Many problems in determining if CPTs are safe

The major problems of convincing people that cell phones and cell phone towers can cause health problems are:
1. There is too much money involved in the industry and governments.
2. People are simply hooked on to mobile units.

Unless they have already started questioning the safety of cell phones and other wireless devices, people simply have no issues with Cell Phone Towers and will not be convinced of any issues.

I went for a leisure stroll and some solitude at the park the other day. Instead of playing with the children, some of them very young, the parents or nannies were chatting or surfing on the cell phones. As I ate my lunch I overheard a mom proudly announced that 4 year-old Binto received an iPod Touch for Christmas and how he already figured out the educational Apps and learned so much, and how the mom could stream video from Netflix wherever there is Wi-Fi. As I left, most of those moms and nannies were still deep into their cell phones.

And I thought to myself: this is all just Darwin at work!


Mailbag:
"I was home from college on Christmas and came across an Uncle Sam Wants You flyer my younger brother was given by a 'crazy lady' on Mango to take home to our parents. I asked my great uncle how he felt about the cell tower as he lives a block from one in Mountin View and he said 'they are everywhere.' I asked if he thought it is appropriate to put the towers in schools. And he replied, 'there is one by the old folk's home by 85. What is so special about children? Why is it okay to put it near old people and not children?' I was floored by his answer. God Bless America."

Mailbag:
"I am ambivalent about this tower. As a trained chemist, I fully understand the
physics of radiation and their effects on chemical bonds. The physics of cell
phone radiation do not support a claim of ionization or free radical creation
that would be cancer causing. My major concern is the 15x35' proposed structure
that I think radically changes the character of the park. The structure at the
Verizon tower near 85 and Fremont appears to much smaller."


For health hazards of cell phones and cell phone towers, google the following people for their publications, slides, presentations and video on youtube.

These people are looking at effects of low-dosage radio frequency radiation exposures, chronic exposures, whether effects are cummulative, how long the effects last, etc. Some of them also observed rise in brain tumor in children and long term cell phone users. The American Cancer Society is looking at reports of an increase in brain tumors in women within age group of 20-29.

FCC and American Cancer Society are still unsure but will let cell phones and cell phone towers to proceed at the mean time.


Dr Neil Cherry (1946 -2003) held the position of Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Lincoln University, New Zealand. (Assoc Prof (NZ) = Full Prof (US)). Professor Cherry had listened to these concerns of the community and spent many years and a great deal of his own salary income to travel around the world visiting universities and laboratories to collect the published papers and discuss as much as possible with the original researchers to make sure his evidence and conclusions are closely correct.

Dr Charles Teo, Australia
The Centre For Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery
Suite 3, Level 7 Prince of Wales Private Hospital
Barker Street, Randwick
New South Wales, 2031
Australia


Other names of interest:

W. Gregory Lotz - urged "err on the precautionary side" (now at cdc.gov)

Norbert Hankin - stated "The U.S. Federal Communications Commission, (FCC's) exposure guidelines are considered protective of effects arising from a thermal mechanism but not from all possible mechanisms. Therefore, the generalization by many that the guidelines protect human beings from harm by any or all mechanisms is not justified." (Chief EMF Scientist for the EPA.gov)

Olle Johansson

Sianette Kwee

Dr. Gerard Hyland - researched cancer cluster in UK (was at University of Warwick)

Others names are listed in this article.