{"id":6223,"date":"2024-01-19T09:07:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T16:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=6223"},"modified":"2024-01-19T09:07:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T16:07:31","slug":"no-more-research-on-cellphone-radiation-and-human-health-government-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/19\/no-more-research-on-cellphone-radiation-and-human-health-government-says\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Research on Cellphone Radiation and Human Health, Government Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You don’t even need a study to see it’s harmful, as we have cases of Severe Microwave Syndrome<\/a> reported from people who worked or vacationed near 5G towers and getting heavy doses of radiation. And part of 5G is using much higher frequencies way above your microwave oven. So you can deduce the reason they don’t want to study this in great detail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/national-toxicology-program-stop-research-cellphone-radiation-human-health\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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The National Toxicology Program said it no longer plans to study the effects of cellphone radiation on human health, citing technical challenges and lack of resources \u2014 even though its own $30 million study found evidence of cancer and DNA damage.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

By Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The National Toxicology Program (NTP) has no plans to further study<\/a> the effects of cellphone radiofrequency radiation<\/a> (RFR) on human health \u2014 even though the program\u2019s own $30 million study<\/a> that took about 10 years to complete in 2018 reported evidence of cancer and DNA damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NTP said in an updated January 2024 fact sheet<\/a> that it was abandoning further investigation because \u201cthe research was technically challenging and more resource-intensive than expected.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For decades, the NTP has been the premier governmental testing program for pharmaceuticals<\/a>, chemicals<\/a> and radiation<\/a>, according to Devra Davis, Ph.D., MPH<\/a>, a toxicologist and epidemiologist who served on the board of scientific counselors for the NTP when it was launched in the 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commenting on the news, Davis said<\/a>, \u201cIt is the ultimate arrogance and folly to stop doing research<\/a> on this major growing environmental pollutant, precisely when we have ample evidence of harm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davis has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in books and journals, ranging from The Lancet to the Journal of the American Medical Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February 2023, she and her colleagues published a review<\/a> of more than 200 studies that linked wireless radiation<\/a> to negative biological effects including oxidative stress and DNA damage<\/a>, cardiomyopathy<\/a>, carcinogenicity<\/a>, sperm damage<\/a>, memory damage<\/a> and other neurological effects<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They will soon publish a \u201cmajor new article\u201d in Environment<\/a>: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development journal about \u201cnew science\u201d on RFR and call for precaution, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davis \u2014 who also is the founding director of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the U.S. National Research Council at the National Academy of Sciences<\/a> and the founder and president of Environmental Health Trust<\/a> \u2014 called out the U.S. government for failing to ensure that wireless radiation<\/a> is safe:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe government\u2019s decision to stop funding research on cellphone radiation is consistent with the Chinese proverb \u2018If you don\u2019t want to know, don\u2019t ask.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe US government has a variation of that in the policy of, \u2018don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell.\u2019 If you don\u2019t want to know whether cell tower radiation is having a biological impact, stop doing the research!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miriam Eckenfels-Garcia, director of Children\u2019s Health Defense<\/a>\u2019s (CHD) Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) and Wireless<\/a> program, told The Defender<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDiscontinuing government-funded research because it is \u2018technically challenging\u2019 and \u2018resource-intensive\u2019 is not what we expect from government agencies that are supposed to protect people from the harms of big industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis research is important so that people can make informed decisions when it comes to the use of technology.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

W. Scott McCollough, lead litigator for CHD\u2019s EMR cases, agreed. \u201cI am concerned that the absence of evidence will be contorted into a claim of evidence of absence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of early last year, the NTP was still conducting RFR research. A February 2023 fact sheet<\/a> said scientists had \u201covercome several technical issues\u201d and developed a better system for exposing animals to RFR for their studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NTP said researchers were \u201cnow making progress\u201d on four research goals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n