Attention all Advocates for 5G Electromagnetic Radiation Safety

A jaw dropping scientific article was recently published titled, Electromagnetic Radiation Due to Cellular, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Technologies: How Safe Are We?

Although it was naturally riveting to anyone asking if EMF is safe, it was even more interesting to me, as an electrical engineer, for another reason. It was a paid-for article, like you sometimes see in magazines, but this one paid to be published in an IEEE publication.

IEEE (casually referred to as Eye-triple-E) is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and I have been a member my entire career, most recently I have been awarded a lifetime senior member status and accepted for positions on key committees based on my professional merits. So, I was surprised to see that the world’s largest technical professional organization, who’s stated mission is dedication to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity, now has a print and online magazine that accepts articles from its membership on topics they feel strong enough to fund privately in order to have them get noticed.

This probing article, Electromagnetic Radiation Due to Cellular, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Technologies: How Safe Are We? was authored by Naren et al, an undergraduate engineering student working with Mohsen Guizani professor in India (who is an IEEE Fellow) and two other undergrad engineering students. Numerous photographs, illustrative depictions, and charts are included in this easy-to-understand article. The jaw dropping part was its brave flag of safety-minded reassurance to a nervous world from upcoming graduates about to take their place in engineering industries of our 5G world!

Here was the plainly stated, unambiguous conclusion of this 21 page scientific engineering paper:

People should be made aware that the EMR from using day to day cellular, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices are harmful to human health. The levels of radiation observed in most cases such as phone calls, internet browsing on laptops and smart-phones, using wireless routers and hotspots, Bluetooth smart-watches and smartphones are unsafe when compared with radiations limits determined by medical bodies. According to the current medical literature, various adverse health effects from exposure to RF EMR have been well documented.For now, wireless technologies must be avoided as much as possible. New and innovative wired solutions which provide the same level of user-friendliness should be encouraged.Intervention of government and medical bodies with the main purpose of protecting human health is of utmost necessity to ensure good economic development without compromising the health of the population. Countries must adopt the guide-lines suggested by medical bodies which take into account both thermal and non-thermal effects of EMR. At present, all individuals must take preventive and protective measures to protect themselves from harmful EMR exposure.

Nanen et al, 2020

This article cost the authors about $1,750 USD to be published in a polished professional magazine called, IEEE Access, which arrived not just in my mailbox but also in the mailboxes of more than 423,000 members in over 160 countries around the world who are engineers in the fields of electrical and electronic engineering, telecommunications, computer engineering and allied disciplines.

Publication in the IEEE Access is open to anyone who is a member of IEEE and motivated enough about publishing their article to pay for its publication themselves. That’s over 423,000 members that could author articles themselves or sponsor articles or studies for others, as this one by was (by students Nanen et al). Think of the potential this has to open the minds and eyes of key players in our evolving wireless world! If anyone who is a member of IEEE, or knows someone who is and would be willing sponsor an article, organized a steady stream of articles to the IEEE Access publisher, more open minded articles on research and topics related to the biological impact of EMF, will appear regularly in the mailboxes of technology innovators, decision makers, and regulators.

Anyone inspired?

Download this full page ad in IEEE Spectrum to find out more about submitting an article to IEEE Access Magazine…

The good news is that your published articles are not deeply buried online at IEEE Explore, which is dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, and easily found both on search engines and by using IEEE Explorer’s user friendly search feature.

So, I am passing this on with the optimistic hope that a dialog of both sides of “advancing technology for humanity” topics can now flow more freely. Pass it on to any and all engineers you know.

On that same note, for those who like to stay informed, and on the cutting edge of the dialogs going on at IEEE, the monthly IEEE professional magazine, the IEEE Spectrum, which is dedicated to latest advancements in technology and innovations underway, is also available as the IEEE Spectrum Online and I encourage all my EMF detection and protection students to peruse it from time to time to stay current and get a peak into the fertile minds of engineers propagating our technological evolution.

If you ever feel like writing such an article for the IEEE Access publication, be sure to keep your IEEE membership current, or acquire one for the first time. It is never to early to begin, even engineering students can inexpensively join IEEE as an associate member www.IEEE.org.  Otherwise chat up the an engineer you know and see if he is willing to sponsor your article with his/her IEEE credentials, or co-author it.

On a similar note, if any EMF biological-safety minded engineers among our readership are inspired to be a Guest Author for www.EMF-Experts.News  please let me know. It would be a pleasure to have your contribution.  Normally Guest Author articles motivate the readership to be in touch with the author (via their website, or their EMF Professional Directory listing), if that is something you want to encourage.  Our news reaches many thousands of subscribers worldwide now, and growing.  You have a very insightful and valuable firsthand story to tell, it would certainly raise awareness.  Just a thought.