What Happened to “Irradiated”, the Massive EMF Safety Advocacy Document that was Submitted to the FCC?
The FCC Requested Public Comments on Revisions to EMF Exposure Standards
was delivered online to the FCC, in response to their request for “Comments on Revisions to EMF Exposure Standards” from the public, which would have bearing on their 5G Fast Plan and proposals, in hopes that its massive “thump factor” (the impressive sound the ample sized document made when thumped down on a table) and obvious large amount of work referencing scientific studies, biological research, personal electo-hypersensitivity stories, not to mention its formidable heart and soul would persuade the FCC to revise their current USA public EMF exposure safety levels in the face of such compelling evidence.
The document/book has achieved archival immortality by its inclusion on the FCC.gov website and, along with all other public comments that were submitted, it will remain part of the public record forever. However it passed through the entire public feedback process without making even the fainest thump in terms of making the positive difference that it set out to do. To understand what went wrong, and why the document did not receive the consideration that many concerned citizens and supporters of EMF advocacy groups thought it merited, a look at the Table of Contents outlining what the document contained is instructive.
When you have time I encourage you to download “IRRADIATED” in its entirety and take the opportunity to read its 416 pages more thoroughly. It is a shining example of the efforts of an EMF Advocate Group called Wireless Action, one of the many advocate groups working on behalf of the American public to achieve a safer EMF living environment.
Here, for the convenience of a quick overview, is the four-page Table of Contents of Irradiated, listing what topics were included and discussed in its submission to the FCC during the call for public comment, which was held December 4th 2019 to January 3rd 2020.
- Table of Contents 2
- Introduction 9
- The Tip of the Truth 12
- The EMF Controversy – Common Misconceptions 13
- Non-industry studies vs industry studies show vast difference in the harmful effects of microwave radiation 20
- Wireless radiation causes cancer, according to the latest scientific findings 22
- Expressions of Concern from Scientists, Physicians, Health Policy Experts & Others 23
- Scientist replies to Quebec opinion on RF health impacts 29
- Over 2,000 Studies Confirm TOXIC Effects of EMF From Cell Phones and Household Appliances 33
- Study Proves Microwave Radiation Directly Affects Your Heart 35
- Press Release by the Health Protection Agency on 15th Sept 2009 entitled “Scientist probe laptops Wi-Fi Emissions 37
- Dispelling the Wireless Myths 43
- The Invisible Threat: Radiofrequency Radiation Risk 47
- Radiation from Cell Phones and Wi-Fi Are Making People Sick — Are You at Risk? 50
- Radiation From Cell Phones and Wi-Fi Are Making People Sick — Are We All at Risk? 56
- Are Cell Phones and Wi-Fi Hazardous to Your Health? 63
- Canadian Tech Leader Warns of Wi-Fi, Smartphone, Cell Tower Radiation 67
- Do Cell Phone and Wi-Fi Fields Harm Our Bodies? 69
- Cell Phones & Wi-Fi – Are Children, Fetuses and Fertility at Risk? 72
- New report: Wireless technology causes brain damage 82
- Children’s Health Expert Panel: Cell Phones & Wi-Fi―Are Children, Fetuses and Fertility at Risk? 83
- Wi-Fi & Cell Phones Pose a Much Greater Danger Than Most People Realize 89
- Is Your Cordless Phone Harming Your Health? 90
- Wireless pollution ‘out of control’ as Corp race for 5G gears up 92
- A 5G Wireless Future 96
- Medical Director of Switzerland’s Paracelsus Clinic Takes Stand on Hazards of Electromagnetic Pollution ‘Electromagnetic Load’ a Hidden Factor in Many Illnesses 101
- How to identify and reduce electrosmog 103
- Another Inconvenient Truth 110
- Controversy surrounding EMF exposure: Do wireless devices pose dangers? 112
- Are my toys playing with my DNA? 114
- What Will Happen When They Know? 120
- If Wi-Fi and cell phone radiation are safe, why has Belgium’s telecomm boss banned them from his offices? 122
- Next time you’re on a cellphone looking up at those long lingering plumes spreading across the sky, you might decide to end that call 124
- The Kids Are Not All Right 128
- Autism may be Linked to Electromagnetic Radiation Levels In Mother’s Bedroom During Pregnancy 132
- Autism and EMF? Plausibility of a pathophysiological link – Part I 133
- Study Uncovers How Electromagnetic Fields Amplify Pain in Amputees 134
- Krakow’s bold step to curb electromagnetic pollution reflects growing evidence of harm 136
- The effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation on sperm function 140
- Microwave frequency electromagnetic fields (EMFs) produce widespread neuropsychiatric effects including depression 141
- The alteration of spontaneous low frequency oscillations caused by acute electromagnetic fields exposure 142
- Additive Effects of Millimeter Waves and 2-Deoxyglucose Co-Exposure on the Human Keratinocyte Transcriptome 143
- Transcriptome Analysis Reveals the Contribution of Thermal and the Specific Effects in Cellular Response to Millimeter Wave Exposure 144
- Thermal mechanisms of millimeter wave stimulation of excitable cells 145
- Low power radio-frequency and microwave effects on human electroencephalogram and behavior 145
- Millimeter wave absorption in the nonhuman primate eye at 35 GHz and 94 GHz 146
- Increased sensitivity of the non-human primate eye to microwave radiation following ophthalmic drug pretreatment 146
- Effects of low-intensity extremely high frequency electromagnetic radiation on chromatin structure of lymphoid cells in vivo and in vitro 147
- Suppression of nonspecific resistance of the body under the effect of extremely high frequency electromagnetic radiation of low intensity 147
- Effects of millimeter wave on gene expression in human keratinocytes 148
- Low power radio-frequency and microwave effects on human electroencephalogram and behavior 149
- Impact of 60-GHz millimeter waves and corresponding heat effect on endoplasmic reticulum stress sensor gene expression 149
- Experimental studies on the influence of millimeter radiation on light transmission through the lens 150
- Changes in gap junctional intercellular communication in rabbits lens epithelial cells induced by low power density microwave radiation 150
- The Neuroinflammatory Etiopathology of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) 151
- EUROPAEM EMF Guideline 2016 for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of EMF-related health problems and illnesses 152
- Dirty Electricity and the Link to Cancer 154
- Wireless Wake-Up Call: A New Paradigm in EMF Science 161
- EMF Superhero 166
- Case Study: Actual Measurements, Interpretation, and Comparison of RF Radiation Exposures 170
- Digital Utility Meters (“Smart” Meters) 178
- Smart meters and cell damage from pulsed EM radiation – our health at risk? 178
- Getting Smarter About the Smart Grid 184
- Electric Smart Meters: Not a Smart Solution for Your Health? 187
- Smart Meter Radiation 100 Times Greater Than Cell Phones—And Exposure Is Constant, Doctors Warn 191
- Toxic radiation: So-called ‘SMART METERS’ are anything but smart 193
- EMF damages chitin – the missing link to bee deaths and monarch butterfly declines? 195
- Biological Effects from RF Radiation at Low Intensity Exposure, based on the BioInitiative 2012 Report, and the Implications for Smart Meters and Smart Appliances 197
- Cell Phones & Cell Towers 200
- Cell Phone Use in Children and Teens Translates To 5 Times Greater Increase in Brain Cancer 200
- New study reveals 300% Increased brain cancer risk for long-term users of cell phones and cordless phones 202
- Brain Cancer Top Killer in Kids: Are Cellphones a Factor? 204
- Why You Need to Stop Carrying Your Mobile Phone in Your Pocket or Bra 207
- Why Cell Phone Radiation Danger is Serious – Science Tells the Story 211
- Only ten minutes on a mobile could trigger cancer, scientists believe 214
- Cell Phones and Health – California Department of Public Health 216
- How Safe is Your Cell Phone? 218
- Apple’s new ‘wireless’ headphones emit radiation … right next to your brain 221
- Major cell phone radiation study reignites cancer debate 223
- Cell Phone Companies Are Panicking Over New Study Linking Cell Phone Use And Cancer 226
- New Expert Warning: Claims That Cellphones Are Safe ‘Endanger Public Health’ and Are ‘Ludicrous’ 227
- Children Can Absorb 10x More Radiation In Their Bone Marrow Than Adults 229
- Your cellphone is killing you: What people don’t want you to know about electromagnetic fields 230
- Report of Partial Findings from the National Toxicology Program Carcinogenesis Studies of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation in Hsd 235
- Dangers of living near cell phone towers raised 236
- Scientific Evidence Shows That Americans’ Brains Are Being Fried By Cell Towers 238
- Research Findings Presented at International Conference Link Cell Phone Microwave Radiation to Cancer, Low Birth Weight and Sperm Damage 239
- How this sign put Berkeley in the center of the cellphone safety debate 241
- iPhone 6 Bendgate: Apple’s Instructions Say Not To Keep Your Phone In Your Pocket Anyway . 245
- Mobile phones are ‘cooking’ men’s sperm 247
- The Hidden Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation 251
- Children Are Endangered by Cell Phone Radiation! 259
- Cellphone Use Tied to Changes in Brain Activity 262
- Are wireless phones linked with brain cancer risk? 265
- Has radiation from cell phones and microwaves caused brain tumor cases to double in Denmark? 267
- Tree damages in the vicinity of mobile phone base stations 269
- Study links bee decline to cell phones 270
- How Your Cell Phone Is Killing Bees And Starving The Planet 271
- It’s Official – Cell Phones are Killing Bees 272
- Cell phone signals really are killing the bees, study shows 273
- Report of Possible Impacts of Communication Towers on Wildlife Including Birds and Bees 274
- Impacts of radio-frequency electromagnetic field (RF-EMF) from cell phone towers and wireless devices on biosystem and ecosystem – a review 276
- Cell Phones are the Cigarettes of the 21st Century 277
- Pediatricians Warn Cell Phone Radiation Poses Cancer Risk to Children 279
- EEG Changes Due to Experimentally Induced 3G Mobile Phone Radiation 280
- Effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields on the human nervous system 284
- Evaluation of Mobile Phone and Cordless Phone Use and Glioma Risk Using the Bradford Hill Viewpoints from 1965 on Association or Causation 284
- Fetal radiofrequency radiation exposure from 800-1900 mhz-rated cellular telephones affects neurodevelopment and behavior in mice 285
- Prenatal and Postnatal Cell Phone Exposures and Headaches in Children 285
- Reduction of Phosphorylated Synapsin I (Ser-553) Leads to Spatial Memory Impairment by Attenuating GABA Release after Microwave Exposure in Wistar Rats 286
- Purkinje cell number decreases in the adult female rat cerebellum following exposure to 900 MHz electromagnetic field 287
- The 2100MHz radiofrequency radiation of a 3G-mobile phone and the DNA oxidative damage in brain 287
- Association between number of cell phone contracts and brain tumor incidence in nineteen U.S. States 288
- Effects of mobile phone radiation (900 MHz radiofrequency) on structure and functions of rat brain 289
- A Challenging Issue in the Etiology of Speech Problems: The Effect of Maternal Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields on Speech Problems in the Offspring 290
- Effects of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Signal Exposure on Brain Glucose Metabolism 291
- 900 MHz electromagnetic field exposure affects qualitative and quantitative features of hippocampal pyramidal cells in the adult female rat 292
- Chronic prenatal exposure to the 900 megahertz electromagnetic field induces pyramidal cell loss in the hippocampus of newborn rats 292
- Mobile Phone Use, Blood Lead Levels, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Symptoms in Children: A Longitudinal Study 293
- Effect of low level microwave radiation exposure on cognitive function and oxidative stress in rats 293
- Cognitive impairment and neurogenotoxic effects in rats exposed to low-intensity microwave radiation 294
- Maternal mobile phone exposure alters intrinsic electrophysiological properties of CA1 pyramidal neurons in rat offspring 294
- Neurodegenerative changes and apoptosis induced by intrauterine and extrauterine exposure of radiofrequency radiation 295
- Effects of radiofrequency radiation exposure on blood-brain barrier permeability in male and female rats 296
- Effects of prenatal exposure to a 900 MHz electromagnetic field on the dentate gyrus of rats: a stereological and histopathological study 297
- Effects of prenatal and postnatal exposure to GSM-like radiofrequency on blood chemistry and oxidative stress in infant rabbits, an experimental study 297
- Mobile phone use and risk for intracranial tumors and salivary gland tumors – A meta-analysis 298
- Cell phone use and behavioral problems in young children 299
- Prenatal and postnatal exposure to cell phone use and behavioral problems in children 300
- The influence of microwave radiation from cellular phone on fetal rat brain 301
- Possible cause for altered spatial cognition of prepubescent rats exposed to chronic radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation 301
- Maternal exposure to a continuous 900-MHz electromagnetic field provokes neuronal loss and pathological changes in cerebellum of 32-day-old female rat offspring 302
- Microwave radiation induced oxidative stress, cognitive impairment and inflammation in brain of Fischer rats 302
- Wi-Fi 303
- Wi-Fi Radiation: An Invisible Threat to Your Health? 303
- 10 Shocking Facts about the Health Dangers of Wi-Fi 304
- Can Wi-Fi Signals Stunt Plant Growth? 306
- Oh my…what’s in Wi-Fi? 308
- Checkout 5 Ways Your Wi-Fi Could be Causing You Harm 310
- Wi-Fi Radiation Is Killing Trees, New Study Finds 312
- Wi-Fi radiation from laptops, smartphones is damaging your sperm 313
- Use of laptop computers connected to internet through Wi-Fi decreases human sperm motility and increases sperm DNA fragmentation 314
- How Does The iPad Influence Your Health: What You Are Not Being Told is This 315
- STEALTH CANADA—deep-sixing the science on wireless radiation 316
- Effects of 2.4 GHz radiofrequency radiation emitted from Wi-Fi equipment on microRNA expression in brain tissue 317
- Schools 318
- Inviting Discussion about Safer Tech Use in Schools – Katie Singer 318
- Message to Schools and Colleges about Wireless Devices and Health 329
- School officials may be personally liable for exposing children to wireless radiation 332
- Reykjavik Appeal on wireless technology in schools 333
- Maryland State Advisory Council Recommends Reducing School Wireless to Protect Children 335
- Cyprus Removes Wi-Fi from Kindergartens and Halts Wireless Deployment Into Public Elementary Schools 338
- Radiofrequency Radiation in Communities and Schools Actions by Governments, Health Authorities and Schools Worldwide 340
- Wi-Fi banned from pre-school childcare facilities in a bold move by French government 341
- Could Wi-Fi in schools be harming our kids? 343
- Teen Allergic to Wi-Fi Commits Suicide, Parents Say 346
- Cell Phone Usage Inside Schools 348
- Landlines 354
- Saving Your Landline May Save Your Life 354
- Mauk said her landline was the only thing working in her house after the 2015 windstorm 355
- A Landline Might Be Your Best Option during a Storm 357
- Landlines: The ‘Dinosaur Phone Technology’ That Could Save You in a Crisis 358
- Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity 360
- Electrosensitivity: is technology killing us? 360
- Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: Evidence For A Novel Neurological Syndrome 368
- Electromagnetic Field Sensitivity 370
- Science: Plant and Animal Electromagnetic Sensitivity 374
- Will We All Become Electrosensitive? 382
- Corded or cordless: have you made the connection? 383
- Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, It is real! 385
- Further Testimonials & Stories 387
- Direct Testimony of Joshua Hart 387
- Collateral Damage: Speaking Out Against Wireless Harm 390
- On the run …from the silent, invisible foe 392
- My Life Living 6 Feet Under Cell Phone Towers 394
- Paul’s EMF Refugee Story 397
- Additional Resources 404
- Conclusion 405
- Appendix A: Measuring Radiation 407
- Appendix B: Pictures & Diagrams 408
- Appendix C: Listservs & Support Groups 410
- Appendix D: Further Resources 411
As complete as the document seems judging by its Table of Contents (copied here as it appears in the FCC archive), it could not be considered by the FCC, simply because it did not follow the protocols for submitting, and without that they have no formal structure with which to draw conclusions, or even to take its contents into consideration.
How could this happen?
When the FCC called for comments they also published the guidelines for submitting comments, which included a specific structure for telling the FCC reviewers basically what to change and why, So, while comments are open to everyone (paraphrased from FCC Docket 13-84 Document 13-39) from “the general public to highly training health and safety agencies to federal and expert organizations”. Open means open, so even if someone off the street submitted their comments the FCC is mandated to handle each comment by the same structure and criteria, respecting each comment without regard to who the commenter was or if he/she are qualified to make suggestions. But similarly, guidelines means guidelines, so all comments are considered according to the structure laid out in the guidelines for commenting.
As fussy, or crazy-making, as that may seem, official regulation setting (i.e. government law making) bodies, in this case the FCC (Federal Communication Commission), and the respected bodies that make EMF standard recommendations to the regulating body, which in the case of the FCC are the IEEE, ICNIRP, FDA, EPA and the general public, can only operate using the same structure applied to all input.
The recommending bodies, (always keep in mind that the general public is a respected part of these), must follow guidelines that are in place to provide the official FCC committee reviewers a consistent format for examining the facts, understanding the rationale, and achieving a basis for making concrete suggestions that are put forward as recommendations for changes to the standards by the committee reviewers to the FCC regulators.
This structure is what forms the basis for the FCC to justify any changes in regulations (laws), because the FCC does not create standards it merely selects them from the information that they are provided with.
Understanding this is key to understanding why the Irradiated document, impassioned though it was, will languish in the FCC Comment archive forever disregarded, at least by this commenting process if not by countless concerned citizens who recognize themselves in page after page.
