Key Excerpts from Martin Pall, PhD Letter to CA Legislators re. SB.649
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Key Excerpts from Martin Pall, PhD Letter to CA Legislators re. SB.649
Thousands of published studies show biological and health effects from electromagnetic fields. We now know the mechanism that can explain these effects.
- The mechanism is a function of the electromagnetics of each cell—not solely about heating effects from the radiation (on which present FCC guidelines are based).
- This new understanding means we can debunk the claims of the wireless industry that there cannot be a mechanism for effects produced by these weak EMFs. The 20 years plus of industry propaganda claims are false.
- Attached to Dr. Pall’s Letter to CA Legislators is a list of 134 Reviews of the EMF science, each of which provides from 12 to over a thousand individual citations showing health impacts of low intensity EMFs, EMFs that the telecommunications industry claims cannot have such effects. These 134 reviews and thousands of primary scientific papers they cite show that the industry propaganda has no scientific support whatsoever.
- According to industry, the forces electromagnetic fields place on electrically-charged groups in the cell are too weak to produce biological effects. However, the unique structural properties of the voltage-gated calcium channel (VGCC) protein can, it turns out, explain why the force on a cell’s voltage sensor from low-intensity EMFs are millions of times stronger than are the forces on singly-charged groups elsewhere in the cell.
- It would be a disaster for the health of Californians to be exposed to the antennas envisioned in SB.649.
- The State of California would be making a grave mistake to proceed with supporting the commercial interests of the wireless industry with this legislation.
- Legislators would best pause to understand the gravity of the biological effects, and the ramifications for physical and mental health, as well as consequences from continual damage to human DNA, and learn the facts from scientists who are independent of the wireless industry, not from the industry lobbyists who have a gigantic conflict of interest.
- VGCC activation in cells produced by low intensity EMFs can explain long-reported findings that electromagnetic fields and a wide range of biological changes and health effects. The first 6 of these (see below) were well documented 46 years ago in the U.S. Office of Naval Medical Research report, published in 1971 [8]. The others that follow have been extensively documented subsequently in the peer-reviewed scientific literature:
–Various neurological/neuropsychiatric effects, including changes in brain structure and function, changes in various types of psychological responses and changes in behavior.
–At least eight different endocrine (hormonal) effects.
–Cardiac effects influencing the electrical control of the heart, including changes in ECGs, producing arrhythmias, changes that can be life threatening.
–Chromosome breaks and other changes in chromosome structure.
–Histological changes in the testes.
–Cell death (what is now called apoptosis, a process important in neurodegenerative diseases).
–Lowered male fertility including lowered sperm quality and function and also lowered female fertility (less studied).
–Oxidative stress.
–Changes in calcium fluxes and calcium signaling.
–Cellular DNA damage including single strand breaks and double strand breaks in cellular DNA and also 8-OHdG in cellular DNA.
–Cancer which is likely to involve these DNA changes but also increased rates of tumor promotion-like events.
–Therapeutic effects including stimulation of bone growth.
–Cataract formation (previously thought to be thermal, now known not to be).
–Breakdown of the blood-brain barrier.
–Melatonin depletion and sleep disruption.
- Higher frequency electromagnetic fields from 5G technologies on the horizon pose even greater biological concern than those to which we are exposed today.
- We should be moving, instead, to wired technologies at every opportunity, based on what we know in science today, not expanding and supporting the proliferation of wireless.
- DNA damage known to be produced by these EMFs occur in human sperm and may also occur in human eggs, leading to large increases in mutation in any children born. It is thought that an increase in mutation frequency of 2.5 to 3-fold will lead to extinction because of accumulation of large numbers of damaging mutations. We may already be over this level, and if so, simply continuing our current exposures will lead to eventual extinction. Further increases in exposures will be more rapidly self-destructive.
- Pulsed EMFs are, in most cases, more biologically active and therefore more dangerous than are non-pulsed (continuous wave) EMFs. All cordless communication devices communicate via pulsations, because it is the pulsations that carry the information communicated. All the industry claims of safety are based on a theory (only thermal effects) that was known to be wrong back in 1971 [8] – and that was before many thousands of additional studies were published providing massive confirmation that industry claims are false.
- The industry is trying to move to much higher frequencies because these much higher frequencies allow much higher pulsations and therefore much higher transmission of information. However, these higher pulsation rates make these ultra-high devices vastly more dangerous. This is part of the reasons why it is so important to vote down SB.649.
- The telecommunications industry has corrupted the agencies that are supposed to be regulating them.
- I urge you to do the right thing on behalf of the health of Californians and future generations.
Business Wire Press Release – CA Legislators Told of Biological & Health Risks from Pervasive 4G/5G Wireless Antennas Envisioned by SB.649
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