| Until a few years ago, most of the studies on | | | | problems, including tumors, cancer, and early |
| the dangers of cell phone electromagnetic | | | | senility? |
| emissions were concentrated on the | | | | |
| possibility that the devices may heat the | | | | Along the way, cell phone manufacturers |
| brain or directly cause cancer. And many of | | | | succeeded not only in increasing cell phone |
| those studies were sponsored or financed | | | | use to the current estimate of 1.5 to 2 |
| either directly or indirectly by the | | | | billion worldwide cell phone users, but they |
| telecommunications industry. | | | | also succeeded in discouraging funding for |
| | | | research and influenced protection agencies |
| Because such studies concluded that thermal | | | | and government funded institutes to ignore |
| (heating) effects were too minor to pose a | | | | the dangers. |
| serious health risk, or no direct link could | | | | |
| be made to cancerous tumors, an impression | | | | Now the situation is changing, mostly due to |
| was created that cell phones were safe. | | | | cell phone users actually suffering the |
| | | | effects in ever-increasing numbers and their |
| The telecommunication giants that manufacture | | | | physicians reporting the effects. Courageous |
| and market cell phones, build cell phone | | | | researchers and privately funded studies are |
| towers, and sell air time and communication | | | | recognizing the statistical increases in |
| services, spent many millions of dollars on | | | | serious health disorders among cell phone |
| advertising, publishing statements and | | | | users and reporting them. |
| manipulating the media into repeating over | | | | |
| and over that cell phones are safe and health | | | | New scientific studies are now pinpointing |
| concerns are foolish completely ignoring the | | | | the relevant questions, and the real dangers |
| fact that most of the studies performed had | | | | of frequent and long-term cell phone use are |
| not looked at the real questions: | | | | becoming evident all over the world in |
| | | | countries where cell phones are popular. |
| What is the long term effect on the human | | | | |
| body from cell phone radiation? | | | | Swedish Study Links Brain Damage to Cell |
| | | | Phone Radiation |
| What biological interference occurs from | | | | |
| exposure to the non-thermal low intensity | | | | A study financed by the Swedish Council for |
| pulsed microwave radiation emitted by cell | | | | Work Life Research and published by the US |
| phones? | | | | government's National Institute of |
| | | | Environmental Health Sciences breaks new |
| Does the effect of electromagnetic radiation | | | | ground by looking at how low levels of |
| act as a trigger, setting off malfunctions in | | | | microwaves cause proteins to leak across the |
| the body's immune system, brain and nervous | | | | blood-brain barrier (BBB). |
| systems that in time result in serious health | | | | |