asbestos. So were X-Rays. Like these other hazards, which were all at one time only “potential carcinogens,” wireless technology needs further study before we decide to randomly subject ourselves and our children to the potential harmful effects it seems to cause. How long will we wait for these studies? Another 20 years or more? How many lives will be adversely affected or lost while we take the wait-and-see approach?

What can you do? Don’t let your children use a cell phone. Don’t live near a cell phone tower. Don’t use wireless Internet connections or cordless phones in your home. Provide good nutrition to your children in the form of lots of fruits and vegetables. Everyone needs lots of antioxidants to protect themselves from the free radicals being produced by these high levels of radiation. Good quality water is a must, too.

Get involved in your child’s school. Get on the school board. Ask questions regarding the use of Wi-Fi in the school. Object to the installation of such equipment if and when the possibility is discussed.

School districts today are under ever-increasing financial pressures. Healthy lease money is being provided by the wireless industry to install cell phone antennas on school buildings. Once again, this is an unneeded and unnecessary exposure risk for our young people. Does the extra income provided by the wireless industry outweigh the potential risk to our children? The studies say no and we as parents and responsible citizens need to convey that message to our school boards and legislators.

Two-time Nobel Prize nominee, Dr. Gerald Hyland, a physicist, had this to say about cell phone towers. “Existing safety guidelines for cell phone towers are completely inadequate. Quite justifiably, the public remains skeptical of attempts by government and industry to reassure them that all is well, particularly given the unethical way in which they often operate symbiotically so as to promote their own vested interests.”

For more information on the health hazards of wireless technology, cell phones, Wi-Fi, etc. visit http://www.CellphoneRadiationAlert.com For an ongoing discussion of the latest information on the health hazards of wireless technology visit http://www.CellphoneRadiationUSA.blogspot.com

References

1. Lai, Henry. Biological Effects of Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields. Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering. G.L. Gowlin and G. Wnek: Taylor and Francis Books, 2005.

2. Persson, Salford, Brun. Blood-brain barrier permeability in rats expose to electromagnetic fields used in wireless communication; Wireless Networks, Vol. 3, Issue 6, Dec. 1997; pg 455-461

3. BioInitiative Report, Aug. 31, 2007

4. Abdel-Rassoul, El-Fateh, Salem, Micheal, Farahat, El-Batanouny, Salem. Neurobehavioral effects among inhabitants around mobile phone base stations, Neurotoxicology, 2006, Aug. 1.

5. BioInitiative Report, Aug. 31, 2007.

6. BioInitiative Report, Aug. 31, 2007.

7. Mariea, Tamara and Carlo, George. Wireless Radiation in the Etiology and Treatment of Autism: Clinical Observations and Mechanisms; Journal of the Australian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine, August 2007.

8. Independent.co.uk. Apr 22, 2007

9. International Association of Fire Fighters, Division of Occupational Health, Safety and Medicine. 2005

Lynn Quiring is a Registered Pharmacist, Baord Certified Clinical Nutritionist, and holds a degree in naturopathic medicine. He also holds diplomas in homeopathy and hormone regulation therapy. He is an expert in cell phone radiation and EMFs and their health effects on the body. He has practiced in natural medicine for over 10 years. He currently owns and operates Logical Health LLC. He can be contacted by emailing to lynnquiring@msn.com

Medical Director of Paracelsus Clinic in Lustmühle, convinced‘electromagnetic loads’ lead to cancer

2009-02-16T22:01:00.000-08:00

Article in www.next-up.org

http://electromagnetichealth.org/electromagnetic-health-blog/medical-director-of-switzerland/

February 10th, 2009.

Dr. Thomas Rau, Medical Director of the world renowned Paracelsus Clinic in Lustmühle, Switzerland says he is convinced ‘electromagnetic loads’ lead to cancer, concentration problems, ADD, tinnitus, migraines, insomnia, arrhythmia, Parkinson’s and even back pain. At Paracelsus (www.paracelsus.ch), cancer patients are now routinely educated in electromagnetic field remediation strategies and inspectors from the Geopathological Institute of Switzerland are sent to patients’ homes to assess electromagnetic field exposures.

Of note, Dr. Rau says a strategy to consider for those experiencing ‘electrical
sensitivity’ symptoms is to remove the electromagnetic ‘hot spot’ in the
head created by the presence of metal fillings. Concern is thus not only for
the ‘neurotoxic’ aspect of mercury in fillings, an increasingly understood
hazard, but because fillings themselves act as antennas in the presence of
electromagnetic fields from cell phones and cell towers, wi-fi networks,
portable phones, and other sources of radiofrequency radiation.

Rau says the removal of dental fillings can be an important early step in
reducing electrical sensitivity, allowing some people to live in homes they
otherwise could not tolerate.

Cultures have shown beneficial bacteria grows more slowly in the presence
of electromagnetic fields, says Rau, allowing pathological organisms to
dominate. Thus, a strategy with electrically sensitive patients, or with those
Thomas M. Rau, MD, Medical Director of the Paracelsus Clinic facing chronic conditions, is the aggressive supplementation with probiotics and other Biological Medicine approaches to balance intestinal flora. Many people with chronic infections likely linked to EMF exposures, such as Lyme Disease, are symptom- free after an aggressive microorganism rebalancing program.

Electrical sensitivity—originally known as radio wave sickness—is a sometimes debilitating experience created by these and other disregulating effects of electromagnetic fields. Linked to many acute and chronic illness conditions, electrical sensitivity is a serious emerging public health issue globally and a subject in which most doctors have no training.

A Petition to Congress, created by www.ElectromagneticHealth.org is now circulating on the internet, requesting Congress 1) mandate the FCC lower exposure guidelines to reflect the large body of science showing biological effects at exposures much lower than current standards, 2) repeal Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which rescinded state and local governments right to resist towers on health
or environmental grounds, 3) stop the roll out of the Wi-Max network until Congress better understands the potential health consequences, and 4) accommodate citizens unable to function adequately in high EMF environments, including forbidding cell towers on school properties.

Exposing children in schools to radiation, known to impair brain function and learning, Rau describes as “criminal”. He says, “It is unethical to expose children to electromagnetic load in this way. We know that power stations for electromagnetic waves like mobile phones are hurting the brains of children, so to put such stations into schools is really…very, very, very bad. Rau says, the question is, “Does the school, or does the society, really want to have intelligent, well-educated children, or not?” He says, “If you install mobile phone towers,
which radiate to the children, their intelligence, their brain capacity, decreases. You will have more ADD children, you will have less function of the brain, which in the long term reflects on the intelligence of the children, of the possibility to really teach children, and in the long term, the more this overcomes society, the
more we will have dumb children.”

The reality of the health consequences of electromagnetic radiation eventually will have to be faced, and this will only happen with active pressure on Congress. It is estimated that 3-8% of populations in developed countries experience serious electrohypersensitivity symptoms today, and 35% experience mild symptoms.
With increasing electromagnetic field exposures, these numbers, along with the suffering involved for people who are impacted, and the health care costs involved, are bound to go up.

Progressive Librarians Guild Statement on WiFi in Libraries and the Precautionary Principle

2009-02-09T02:48:00.000-08:00

Progressive Librarians Guild
Rider University Library
2083 Lawrenceville Rd.
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648

June 16, 2008

Often unaware of the potential risks to both library staff and the public, libraries have adopted wireless technology as a means to bridge the Digital Divide and in order to fulfill their mission under the Library Bill of Rights.

Research on the health effects of wireless technologies (2.4GHz and 5.0GHz bands and electromagnetic (microwave) radiation indicates wireless technology, among other effects, may cause immune dysfunction, increased risk of brain tumors and acoustic neuromas, childhood cancers, breast cancer, Alzheimer’s disease (European Environment Agency, Bioinitiative Working Group, 2007), and genotoxicity. Research also indicates that public health standards are inadequate in offering guidance on the use of wireless technologies in community spaces.

The Precautionary Principle can act as a policy guide in which to critically debate the risks and benefits of wireless technology. The European Environmental Agency, Bioinitiative Working Group and the International Commission for Electromagnetic Safety through the Benevento Resolution have called for the application of the Precautionary Principle in the use of wireless technology. In the United States, the Wingspread Statement on the Precautionary Principle (1998) states

When an activity raises threats of harm to human health or the environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically...

Therefore, exposure to wireless technologies in the above bandwidths is a public health issue that library workers should address philosophically as a profession and directly in terms of daily library operations, programs, and services. European library workers have taken steps calling for such an examination based on the current research on health effects of wireless. The Bibliothèque Nationale de France has forgone installation of a public wireless system and the staff of the Sainte Geneviève Library (Paris V) has called for a discussion on wireless technology safety in university and public libraries based in part on the conclusions reached by the European Environmental Agency BioInitiative Working Group (2007,4, 26):

Although this RF target level does not preclude further rollout of WI-FI technologies, we also recommend that wired alternatives to WIFI be implemented, particularly in schools and libraries so that children are not subjected to elevated RF levels until more is understood about possible health impacts. This recommendation should be seen as an interim precautionary limit that is intended to guide preventative actions; and more conservative limits may be needed in the future.

Based on this information, Progressive Librarians Guild recommends that via their professional organizations, information workers address the risks of wireless technology in public spaces, take steps in learning about the risks of wireless in terms of exposure and impact on library services, monitor wireless technology in their facilities critically evaluate and adopt alternatives to wireless technology especially in children’s sections of libraries, create warning signage on risks of wifi throughout their libraries, and act as a community resource in the public education on wireless technologies.

Notes

1. Wireless-B, or “IEEE 802.11b” standard operates on the 2.4 GHz band.Wireless-G, or IEEE 802.11g, using the same frequency band, but capable of higher speeds. Wireless-A (IEEE 802.11a) uses the 5.0 GHz band, a higher data transfer. Wireless-N, using both 2.4 and 5.0 GHz bands, with proposed data transfer capability exceeding wired networks. See “Wireless Standards,” http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/wireless80211/a/aa80211standard.htm.

2. Genotoxic or genotoxicity: capable of causing damage to DNA. See Lai, below, a review of the literature on wireless and genotoxicity.

3. Benevento uses 0 to 300 GHz as a baseline for recommendations.

4. 2400 MHz mentioned in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France press release is synonymous with 2.4 GHz.

5. Inexpensive AC gauss meters which measure 1-5 GHz can be found on the Web at stores such as EMF Safety Superstore.

6. For example, one alternative is the Panasonic HD-PLC power line network adapter uses electrical wiring (power outlet) as a link between a PC and modem. The adaptor is available through amazon.com.

7. Thanks to Carolyn Raffensperger and Ted Schettler at the Science and Environmental Health Network, Rebekah Azen, SJSU SLIS students Abe Ignacio, and Milton John Kleim, Jr. for their comments.

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A ticking time bomb?

2009-02-09T02:35:00.000-08:00

Philip Parkin

When I wrote to Alan Johnson, then secretary of state for education and skills in April 2007, expressing my concern about the potential effects of Wi-Fi networks in schools, he replied, reassuring me that Becta, the government’s education technology agency, had a responsibility for e-safety and that there was “no consistent evidence of health effects from RF (radio frequency) exposures below guideline levels”, and that “exposures should be well within internationally accepted guidelines”.

Having spent two days in September at the Radiation Research Trust’s conference, EMF and Health A Global Issue, at which scientists on both sides of the debate expressed their views, I find that I continue to have concerns.

I am not a scientist and cannot claim to understand all of the science, but when world-renowned experts in their fields are unable to agree, I understand enough for it to raise concerns with me.

There was general agreement at the conference (including the representative of the mobile phone industry) that two issues are of particular concern.

First, the health effects of long-term use (over 10 years) of mobile phones. Professor Hardell, from Sweden, reported on his research which showed that people who started mobile phone use before the age of 20 had a more than five-fold increase in glioma (a cancer of the glial cells which support the central nervous system).

Second, the use of mobile phones by children and the risk of cancer. There is disregard and ignorance of the current Health Protection Agency guidelines in this country. Clearly the current generation of children is likely to be the first to have used such devices from an early age and to be those who will use them in the long-term. As well as the risk of cancer, there is concern that such exposure, when children’s nervous systems are still forming and their skulls are thin, can affect cognitive development and cell structures.

Dr George Carlo from America stated that: “When a signal is picked up by a cell membrane it is seen as an environmental stressor which increases the permeability of cell membranes.”

Professor David Coggan, chair of the UK Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme, said that he would at some point like to be able to fund a study of cognitive development and symptoms in secondary school pupils.

He also highlighted the need to monitor the incidence of childhood cancers at different ages.

A number of other issues raised also failed to reassure me that there is nothing to be concerned about. Not least that international guidelines are out of date and inadequate and some scientists at the conference made it quite clear that they had little faith in them.

Exposure levels are only half the story; length of exposure being the other half. Long exposures at lower intensity levels may be as damaging as high exposure levels for short periods. Hence my concern about wireless networks in schools and nurseries.

Also, that cell changes caused by electro-magnetic radiation are not regarded as health effects despite them having potentially long-term genetic consequences. I noted that David Carpenter, from America, said that there was an overwhelming body of biological evidence which suggested a need to protect children. This was supported by Russia’s Professor Yury Grigoriev, who said that the potential risk to children’s health was very high and was a completely new problem; and that it was necessary to develop special standards for the protection of children.

And that exposure to mobile phone base stations is not voluntary (unlike the use of phone handsets) and is continuous, 24 hours a day; and that locating in sensitive areas, such as near schools, should be avoided.

I continue to take the view, until someone convinces me otherwise, that there would appear to be enough accumulating evidence to suggest that a precautionary approach to these matters would be wise; and that the potential long-term effects upon children need serious and sustained scientific study.

• Philip Parkin is general secretary of the Voice education union.

Visit www.voicetheunion.org.uk/wifi

The gathering brainstorm

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Article in http://www.theecologist.org/
Mark Anslow 13/03/2008

It is unregulated, untested, more dangerous than its proponents would have you believe ?and soon to become even more powerful. Mark Anslow reports on the inexorable march of Wi-Fi

In early summer of 1997, computer scientist and former Dutch military radar engineer Vic Hayes joined the end of a long line of scientists and smiled at the camera. The shutter clicked, celebrating the official launch of the first international Wi-Fi standard.

In early summer of 1997, computer scientist and former Dutch military radar engineer Vic Hayes joined the end of a long line of scientists and smiled at the camera. The shutter clicked, celebrating the official launch of the first international Wi-Fi standard.

Originally designed to connect together cash-registers at checkouts, the ambitious scientist made no secret of his desires for the new technology. ‘I see Wi-Fi being used for everything eventually,’ he was quoted as saying, but not even he could have predicted how widespread his invention would become.

By 2008, experts predict that there will be 53 million Wi-Fi enabled devices in Europe alone. One in every five UK adults already owns a Wi-Fi enabled laptop, and 80 per cent of secondary schools in the UK have installed the technology throughout their buildings. McDonald’s recently announced that free Wi- Fi facilities would be available in all its restaurants, and the growing ‘Mu-Fi’ initiative – where entire municipalities receive Wi-Fi coverage – has already made Norwich the UK’s first ‘Wi-Fi town’.

The technology is sold to the public as the ultimate convenience tool: it allows you to grab a coffee and check your email on the go, to print photos without using a wire or listen to music on speakers not even attached to a computer. In schools, teachers can already give lessons using Wi-Fi white-boards, and in the near future hand-held Wi-Fi terminals will enable children to ‘interact’ with digital lesson. In the words of the technology’s industry group, the Wi-Fi Alliance: ‘Simply put, Wi-Fi is freedom.’

But freedom at what cost?

Wi-Fi appeared on our shelves without having to undergo any tests or safety checks whatsoever. This was partly achieved because Vic Hayes and his team developed Wi-Fi to use an unlicensed part of the radio spectrum – freed-up airwaves designed to encourage more widespread public use of wireless technology. As long as the technology met basic requirements on interference and compatibility, consumers were free to buy and use Wi-Fi devices as they and the manufacturers saw fit. In the UK, the spectrum used by Wi-Fi (2.4 gigahertz) became available for unlicensed use in 2000.

Denis Henshaw, professor of physics at the University of Bristol, finds it remarkable Wi- Fi-enabled equipment could have come to market without having to undergo any trials.

‘If you are a drug company marketing a new drug, you have to go through years of testing to prove your product is safe,’ he says. ‘If you’re a Wi-Fi developer using the 2.4 GHz spectrum, however, you don’t need to prove anything.’

Concerns were first raised about the health effects of Wi-Fi as early as 2000. A report by the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA), the body responsible for the use of IT in schools, noted that engineers installing some of the first classroom-based systems complained of headaches at the end of the day. The report was never published, but was eventually leaked to The Times Educational Supplement seven years later.

In 2003, concerned parents of children in suburban Chicago filed a lawsuit against the Oak Park Elementary School on the basis of concerns over the possible adverse health effects of the school’s Wi-Fi network. The father who made the claim, Ron Baiman, said he acted because ‘there are a lot of experts who say there are potential risks’.

For years, it was left to distressed teachers or parents with children suffering from repeated headaches to act as unpaid regulators, gathering together scientific papers and lobbying schools to have Wi-Fi systems taken down. In 2006, a school in Chichester made headlines after its headteacher agreed to remove a network at the request of both parents and teachers. The headteacher told The Times he had acted out of concern for the parents’ views. ‘We also did a lot of research,’ he added. ‘The authorities say it’s safe, but there have been no long-term studies to prove this.’

The case was something of a turning point. National newspapers began to pay attention to data collected by campaign groups that had long been fighting the mobile phone industry. The campaigners pointed out that the type of radiation emitted from Wi-Fi devices, although on a slightly different wavelength, was essentially the same as that used by mobile phones and their transmitter masts. Both systems use high-frequency microwaves that are ‘pulsed’ rapidly on and off to transmit data.

This pulsed aspect of data transmission is important, because it means that, although a signal might appear to be low-powered when measured over a period of time, it could reach ‘spikes’ of much higher levels when data is actually being transmitted. Campaigners were also at pains to show that Wi-Fi was just a part of a whole host of technologies using the same microwave system, including baby monitors, DECT cordless phones, and Bluetooth computer devices (see below).

In May 2007, the BBC’s Panorama programme investigated the signal strengths used by Wi-Fi equipment. Under the guidance of mobile phone concern group PowerWatch, the programme measured the intensity of microwaves 150 metres away from a mobile phone transmitter mast, and half a metre away from a laptop computer – realistic distances at which everyday exposure might occur. They found that the radiation from the Wi-Fi-enabled laptop was at least as high, if not higher, than that measured in the main beam of the mast (see below).

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How microwaves affect us

There are many different theories on how electromagnetic radiation interacts with our bodies, but pulsed microwave radiation, such as that used by Wi-Fi and mobile phones, is thought to affect the body’s cells in a unique way.

Although microwaves oscillate (change direction) many thousands of times each second, the carrier pulses which convey your voice or emails along the signal actually oscillate at a much slower rate, only hundreds of times a second. This slower rate allows the pulses to interact with protein vibrational receptors, like microscopic hairs, on the membranes of our cells.

The cells interpret this unusual stimulation as a foreign invader and react as any organism would – by closing down the cell membrane. This impairs the flow of nutrients into the cell or waste products on their way out. It also disrupts inter-cellular communication, meaning that clusters of cells that form tissues can no longer work as effectively together.

The increase of trapped waste products can lead to an increase in the number of cancer-causing ‘free radicals’. Worse still, a chemical known as ‘messenger RN A’ inside the cell passes on this ‘learned response’ to daughter cells, meaning that the cell’s offspring also learn to interpret microwaves as an external threat and react in the same way.

This disruption in the cellular processes is thought to lead to the many and various symptoms of electrosensitivity, and the build-up of free radicals released when the cell dies could be connected with the increase in tumours seen in those exposed to frequent doses of microwave radiation.

Special circumstances can enhance the process even further. The effects are likely to be worse in people with damaged or developing immune systems, particularly children, and certain drugs can dramatically increase the risk of negative microwave effects.

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The programme was fiercely criticised by the telecommunications industry, partly because it feared the logical conclusion – that the battery of research built up over the past decade demonstrating very clear health risks from exposure to mobile phone masts could now be translated almost exactly into the risks faced by exposure to Wi-Fi equipment (see ‘Weight of evidence’ at bottom).

Concern was further raised by comments made on the programme by the chairman of the Health Protection Agency (HPA), Sir William Stewart. Stewart, former Government Chief Scientist under Margaret Thatcher, had compiled a seminal report on mobile phones in 2000, in which he recommended that the main beam from a mobile phone mast should never be allowed to fall on school premises. He told Panorama unequivocally that both phones and masts could be responsible for triggering cancer, changes in mental function and damaging effects to the body’s cells. He also said that the approach adopted by the World Health Organisation, which directly influences UK health policy, was not ‘an accurate reflection’ of the current science.

The HPA scrambled to calm the storm caused by its maverick chairman. Having first tried to deny Stewart had in fact made any claims against Wi-Fi, the Agency went on to change one of its online press releases; now, instead of asserting there was ‘no evidence’ that Wi-Fi could have an effect on health, it stated there was ‘no consistent evidence’. The current HPA guidelines on Wi-Fi, to which all other UK Government departments refer, state: ‘There is no consistent evidence to date that Wi-Fi and WLANs [wireless networks] adversely affect the health of the general population. The signals are very low power, typically 0.1 watt (100 milliwatts) in both the computer and the router (access point) and the results so far show exposures are well within internationally accepted (ICNIRP) guidelines.’

So what exactly is ICNIRP, the institution that determines the maximum safe radio wave dosage for all UK citizens? The International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection was formed in 1992, but has its roots in an earlier body founded in 1970s.

Alasdair Philips, founder of PowerWatch, describes it as ‘an incredibly conservative organisation’: ‘ICNIRP grew out of the International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA), which was founded in 1950s and primarily staffed by the nuclear industry. Even when it became separate, ICNIRP retained a strong industry bias. It is highly secretive and access to the Commission is by invitation only.’

In 1998, ICNIRP published the document by which all countries with a seat on the Commission – which includes most of Europe and the US – still set their non-ionising radiation guidelines today. In the section that examines the relationship between cancer and exposure to microwaves, the ICNIRP authors cite seven studies to support their conclusion that radio waves do not increase tumour rates. None of these was conducted after 1997 – the date when Wi-Fi was first introduced – and in fact two were conducted before the 1980s.

Three of the studies in the ICNIRP report involve the exposure of military or civilian personnel to high-power radar systems; another investigates an incident during the Cold War in which Soviet agents irradiated the US embassy with microwaves, while another investigates the effects of oldfashioned cathode ray-tube computer monitors. One study looks at the effects of radio transmissions, but was later shown to have drawn seriously flawed conclusions. The authors of the only study of the seven to have investigated the health effects of mobile phones admit their research was not designed to show the long-term impact of handset use, which is where any cancerous effects would be found.

Later analyses of many of these papers show ICNIRP deliberately misquoted or misconstrued the original authors’ conclusions, disguising evidence of tumours when the research offered a clear link to microwave exposure.

When, later in the same guidelines, ICNIRP dismisses the evidence for DNA damage by microwaves, it points to papers written by the UK’s National Radiological Protection Board and the World Health Organization (both of which act on the advice of ICNIRP), as well as a paper by parent organisation, the IRPA.

ICNIRP appears at the centre of a hub of likeminded bodies determined to corroborate each other’s research.

The flaws in ICNIRP’s guidelines did not go unnoticed. The year they were published, 16 internationally recognised scientists signed the Vienna Resolution, which accused the ICNIRP researchers of ignoring the fact that ‘numerous studies published in recent years did show biological effects below their recommended limit values.’ In 1999, when Australian scientists came to examine ICNIRP recommendations they concluded that the guidelines ‘cannot be said?to constitute a precautionary measure’. Australia consequently refused to join the Commission and developed its own standards.

These substantial concerns, as well as the fact that most of the research on which ICNIRP’s guidelines are based was published before Wi-Fi had even left the laboratory, have not been heeded by any of ICNIRP’s signatories. The UK’s regulators still use and defer to the 1998 guidelines, which set levels designed only to prevent ‘thermal effects’ (or heating up) due to microwave radiation. In fact, most of the negative effects now attributed to microwaves occur at levels far below those in the ICNIRP guidelines, and are known as ‘nonthermal effects’. These include effects on the blood-brain barrier, an increase in the production of cancer-causing free radicals, a decrease in bodily melatonin, and disruptions in intra-cellular communication (see ‘How microwaves affect us’).

In response to the media outcry, and the public admissions by William Stewart, the HPA announced in October 2007 that it would launch a programme of research into the health effects of Wi-Fi. Initial optimism forthe proposal quickly faded when campaigners discovered that the project would merely ‘measure exposures to radio signals from wireless computer networks’, and compare them to ‘international guidelines’.

‘This research has already been done,’ says Graham Philips of PowerWatch. ‘To spend £300,000 of taxpayers’ money on measuring exposure to Wi-Fi and then comparing the data to 10-year-old ICNIRP guidelines is a complete and utter farce.’

If recent cases of research into the health risks of mobile phone transmitter masts are anything to go by, Philips is right to be angry. In July 2007, the results of a two-year research project joint-funded by the Government and the mobile phone industry were published. The study, run by researchers in a flagship facility at Essex University, had set out to investigate whether people who claimed they suffered health effects because of microwave radiation (known as ‘electrosensitives’) could tell if a hidden mobile mast was switched on or off at any given time. At a high-profile launch in London’s Science Media Centre – from which representatives of pressure groups and nonmainstream media were banned – the researchers told the press that no significant results had been found and that any electrosensitives who claimed they were affected by radiation should start to look for other, psychological, causes for their distress.

Faced with tight deadlines and information from a supposedly reliable Government research programme, the journalists repeated to their editors and readers exactly what they had been told at the launch. But the study, which has been cited worldwide to dismiss health concerns over microwave radiation, is now mired in controversy.

Basic errors in arithmetic have been found and admitted by the researchers. The scientists also confess that they failed to recruit enough participants, and as such the study’s statistical power (the ability of research to predict ‘real world’ effects) falls below that considered acceptable in social science. In addition, because so few participants were found, the researchers were unable to ‘screen’ them to see if their symptoms corresponded to the known attributes of electrosensitivity.

The researchers also began the experiment by spending three months using equipment designed to simulate a mobile phone mast, which was not sending out realistic signals. The laboratory equipment was missing a crucial frequency that exists in real-world mobile mast broadcasts and is thought to contribute to headaches and other neurophysiological effects. Alasdair Philips was invited in to correct the equipment, but data collected using the incorrect settings as still used in the final analysis.

When the Ecologist challenged one of the paper’s lead authors, Professor Elaine Fox, over why her team had chosen to tell the world’s media that electrosensitivity – a condition medically recognised by the Swedish government – was a myth, she told us: ‘It seems unreasonable to conclude that there is an effect, when almost 900 sensitive people have been tested under double-blind conditions (Rubin et al, metaanalysis, 2005; Regel et al, EHP, 2006, and Eltiti et al, EHP, 2007). These studies are extremely expensive and it now seems more reasonable to start looking for other causes, given the growing evidence.’

A fair defence, until examined more closely. Rubin et al’s ‘meta-analysis’, which was published, notably, in the Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine, is simply a review of 25 studies of varying quality, of which only seven exposed participants to mobile phonetype radiation; of these, three studies actually had found evidence of adverse health effects. Elaine Fox also fails to mention that the Regel et al study in fact concludes that some subjects were able consistently to tell whether a mobile mast was switched on or off, and that in its conclusion, the paper admits that an effect on brain function could not be discounted.

Moreover, the study run at Essex University had been specifically commissioned to make up for failings in earlier studies, so then to defend the study by citing earlier ones seems dubious at best.

Ultimately, however, the HPA’s new investigation into the risks of Wi-Fi will be of little importance. The reason for this lies not in the airwaves, but in the bundle of data cables that runs beneath your feet.

Internet capacity in the UK is at breaking point. Soaring demand for video services, internet radio, file swapping and web phone services has meant that an ageing system of copper wires originally installed only for telephone calls can no longer cope. In a report by the consultancy firm Deloitte, it was estimated that 2007 may in fact see the internet reach ‘peak capacity’.

No government, much less one that depends upon the success of a ‘knowledge economy’ such as the UK’s, can afford to let this happen. To lose speed and capacity on your internet network translates into lost business, innovation and tax revenue.

Desperate to encourage ways around this bottleneck, the UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, announced in summer 2007 that it was planning to auction off a slice of the microwave spectrum around the 2.5 GHz frequency.

The industry nearly fell over itself with excitement. Ofcom knew that this particular frequency band was perfect for a new type of wireless broadband service known as WiMAX. Described by the industry as ‘Wi-Fi on steroids’, WiMAX uses centrally placed masts (like mobile phone masts) to transmit high-speed internet across towns and rural areas, thereby bypassing capacity problems in using BT’s old-fashioned copper wires and the disruption from digging up roads and gardens to lay new cables.

In order to achieve wider coverage, the WiMAX masts are allowed to operate at power levels significantly above those of conventional masts, and the receiver units, which Intel is preparing to build into laptops from 2008 onwards, have been authorised to emit microwaves at up to twice the power level of conventional Wi-Fi equipment.

By 2008, when the HPA will only be halfway through its ‘inquiry’ into the health effects of conventional Wi-Fi, the chief executive of Intel, Paul Otellini, estimates that 150 million Americans alone will already be within range of a WiMAX transmitter, and many thousands of will be using a WiMAX-enabled laptop. Ofcom is already encouraging WiMAX systems in the UK, allowing telecoms companies to ‘increase power levels’ on rural transmitters in what is described as an effort to ‘close the digital divide’. The technology is now moving far faster than it can be tested or regulated.

When the spectrum auction was first announced, an Ofcom spokesman told an industry reporter: ‘Our whole approach to spectrum management is that the market is better placed to decide how to use spectrum than the regulator’.

The German government is advising its citizens to limit their exposure to Wi-Fi systems wherever possible, and to use wired alternatives. The local government in Salzburg, Austria, has set legally binding limits for radiation from masts that is thousands of times below international standards. The Swedish government officially recognises electrosensitivity as a medical problem. The Australian government has rejected the ICNIRP guidelines on microwave exposure as inadequate.

In the UK, however, the final decision on which powerful new Wi-Fi technologies are allowed into our homes, schools, offices and towns will rest with a powerful coalition of IT developers, internet service providers and lame duck regulators.

For more information:
PowerWatch: www.powerwatch.org.uk
Mast Sanity: www.mastsanity.org
HESE project: www.hese-project.org
Safe Wireless Initiative: www.safewireless.org

What can we do?

Government needs to:

Call for an immediate review of the ICN IRP exposure guidelines, inviting nonindustry researchers to the table, and require schools to remove Wi-Fi installations and replace them with wired alternatives. Industry needs to: develop wireless devices that operate at far lower power levels and extensively market wired alternatives to wireless products.

You need to:

(1) disable the wireless transmitter on your family’s laptop/ computer via the software;
(2) remove as many microwave devices from your home as possible, and investigate wired alternatives;
(3) contact the groups listed at the end of this article for help in lobbying your children’s school or your workplace to remove Wi- Fi equipment;
(4) aim to use your mobile phone for as little time as possible.

Weight of evidence

All studies listed below have found adverse health effects from microwaves at levels similar to those emitted by Wi-Fi equipment:

Santini et al, 2002: 530 people living near mobile phone masts reported more symptoms of headache, sleep disturbance, discomfort, irritability, depression, memory loss and concentration problems the closer they lived to the mast.

Oberfeld et al, 2004: 97 people living near mobile phone masts reported more symptoms of fatigue, irritability, headaches, nausea, loss of memory, visual disorder, dizziness and cardiovascular problems the higher their level of microwave exposure.

Eger et al, 2004: A three-fold increase in the incidence of malignant tumours was found after five years’ exposure in people living 400 metres from a mobile phone mast.

Wolf & Wolf, 2004: A four-fold increase in the incidence of cancer among residents living near a mobile phone mast for between three and seven years was detected.

REFLEX, 2004: A four-year study on human cells found that, after exposure to lowpower microwaves, they showed signs of DN A damage and mutations that were passed on to the next generation.

Abdel-Rassoul, 2007: Residents living beneath and opposite a long-established mobile phone mast in Egypt reported significantly higher occurrences of headaches, memory changes, dizziness, tremors, depressive symptoms and sleep disturbance than a control group.

Bortkiewicz et al, 2004: Residents close to mobile phone masts reported more incidences of circulatory problems, sleep disturbances, irritability, depression, blurred vision and concentration difficulties the nearer they lived to the mast.

Hutter et al, 2006: 365 people living near mobile phone masts reported higher incidences of headaches the closer they lived to the masts.

Stewart report, 2000: Research conducted by HPA chief William Stewart advised the main beam of a mobile phone mast should not be allowed to fall on any part of a school’s grounds.

Hecht & Balzer, 1997: A huge review of studies concluded a vast array of health effects, including insomnia, brainwave changes, cardiovascular problems and increased susceptibility to infections.

Carpenter & Sage, 2007: Concluded that an maximum outdoor exposure limit of 0.6 V/ m should be set, and that Wi-Fi systems should be replaced with wired alternatives.

ECOLOG-Institut, 2000: Found evidence for increases in immune and central nervous system damage, and reduced cognitive function. Recommended an exposure limit 1,000 times lower than current guidelines.

Kolodynski & Kolodynska, 1999: School children living near a radio location station in Latvia suffered reduced motor function, memory and attention spans.

First appeared in The Ecologist December 2007

Resolutions, Recommendations and Statements of Concern

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Article in http://www.wifiinschools.org.uk

The following organisations, groups and individuals have expressed their concerns about potential adverse health effects for the public, especially children, from the repeated use of wireless technologies.

The International Commission for Electromagnetic Safety (ICEMS)

See also 'Precautionary Approach'. ICEMS, in their Beneveto Resolution (2006) and recently in their Venice Resolution (June 2008), have stated their concern for the effects of human exposure to electromagnetic fields on health. Made up of scientists, medical doctors and engineers from around the world, ICEMS ‘are compelled to confirm the existence of non-thermal effects of electromagnetic fields on living matter, which seem to occur at every level of investigation from molecular to epidemiological.’ ‘We, who are at the forefront of this research, encourage an ethical approach in setting of exposure standards which protect the health of all, including those who are more vulnerable.’ ‘… new standards should be developed to take various physiological conditions into consideration, e.g., pregnancy, newborns, children, and elderly people.'

'We take exception to the claim of the wireless communication industry that there is no credible scientific evidence to conclude there is a risk. Recent epidemiological evidence is stronger than before, which is a further reason to justify precautions be taken to lower exposure standards in accordance with the Precautionary Principle. We recognize the growing public health problem known as electrohypersensitivity; that this adverse health condition can be quite disabling; and, that this condition requires further urgent investigation and recognition.'

'We strongly advise limited use of cell phones, and other similar devices, by young children and teenagers, and we call upon governments to apply the Precautionary Principle as an interim measure while more biologically relevant standards are developed to protect against, not only the absorption of electromagnetic energy by the head, but also adverse effects of the signals on biochemistry, physiology and electrical biorhythms.’

European Parliament

See also 'Precautionary Approach'. The European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (2008) has stated that it is greatly concerned at the International Bio-Initiative report (2007) concerning electromagnetic fields. In September 2007 the European Environment Agency advised the 27 member states on the basis of the Bio-Initiative report that they should introduce more effective protection of the general public from electromagnetic fields.

Bio-Initiative Report

See also Precautionary Approach and Bio-Initiative Report sections. Briefly, the International Bio-Initiative report (2007), referred to by the European Parliament, has stated that 'There may be no lower limit at which exposures do not affect us. Until we know whether there is a lower limit below which bioeffects and adverse health impacts do not occur, it is unwise from a public health perspective to continue ''business-as-usual'' deploying new technologies that increase ELF and RF* exposures, particularly involuntary exposures'.

*ELF and RF. ELF, extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields from electrical and electronic devices and power lines. RF, radiofrequency radiation from wireless devices such as cell phones and cordless phones, cellular antennas and towers and broadcast transmission towers.

'The consequence of long-term exposures in children whose nervous system continues to develop until late adolescence, is unknown at this time. This could have serious implications to adult health and functioning in society if years of exposure of the young to both ELF and RF result in diminished capacity for thinking, judgement, memory, learning, and control over behaviour'.

'.... we recommend that wired alternatives to Wi-Fi be implemented, particularly in schools and libraries so that children are not subjected to elevated RF levels until more is understood about possible health impacts. This recommendation should be seen as an interim precautionary limit that is intended to guide preventative actions; and more conservative limits may be needed in the future.’

Teachers' Unions

Voice

Philip Parkin, the General Secretary of the Education Professionals Union, Voice, formerly the Professional Association of Teachers, UK, has called for a full investigation into the networks. ‘We continue to be concerned about the possible effects of Wi-Fi. Particularly on children whose brains and bodies are still developing’ he said (2007). Voice is calling for a moratorium on new Wi-Fi networks in schools and the suspension of existing Wi-Fi if possible.

'The proliferation of wireless networks could be having serious implications for the health of some staff and pupils without the cause being recognised'. 'There are huge commercial pressures which may be why there has not yet been any significant action'. Speaking about the announcement of an investigation into Wi-Fi by the Health Protection Agency (measuring emissions from computers in schools to check whether they are within ICNIRP guidelines), Mr Parkin states, 'Whilst we welcome this investigation I do not feel that it goes far enough. It seems to be concentrating on what should be known already rather than on what is not known. It seems to me that the HPA:

- has pre-judged outcomes before they have done the work;

- seems to only be considering the thermal effect of EMR (electromagnetic radiation) and not the potential long-term health risks associated with the non-thermal effects;

- is assessing against the totally inadequate ICNIRPS guidelines which only relate to the thermal effects of EMR;

- does not appear to be doing any health-related investigations amongst children; and

- appears to be concentrating on measuring radiation levels which are already known, or should have been before the technology was allowed to be used in schools.'

Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL)

Mark Langhammer, Director of the education union ATL Northern Ireland, UK, has said 'A safety-first approach would oblige governors and education employers to monitor and report on Wi-Fi provision in schools. It could allow for parents to withdraw their children from Wi-Fi areas of the school and it would oblige government to test and measure, based on biological, as well as thermal criterion' (Belfast Telegraph, 30/10/2008).

GEW

The German teachers' Union for Education and Knowledge (GEW, Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft) has told its members to resist the rollout of Wi-Fi into schools in Germany on safety grounds. The GEW Union in Hesse has proposed 'Due to possible effects on school performance, a healthy school should not only be smoke free, but also allow teachers and students to teach and study in a radiation free environment' (2007).

Austrian Medical Association and Public Health Department of Salzburg
The Public Health Department of Salzburg (2005) has warned that Wi-Fi should not be put in schools or nurseries. The Austrian Medical Association is lobbying against the deployment of Wi-Fi in schools.

Schools in Germany
The Bavarian Parliament has recommended that no schools in the province use wireless LAN networks. The Frankfurt City Government said that it would not install Wi-Fi in its schools until its had been shown to be harmless.

The German Federal Government has recommended that the use of WLAN in the workplace or home should be avoided, if possible. They have stated that conventional wired connections are preferred (July 2007).

Schools in the UK
Several schools in the UK have removed their Wi-Fi systems, due to concerns of adverse health effects from parents (TimesOnline, Nov 20th, 2006; Ulster Star, 28th Aug 2008). Parents in some schools are refusing to let their children use the wireless computers and are campaigning to have alternative wired-up computing facilities available.

Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada
Lakehead University in Ontario, Canada has limited its use of Wi-Fi based on the precautionary principle, due to health concerns. It has comprehensive fibre-optic computer network throughout the campus. Its statement on the use of Wi-Fi includes: ‘There will be no use of Wi-Fi in those areas of the University already served by hard wire connectivity until such time as the potential health effects have been scientifically rebutted or there are adequate protective measures that can be taken’ (2004).

Libraries in Paris
The Bibliotheque Nationale de France has forgone installation of a public Wi-Fi system, and decided to follow the precautionary principle following concerns raised in the Bio-Initiative Report (2007). Wi-Fi has also been switched off in the Sainte Genevieve Library in Paris after a member of Staff complained of adverse health effects from the wireless network.

The Progressive Librarian's Guild
The Progressive Librarian’s Guild in America (2008) recommend ‘that via their professional organizations, information workers address the risks of wireless technology in public spaces, take steps in learning about the risks of wireless in terms of exposure and impact on library services, monitor wireless technology in their facilities, critically evaluate and adopt alternatives to wireless technology especially in children’s sections of libraries, create warning signage on risks of wi-fi throughout their libraries,and act as a community resource in the public education on wireless technologies.’

Individual Scientists
Professor Dennis Henshaw, Professor of human radiation effects at Bristol University has called for an enquiry into the dangers of Wi-Fi wireless internet technology (2007). ‘The research hasn’t been done. Therefore we cannot assume that there are no effects’ he told the Independent Newspaper. ‘This technology is being wheeled out without any checks and balances’.

Professor Johansson at the Department of Neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm has sent a letter advising against the use of Wi-Fi to Swedish School Governors (Powerwatch, 2005).

Ian Gibson, MP, a former chairman of the Commons Science and Technology Committee and honorary Professor and former Dean of the School of Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia, said ‘We need a departmental enquiry into this situation. The Department of Health should be looking into it seriously’ (The TimesOnline, Nov 25th, 2006).

Further quotes from scientists, physicians and health policy experts can be found on ElectromagneticHealth.org, along with audio interviews.

The Stewart Report, UK
The Stewart Report (2000, see also Precautionary Approach) commissioned by the UK Government stated that a precautionary approach should be taken to the use of mobile phone technologies until more detailed information on any health effects becomes available. It recommended that the beam of greatest intensity from mobile phone masts should not fall on any part of a school's grounds or buildings without the agreement of the school and parents. The Stewart Report also advises that children should not use mobile phones for non-essential calls.

Information on WiFi
EMFacts consultancy have a fact sheet on Wi-Fi (2008, file here).

An article on Wi-Fi from the Ecologist, 2008.

Further articles and links about Wi-Fi are listed on the Voice website.

Mobile phones
UK Chief Medical Officers

UK Chief Medical Officers recommend that if parents wish their children to avoid being subject to possible risks, they should not let their children (under the age of 16) use mobile phones (Department of Health Website, 2006).

The Russian National Committee on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection (RNCNIRP)

The RNCNIRP have announced their concern about the high risks to children's health from the use of mobile phones (2008, Radiation Research Trust). In a statement by the Chairman, Professor Yury Grigoriev, the RNCNIRP say 'The members of the Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection emphasize ultimate urgency to defend children's health from the influence of the EMF of the mobile communication systems. We appeal to the government authorities, to the entire society to pay closest attention to this coming threat and to take adequate measures in order to prevent negative consequences to the futute generation's health. The children using mobile communication are not able to realize that they subject their brain to the EMF radiation and their health - to the risk. We believe that this risk is not much lower than the risk to the children's health from tobacco or alcohol. It is our professional obligation no to let damage the children's health by inactivity'.

Russia recommends that mobile phones are not used by children under the age of 18. Russia also recommends that pregnant women do not use mobile phones.

French Government

The French Government has warned that children should limit their use of wireless phones (2002) and is introducing legislation to ban advertising of mobile phones to children (2009).

Finland

The Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) in Finland has recommended restricting the use of mobile phones by children (2009).

Israel

The Israeli Ministry of Health has called for children's use of mobile phones to be limited (2008).

India

The Indian Ministry of Telecommunication has recommended that children under the age of 16 should be discouraged from using cell phones (2008).

Association of Teachers and Lecturers, 2008, Warning signal to schools using Wi-Fi, Kathryn Torney, Belfast Telegraph 30th Oct 2008, http://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/browse_thread/thread/3b2c06b777eac53d (accessed Dec 2008).

Bio-Initiative Report, 2007. A Rationale for a biologically-based public exposure standard for electromagnetic fields (ELF and RF). http://www.bioinitiative.org/index.htm (accessed Aug 2008).

Department of Health, 2006. Mobile phones and Health, Leaflet 2883, http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4123979 (accessed Aug 2008).

Ecologist, 13th March 2008, The Gathering Brainstorm, Mark Anslow, http://www.theecologist.org/pages/archive_detail.asp?content_id=1179.

EMFacts Consultancy, 2008, Wireless networks (Wi-Fi) Consumer Health and Safety Advice, http://www.emfacts.com/wifi/ (accessed Dec 2008).

European Parliament mid-term review of the European Environment and Health Action Plan 2004-2010, Ries F. (2008) (2007/2252(INI)), http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/pr/713/713890/713890en.pdf (accessed Aug 2008). http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&mode=XML&reference=A6-2008-0260&language=EN (accessed Sept 2008).

Independent Newspaper, 29th April 2007, Scientists demand enquiry over WiFi, Owen, J., http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/scientists-demand-inquiry-over-wifi-446695.html (accessed Aug 2008).

International Commission for Electromagnetic Safety (ICEMS). The Venice Resolution June 2008, http://www.icems.eu/resolution.htm (accessed Aug 2008).

International Commission for Electromagnetic Safety (ICEMS). The Beneveto Resolution September 2006, http://www.icems.eu/resolution.htm (accessed Aug 2008).

Lakehead University, Canada, 2004, General: WiFi Policy, http://policies.lakeheadu.ca/policy.php?pid=178.%20... (accessed Aug 2008).

Libraries in Paris, 2008, SECTION FSU Bibliotheque Nationale de France, La Bibliotheque Nationale de France renounce au WiFi, http://www.robindestoits.org/La-Bibliotheque-Nationale-de-France-renonce-au-WiFi-Avril-2008_a283.html (accessed Aug 2008).

Panorama 21st May 2007, BBC1, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/6674675.stm and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/6683969.stm (accessed Aug 2008).

Powerwatch, 2005, letter from Professor O. Johnsson, http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/pdfs/20070723_wifi_olle.pdf (accessed Aug 2008).

Progressive Librarian's Guild, Statement on WiFi in libraries and the Precautionary Principle, June 16, 2008, http://libr.org/plg/wifiresolution.php (accessed Aug 2008).

Public Health Department of Salzburg, 2005, WLAN and DECT in Schools and Kindergartens, Open letter from Dr. Gerd Oberfeld MD, Salzburg Region, Public Health Department, Dec. 5, 2005, http://www.mastsanity.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=2%20– (accessed Aug 2008).

Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, 2008, Children and Mobile Phones: the health of the following generations is in danger, http://www.radiationresearch.org/pdfs/rncnirp_children.pdf (accessed Dec 2008).

Schools in Germany and the Union for Education and Knowledge, GEW (2007), http://omega.twoday.net/20070625/ (accessed Aug 2008).

Stewart Report, 2000, Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones, http://www.iegmp.org.uk/report/index.htm (accessed Aug 2008).

The TimesOnline, Nov 25th, 2006, News in Brief, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article649578.ece (accessed Aug 2008).

The TimesOnline, Nov 20th, 2006, Health Fears lead schools to dismantle wireless networks, Bale, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article642575.ece (accessed Aug 2008).

Voice, Teacher's Union, Parkin, P., 2007, http://www.voicetheunion.org.uk/index.cfm/page/sections.contentdetail.cfm/navid/11/parentid/0/_sa/17/id/907 (accessed Aug 2008).

退后原来是向前

2009-02-06T19:19:00.000-08:00

文摘自：http://teongee.blogspot.com
2009年2月5日

槟州的全槟无线上网逐步的落实，为朝向先进的资讯州铺路。州政府的前瞻、胆识和魄力应该值得记一个功。然而，遗憾的是，有关无线上网这门科技的基本相关常识（尤其是应该注意得如何减少电磁波辐射方面的基本措施），却未见到有效的传达到每个用户。

连续造访了好多位的“书读得不少的人士”，其中包括了大学教授、博士级的讲师、专科医生、工程师和电脑科的学者等等，彼等都对电磁波辐射这门学问不是很熟悉。但他们都乐意以求学问的心态和我交流、讨论（不像有些人，无耻的在留言里留下污浊的文字，他们当中也没有人叫我搬到山洞里去住）。他们看了The Stewart Report、Naila Study、BioInitiative Report、Benevento Resolution、Venice Declaration 等等的资料和报告后都有“相见恨晚”的感觉。

查阅近期有关WiFi和手机在西方国家的进展，想和大家分享：
2005：
奥地利亚医药協会建议人们使用有线上网。
法兰副克教育局和德国教师工会禁止和不建议在学校使用WiFi。

2007:
英国和法国的一些学校拆除了校内的WiFi设置。
法国的国家图书馆，因为健康出了状况而拆除了所有的WiFi设置。
德国政府严厉警告国民避免在办公室和家里使用WiFi。建议使用有线上网。
欧盟环境局（European Environment Agency)呼吁有关当局即刻减少来至于电磁波的辐射（包括WiFi）。

2008：
欧盟国会以522票对16票通过敦促欧洲各国执行更严厉的辐射标准。
法国政府禁止以广告向孩童推销手机。

眼看许多国家都逐渐的把WiFi撤出学校和住家时，我们是否应该稍作停步，再三思考，到底有没有必要让孩童、老年人活在过量的电磁波辐射里。如果只有工商业区或特定的区域能无线上网，是否我们就落后或退步了呢？

我想到这一首禅诗：手把青秧插野田，低头方见水中天，六根俱静方为道，退后原来是向前。

English Hippies Want Local Wi-Fi Network Turned Off

2009-02-03T01:47:00.001-08:00

Monday, January 05, 2009 | FoxNews.com

The little town of Glastonbury seen from the mysterious and prehistoric Glastonbury Tor.

Turn off that Wi-Fi network — it's disturbing our chakras.

That's what many residents of Glastonbury, a lovely medieval town turned New Age hub in southwestern England, are demanding the local government do.

Ever since the town's free municipal wireless broadband network went online in May, people have been complaining of, as an online petition puts it, "headaches, dizziness, nausea, severe tiredness, brain fog, disorientation and loss of appetite, loss of balance, inability to concentrate, loss of creativity" — all ailments an examining physician would find it difficult to prove or disprove.

"This place is not appropriate for a Wi-Fi trial," resident Linda Taylor tells the local Fosse Way magazine. "People are complaining of headaches, tingling skin among other symptoms. This makes me wonder what is it doing to the children."

Thought by many to be the burial place of the mythic King Arthur, Glastonbury's year-round population of 9,000 swells to about 150,000 every June when the mammoth Glastonbury Festival three-day rock concert occupies a nearby field.

"I don't want my son exposed to risk 24 hours a day, including at his primary school, which is within the Wi-Fi zone," yoga teacher Natalie Fee tells London's Telegraph. "I would be failing in my duty as a parent if I did."

One man has even begun making orgone generators, which use crystals, semi-precious stones and gold to purportedly put out positive energy to combat the negative vibes flooding the town from the Wi-Fi base stations.

"I have given a number of generators to shops in the High Street and hidden others in bushes in the immediate vicinity of the antennae. That way you can bring back the balance," Matt Todd told the Telegraph. "The science hasn't really got into the mainstream because the government won't make decisions which will affect big business, even if it concerns everyone's health."

Todd says the Wi-Fi network is weakening the ley lines, supposed invisible webs of energy running through the landscape that the Druids and other ancient Britons are said to have been well aware of.

Others Glastonburians say their levels of melatonin, a hormone that regulates sleep and is seen as a wonder drug by natural-health types, have been all out of whack since the Wi-Fi network went on.

"The pulsed microwaves feed the pineal gland with false information," local Jacqui Roberts tells the Western Daily Press. "Melatonin fights the free radicals and cancer-producing cells."

The Telegraph tracked down a physicist who says the health fears are, well, what might be called natural fertilizer.

"All the studies which have so far concluded show there is no evidence of a connection between exposure to Wi-Fi and ill health," states Dr. Eric de Silva of Imperial College London.

Arguments aside, Glastonbury's Wi-Fi experiment may end due to simple economics.

At a raucous town council meeting in late November, one official had to admit that in the six months since the network, which costs about $15,000 per year to operate, had gone on, only 422 people had used it.

Wifi and Electromagnetic fields

2009-02-02T23:16:00.000-08:00

Wifi and Electromagnetic fields by Andrew Goldsworthy. Oct. 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.

However, they are seemingly oblivious to the fact that living cells depend on electricity and electrically charged atoms and molecules (ions) to maintain their healthy functioning. They can therefore be damaged electrically by electromagnetic radiation that is far too weak to generate significant heat.

For example, our cells use the energy from food to pump ions out of mitochondria (the cells’ power stations). They are then let back in through an ATPase (an enzyme not unlike a molecular water wheel). Each turn of the wheel generates a molecule of ATP, which is the main energy currency of the cell. In effect, an electric current flowing into and out of these tiny structures provides virtually all of our bodily energy.

Some of this ATP is then used to pump ions out of the cell. When they return via special enzymes (called transporters) in the cell membrane, they can carry with them essential nutrients that the cell needs to absorb. So we use electricity to absorb our food too.

Another example is in our nerve and brain cells. They use ATP to pump sodium and potassium ions across their external membranes. Nerve impulses are generated when these ions are suddenly let back again to give sharp spikes of current.

Last but not least, the membranes themselves (which are only two molecules thick!) are held together electrically. They consist mostly of negatively charged molecules bound together by positively charged ions (mostly calcium), which act as a kind of cement.

Unfortunately, weak electromagnetic fields gently tease out some of these calcium ions, which weakens the membranes and makes them more inclined to leak. As a result, our bodies become less efficient at generating energy and our nerve and brain cells are more likely to generate false impulses.

False impulses generated in sensory cells can give symptoms of electrosensitivity, whereas those generated in the brain can affect mental function and may also lead to stress headaches. Even people who do not regard themselves as electrosensitive, frequently get headaches and other unpleasant symptoms when exposed for long periods to the radiation from Wifi, cordless phones and mobile phones.

Other reported effects from prolonged exposure to pulsed microwaves include an increase risk of cancer and a loss of fertility. This seems to be associated with observable damage to cellular DNA, probably as a result of the leakage of digestive enzymes from lysosomes (tiny particles in living cells that digest and recycle waste) whose membranes have been damaged by the radiation.

Pulses carried by microwaves are particularly dangerous. This is because their very short wavelength allows the transmission of pulses with extremely rapid rise and fall times, and it is the rate of change of the fields (rather than their total energy) that does most of the biological damage; it catapults vital calcium ions away from cell membranes, which in turn makes them leak. This leakage can explain the great majority of the observed adverse health effects of prolonged exposure to electromagnetic radiation (for more on this, together with references, please visit http://tinyurl.com/55286a ).

It is therefore unwise and arguably dangerous to be exposed for long periods to the radiation from Wifi transmitters, cordless phones and mobile phones (especially their base stations, which run 24/7). They should certainly not be deployed in public places until all the risks have been independently evaluated. Any claims that they are harmless because they do not generate significant heat are completely unwarranted.

Andrew Goldsworthy BSc PhD
Lecturer in Biology (retired)
Imperial College London Andrew Goldsworthy BSc, PhD

Who is Andrew Goldsworthy
Andrew Goldsworthy is an Honorary Lecturer in Biology at Imperial College London. He retired from full time teaching in 2004 but still gives occasional lectures there in specialist subjects such as food irradiation and the (exorbitant) energy cost of modern food production.

He was born just before the Second World War and, after a grammar school education in Wales, obtained a First Class Honours Degree in Botany, followed by a PhD at the University College of Swansea. He then took a lecturing post at Imperial College London where, apart from a short secondment to work in agricultural research and a sabbatical in the USA, he has been ever since.

At Imperial, he acquired a reputation among students for explaining complex subjects in simple terms, for ‘out of the box’ thinking, and for spicing his courses with unusual lectures such as those on space biology and the scientific basis of acupuncture.

His research and teaching, extend from the physiology and biochemistry of photosynthesis and photorespiration through the biological effects of electromagnetically treated water to the electrophysiology of plants. He also designed an experiment for the Anglo-Russian ‘Juno’ space mission and is now a member of the Life Sciences Advisory Group for the European Space Agency.

As well as ‘regular’ scientific papers, mainly on plant electrophysiology, he has written several popular science feature articles for the New Scientist on such diverse subjects as ‘Why Trees are Green’ and ‘The Cell Electric’ (on the evolution of plant and animal action potentials and the origin of the nervous system).

His interest in the biological effects of electromagnetic fields dates back over 30 years but has only recently come to fruition with the publication of a new theory that explains many of their seemingly weird effects in simple physico-chemical terms. It was first published (mainly in relation to plants) in Plant Electrophysiology – Theory and Methods, Ed AG Volkov (Springer 2006). This was followed by an Internet publication in 2007 (which can be viewed on this site) entitled ‘The Biological Effects of Weak Electromagnetic Fields’, which deals with their effects on humans and animals and, in particular, the dangers from mobile phones.

The article also includes a section that draws attention to the remarkable similarity between the symptoms of electrosensitivity and those of hypocalcemia (low blood calcium). This is interpreted as being due to both electromagnetic fields and low blood calcium removing structural calcium from cell membranes to produce similar physiological effects. It is argued that electrosensitive individuals may already have a slightly low level of calcium in their bloodstream so that electromagnetic exposure ‘pushes them over the edge’ and they develop hypocalcemia symptoms. If this is correct, it raises the possibility that conventional treatments for hypocalcemia may remove some if not all of the symptoms of electrosensitivity.

Andrew Goldsworthy’s page at Imperial College

The Biological Effects of Weak Electromagnetic Fields, Andrew Goldsworthy, 2007
Selected papers
Electromagnetic Fields and Health: Executive Report, Andrew Goldsworthy, 2009
The dangers of electrosmog, Andrew Goldsworthy, 2007
The Biological Effects of Weak Electromagnetic Fields, Andrew Goldsworthy, 2007
Goldsworthy A, 2006. ‘Effects of electrical and electromagnetic fields on plants and related topics’. In Plant Electrophysiology – Theory and Methods. Ed. Volkov A G (Springer, Berlin, Hiedelberg, New York).
Goldsworthy A, Whitney H, Morris E, 1999. ‘Biological effects of physically conditioned water’. Water Research. 33, 1618-1626.
Goldsworthy A, 1996. ‘Electrostimulation of cells by weak electric currents’. In Electrical Manipulation of Cells. Eds. Lynch, P., Davey, M.R. (Chapman and Hall, New York).
Goldsworthy A, 1995. ‘Photorespiration’. In Production and Improvement of Crops for Drylands. Ed. Gupta, U.S. (Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi).
Mina M G, Goldsworthy A, 1992. ‘Electrical polarization of tobacco cells by Ca2+ ion channels’. J. Exptl. Bot. 43, 449-454.
Goldsworthy A, 1991. ‘The Phycobilins’. In Photoreceptor Evolution and Function, ed. Holmes, M.G. (Acad. Press, London).
Mina M G, Goldsworthy A, 1991. Changes in the electrical polarity of tobacco cells following the application of weak external currents. Planta 186, 104-108.
Goldsworthy A, Mina M G, 1991. Electrical patterns of tobacco cells tobacco cells in media containing indole-3-acetic acid or 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid. Planta 183, 368-373.
Goldsworthy A, 1988. ‘Growth control in plant tissue cultures’. In Advances in Biotechnological Processes, Volume 9. Ed. Mizrahi A (Alan R Liss, New York).
Goldsworthy A, 1987. Why trees are green. New Scientist 116 (1590), 48-52.
Goldsworthy A, 1987. Why did nature select green plants? Nature 328, 207-208.
Goldsworthy A, 1987. ‘Electrical control of growth in plant tissue cultures’. In Plant and Animal Cells: Process Possibilities. Eds. Webb, C. and Mavituna, F. (Ellis Horlwood, Chichester 1987).
Goldsworthy A, 1986. The electric compass of plants. New Scientist 109 (1489), 22-23.
Goldsworthy A, Rathore K S, 1985. Electrical control of shoot regeneration in plant tissue cultures. Bio/Technology 3, 1107-1109.
Rathore K S, Goldsworthy A, 1985. Electrical control of growth in plant tissue cultures. Bio/Technology 3, 253-254.
Goldsworthy A, 1984. The cell electric. New Scientist 102 (1407), 14-15.
Goldsworthy A, 1983. The evolution of plant action potentials. J. Theor. Biol. 103, 645-648.
Goldsworthy A, Fielding J L, Dover M B J, 1982. ‘Flash Imbibition’ a method for the re-invigoration of aged wheat seed. Seed Sci. & Technol. 10, 55-65.
Goldsworthy A, 1978. An instrument for measuring crop density by light absorbance. Ann. Bot. 42, 1315-1325.
Goldsworthy A, Gates R, Ridgley D L, 1977. An electronic coleoptile measuring device. J. Exptl. Bot. 28, 744-750

"Unplug Glastonbury Wi-Fi," say residents

2009-02-02T23:08:00.000-08:00

Friday, November 28, 2008, 00:00

GLASTONBURY residents are demanding that the town’s Wi-Fi is “unplugged” and masts are removed from the town centre.

The Somerset County Council’s six-month wireless internet trial in the rural market town comes to an end this month - and, at a meeting last Friday to review the initiative, residents expressed anger at the negative impact on the town.

Computer programmers who have not benefited from the scheme, therapists who claim they are treating an increasing number of people suffering psychosomatic symptoms, mothers concerned about their children’s exposure to non-ionising radiation and residents who believe their health has been affected by the installation of six Wi-Fi hotspots in the centre of Glastonbury, all aired their views at the meeting held in the town hall.

Resident Linda Taylor said: “We were not asked if we wanted Wi-Fi in the town, nor were we given an opportunity to vote for it. Why Glastonbury? This place is not appropriate for a Wi-Fi trial. People are complaining of headaches, tingling skin among other symptoms. This makes me wonder what is it doing to the children.”
The Glastonbury Wi-Fi initiative, launched by the Somerset County Council (SCC) and Connecting Somerset in May is funded with public money from the council and the South West Regional Development Agency.

It is one of a number of projects being rolled out by the SCC in Somerset and is aimed at bringing wireless internet connections into rural areas and towns across the county.

But connecting Glastonbury appears to have not had the anticipated usage. Figures presented at the public meeting by council representative Matt Ballard show the number of users ranged from 57 in May to 156 in September, with the total number of users being 422 people over the past six months. He assured people the pilot scheme was under review and said their opinions would be noted in the report made before county councillors Alan Gloak, Alvin Horsfall and Ian Galloway decide on the future of Wi-Fi in Glastonbury.

Mr Ballard said if the pilot was to continue, there were plans to make it a free service and to introduce a number of initiatives including laptops into schools, sponsorship opportunities from companies such as Toshiba, neighbourhood watch links and community media services.

Sam Welbourne, Director of local IT company, Ergonet said at the meeting, although he believed the council were seeking to help individuals and business owners in Glastonbury with the service, the usage figures over the six month trial were very poor.
“The local community are getting very poor value for money for this project and I would really like to know how the council sees this scheme developing as a lot of money has gone into it.”

Although 40 people turned up to the meeting to discuss whether the initiative had any economic benefits residents said the meeting was not representative of the town as most people were at work.

However, a petition of 400 signatures against the three-year pilot scheme, which is costing more than £33,800 of public money, was presented to the council.

Computer programmer Terry Scott pointed out there were more signatures against the service than people using it. Resident Eloise Brown told the council it was trying to sell the people of Glastonbury something they clearly did not want.
Another resident, Tim Bates, said councillors had been prickly and dismissive about the subject when he had addressed them on the matter.

He added: “I do not want it. I do not see anyone using it, and it does not seem to be a good deal. Unplug it.”

Residents demanded the council invested the cash in cabled connection instead of Wi-Fi, claiming it carried no health risks.

Mother, Natalie Fee, said she was pro Glastonbury having better internet connection, but said she wanted cable, not Wi-Fi as she and a number of parents were worried their children were being exposed to low level radiation 24 hours a day, seven days a week from Wi-Fi masts.

Residents expressed fears that scientific knowledge of the service was not complete and urged the council to take a precautionary attitude.

In a statement released after the meeting, a spokesman for the SCC said: “There is no consistent evidence to date, that exposure to radio frequency signals from Wi-Fi adversely affects the health of the general population. The signals from the system we have installed in Glastonbury are very low power and the resulting exposures are well within internationally accepted guidelines and those set out by the SCC.”

Spokesman Graham Philips, from independent organisation Powerwatch, which plays a central role in the UK Electromagnetic Field and Microwave Radiation health debate, said: “Someone using a Wi-Fi enabled laptop will be exposed to approximately twice the level of radio frequency electromagnetic fields to someone living 60 to 70 metres away from a mobile phone base station. The exposure from Wi-Fi, unlike TV and non-digital radio transmitters, is very similar to base station exposure.

“Symptoms found in those living around base stations include concentration or memory problems, sleep disturbance, dizziness, nausea and other adverse neurological end points. The EU Parliament believes there is enough evidence for precaution, and the principality of Liechtenstein has recently legislated public exposure limits (Environmental Protection Law 2008) of 0.6 V/m (lower than exposure using a wireless laptop).

“Unlike the drug and food industry, whose products have to go through extensive pre-market trials and testing, there is no pre-market safety net for wireless devices. Considering current evidence, the public should not be subjected to city-wide exposures without the health of the local population being carefully monitored before, during and after roll-out.”

Miranda Shearer
mshearer@bvmedia.co.uk

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT : PRELIMINARY REPORT on preoccupations concerning the effects of human health of electromagnetic fields.

2009-02-02T21:55:00.000-08:00

Article in http://www.next-up.org

For many years now independent scientists and Non-Governmental Organisations have been tirelessly warning national and international health authorities of the damaging effects of ever-growing artificial radiation on people and on wildlife, particularly from the ElectroMagnetic Fields (EMF) generated by the HyperFrequency microwaves from wireless telecommunications.

For many years now no government or national body has even deigned to convene a parliamentary commission in spite of the urgency of the situation caused by this grave problem of public and environmental health.

For many years now the equivocation on this issue has been cleverly maintained by various institutions, including the WHO, their strings pulled by the industry via the corrupt M. Repacholi (ex-WHO and ICNIRP), as can be seen from the successive leaders of the international organisation who have never taken the decisions that were needed.

Today we are paying for the error of our ways and are discovering the scale of the disaster, especially for young people.

The negationists of several countries have managed to make the doubt and confusion persist by putting out disinformation, however now the links of cause and effect are clearly and scientifically established.

The verdict is damning on the gene damage caused by artificial EMFs among some people whose metabolism is affected by new pathologies such as Electro-Hyper Sensitivity (EHS) or a disturbance of endocrine functions called The Microwave Syndrome.

An accurate study of the contributing factors and the high mortality among people whose health is already weakened is yet to be carried out (clusters).

Prompted by this recent evidence action is being taken: the fact that the population is being massively bombarded by artificial radiation has at last been recognised, and will be the subject of a wide-ranging and responsible debate in the European Parliament based on this Proposed Resolution dated 19 December 2008.

This document represents a great leap forward. Please distribute it as widely as possible to local authorities and councils, teachers, health personnel, etc.

Next-up organisation.

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT : PRELIMINARY REPORT on preoccupations concerning the effects of human health of electromagnetic fields.(http://www.next-up.org/parlement_europeen.php#1)

NB: This document is an accurate translation but is not the official English text as none is yet available.
See the original text in French (PDF).(http://www.next-up.org/pdf/Parlement_Europeen_Projet_de_Rapport_preoccupation_effets_sante_champs_electromagnetiques_19122008.pdf)

P1 Wimax free modem promotion to end on Feb 1

2009-02-02T02:53:00.000-08:00

Article in NST Online
2009/01/28

PETALING JAYA, WED:

Packet One Networks (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. (P1), Malaysia’s first WiMAX telco, will end its free modem promotional offer on 1 February 2009, five months after its commercial launch in August last year.

Michael Lai, chief executive officer of P1 said the company will be introducing its new packages starting 2 February 2009, where five new subscription plans for P1 W1MAX users will replace the current promotional packages. The new subscription plans will consist of three ’Home’ plans to meet the needs of personal users and two ’Office’ plans that are designed for businesses.

For the new plans on 12-months contract, subscribers will have to pay a subsidized amount for the WiMAX modem valued at RM999.

“We strongly encourage broadband users who are within our coverage to seize the opportunity and sign up for the current free modem promotion before the end of this month as they would be able to save on having to pay for the modem.” Our customers can be assured that our new plans will be backed by P1’s on-going commitment to top-notch quality of service and customer satisfaction. With these plans, we look forward to serving more Malaysians as we continue to aggressively roll out P1 W1MAX nationwide,” Lai said.

P1 W1MAX service is now available in selected parts of the Klang Valley, Johor and Kedah. The latest areas to have P1 W1MAX coverage this week include parts of Jalan Kemajuan in Petaling Jaya, Pandan Indah in Ampang, Kota Kemuning and Taman Bunga Negara in Shah Alam, The Summit in USJ, Jinjang Utara and Selatan, Damansara Heights and Bandar Puteri Puchong in Selangor. Detailed information on the current P1 W1MAX subscription plans and reseller location can be obtained at www.p1.com.my.

P1 made these announcements earlier at a gala dinner for about 250 P1 W1MAX resellers from the Klang Valley, Johor, Penang and Kedah. The dinner was the first national reseller gathering hosted by P1 since the launch of their service in August last year.

WiMAX wobbles but will it fall down?

2009-02-02T02:49:00.000-08:00

Article in itp.net
Posted by Mark Sutton on 1 February 2009 at 02:43 UAE time.

Nortel has announced its intention to get out of the mobile WiMAX business, and concentrate instead on other LTE technologies. The news shouldn’t have too much impact on the Middle East, where Nortel’s WiMAX activities were minimal, but it does look like another wobble in the WiMAX story.

WiMAX has been touted by some as the great communications hope, especially for developing markets, where the flexibility of wireless connection coupled with a wider range and greater bandwidth than traditional wireless technologies. Others however, have claimed that the technology has some fundamental flaws, namely in the power required to broadcast over greater range, and see WiMAX as a costly diversion, that should be passed over in favor of other developing technologies.

The Nortel announcement is not the only bad news for WiMAX. When Alcatel-Lucent announced 6,000 job cuts in mid-December, one of the areas it said it wanted to cut back on spending was in WiMAX. More recently, Time Warner, Google and Intel have all written down their investments in Clearwire, a would-be WiMAX service provider for the whole of the US.

Meanwhile, WiMAX seems to go from strength to strength in the Middle East, with a growing number of services coming online.

But does slipping vendor support impact on WiMAX in the region? There are still strong supporters of WiMAX - mainly Intel and Motorola, which has bet big on WiMAX, and the usage model for the technology is better suited to emerging markets like the Middle East. While the response to WiMAX has been varied, when deployed properly, the standard gets good results.

Probably the biggest issue will be end point equipment, and enabling widespread connectivity. Once the infrastructure investment in WiMAX is in place, operators are pretty much stuck with it. But if the influential US market shies away from WiMAX, a lack of available devices could see users staying away from WiMAX for want of an easy connection. WiMAX supporters like Intel will have to do a lot of lobbying to push WiMAX antennae into notebooks or add-on aerials to give the ubiquitous connectivity that end users want.

That said, the influence of the US market is waning, and its not as if there are not already multiple standards in communications already in place across the world. With a growing uptake of WiMAX in MEA, often in markets with little alternative when it comes to broadband connectivity, it looks like the technology will be here stay in this part of the world, at least for a while. Whether operators are able to get enough value out of it before they look to newer technologies will be a question of how well they market it and deliver services to convince customers of its value.

檳設無線上網　民間組織抗議

2009-02-01T06:29:00.000-08:00

图文摘自东方新闻网专题

2009年1月27日
　
檳城州政府推行「檳州無線」計劃，首批7個WiMAX覆蓋地點已確定。在Packet One Network公司的配合下，檳州子民將可於18個月內，在公眾場所使用WiFi免費無線上網。這項計劃引起多個民間組織的抗議。

無線上網方便省事，符合資訊時代人們和企業提高生產力的需求，並能解決我國固定網絡設施落後的缺憾。

但無線上網設備使覆蓋範圍充滿了電磁波，當檳城全島都被WiMAX覆蓋，全檳老老少少都無可避免受影響。這成為民間組織大力反對的理由。

WiFi是戶內的短程電波傳輸方式，而WiMAX則是戶外的長程電波傳輸方式。

但無論WiFi還是WiMAX，在傳送資訊時都會發出高頻率電磁波。這種電磁波對生物的影響眾說紛紜，至今尚無定案。

開發相關技術的科學家認為至今沒有證據顯示有關技術對人體有害，因此可安全使用。但持反對意見的科學家則認為，生物界發生的一些現象，足以說明電磁波的危害。

先進國拆除無線上網

德國研究發現，WiFi釋放的電磁波干擾鳥類和生物辨認方位，影響繁殖，甚至造成死亡。鯨魚集體擱淺的謎團一直未有答案，其中就有人認為是因為軍艦的探測聲納影響或破壞了鯨魚的聲納系統所致。

此外，先進國家一些教育機構開始拆除無線上網設備，應被視為一項警訊。而多國近年來將電磁波環境建議值（即安全標準）從1000萬微瓦降低至10萬微瓦，即高達100倍之譜，也應獲得關注。

手機的3G功能已出現瓶頸，作為一種新的資訊傳播方式，WiFi和WiMAX無疑蘊含大量商機，對大企業的吸引力可想而知。知名跨國企業如英特爾、諾基亞和摩多羅拉都大力開發相關技術，以求搶吃這塊通訊的新餡餅。

企業有足夠資源影響政府施政，而檳州民聯政府又全力打造新政府形象，因此雙方一拍即合不足為奇。首長林冠英不擔心企業不配合國會在野黨的無線上網計劃，如何安撫人民對電磁波輻射的不安，反成為他意想不到的棘手問題。

無線上網又一章：電磁波難防

各種電器的發明，使現代人的生活變得十分便利。家庭主婦有了各種電器的協助，家務變得更輕鬆，使她們可以無憂無慮地走出家庭頂半邊天，社會也因此釋放了巨大的生產力。

現代城市人有九成時間待在戶內，從辦公室到住家都離不開電器。問題是有能量的物質都會釋放電磁波，而電視、電腦、手機、電燈等各種家庭電器，幾乎樣樣都是電磁波的發射源。電磁波充斥環境，已引起越來越多關注。

改變習慣　減電磁波危害

電磁波無所不在。住宅、辦公場所、通車過程中都避不開。近距離使用家庭電器所釋放出來的電磁波強度，往往比鄰近的電力設施還要高。小至一支吹風筒在操作時都會發出大量電磁波，更別說是微波爐了。

德國生產生物共振波儀器的Rayonex公司工程師戴瑪海爾，日前來馬巡迴多個城鎮發表演講。他指出，研究顯示，雞蛋長時間暴露在電磁波中，孵出畸形小雞的比率也會大增。

因此，他提醒大眾，單單是現代化廚房的各類電器，如抽油煙機和微波爐，就都會放射大量的電磁波，對人體產生不良影響。

他向本報透露，德國的高級轎車品牌已開始正視車內大量電子儀器可能帶來的後遺症，包括發展出汽車專用手機，致力減低車內的電磁波。

後遺症漸受關注

過去談到居家的安全衛生和保持室內空氣清新，除了遠離排出廢氣的工廠，不外天天掃地隔日抹地，以求去除肉眼可見的灰塵或污垢。

更細心者會設法減少牆壁和傢俱使用的揮發性強漆料，保持空氣流通，以免吸入諸如甲醛和苯等有害氣體。

但是，隨著家庭和辦公室的電器充斥，所產生大量肉眼看不到的電磁波是否為人體帶來後遺症，近年已受到越來越多人的關注。

我國順勢療法醫師陳奕權向本報說，電器的使用在現代社會不可避免，因此，消費人要想辦法避開其後遺症。

睡房勿安置電腦

他舉例：「電腦不要連續使用太久，不要將電腦安置在睡房，更不要睡在徹夜下載網站內容的電腦旁！」

他認為，為了身體的健康，人人都有必要正視電磁輻射的長遠影響，改變生活習慣。他也呼籲：「使用手機盡量長話短說，並以手機短訊取代通話。」

我們的手被火灼會因疼痛而馬上縮回，但人體感受不到電子輻射的存在，因此往往對其危害茫然無知。加上電磁輻射有累積效應，長期暴露在電磁波下，對人體的危害可想而知。

長期暴露在過量電磁波環境中，輕者會引起頭暈目眩、記憶力減退、耳鳴等現象，重者會破壞免疫系統，增加致癌機率。既然我們不可能回去沒有電器的蒙昧時代，如何在環保和安全的前提下使用電器，並設法抵消其不良影響，無疑值得所有人深思。

Parent warns against use of WiFi in schools

2009-02-01T02:22:00.000-08:00

Article in Darlington and Stockton Times
1:07pm Friday 23rd January 2009

A WORRIED father is calling parents to a meeting to explain the potential harm caused to children by school computers.

Clint Crisp believes that wireless transmitters or WiFi in classrooms could cause longterm health damage to staff and pupils, leading to cancers and dementia.

Mr Crisp, who has two children at Hartburn Primary School, near Stockton, is calling for the school to remove wireless technologies as a precautionary measure and replace them by hardwiring computers to the internet which, he argues, offers faster data transfer.

Mr Crisp said he had been told by the school that it was following advice by Becta, the Government agency promoting the use of information and communications technology, and the World Health Organisation (WHO), but his own research and scientific evidence showed that these guidelines were flawed.

He said: “My concern is that young and developing children are being exposed to low-frequency, non-ionising radiation and scientific evidence suggests that long-term effects may include cell damage in the brain, leading to cognitive impairment or dementia.

“I have a five-year-old daughter and a nine-year-old son and it’s their safety and well-being I am concerned about. It needs somebody to do something about it.”

Mr Crisp, of Long Newton, was actively involved in a campaign spearheaded by parents in 1999 which prevented mobile phone company Orange from erecting a mast near the school.

He added: “I believe that parents and teaching staff need to be aware that these WiFi transmitters can emit pulsed radiation up to three times more powerful than a mast placed outside school.”

Tom Gittins, headteacher, said: “We installed the WiFi, like many other schools, to allow our pupils the advantage of increasing curricular time and new exciting technologies relating to ICT.

“In doing so, we have strictly followed guidance from Becta, the local authority and the Health Protection Agency.”

The WHO website states: “On the basis of the studies so far carried out in-house, the agency sees no reason why WiFi should not continue to be used in schools.

“However, with any new technology it is a sensible precautionary approach, as happened with mobile phones, to keep the situation under ongoing review so that parents and others can have as much reassurance as possible.

“That is why our chairman, Sir William Stewart, has stated it would be timely to carry out further studies as this new technology is rolled out. The Health Protection Agency is discussing this with relevant parties.”

Mr Crisp is hosting a WiFi awareness presentation at 6pm on Wednesday at the Methodist church in Greens Lane, Hartburn.

WiFi coverage good but not its future side effects

2009-02-01T02:21:00.000-08:00

Letters to Editor in The Star

WiFi coverage good but not its future side effects

I AM glad to see bold initiatives by the Penang government such as WiFi coverage.

However, I hope the state government will listen to the people; we are not against new technology but we just do not want to be constantly exposed to possible radiation.

Wireless access is much appreciated at commercial areas where there is need to make decisions at the speed of light. It is also handy for our foreign tourists to keep in touch with the rest of the world.

However, please give us, Penang residents, the freedom to choose when we need to use wireless access. The side effects of new technology may manifest itself only after a long time.

Damage may be irreversible. Precaution is better than cure.

CHENDOL,

George Town.

Wifi is a bad bad thing for your health

2009-01-29T02:47:00.000-08:00

无线上网运动组织要求选择性地区设发射器

2009-01-21T17:16:00.000-08:00

文摘自中国报

（槟城21日讯）槟州无线上网运动组织没有反对WiFi及WiMAX政策，惟要求州政府谨慎处理，选择性在需要的地方设立发射器。

该组织协调员蔡昌卫强调，该组织的立场是希望无线上网的发射器避开住宅区、学校及公园，因为已有很多科学报告证明，无线上网电磁波可对发育中小孩、老人、病人及电磁波敏感群带来伤害。

他今日联同槟州反对电讯塔影响健康联盟召开新闻发布会时，针对今日州政府推展WiFi试跑活动，这么回答。

他说，虽然该组织未能代表全槟人民，他们依然希望州政府关注来自不同声音的意见，谨慎处理这政府，以免将来无法承受人民健康的代价。

“现在针对无线州政策，民间已有不同声音出现，州政府应该放慢脚步，多听民间的声音，再来决定下一步。”

他指出，该组织成员都是平民百姓，并非政治人物，绝对没有因为反对而反对，只是希望提供人民另一个角度。

至于黄泉安昨日在跑马园进行电磁波测试结果，他表示欢迎来自不同单位进行一样测试，甚至更希望有权威的国际科学家能够来槟，针对电磁波课题展开讨论及交流，提供更多方面的看法。

电磁波不利健康

另外，跑马园居协第一副主席王凤焕指出，跑马园一带居民及家长要求区内3座电讯塔及无线上网发射器远离该区。

她说，发射器的电磁波与电讯塔的电磁波大同小异，且已被发现对人体带来不良影响，如德国政府要求人民尽量使用传统电话线、避免无线上网，而奥地利的卫生部也致函学校，不要在校园内安装无线。

反电讯塔影响健康联盟明日发动签名运动

槟州反对电讯塔影响健康联盟将于本周五中午12时，在商务小学前发动首回合的签名运动，要求电讯塔及无线上网发射器远离该区。

该联盟发言人兼商务小学家协主席王美丽指出，很多权威性的科学家研究报告发现，靠近电讯塔发射站的癌症病率显着增加。

她举例，奥地利卫生部、以色列医学中心及德国皆已针对电讯塔方圆范围内的人民健康情况及流行病学进行深入调查，发现患癌率比其他对比的地区高。

“其中德国纳拉城的一项科研报告中发现，10年来居住在400公尺内的居民患上癌症的机率有明显增加，居民在平均8年后发病，在1999年及2004年，在电讯塔安装5年后，靠近电讯塔的居民患癌机率比其他地区高出3倍。”

她透露，政府及业者常以世界卫生组织为盾牌，包括指没有充份证据显示有害健康等，但是在2007年由一组顶尖科学家及环境专家组成的国际电磁波研究报告提出，很多研究是在安全的水平下进行，结果发现电讯塔发射的每平方公分0.01至0.5毫瓦下，数百公尺内的居民健康皆受影响，这也是为何科学家联署的2000年奥地利宣言，提出将电磁波规范在每平公分0.1毫瓦（每公尺0.614瓦特）

她重申，该组织也没有否定大马通讯与多媒体委员（MCMC）的报告结果，只是大家所测试时所用的单位不同，数字也有所不同，包括昨日黄泉安所进行的测试，不过他们会将各造进行的结果呈给国际权威组织进行分析。

“至今尚未有一个组织针对电磁波进行24小时的测试，来证明是否有害。”

他们指出，正在准备成立跑马园居民及家长要求电讯塔及无线上网发射器远离小组。

许我一片健康的天空

2009-01-20T03:47:00.000-08:00

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我接受“不要無線籠罩全檳運動組織”的邀請，站在前線“現身說法”，針對檳州政府將在近期讓全檳能無線上網，發表我的親身經驗和從醫學的角度探討這個課題。

事關數年前，女兒常常鬧頭痛。痛到流淚、痛到失眠。還在念小學的女兒，如此的頭痛，考慮盡了所有導致頭痛的可能因素和找了兒科專科的同僚，但還是不能徹底的解決問題，真讓我心痛。隨后，很巧合的在本地的一份報紙的專題報道讀到，當時在中國的無線上網（WiFi）的流行和它可能帶來的負面健康威脅。于是，我半信半疑的把家里的WiFi給停了，轉換成有線上網（wired internet connection）。過后，女兒再也沒有無緣無故的患頭痛了。因為那是在數年前，WiFi還不真正的非常普遍，我想這或許是一個巧合或頂多是一個特別的個案。但是這幾個星期以來，漸漸的我得知有不少民眾是有電磁波敏感癥（electrohypersensitivity）的。

這一兩個月，和“反對全檳無線籠罩組織”的協調員交流，很努力的去了解電磁波輻射（electromagnetic field radiation）的這一門學問（WiFi，WiMax 和手機都會產生電磁波），才“恍然大悟”。原來對于這個我們每天都接觸到的電磁波輻射，我們對它的了解是這么的少，甚至存有危險的誤解。

常常我們都會聽到，居住在電訊塔近距離的居民，都會有偏高的嚴重疾病的病發率，而引發他們拉布條抗議。但是我們所接觸到的主流媒體，幾乎沒有一家真正的全面的報道過有關電磁波輻射可能帶來的健康和人命威脅。為什么呢？（猜猜看！）

于是我開始和先進國研究電磁波輻射的專家和學者聯絡，細讀他們給我的相關的資料。我可以很肯定地說，電磁波輻射肯定對我們的健康造成很大的威脅和傷害。尤其是對一群所謂的電磁波敏感群、嬰孩、兒童、老人、患重病者和在康復中的病人。在先進國，人們對電磁波輻射的醒覺較高，非政府組織的規模也較強大。不像我們，連電訊塔安裝在學校附近和組屋頂樓這麼不可思議的事情，屢見不鮮。

你或許會問，你真的有醫學報告的根據的嗎？WiFi 和 Wimax 的電磁波輻射和手機的輻射（很多人都不相信手機會帶來電磁波輻射）一樣的meh？如會帶來健康的禍害，那為什么政府不禁止WiFi和手機呢？（政府到今天還不能成功的禁煙，雖然香煙的禍害眾人皆知）如果電訊塔會造成嚴重的疾病，為什么不起訴電訊公司呢？如果？如果？？？（你想知道得更詳細，請留下你的電郵地址，我會很樂意的把資料寄給你參考，然后我們交流）

在這里我懇求以民為本的檳州政府，別倉促的讓WiFi和Wimax 24小時籠罩全檳的天空。最低限度，請讓幼兒園、學校、住家、醫院、病老院和公園遠離不必要的、多余的電磁波輻射。

人民若生活能如意，政府則功德能圓滿。

響應拒全檳無線上網丹絨武雅居民將組委會

2009-01-18T22:53:00.000-08:00

文摘自星洲日报

繼大山腳之後，丹絨武雅居民也響應“拒絕全檳無線上網”組織的呼吁，即將在區內成立“喚醒丹絨武雅居民拒絕全檳無線上網”。

其成員包括居民鄭良高、翁慧芝、王欽福、李翠華、韓景光、陳世榮、吳侑仁、張光平、溫俊喜、李斯傑等。

工委會在週日（1月18日）於丹絨武雅巴士召開新聞發佈會指出，丹絨武雅將是檳州政府在未來2年落實全檳無線（wireless@penang及WiMax@penang）的8個先驅點的其中一個主要地點，然而丹絨武雅卻是一個住宅區密集的地區，若政府執意推行計劃，將對區內的數以萬計的人民造成長遠性的影響。

出席新聞發佈會的居民鄭良高說，並非反對無線上網新科技，可是不必須全檳進行無線上網，以免可能對人民帶來長遠的不利健康等影響；居民翁慧芝說，檳州政府應聽取拒絕全檳無線的人民的心聲，小心選擇無線上網區域，不是含蓋全檳。

23日辦無線上網影響交流會

工委會相信，多數民眾對無線上網的負面影響所知不多，不知無線上網即是通過電磁波的照射及傳送來傳輸資料，以致家人面對長期曝露在無線電磁波下也不知情，所以工委會擇定本週五（23日），晚上8時30分於丹絨武雅福德祠會所（培華小學附近）舉辦一項無線上網負面影響交流會，邀請“絕全檳無線上網”組織的成員與居民交流及講解，主講人包括醫生及醫療師等專業人士，屆時歡迎對此有興趣者聆聽及交流。

工委會也將在未來通過份發傳單，舉辦講座會及媒體來教育區內民眾，此外也希望其他地區的人民一起來成立個別地區的拒絕全檳無線上網的工委會，一如“喚醒大山腳人民拒絕全檳無線上網”工委會。

涂仲義：避免身體受傷害‧檳民應向無線上網說“不”

2009-01-18T22:47:00.000-08:00

图文摘自星洲日报

左起：主講人詹義華、溫秀枝、涂仲儀、王美麗及羅有明。

無線上网對人體健康有損理論講座會，週日在大山腳舉行，當天下午出席人數逾30名，說明此區市民對無線上網電磁波之利弊，仍未熱衷。

（檳城‧大山腳）“喚醒大山腳人民拒絕全檳無線上網”的首次交流講座會，出席人數雖未臻理想，但數位主講人仍抖擻精神，吁請檳城全民，向無線電磁波說“不”。

反對檳城被電磁波覆蓋

執業醫生涂仲義說，他100%支持有線上網，卻反對被無線電磁波覆蓋的檳城。

涂仲義的3年級女兒因家裡有裝無線上網，常頭痛到抱頭痛哭。讓身為醫生的他也難過。某一天，從報章上讀到無線上網會對人體健康有影響後，結果終止無線上網，而女兒的頭痛就不藥而癒。

他指出，在世衛的900份報告中，66%指無線上網會帶來對人體有問題，沒問題的僅30%。三藩市原本要裝無線上網，但找專家詢問後，結果仍鼓勵人民使用有線上網。

他指出，美國在第二次世界大戰中，在廣島投下兩顆原子彈，任誰也沒料到30年後其輻射還在，仍讓多人患癌症。而無線上網也一樣，我們也無法預知其電磁波對人體的傷害有多大，輻射有多久。

他說，2006年世界有52名科學家聯合簽署一份文件，在2007年有47名科學家聯合簽署，均指手機的電磁波人體有害，所以，不鼓勵整個城市被無線電磁波覆蓋。

“世衛組織指出，世界有3至5%人，或檳城4萬5000人對電磁波有敏感。如電磁波在全檳城覆蓋，那檳州的3至5%電磁波敏感者，該跑去哪裡呢？”

盼州政府以民為本

他說，檳城政府不該為達先進州，而要州民付出慘痛的代價。希望他們能以民為本，以愛心來對待人民，為人民健康著想。

涂仲儀透露，的確有證明顯示，經常使用手機者，會中腦癌。無線上網及手機對人體免疫系統的傷害，將會如吸煙會得肺癌一樣嚴重。

他吁請檳州全民，給自己一點空間，探索無線上網電磁波24小時覆蓋的危險性。而政府要以民為本，因為小孩、嬰兒及老人，是承受不了電磁波24小時侵襲的。就如24小時不停地吸黑煙一樣，不死才怪。

他希望州政府保留一些沒有電磁波的空間給人民，如學校，住宅區及休閑山坡，避免人體的被傷害。

王美麗：用手機要有智慧
藍牙電磁波強2倍

反對無線上网負責人王美麗說，使用手機要有智慧，常用藍牙者會遭強2倍電磁波侵襲，而短訊的電磁波就短。

她指出，在學校後豎立電訊台發射站的商務華小，多年來常發現學生頭痛及流鼻血，家協為此也曾找許多理由來解決那此負面的影響。

也是商務家協主席的她指出，學生頭痛不能集中精神，有者早上不想來上課，情緒不好等，一些在轉校後，就不藥而癒了。

她說，2001年科學家有告訴我們，受電磁波影響者，會有不尋常的舉行，精神不集中或頭痛等症狀。但是我們卻後知後覺。

“拒無線電磁波傷害孩子”
詹義華：不應接受投射站

“喚醒大山腳人民拒絕全檳無線上網”臨時工委會聯合主席詹義華說，我們應全力拒絕無線電磁波傷害到孩子，吁請州政府與科技、醫學界進行研究，以智慧保衛人民的健康。

“檳城政府應考量在大馬設立發射台的裝置。因為檳城本是美麗島嶼，每條河流清澈，空氣清新，環境清潔，吸引旅客到來。但在電子城及工業城建立之後，破壞了檳城的環境。”

他說，如今，無線上網的電磁波新科技，被發現將對人民健康造成傷害，這種投射站不該被接受的。

導師羅有明說，為無線上網，檳州政府將在州內設立750個熱點，未來的幅射與對全民健康的影響，叫人難以想像。

The BioInitiative Report - Biological Standards for Wireless

2009-01-15T17:30:00.001-08:00

Dr George Carlo speaks about the danger of wi-fi in schools

2009-01-15T07:40:00.000-08:00

拒全檳無線延燒大山腳‧人民吁政府放棄計劃

2009-01-14T23:20:00.000-08:00

图文摘自星洲日报

以羅有明（左三）及詹義華（左四）為首的“喚醒大山腳人民拒絕全檳無線上網”工委會即將成立，要求州政府放棄全檳無線上網計劃。右一至右三為蔡昌衛、溫秀枝及吳春樺。（圖：星洲日報）
（檳城‧大山腳）拒絕全檳無線上網課題越演越熾熱，從檳島延燒到大山腳。

大山腳一群人民要求檳州政府以人民的健康為重，放棄會讓全檳人民籠罩在無線電磁波輻射帶來的影響。

“我們歡迎檳州政府致力發展經濟及建設，卻拒絕州政府將備受爭議性，並引起國際很多獨立科學家及政府發出勸告的科技引進檳州，而且是在籠罩性的情況下實行。”

鼓勵以電話線上網

以社會工作者詹義華及羅有明為首的“喚醒大山腳人民拒絕全檳無線上網”工委會，週三（1月14日）在新聞發佈會聯合發表以上聲明後表示，即將成立以上工委會，與“不要全檳無線組織”聯合要求檳州政府放棄全檳無線上網計劃。

記者者尚有社會工作者吳春樺、許國川、陳俊宏、以及“不要全檳無線組織”的發言人溫秀枝以及協調員蔡昌衛。

他們吁請檳州政府放棄全檳無線，反而鼓勵民眾以傳統性的電話線來取代上網，使人民活出品質及健康，免除進一步的電磁輻射的傷害及影響。

詹義華羅有明：影響健康
州政府應聽取民意

詹義華及羅有明聯合聲明，響應“不要全檳無線組織”所提出的檳州無線上網計劃，將對人民造成負面健康影響，尤其是對孩童、老人、病人及電磁敏感者。

“我們相信，‘不要全檳無線組織’意阻擾社會及經濟發展，而是要求檳州政府以人民的健康為重，放棄全檳籠罩在無線電磁波輻射的影響下，反之應免除住宅區、學校等敏感地區。”

他們認為，有必要向州政府提出區內人民對全檳無線的擔憂及意願，而州政府也應聽取人民心聲，尤其是越來越多證據顯示，無線上網可能帶來的負面影響。

18日在慈聯會會所辦講座

這兩個組織也相信，多數人對無線上網的運作及其潛在危險並不知情，所以政府有必要普及教育民眾，讓他們瞭解世界各國對無線科技所進行的研究報告及勸告，如德國政府在國會上勸告人民少用無線，顯然是無線有潛在的危害，德國政府才會如此忠告人民。

為使大山腳子民對無線上網潛在的威脅有進一步瞭解，該會於1月18日下午4時，在慈聯會會所底樓舉行交流講座。屆時，將邀請全檳無線組織成員蒞臨向人民解釋，為何要反對全檳無線上網計劃。

溫秀枝歡迎居民組委會

溫秀枝歡迎大山腳居民自發性成立“喚醒大山腳人民拒絕全檳無線上網”工委會，聯合此組織一起要求檳州政府免除住宅區、學校、公園、醫院及圖書館等人們休息及孩童活動的地方。

她指出，最近蒞臨檳城的德國科學家也向檳州政府及人民提出忠告不要全檳無線，而電磁敏感人士包括醫生也現身說法，這已反映了無線上網發射的電磁波如同電訊塔，皆已成為一項健康危機。

“我們並非反對新科技，可是在科技與健康兩者之間，我們相信可以取得和諧共生及平衡。

“我們歡迎州政府致力發展經濟及建設，卻拒絕州政府將備受爭議性，並引起國際很多獨立科學家及政府發出勸告的科技引進檳州。”

Victims of Electromagnetic Radiation around the World

2009-01-14T23:00:00.000-08:00

www.next-up.org

Mobile telephony and EHS : Testimony "indictment" against
M. Repacholi (WHO & ICNIRP) and Governments.

31 12 2007

Victims of Electromagnetic Radiation around the World

The Dr. Carlos Sosa M.D. Story.

Please let me introduce myself. My name is Dr. Carlos Sosa, M.D.
(Physician and surgeon) and I'm presently living in Medellin, Colombia in South America.

During the month of May 2006, I was forced to leave my house because of the symptoms caused to me and my family by the microwaves of a wireless Internet (WiFi) mast (or antenna).

The structure had been in our building for nearly three years and the company that owned it had been slowly raising the transmission frequency.

In May/06 I started feeling a terrible sense of unwellness: headaches, dizziness, insomnia, nausea, irritability, amnesia or forgetfulness and lack of attention or concentration capacity. I couldn't bear being close to my house or to any other microwave mast, be it cell phone or WiFi antennas. I had to leave my
house together with my whole family just to find out that the city was flooded by some 4000 masts that wouldn't 't leave a single irradiated spot for us to live in.

I could sense the electromagnetic fields that were being given off by these antennas blocks away before I could even see them. Many times I felt like a burning candle in the back part of my head (occipital). We had to move to five different apartments all over the city because the situation was the same no matter
where we went. I couldn't find physical or mental peace anywhere in the city.

I couldn't study again which, being a Medical Doctor is a tragedy. Studying is my life and I wasn't able to remember or to concentrate. I had to resign my position at the hospital where I worked because there were various microwave cell
phone masts around the hospital. I could not stand being inside the Emergency Service because the electromagnetic contamination was just too high and I felt pain just trying to find a place to park the car. That used to be my daily routine.

Despite the fact that I tried to get help from local health authorities and the National Ministry of Communications of Colombia, nobody actually helped me. I sent my written reports with medical evidence to our city Health Secretary. He probably laughed a lot.

A few months later I found out of Dr. William Rea who runs the Environmental Health Clinic in Dallas, Texas. I left immediately in search of his help. I already knew I had Microwave Syndrome. The alterations in my physiology were serious enough to seek help anywhere in the world.

In Colombia, not a single medical doctor is trained in any of the universities to treat this problem. It's simply not taught anywhere in pre-graduate or graduate programs in medical schools around the country.

Plus, being a medical doctor, I know of the IGNORANCE and DOGMATISM of the medical profession. If I made it public I would be tried for witchcraft. Despite this, I tried a very prestigious neurologist who had studied in Great Britain. He didn't even know the syndrome existed in Medicine and he tried to laugh
before I showed him my box with some 2000 medical publications from all medical specialties written by doctors from all over the world.

In Dallas I was able to meet people from the five continents with exactly my same story: they had been subject to microwave radiation from a mast that was one, two, three or four blocks away.

I was not considering the possibility of surviving in the measure that my neurological functions were deeply affected. My best option at that point in time was committing suicide and I thought about it every hour of every day. Dr. Rea made the diagnosis of a toxic encephalopathy, immune dysregulation and dysautonomy. All of these diagnoses are a direct consequence of microwave irradiation. It had been
many years since I had cried. I stayed in the clinic's rest room for half an hour trying to vanish the traces of the tears and my red eyes. I knew how serious the situation was. Basically all of my life, my profession and my neurological integrity was at stake.

Dr. Rea taught me a lot. I will be eternally grateful to him. Though he wanted me to stay for two or three months, my economical situation did not allow for it. The very first day I had to spend almost all of my money in lab examinations. The medical results at the clinic spread through all of the gamut of possibilities from no response, partial recovery, functional symptoms, to total cure.

I returned to Colombia in search of a place to hide from microwaves in the jungle. I visited tens of towns and states around the country. The nation is totally contaminated with electromagnetic smog. And Colombia is far better than any city in the United States or Europe. I finally managed to find a spot at one
of the turns of the Andes Mountains. It was a beautiful place with a creek, a forest, a 200 year old house with no electricity and pure air. (All those interested, please just write to karlkropotkin@yahoo.com).

Though I could sense the electromagnetic fields coming probably from radar units, there was a big reduction in the symptoms that allowed me to start recovering. After staying there for 5 months I had to return to the city, because I was starting to feel the microwaves of the airplanes crossing in the sky.

Unfortunately, there was an international air navigation route on the sky and I had to leave in very much pain back to the city. It was Dr. George Carlo, head of the epidemiology branch of the CTIA of the United States, who denounced publicly the evidence that they had concerning genetic damages, lymphomas, rupture of the
brain-blood-barrier, presence of micronuclei, etc. The criteria used in Medicine and specifically in Epidemiology to establish a causal relationship between a chemical, bacterial or physical agent and disease, were fulfilled in less than ten years, states Carlo. These criteria, known as the Koch-Henle postulates, have proven that microwaves from cell phone telephony affect human health in a catastrophic
way.

Not a single government in the world cares. Only through litigation will changes become effective. My case, just like the case of other medical doctors who are or have been electro-sensitive, is just another modern version of infamy. Among these is the case of the former director of WHO and Norwegian prime minister: Gro Harlem Brundtland. She had forbidden journalists from using cell phones
in her office because of her EHS (electrohypersensitivity). The news was made public in Norway and Sweden. A few months later, she had to abandon the leadership of the World Health Organization.

Many point to Michael Repacholi and the the cell phone industry as authors of this proscription. Dr. Brundtland eventually became another patient in Dallas. Like her, Dr. Arthur Firstenberg and Dr. Lisa Nagy have become the tips of the icebergs. There is no doubt: the Microwave Syndrome is not only the biggest experiment in the history of Mankind, but also, it is one of the biggest epidemics recorded in Medicine (after the Black Death, influenza, malaria, AIDS, etc). The Health Department of the State of California is estimating that the total number of people affected in the United States by EHS or the Microwave Syndrome is over ONE MILLION people.

In not a single Medicine book or journal in the world, be it a genetics, a physiology, a histology, a molecular biology, a biochemistry, a microbiology, an internal medicine, a pediatrics, a surgery, a neurology, a cardiology, or any other text does it say that the human cell was designed to to withstand
microwave radiation day and night throughout the years. This is a creation, an invention or a lie from the cell phone industry.

This industry was set up by engineers, physicist, electricians and many times, by graduates of elementary school who had no credentials and no knowledge of Medicine whatsoever.

That's the reason why many of us are ill or actually dying. As long as the cell phone industry owns the World Health Organization, the crime will proceed. The credibility gap of the WHO extends well beyond the Milky Way. The ethical conflict is patent.

The international epidemic of the microwave syndrome is getting to levels of genocide. And Michael Repacholi is internationally responsible for CRIMES AGAINST MANKIND. The knowledge was there since the 1920's.

Originally described in the Soviet Union during the 1940's and 1950's, the Microwave Syndrome, also called Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, Microwave Disease, Radio-frequency Sickness, Radar Disease, Electric Sensitivity, Cell Phone Disease, Cell Phone Mast Disease constitutes a CRIME AGAINST MANKIND on behalf of the international cell phone industry. Soviet medical reports were already
describing the damaging action of electromagnetic fields on human beings in the 1920's. The microwaving of approximately 80-90% of the human population is, according to Dr. Leif Salford of the Neurosurgery Department of Lund University in Sweden, the greatest experiment ever conducted against Man. Medical ethics codes have been violated by the World Health Organization taken over by the the cell phone industry in 1996.

The Microwave Syndrome or Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, constitutes a criminal action that has violated medical ethics, the Nuremberg Code, the Helsinki Declaration, and Human Rights of MANKIND as a species. It is an international HOLOCAUST that is killing hundreds of thousands around the world.
Not a single health authority in Great Britain, the United States, Spain, Germany, France or Colombia cares at all.

Taking into account the medical literature of the Soviet Union, Poland and Czechoslovakia, the total number of international medical references concerning this problem easily exceeds 100 million and they started to be published more than 80 years ago. The problem is not new. Furthermore, the British government knew of the symptoms of the operators of the radar antennas during the Second World War:
the same symptoms that people who are subject to microwaves from cell phone masts experience.

Microwave radiation is pertinent to cause death. Not a single government in the world cares because of the giant fortunes involved.

The World Health Organization, years ago a very serious and respectable institution, was bought in 1996 by the former director of the ICNIRP (International Commission for Non-ionizing Radiation Protection), Michael Repacholi. The ICNIRP is a private organization that was built up in order to protect the private interests of the American and European cell phone industry. In many regards, cell phones pose an equivalent problem as cocaine traffickers. No matter how damaging it actually is, there will always be corrupted officials who are willing to sell their conscience for money and look the other way.

There is a present international campaign to submit Michael Repacholi to international justice for CRIMES AGAINST MANKIND. I personally hold Michael Repacholi responsible for my EHS. This person has to be sent to criminal trial for his actions against millions of human beings in the five continents. The WHO knew of this damaging action decade before the introduction of cell phone telephony in the world.

Repacholi did not care. In 1973 the WHO conducted an international Congress in Warsaw under the auspices of the government of Poland and the Federal Drug Administration of the United States. The results of this congress were published in the book entitled: "Biologic Effects and Health Hazards of
Microwave Radiation." I have heard that Michael Repacholi ordered this book burned.
Repacholi recently revealed that up to half of the funds raised for the EMF project of the World Health Organization came from the cell phone industry.

The conflict of interests is like having the tobacco industry sponsor research in order to deny that cigarettes cause lung cancer, mouth floor cancer, larynx cancer, pharynx cancer, coronary disease, peripheral vascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, myocardial infarction, strokes, etc.

The Microwave Syndrome, .

as it was originally described by Soviet medical investigators consists of:
- A neurasthenic syndrome: fatigue, irritability, nausea, headaches, anorexia, depression, dizziness
- A cardiovascular syndrome: bradycardia, tachycardia, hypertension or low blood pressure
- A diencephalic syndrome: memory problems, concentration difficulties, insomnia
Chronic exposure to microwaves is associated with dermatological lesions, leukemia, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (epidemic), brain tumors (epidemic), changes in the electroencephalogram, cardiac arrhythmias, reproduction problems, allergies, hypothyroidism, sinusitis, chronic fatigue syndrome, etc.

Because it was known since the 1920's that microwaves are bio-active, lawyers like Peter Angelos in the USA are making a fortune in litigation processes (similar to those against the tobacco industry) against the cell phone industry. Not only that, but Motorola openly lied to the federal government and its agencies
when it stated that they had thousands of studies that proved that microwaves caused no ham. Last year, the judicial system of the United States established that the brain tumor that the patient Sharesa Price had was a direct consequence of cell phone use. Repacholi is totally silent, as so as the cell phone industry and the World Health Organization.

Because of this grave crisis that almost cost me my life, I started investigating on a possible cure for EHS or microwave syndrome. I developed an approach that reconstructs previous Soviet treatments and modern medicine. I started my own site in the hope of helping people around the world to overcome this
tragedy ( www.thesanctuarydrsosa.com ). I presently live outside the city in a place with a very low microwave radiation level- a sanctuary.

Colombia has had some of the most astonishing cases in the world. One of them was located in Valledupar in the northern part of the country. One thousand people in El Amparo neighborhood are sick because of two giant cell phone masts. They are selling 250 houses because of the microwave syndrome people are suffering. The government says it's just coincidence.

I want to dedicate my life to help other patients who like me, are facing an infamous situation caused by human greed. I have tons of medical information that I want to share with everybody. Feel free to contact me. There is hope and Medicine does in fact have treatment options to offer. May I suggest the following
links that might be of help to all of you who are in a desperate situation like I was:
1. http://next-up.org
2. http://EMF-Health.com
3. http://c-a-r-e.org
4. http://earthpulse.net
5. http://buergerwelle.com
6. http://emfacts.com (Dr. Don Maisch)
7. http://emrpolicy.org
8. http://mast-victims.org (OF COURSE !!)
9. http://www.junipercivic.com/latestNewsArticle.asp?nid=41 (epidemic spreads)
10. http://emf-portal.de
11. http://safewireless.org
12. http://laleva.org
13. http://powerwatch.org
14. http://hese-project.org
15. http://tetrawatch.net
16. http://earthlink.net
17. http://www.feb.se/EMFguru/Research/research-contents.html
18. http://www.feb.se/index.htm 19. http://www.emfguru.org/
20. http://members.aol.com/gotemf/emf/
21. http://wave-guide.org
22. http://www.electrosensitivity.org.uk/
23. http://www.ahappyhabitat.com/
24. http://www.textually.org

Dr. Carlos Sosa, M.D.
Medellin, Colombia
South America
karlkropotkin@yahoo.com

Paul Raymond Doyon
MAT (TESOL), MA Advanced Japanese Studies, BA Psychology
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"

反對全檳無線上網大山腳人組委會響應

2009-01-14T22:59:00.000-08:00

文摘自中国报

（大山腳14日訊）大山腳人也反對無線上網﹗

大山腳一批志工即將成立以詹義華及羅有明為首的“喚醒大山腳人民拒絕全檳無線上網”工委會，目前積極號召更多反對的大山腳市民響應加入，以凝聚力量向州政府反映民聲。

“反對全檳無線上網組織”之前提出的檳州無線上網計劃，將對人民造成負面健康影響，尤其是孩童、老人、病人及電磁敏感者，引起該批志工關注，決定成立工委會捍衛人民健康。

該臨時工委會今日召開記者會說，多數人對無線上網的運作及潛在危險並不知情，接下來將通過各項教育及宣傳活動，比如講座會等，讓大山腳人民了解WIFI無線上網帶來的負面影響。

“我們認為有責任向州政府提出區內人民對全檳無線上網的擔心及意願，州政府應該聽取區內人民的心聲，目前很多方面，已對無線上網帶來的負面影響提出證據。”

該工委會說，州政府也有必要普及教育民眾，讓人民了解世界各國對無線科技所進行的研究報告及勸告，比如德國政府在國會上勸告人民少用無線上網，顯然是無線確實有潛在危機，該國政府才會如此忠告人民。

工委會說，有理由相信無線上網也與電訊塔一樣，長期對健康有害，如果州政府真要進行無線上網計劃，也必須選擇性的規劃落實，全面性推行，只會使上百萬檳州子民在未來可能面對健康危機。

為使大山腳人民對無線上網潛在威脅有進一步了解，該臨時工委會也將在本週日下午4時，在威省慈聯會會所底層舉行講座會。

出席者包括“反對全檳無線上網組織”的代表溫秀枝、蔡昌衛及志工吳春樺、許國川及陳俊宏。

溫秀枝：免影響健康
聯合力量向政府反映

“反對全檳無線上網組織”發言人溫秀枝歡迎“喚醒大山腳人民拒絕全檳無線上網”工委會的成立，聯合力量一起要求州政府免除住宅區、學校、公園、醫院及圖書館等，人民休息及孩童活動的地方，以免長期性造成健康不良影響。

她說，最近蒞臨檳城的德國科學家向州政府及人民提出忠告，顯示了無線上網發射的電磁波如同電訊塔，都已成為健康危機，人民尤其是小孩不該成為新科技下的實驗白老鼠。

她說，全檳無線上網涉及全檳設立750個熱線發射器，影響全檳各地區人民，所以所有人都有必要挺身而出，向州政府提出意願，尤其是父母也該為孩子發出聲音，因為孩子及電磁敏感者將受最直接傷害。

她呼籲州政府放棄全檳無線上網，反而鼓勵民眾以傳統性的電話線取代上網，使人民生活更健康。

專家：規劃特定地點‧檳城無需100%無線上網

2009-01-12T19:11:00.000-08:00

文取自光明日报

（檳城）檳州政府加速落實無線上網計劃，儘可能讓檳城成為全世界首個被無線網絡100%覆蓋的城市。不過，德國生物共振學專家戴爾瑪（Dietmar Heimes）說，這是沒有必要的，並且建議檳州政府應該規劃出一些特定地點，例如商業活動頻密的中心或機場等地裝置無線上網，但是學校、醫院及住宅區應該被排除在外。

他說，他走過許多國家，不曾聽說有一個城市擁有100%的無線上網覆蓋網。德國本身也不允許無線上網裝置在學校內。

“無論是無線上網的WIFI或WIMAX，都會影響人體的電磁波頻率而帶來傷害，身體內的礦物質會逐漸流失。”

戴爾瑪今日（週一，1月12日）在記者會上表示，睡房是非常重要的地方，因為民眾可以在晚間修補白天所受到的電磁波傷害，這些地方應該受到保護。

他說，面對電磁波的傷害，我們不是要回到穴裡居住，而是要學習如何保護我們自己，而政府也有義務保護人民，必須讓人民知道有關的資訊，暸解負面影響，並且擁有選擇權。

詢及只有少部份的人民反對州政府的無線上網計劃，德爾瑪指出，由於德國的科技較為先進，在1976年就已經接觸電子煙霧這個名詞，而全世界已經有5萬份研究報告指電子煙霧對人體有害，因此在反對政府的電訊塔及無線上網等計劃上，相對地會站在比較嚴謹的立場。

他指出，無線上網並非全然必要，還有其他許多安全的科技替代方式，例如使用電纜。

出席者包括“不要全檳無線組織”發言人林怡保醫生及陳奕權醫生。

Are You Sleeping in a Healthy Place?

2009-01-12T18:03:00.000-08:00

The new book Bio-Resonance According to Paul Schmidt makes the claim that 80% of illness is caused by three factors; The body's pH balance, Geopathic Stress and Electro-Smog or Electromagnetic radiation. We will review this book in a future edition.

If there is one health check that is more important than all others it must surely be to check the bedroom for the presence of Geopathic Stress or EMFs. As Dietmar Heimes Dipl.-Ing stated;?Whilst asleep the body is more easily burdened by electromagnetic radiation or geological disturbance zones. One reason for this is the fact that we occupy a certain place for about 8 hours a day when we sleep. If the bedroom is a zone of disturbance, this can adversely affect our organism for a long time every day and may result in permanent blockages in our regulatory mechanisms. To compound this we also have a decreased power of defence when we sleep.?

A typical modern bedroom has multiple power sockets behind the bed with cables in the wall as close as 30 cm from the head. DECT phones and mobile phone chargers and now WiFi are other common features in many homes giving an additional assault on the body from pulsed microwave radiation. It is often the case that an electric field of 100 volts per metre or even higher can be measured on the pillow in many bedrooms from just the normal household 240 volt supply. For further in depth information on the risks to health please see Patty Hemingways?s informative article in our December issue.

There are however options without withdrawing from the modern world. It may be possible to move the bed, install a blocking or balancing device such as an Elo-Rayex or E-Smog Rayonator. Although the whole issue of EMR has been slow to reach public consciousness and raise awareness, Germany and Sweden are now wide awake to the dangers and blocking devices such have been in use in Germany for the last 20 years.

EMR is possibly the biggest unrecognised danger in the modern world and is surely one health issue that won?t go away!

Article from http://www.healthleadsuk.com

人民之声谴责槟州政府无视地方民主违背大选诺言

2009-01-10T17:26:00.000-08:00

槟州政府豁免负责建设无线宽频设施的服务供应商向地方政府申请建筑，以及策划图测(building plan & planning approval) 是一个侵犯地方民主的举止。

豁免申请建筑以及策划图测（building plan @ planning approval）将导致地方政府无法有效的监督这些工程。最大的忧患是在于州政府有绝对的权力不经民意的豁免任何一项政策，那么人民的权益是在完全没有保障的情况之下任州政府鱼肉。

槟州政府在豁免供应商向地方政府申请建筑，以及策划图测是一个没有经过咨询的程序。将权力赋予执行公司(PDC TELCO) 的行为也是加速腐败的举动。槟州政府倘若让执行公司拥有绝对的权力，将会导致种种贪污舞弊的发生。

经过50年国阵政府的掌权，监督的机制已经是奄奄一息，但是换了新政府不仅没有看到大刀阔斧的改革，更是出尽法宝夺走最后的民主。因此政府务必解释相关决定的敲定过程及考量，并且公布这决定对城乡规划的长远影响。

虽然，执行公司仍然需要在两周前通知地方政府，而且地方政府也可以在两周内提出抗议，但是地方放政府的角色如同虚设。在短短的两个星期地方政府将需要处理几份申请函件？过去，人民已经对地方政府诸多怨言，显然受委的市议员不能让地方政府顺利的操作，而今槟岛的地方政府依然不是民主体制的产物，进一步削弱地方政府的力量无疑显示政府没有恢复地方民主的诚意！若在两个星期内地方政府没有提出抗议，那么人民的利益将被典当！地方政府不能有效操作的解决方式不应该是豁免保护人民利益的政策，而是透过民主制度选出能过为民服务的地方议员提升地方政府的效率与水准。

至今，槟州政府号称为CAT政府却频频做出不透明的政策，也减少人民可以参与的平台，甚至进一步削弱监督的体制。槟州政府削弱了地方政府的权力将权力移交给执行公司是本末颠倒的做法，执行公司应该呈交评估报告再由地方政府通过。然而，政府却一再削弱地方民主违背了归还第三选票的诺言。

若是今天槟州政府可以擅自决定豁免任何一个程序，那么身为老板的人民的权力在哪里？槟州政府不仅没有落实一个较为完整的监督制度，还进一步破坏民主让CAT政府成了一个口号。为了巩固党的势力，槟州政府不惜破坏民主程序加速腐败将仅有的监督功能毁灭。

豁免任何一项程序或者增设任何一项程序都对人民的日常生活造成巨大的影响。槟州政府不应该掉以轻心，轻视人民的福利及牺牲人民的权力。任何措施都应该以人民的权益为考量基础，槟州政府需要正视恢复地方民主恢复人民的第三张选票。槟州政府不应该采纳国阵政府的霸权策略否则将遭人民唾弃！

人民之声再次呼吁槟州政府落实地方民主，归还人民第三张选票！

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Group seeking people sensitive to electromagnetic fields

2009-01-08T20:02:00.000-08:00

By MANJIT KAUR(The Star)

GEORGE TOWN: A Radio Frequency Radiation Sensitive group will be set-up to gather figures on those who are sensitive to electromagnetic fields in another move to protest against the state government’s free state-wide WiFi plan under its Wireless@Penang project.

Its coordinator Dr Thor Teong Gee, a medical doctor said the findings would be submitted to the state government once they had enough people registered with them to show that the situation needed urgent attention.

He said the World Health Organisation (WHO) had acknowledged that there were about 1.5 to 3% of the world population that were vulnerable to the exposure of electromagnetic fields and microwave radiation created by the telecommunication towers, high tension wires and wireless systems.

The sub-group is being set up by the already existing Penang Wireless Campaign group and the Penang Telco Towers Alliance

“We hope people suffering from this sort of condition will come forwards to register as members with the group,’’ he told a press conference on Thursday.

Present at the press conference were a group of people that had their own experiences to share on the sensitivity to the electromagnetic field suffered by them and their family members.

Dr Thor said those interested to join the group could contact him at 04-8661044 or email him at drthortg@yahoo.com.

“無線上網電波影響健康”‧2造設小組收集個案

2009-01-08T19:59:00.001-08:00

摘自光明日报

溫秀枝（前左起）、涂生枝、涂仲儀及王美麗（後者）呼吁對點此波輻射敏感人士聯絡此組，同時也希望政府正視受影響人士的問題，放棄全檳無線。（圖：光明日報）

（檳城）“不要全檳無線組織”聯合“檳州人民反對電訊塔影響健康聯盟”成立一個以涂仲儀醫生為首的“電磁輻射敏感群體小組”，希望可以收集更多對電磁輻射敏感的人士資料，以向政府傳達他們反對無線電磁波籠罩全檳的意願，以及瞭解他們的立場。

涂仲儀表示，希望那些容易受到電磁輻射源傷害及敏感的公眾挺身而出，加入此組織，向政府反映他們意願。

他呼吁敏感群人士聯絡此組，包括在電磁波範圍區內會出現頭痛、頭暈、無法入眠、皮膚敏感等不適況者，他們應該在州政府正急促推動Wimax無線上網的同時，站出來表達本身的想法。

他透露，自己是100%支持和鼓勵傳統有線上網連接的科技工藝，但卻堅決反對Wifi及Wimax無線電磁波籠罩全檳，且民眾也應該小心和選擇性應用無線上網科技。

裝置無線上網服務
孩子常頭痛感不適

涂仲儀指出，早前在家中裝置了24小時無線上網服務，但後來發現女兒經常出現頭痛及不適現象，惟在暫停使用該服務後，才恢復正常。

他今日（週四，1月8日）上午召開記者會上說，從醫學觀點來看，至今仍沒有一份醫學報告或研究能肯定Wifi及Wimax無線上網不會對人體健康帶來禍害，但目前也越來越多的專業報告顯示無線上網可能會對人體帶來威脅和傷害。

他說，嬰兒、兒童、老年人、病人都是非常脆弱的一群，且尤其容易受到電磁波輻射影響健康。

他希望政府應該選擇性的推動無線上網科技，尤其是住宅區、學校、醫院、公園或是其他公眾場所，避免對敏感群體及脆弱一族造成長遠的傷害。

他說，受影響人士或只佔小部份，但不代表可以忽視他們的權勢，因此希望收集更多個案及資料。

“电磁辐射敏感群体小组”成立　收集例案呈州政府

2009-01-08T19:57:00.000-08:00

摘自光华日报

（槟城8日讯）“不要全槟无线组织”联合“槟州人民反对电讯塔影响健康联盟”成立一个以涂仲仪医生为首的“电磁辐射敏感群体小组”，以收集更多类似个案，向州政府提呈备忘录。

尽管本身是民政党党员，但涂仲仪是次是以槟城人和医生的身份参与这项活动。在2006年至2008年间，他本身和女儿曾因家中的WIFI 24小时操作，而引起严重头痛，直到暂停使用后，才恢复正常。

他是在新闻发布会上，如是指出。他坦诚无法避免互联网的使用，而且也没有反对科技工艺和互联网之意。然而，他希望州政府能选择性的设立无线上网，如在商业区，而非在住宅区。他也认为民众可选择传统的有线上网连接。

他说，至今虽然没有一分医学报告或研究能肯定无线上网不会对人类健康带来祸害，但却有越来越多的专业报告显示，它非常可能会对人体带来威胁。

他指出，年轻人较强壮，所以对电磁波不会有特别感觉，但也有特定的群众在电磁波的辐射下，是相对的“脆弱”的，尤其是婴孩、儿童、老年人、病人和正在疗养中的病人。

欢迎面对上述问题者联络涂仲仪医生017-4737933、04-8661044或邮址drthortg@yahoo.com或是温秀枝04-8901279。

邀德科学家11日办讲座会

“不要全槟无线组织”和“槟州人民反对电讯塔影响健康联盟”特别邀请来自德国的科学家Dietmar Heimes，于1月11日早上11时，在爱心大厦举办一场“如何防止辐射伤害健康”免费讲座会，欢迎出席。

德国科学家莅临槟城主讲“如何防止辐射伤害健康”专题免费讲座会

2008-12-28T21:32:00.000-08:00

“不要全槟无线”组织联合“槟州人民反对电讯塔影响健康联盟”定2009年1月11日，周日，早上11时至下午2时，于槟城爱心大厦举办题为“如何防止辐射伤害健康”的免费专题讲座会，主讲人来自德国科学家的戴尔玛(Dietmar Heimes)。

在一项记者会上指出，戴尔玛於德國The Aachen工艺大学取得電機工程碩士學位。於1994年加入专门研究防止电磁辐射的公司，曾發表多項研究報告，著有“Bioresonance according Paul Schmidt”(根据保罗史密的生物共振)一書。

在戴尔玛即將主講『如何防止幅射伤害健康』的演講中將會告訴您如何檢測負面幅射對人體的影響，例如電磁幅射、无线电磁波、地下幅射、酸性體質等等，如何防護及減少它。讲座会以英文媒介，惟会上将由林怡保医生及陈奕权医生进行中文翻译。

戴尔玛曾多次莅临槟城及主讲有关电磁辐射危害健康讲座会，在10年前即针对槟城的电讯塔会危害人体健康一事发出忠告，并劝请电讯塔应与人群保持至少200公尺的距离。在槟州人民各地区人民继续面对电讯塔影响健康及生活品质同时，戴尔玛将为受影响者及人民讲解这些电磁波及人体造成的影响。

戴尔玛从事研究的生物共振(Bioresonance)是其中一套专门研究人体受到电磁辐射影响后对各器官可造成的不利影响。生物共振根据人体皆有固定的频率来探测人体各部份的正常与否。

在记者会上，也是“不要全槟无线组织”发言人的的林怡保医生及陈奕权医生促请公众到场聆听。林怡保医生指出，此次讲座会旨在教育人民认清电磁辐射对我们人体健康造成的潜在威胁，这包括家中安装的无线电话(DECT)，无线上网、以及居住靠近电房，高压电塔地区或是靠近电讯塔。

她说，电磁波尤其对孩童、老人、病人及电磁敏感者带来最直接的影响及伤害，比如居住靠近高压电塔的孩童即面对极高的白血病(血癌)的风险，那些居住靠近电讯塔者也面对极高的癌症发病率，这些研究报告皆一再警惕人民必需远离这些装置，以免后悔莫及。然而她说，在全国以及槟州威省一带如威南等地区，却继续有不少的人民居住在高压电塔下，情况令人担心。

此外她说，家中的无线上网及无线电话相等于在家中安装“迷你电讯塔”，这些装置将放射出无线电磁波笼罩全家，这也是为何该组织反对全槟无线的原因，更希望更多社会人士了解电磁波的伤害，从现在起弃用家中的无线电话及无线上网，选择传统的电话线，以利孩童及家人的长远性健康。她承认，无线装置的确带来利便，可是在方便与健康必需选其一时，相信人民作为明智的决定。

她也极关注一些学校为使了方便，开始装置无线上网，要求这些学校应选择拆除这些装置，避免在成长中的孩童因为无线电磁波的影响，危害未来的成长。

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反对置无线上网 公园是休闲不容受辐射

王美麗：根據預警原則 公園不應設無線上網

WiFi Is Not Safe For Kids

反對台北市政府設置「WiFi無線上網」聲明

2011-07-02

反對台北市政府設置「WiFi無線上網」聲明

WiFi in schools proven dangerous.

Microwave radiation dangers in your home

「手機上網」電磁輻射，安全嗎?

歡迎民眾撥打04-6421591詢問‧檳免費上網熱線啟動

WORLD HEALTH Urgently Needs lower EMF Standards

黃泉安：為民聯加分 無線上網非檳負資產

If WiFi harms trees, what about children?

香港WiFi城市的隐忧

Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick, Study Says

快拆線

And Now … Tinnitus

Dect Phones and Microwave Radiation on the Electrosensitive

WiFi in schools and health effects of microwave radiation

WiFi concerns at Mountain View School in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada

International EMF Conference 2009 Stavanger Norway PhD Henry Lai

International EMF Conference 2009 Stavanger Norway PhD Devra Lee Davis

「電子書包」安全嗎?

槟城医生涂仲仪的忠告！Advice of a Penang Medical Doctor!

雷久南博士 关爱生命 远离电磁波

Parents threaten to remove children from Formby school over Wi-Fi installation

你割咗未啊@千萬別割

抽煙和無線上網

Wi-fi - Why I Don`t Think It`s as Safe as We are Led to Believe

I’m allergic to wi-fi waves

退后原來是向前

School Wi-Fi Campaign:Hérouville-Saint-Clair freed from wi-fi microwave radiation at 2450 MHz

Holland: Doctors issue an appeal against radiation risks

The mayor of the second largest city in Calvados is going to remove the wi-fi network from local schools.

Untested technology

Re: Free wireless Internet plan remains in limbo

電磁波敏感症-生理傷害

槟州电磁辐射公害防护联盟等拜会槟州民主行动党主席曹观友行政议员等

Wi-fi and Wi-max - Why You Shouldn’t Use Them

Medical Director of Paracelsus Clinic in Lustmühle, convinced‘electromagnetic loads’ lead to cancer

Progressive Librarians Guild Statement on WiFi in Libraries and the Precautionary Principle

A ticking time bomb?

The gathering brainstorm

Resolutions, Recommendations and Statements of Concern

退后原来是向前

English Hippies Want Local Wi-Fi Network Turned Off

Wifi and Electromagnetic fields

"Unplug Glastonbury Wi-Fi," say residents

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT : PRELIMINARY REPORT on preoccupations concerning the effects of human health of electromagnetic fields.

P1 Wimax free modem promotion to end on Feb 1

WiMAX wobbles but will it fall down?

檳設無線上網 民間組織抗議

Parent warns against use of WiFi in schools

WiFi coverage good but not its future side effects

Wifi is a bad bad thing for your health

无线上网运动组织要求 选择性地区设发射器

许我一片健康的天空

響應拒全檳無線上網 丹絨武雅居民將組委會

涂仲義：避免身體受傷害‧檳民應向無線上網說“不”

The BioInitiative Report - Biological Standards for Wireless

Dr George Carlo speaks about the danger of wi-fi in schools

拒全檳無線延燒大山腳‧人民吁政府放棄計劃

Victims of Electromagnetic Radiation around the World

反對全檳無線上網 大山腳人組委會響應

專家：規劃特定地點‧檳城無需100%無線上網

Are You Sleeping in a Healthy Place?

人民之声谴责槟州政府无视地方民主违背大选诺言

Group seeking people sensitive to electromagnetic fields

“無線上網電波影響健康”‧2造設小組收集個案

“电磁辐射敏感群体小组”成立 收集例案呈州政府

德国科学家莅临槟城主讲“如何防止辐射伤害健康”专题免费讲座会

反对置无线上网　公园是休闲不容受辐射

王美麗：根據預警原則公園不應設無線上網

黃泉安：為民聯加分無線上網非檳負資產

雷久南博士关爱生命远离电磁波

檳設無線上網　民間組織抗議

无线上网运动组织要求选择性地区设发射器

響應拒全檳無線上網丹絨武雅居民將組委會

反對全檳無線上網大山腳人組委會響應

“电磁辐射敏感群体小组”成立　收集例案呈州政府