I hope you are successful in changing your account to residential and opting out. In California we have had smart meters for 8 years or more, and I have opted out and paid the extra each month, in one case moving into a home that I had to have the smart meter taken off. May we all be free!
Helena, thank you for sharing. The corporate system of legislating against the people and trying to remove our rights to take health and other decisions away from us is the root of Mr Kennedy's platform. Let's help grow that root into a huge tree.
Hi Hendy, I tried to find any connection with VantagePoint Capital Partners and smart meters and was unable to do so. Since becoming a Kennedy supporter, I have learned a new behavior of not believing everything I hear and read. All of my research on Mr. Kennedy’s role with VantagePoint capital Partners seems to be consistent with his earnest commitment to a clean and healthy environment. Taken from a press release from VantagePoint dated Feb 26, 2009. It says he was named a venture partner where he will focus on the clean tech sector and will take board seats with two portfolio companies: Premium Power, a maker of energy storage solutions, and Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies, a wastewater remediation company. The company said, “ Bobby has a long-standing history of providing environmental counsel to the Firm...”. RFK Jr stated, “I remain deeply concerned about the resource challenges we will face in our future, and believe that in joining VantagePoint I will gain a unique opportunity to both advocate for environmental stewardship and help build entrepreneurial solutions to address substantial problems.”
I did learn that this firm has investments with 70 companies and possibly one of these companies has a division that may be involved with smart meters, but this primary company itself appears to be focuses on the clean healthy segment in each of its investments and that is where Mr. Kennedy will apply his expertise- to do good to help us. This is just one more reason why we need to get this man elected. He is necessary.
I live in New Mexico and had the option of opting out. I did that. You don't have to pay an extra fee here, but you have to read your own meter. They send you postcards and a schedule. No problem. They installed the smart meter anyway. I made a racket about it and they took it back off. In addition, reading my own meter has so far resulted in far lower bills!!!!
I called the gas company and used my "mean" voice to tell them I had opted out. Talked to several people because I kept demanding action, and they kept passing me around. But best of all I had received a letter with a personal phone number on it from a woman in charge of the "opt outs". I called her several times until she finally answered. Told her I had the letter she had sent and offered to see a lawyer if she couldn't take care of having the smart meter removed. I also laughingly said I might have to take a sledge hammer to it. I get away with some of that stuff because I'm a harmless little 82 year old "lady".
Build a faraday cage right around the smart meters and ground it. You can layer those vests that they wear at the dentist when they take your X-ray around the cage on the outside and ground them too. Since they are lead plated, nothing should come through - both ways. Btw, smart meters are not UL certified I have learned.
Well it’s about time someone writes about this smart meter subject! I had read many scientific studies on these and YOUR RIGHT!
But how do you win over big city hall? Or big Washington politics? You can’t seem to get anywhere without raising the point so others can maybe get thier brains to work on researching to discover the truth on things!
Glad you published this article ! I know this is a very unhealthy item we in our world deals with daily look at the many more persons with cancers even the healthiest vegetarian gets cancers! Look at the plastics in our environment our air water we drink particles in every thing even ground gardens drinking water and air we breathe!
This an radiation from
Mfg an even our sun a computers a cell phones where’s the end? Maybe we found what happened to Atlantis after all! It burned perhaps?
Maybe time to learn from the Amish’s?
They have no power entering no cell phones no microwaves no tv absolute freedom from the utilities!
Are they healthier ? Happy humans
I think so! An thier children grow up respectful of our earth and those we share our planet with!
Think about life little harder but smarter then AI
Steven, it does pertain to one of the many, many environmental and censorship issues that are a concern to Mr. Kennedy. I believe it serves an excellent source of education and and awareness. Also, where it may not be a concern issue of yours, I know at least two people where EMF’s are their primary health issue and thus are 100% in the Kennedy camp.
Well, then we have different viewpoints which is fine; I do not see this issue as “tangentially related” at all. This is a serious concern to both health and censorship; I do believe that many people are concerned with EMF or censorship- I am concerned with BOTH. My personal #1 is health freedom but censorship is right up there. There is a reason why the right to privacy in our own home is the first amendment and I do think this right to privacy, and thus prohibiting the censorship via the smart meters, is an important issue in this campaign. And yes! I would love 5000 folks to start posting here and get more people excited about and committed to RFK Jr! 😁
I subscribe to this for one reason ... For *news about Kennedy and the campaign* and to get Kennedy elected - period. I'm sure that's the purpose here and the majority of readers agree.
... 100s or 5000s of posts about OTHER people's stories? Not going to help the readership stick around, or give them the news or information they want and need to support Kennedy to win.
David- please look at my response to Hendy- I researched for almost two hours this morning after reading his post and could not find a single mention of smart meter and VantagePoint. This seems to be a company very focused on the environment.
I’m retired with 35 years from a California utility. We simply disagree about any dangers from smart meters. IMHO, this argument takes away from and enhances the illusion that RFK is beset with heterodox opinions. I’m still a supporter though.
Thank you so much for speaking out so clearly on this frustrating topic. Please know that there is a really good bill that has been introduced to allow NYers to hang onto their old analogs with no penalty. It needs a big swell of support to get it out of committee: https://www.americansforresponsibletech.org/nysmartmeters Hope to get the word out that these are the last crucial weeks this session for folks to call their legislators!
Also important to know that the industry employed mercenary tobacco scientists to negate citizen health complaints, across the country - from the product defense firms Gradient and Exponent.
“ The U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP), which is part of the National Institutes of Health, carried out a $30 million research project in 2018 that established clear evidence that Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is associated with both cancer and DNA damage.
Founder and director of the Institute for Frontier Science, Beverly Rubik, Ph.D., after reviewing more than 250 peer-reviewed research reports on the harmful bioeffects of wireless communication radiation…”
When you refer to supposedly scientific research actually provide documented references. From looking up Rubik, she appears to be a quack. And since you didn’t actually provide a link to the NTP research project, I have no way of validating whether it actually showed any clear evidence of anything dangerous. Given how lazy/sloppy you are I have no compelling reason to accept your personal opinions on any of this.
Why is the Kennedy beacon publishing this garbage? Is this the caliber of communicating and thinking we should expect from a Kennedy administration?
Kennedy beacon needs to publish less woo nocebo literature and more condemnation of the genocide Kennedy continues to support. Kennedy is going to lose with the path he is on. He’s just an inconsistent whacky fraud right now.
'Clear evidence' of cancer in male rats, cancers and precancerous lesions of the heart, DNA damage, lowered birth weights.
This was a $25 million government study. They did not like the results, and have announced they will not be doing anything more, 'too technically challenging and resource intensive.," just as the world is getting even more deeply invested in wireless Internet of Every Single Thing.
“The findings of in animals cannot be directly applied to humans.”
From the fact sheet itself.
From cancer research uk:
“Increased cancer risk wasn’t found in rats exposed to the lowest, and more realistic, levels of radiation. But the researchers did find that male rats exposed to high levels of radiofrequency radiation were more likely to develop a type of heart tumour. This wasn’t seen in female rats, and the researchers couldn’t give a reason for the difference. And despite what the news reports might suggest, the study couldn’t rule out that the increase in risk of other tumours in the brain and adrenal glands was just down to chance.
The researchers also noted that male rats exposed to radiofrequency radiation lived longer. Cancer risk increases with age, so it’s plausible that these rats had a higher chance of developing cancer just because they lived longer.“
Are you going to conclude that radio frequency radiation increases life span?
Rfk should be protesting the genocide the us government is funding, not pretending to be a disinterested scientist concerned about public health. Right now Rfk is nothing but a quackish fraud.
Don’t live in a radiation chamber your whole life and you should be alright not developing cancers at the end stage of your life that was just as likely to have been extended by the radiation as the radiation causing the cancer.
I completely agree with you on RFK Jr.'s stance on Gaza, which I find unfathomable, and heartbreaking. But your tone and dismissive attitude towards people who are concerned about a corrupt system of scientific research makes me question exactly where you are coming from. If you do not see any value in the work that RFK Jr. has been doing these past few years then why are you bothering spending time commenting on this site?
I don't see where you got the info about not being able to rule out chance. 'Clear evidence' is NTP's highest category of evidence for the heart schwanomas, same type of cells as glial cells, implicated in glioblastomas, the highly virulent brain tumors, that are on the rise. This writer was just trying to put out a warning to others. People should look into it and take precautions, hope you can. Unfortunately the world does seem like it's becoming a radiation chamber! https://microwavenews.com/news-center/ntp-final-rf-report
" 'Clear evidence' is NTP's highest category of evidence for the heart schwanomas, same type of cells as glial cells, implicated in glioblastomas, the highly virulent brain tumors, that are on the rise."
The "clear evidence" they cited was for that particular cancer in the heart of male rats after a life long exposure to the radiation in a specially designed chamber that would control and amplify it.
Since you love government agencies so much, here is some information from the FDA, that examined the study from the other government agency:
"In 2018, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) published the results of two hazard identification studies conducted at the request of the FDA. The studies were conducted with high power levels of RFR over the whole body of experimental rodents. The radio frequency energy was delivered in intervals of 10 minutes on and 10 minutes off for 18 hours and 20 minutes a day, every day for 2 years.
The conclusions relating to public health risks reached by the FDA’s scientists differ from those of the NTP, and the FDA determination is that the study did not demonstrate that cell phones cause cancer.
5 Facts About the Rat Study
Rats received radiation over their entire bodies.
Rats received this whole-body radiation for 9 hours per day for their entire lives.
Rats received levels of radiation that were up to 75 times higher than the whole-body exposure limit for people.
The study found no health effects on female rats or mice (both male and female) exposed to these extreme conditions that passed a test for statistical significance.
Exposed rats lived longer than the control group rats."
The world is nothing like a radiation chamber that was created for those rats. The conditions we face from cell phone radiation do not at all resemble what those rats were exposed to. And I will repeat that last line from the FDA: exposed rats lived longer than the control group rats. The fact that the exposed rats lived longer undermines the "clearness" of evidence of the causal relationship even with regard to the heart cancer of the male rats. And it also suggests that high levels of cellular radiation *could even increase longevity*.
This should not be a study that invokes any anxiety or worry about cell phone usage by humans.
I don't have a dismissive attitude toward the notion that there is corruption in our system of scientific research, or that our system of scientific research sometimes produces narratives that are erroneous. As for my "tone" I certainly dislike it when people write articles that promote fear and refer to research but don't actually cite it. And I also dislike it when organizations promote fear around things without sufficient evidence. I live in California, and I see prop 65 warnings stamped on way too many things simply because some molecule in the product has been shown to have carcinogenic effects in an artificially designed laboratory experiment not resembling in any way the environment or conditions humans are exposed to it. That is not helpful. And it is potentially harmful, both psychologically and physically. That extreme view of protectionism is not something I view as desirable attitude of a government or politician. And Kennedy is very reflective of that. There certainly is a place for ensuring the safety of our environment, but there is actually a line that can be crossed where it is unhealthy and undesirable and deeply irrational.
Im glad you agree with my assessment of RFK's stance on Gaza. The reason I was originally drawn to RFK was because of his opposition to the "Establishment" and his alleged views on the military industrial complex, as well as the complete shit show that was the government's response to covid. Unfortunately, his stance on Gaza has demonstrated he is a fraud when it comes to his anti-establishment posturing and the huge inconsistencies when it comes to his rationality with regard to scientific subjects makes me deeply skeptical. I write here because I still have a molecule of hope that RFK will actually do a 180 when it comes to Gaza--and I suspect the only way for that to happen is if he realizes thats the only way he can win, and that will only happen if those people who were once contemplating voting for him let him know that they wont if he continues to express support for the genocide. As of now, he is banking on the same thing that Biden is banking on -- that Gaza wont be a salient issue for his plausible voters, and things like the hypothetical dangers of 5g technology will be. Which I think is totally bonkers. But I shouldn't really be surprised, because RFK seems a bit bonkers.
I am very sorry not to respond sooner. Thank you for your long and thoughtful response. The issue of wireless radiation and its hazards is such a big and long history. It is not just this one study. Here is one response to the fact that the exposed rats lived longer. From Arthur Firstenberg's book The Invisible Rainbow https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-invisible-rainbow/ , you might take a look at it, it contains an encyclopedic amount of information, and gives one a completely different perspective:
"In the late 1950s, Charles Süsskind at the University of California, Berkeley received funding from the Air Force to determine the lethal dose of microwave radiation in mice, and to investigate its effects on growth and longevity. At that time, the Air Force thought that 100 milliwatts per square centimeter was a safe dose; Süsskind soon found out that it was not. It killed most mice within nine minutes. So after that, Süsskind only exposed mice for four and a half minutes at a time. He irradiated one hundred mice for 59 weeks, five days per week for four and a half minutes a day at a power density of 109 milliwatts per square centimeter. Some of the irradiated mice, which subsequently died, developed extraordinarily high white blood cell counts, and had enlarge lymphoid tissue and enormous liver abscesses. Testicular degeneration occurred in 40 percent of the irradiated mice, and 35 percent developed leukemia. However, the unirradiated mice, although they were much healthier, did not live as long. After 15 months, half the control mice were dead, and only 36 percent of the irradiated ones.
From 1980 to 1982, Chung-Kwang Chou and Arthur William Guy led a famous experiment at the University of Washington. They had a contract with the United States Air Force to investigate the safety of the early warning radar stations recently installed at Beale Air Force Base in California, and on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Known as PAVE PAWS, these were the most powerful radar stations in the world, emitting a peak effective radiated power of about three billion watts and irradiating millions of Americans. The University of Washington team approximated the PAVE PAWS signals at a “very low” level, irradiating one hundred rats 21.5 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 25 months. The Specific Absorption Rate—approximately that of the average cell phone today—was 0.4 watts per kilogram. During the two years of the experiment the exposed animals developed four times as many malignant tumors as the control animals. But they lived, on average, 25 days longer.
Recently gerontologists at the University of Illinois exposed cell cultures of mouse fibroblasts to radio waves (50 MHz, 0.5 watts) for either o, 5, 15, or 30 minutes at a time, twice a week. The treatments lowered the mortality rate of the cells. The greater the exposure time, the lower the mortality, so that the 30-minute exposure reduced cell death by one-third after seven days, and increased their average lifespan from 118 days to 138 days.18
Even ionizing radiation—X-rays and gamma rays—will prolong life if not too intense. Everything from Paramecia to coddling moths to rats and mice to human embryo cells have had their average and/or maximal life spans increased by exposure to ionizing radiation. Even wild chipmunks have been captured, irradiated, and released—and had their average lifespans thereby extended.
Rajindar Sohal and Robert Allen, who irradiated house flies at Southern Methodist University, discovered that at moderate doses, an increase in lifespan occurred only if the flies were placed in compartments small enough so that they could not fly. They concluded that radiation always produces two opposite kinds of effects: injurious effects that shorten the lifespan, and a reduction in basal metabolic rate that lengthens the lifespan. If the dose of radiation is low enough, the net effect is a lengthening of life despite obvious injuries.
Loren Carlson and Betty Jackson at the University of Washington School of Medicine reported that rats exposed daily to moderate doses of gamma rays for a year had their lives extended, on average, by 50 percent, but suffered a significant increase in tumors. Their oxygen consumption was reduced by one-third.
Egon Lorenz, at the National Cancer Institute, exposed mice to gamma rays—one-tenth of a roentgen per eight-hour day—beginning at one month of age and for the rest of their lives. The irradiated females lived just as long, and the irradiated males one hundred days longer, than the unirradiated animals. But the irradiated mice developed many more lymphomas, leukemias, and lung, breast, ovarian, and other types of cancers.
Even extremely low doses of radiation will both injure and extend lifespan. Mice exposed to only 7 centigrays per year of gamma radiation—only 20 times higher than background radiation—had their lives extended by an average of 125 days. Human fibroblasts, exposed in cell culture once for only six hours to the same level of gamma rays that is received by astronauts in space, or during certain medical exams, lived longer than unexposed cells. Human embryo cells exposed to very low dose X-rays for ten hours a day had their lifespans increased by 14 to 35 percent, although most of the cells also suffered several kinds of damage to their chromosomes.
I hope you are successful in changing your account to residential and opting out. In California we have had smart meters for 8 years or more, and I have opted out and paid the extra each month, in one case moving into a home that I had to have the smart meter taken off. May we all be free!
Helena, thank you for sharing. The corporate system of legislating against the people and trying to remove our rights to take health and other decisions away from us is the root of Mr Kennedy's platform. Let's help grow that root into a huge tree.
RFK jr's green tech investment "VantagePoint Capital Partners" invests in smart meters.
Hi Hendy, I tried to find any connection with VantagePoint Capital Partners and smart meters and was unable to do so. Since becoming a Kennedy supporter, I have learned a new behavior of not believing everything I hear and read. All of my research on Mr. Kennedy’s role with VantagePoint capital Partners seems to be consistent with his earnest commitment to a clean and healthy environment. Taken from a press release from VantagePoint dated Feb 26, 2009. It says he was named a venture partner where he will focus on the clean tech sector and will take board seats with two portfolio companies: Premium Power, a maker of energy storage solutions, and Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies, a wastewater remediation company. The company said, “ Bobby has a long-standing history of providing environmental counsel to the Firm...”. RFK Jr stated, “I remain deeply concerned about the resource challenges we will face in our future, and believe that in joining VantagePoint I will gain a unique opportunity to both advocate for environmental stewardship and help build entrepreneurial solutions to address substantial problems.”
I did learn that this firm has investments with 70 companies and possibly one of these companies has a division that may be involved with smart meters, but this primary company itself appears to be focuses on the clean healthy segment in each of its investments and that is where Mr. Kennedy will apply his expertise- to do good to help us. This is just one more reason why we need to get this man elected. He is necessary.
waste water remediation is a real bugaboo. Even the so called environmentalists in NM (Sierra Club, etc) are against it.
There was more than one smart meter company they funded and he is on record supporting them in one of his talks.
Thank you, could you give me names of the companies and the reference for his talk in support of them? Much appreciated, Marjorie
I live in New Mexico and had the option of opting out. I did that. You don't have to pay an extra fee here, but you have to read your own meter. They send you postcards and a schedule. No problem. They installed the smart meter anyway. I made a racket about it and they took it back off. In addition, reading my own meter has so far resulted in far lower bills!!!!
I called the gas company and used my "mean" voice to tell them I had opted out. Talked to several people because I kept demanding action, and they kept passing me around. But best of all I had received a letter with a personal phone number on it from a woman in charge of the "opt outs". I called her several times until she finally answered. Told her I had the letter she had sent and offered to see a lawyer if she couldn't take care of having the smart meter removed. I also laughingly said I might have to take a sledge hammer to it. I get away with some of that stuff because I'm a harmless little 82 year old "lady".
Having a smart meter lets your smart appliances be under the control of whoever can hack both of them.
That is why Mr. Kennedy is against them.
Then why didn't he say so?
Build a faraday cage right around the smart meters and ground it. You can layer those vests that they wear at the dentist when they take your X-ray around the cage on the outside and ground them too. Since they are lead plated, nothing should come through - both ways. Btw, smart meters are not UL certified I have learned.
Thank
You for writing this
Beautifully done, thank you.
Well it’s about time someone writes about this smart meter subject! I had read many scientific studies on these and YOUR RIGHT!
But how do you win over big city hall? Or big Washington politics? You can’t seem to get anywhere without raising the point so others can maybe get thier brains to work on researching to discover the truth on things!
Glad you published this article ! I know this is a very unhealthy item we in our world deals with daily look at the many more persons with cancers even the healthiest vegetarian gets cancers! Look at the plastics in our environment our air water we drink particles in every thing even ground gardens drinking water and air we breathe!
This an radiation from
Mfg an even our sun a computers a cell phones where’s the end? Maybe we found what happened to Atlantis after all! It burned perhaps?
Maybe time to learn from the Amish’s?
They have no power entering no cell phones no microwaves no tv absolute freedom from the utilities!
Are they healthier ? Happy humans
I think so! An thier children grow up respectful of our earth and those we share our planet with!
Think about life little harder but smarter then AI
Seriously? What the h** is this doing in the Kennedy beacon?
It's quite a drama but it's not about Kennedy.
Steven, it does pertain to one of the many, many environmental and censorship issues that are a concern to Mr. Kennedy. I believe it serves an excellent source of education and and awareness. Also, where it may not be a concern issue of yours, I know at least two people where EMF’s are their primary health issue and thus are 100% in the Kennedy camp.
So then 5,000 people can start posting about things that are tangentially related to Kennedy's interests?
That's not the point of this newsletter :)
Well, then we have different viewpoints which is fine; I do not see this issue as “tangentially related” at all. This is a serious concern to both health and censorship; I do believe that many people are concerned with EMF or censorship- I am concerned with BOTH. My personal #1 is health freedom but censorship is right up there. There is a reason why the right to privacy in our own home is the first amendment and I do think this right to privacy, and thus prohibiting the censorship via the smart meters, is an important issue in this campaign. And yes! I would love 5000 folks to start posting here and get more people excited about and committed to RFK Jr! 😁
Respectfully,
Marjorie
I subscribe to this for one reason ... For *news about Kennedy and the campaign* and to get Kennedy elected - period. I'm sure that's the purpose here and the majority of readers agree.
... 100s or 5000s of posts about OTHER people's stories? Not going to help the readership stick around, or give them the news or information they want and need to support Kennedy to win.
Best regards Marjorie.
We are 100% in agreement of getting Kennedy elected. I appreciate your perspective!
Understood…but probably a detail wasted on this campaign.
David- please look at my response to Hendy- I researched for almost two hours this morning after reading his post and could not find a single mention of smart meter and VantagePoint. This seems to be a company very focused on the environment.
I’m retired with 35 years from a California utility. We simply disagree about any dangers from smart meters. IMHO, this argument takes away from and enhances the illusion that RFK is beset with heterodox opinions. I’m still a supporter though.
Smart meters offer more dangers than they do solutions to them.
As I stated, this is a minority opinion and is not helpful to getting Bobby elected.
Why would that be important to anyone else?
I didn't state any such thing.
I have a 34 year clean Commercial Drivers License, but that doesn't mean that I either support or oppose driverless tractor-trailers.
Thank you so much for speaking out so clearly on this frustrating topic. Please know that there is a really good bill that has been introduced to allow NYers to hang onto their old analogs with no penalty. It needs a big swell of support to get it out of committee: https://www.americansforresponsibletech.org/nysmartmeters Hope to get the word out that these are the last crucial weeks this session for folks to call their legislators!
https://patriciaburke.substack.com/p/smart-meters-medscape-removes-courses-funded-by-philip-morris-time-for-utility-commissions-and-legislatures-to-bow-too
Also important to know that the industry employed mercenary tobacco scientists to negate citizen health complaints, across the country - from the product defense firms Gradient and Exponent.
Why is RFK not on campuses - protesting genocide of Palestinians ??
“ The U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP), which is part of the National Institutes of Health, carried out a $30 million research project in 2018 that established clear evidence that Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is associated with both cancer and DNA damage.
Founder and director of the Institute for Frontier Science, Beverly Rubik, Ph.D., after reviewing more than 250 peer-reviewed research reports on the harmful bioeffects of wireless communication radiation…”
When you refer to supposedly scientific research actually provide documented references. From looking up Rubik, she appears to be a quack. And since you didn’t actually provide a link to the NTP research project, I have no way of validating whether it actually showed any clear evidence of anything dangerous. Given how lazy/sloppy you are I have no compelling reason to accept your personal opinions on any of this.
Why is the Kennedy beacon publishing this garbage? Is this the caliber of communicating and thinking we should expect from a Kennedy administration?
Kennedy beacon needs to publish less woo nocebo literature and more condemnation of the genocide Kennedy continues to support. Kennedy is going to lose with the path he is on. He’s just an inconsistent whacky fraud right now.
NIH fact sheet https://www.niehs.nih.gov/sites/default/files/NTP_cell_phone_factsheet_jan_2024_508.pdf
NTTP study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/em.22343
Commentary from Ronald L Melnick https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30243215/
Presentation with much background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9QzuYX5_Dc
'Clear evidence' of cancer in male rats, cancers and precancerous lesions of the heart, DNA damage, lowered birth weights.
This was a $25 million government study. They did not like the results, and have announced they will not be doing anything more, 'too technically challenging and resource intensive.," just as the world is getting even more deeply invested in wireless Internet of Every Single Thing.
“The findings of in animals cannot be directly applied to humans.”
From the fact sheet itself.
From cancer research uk:
“Increased cancer risk wasn’t found in rats exposed to the lowest, and more realistic, levels of radiation. But the researchers did find that male rats exposed to high levels of radiofrequency radiation were more likely to develop a type of heart tumour. This wasn’t seen in female rats, and the researchers couldn’t give a reason for the difference. And despite what the news reports might suggest, the study couldn’t rule out that the increase in risk of other tumours in the brain and adrenal glands was just down to chance.
The researchers also noted that male rats exposed to radiofrequency radiation lived longer. Cancer risk increases with age, so it’s plausible that these rats had a higher chance of developing cancer just because they lived longer.“
Are you going to conclude that radio frequency radiation increases life span?
Rfk should be protesting the genocide the us government is funding, not pretending to be a disinterested scientist concerned about public health. Right now Rfk is nothing but a quackish fraud.
Don’t live in a radiation chamber your whole life and you should be alright not developing cancers at the end stage of your life that was just as likely to have been extended by the radiation as the radiation causing the cancer.
I completely agree with you on RFK Jr.'s stance on Gaza, which I find unfathomable, and heartbreaking. But your tone and dismissive attitude towards people who are concerned about a corrupt system of scientific research makes me question exactly where you are coming from. If you do not see any value in the work that RFK Jr. has been doing these past few years then why are you bothering spending time commenting on this site?
I don't see where you got the info about not being able to rule out chance. 'Clear evidence' is NTP's highest category of evidence for the heart schwanomas, same type of cells as glial cells, implicated in glioblastomas, the highly virulent brain tumors, that are on the rise. This writer was just trying to put out a warning to others. People should look into it and take precautions, hope you can. Unfortunately the world does seem like it's becoming a radiation chamber! https://microwavenews.com/news-center/ntp-final-rf-report
"I don't see where you got the info about not being able to rule out chance."
Yah, its annoying when people dont cite their sources huh???
https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2018/11/02/mobile-phones-and-cancer-misleading-headlines-fail-to-mention-rats/
" 'Clear evidence' is NTP's highest category of evidence for the heart schwanomas, same type of cells as glial cells, implicated in glioblastomas, the highly virulent brain tumors, that are on the rise."
The "clear evidence" they cited was for that particular cancer in the heart of male rats after a life long exposure to the radiation in a specially designed chamber that would control and amplify it.
Since you love government agencies so much, here is some information from the FDA, that examined the study from the other government agency:
https://www.fda.gov/radiation-emitting-products/cell-phones/scientific-evidence-cell-phone-safety
"In 2018, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) published the results of two hazard identification studies conducted at the request of the FDA. The studies were conducted with high power levels of RFR over the whole body of experimental rodents. The radio frequency energy was delivered in intervals of 10 minutes on and 10 minutes off for 18 hours and 20 minutes a day, every day for 2 years.
The conclusions relating to public health risks reached by the FDA’s scientists differ from those of the NTP, and the FDA determination is that the study did not demonstrate that cell phones cause cancer.
5 Facts About the Rat Study
Rats received radiation over their entire bodies.
Rats received this whole-body radiation for 9 hours per day for their entire lives.
Rats received levels of radiation that were up to 75 times higher than the whole-body exposure limit for people.
The study found no health effects on female rats or mice (both male and female) exposed to these extreme conditions that passed a test for statistical significance.
Exposed rats lived longer than the control group rats."
The world is nothing like a radiation chamber that was created for those rats. The conditions we face from cell phone radiation do not at all resemble what those rats were exposed to. And I will repeat that last line from the FDA: exposed rats lived longer than the control group rats. The fact that the exposed rats lived longer undermines the "clearness" of evidence of the causal relationship even with regard to the heart cancer of the male rats. And it also suggests that high levels of cellular radiation *could even increase longevity*.
This should not be a study that invokes any anxiety or worry about cell phone usage by humans.
I don't have a dismissive attitude toward the notion that there is corruption in our system of scientific research, or that our system of scientific research sometimes produces narratives that are erroneous. As for my "tone" I certainly dislike it when people write articles that promote fear and refer to research but don't actually cite it. And I also dislike it when organizations promote fear around things without sufficient evidence. I live in California, and I see prop 65 warnings stamped on way too many things simply because some molecule in the product has been shown to have carcinogenic effects in an artificially designed laboratory experiment not resembling in any way the environment or conditions humans are exposed to it. That is not helpful. And it is potentially harmful, both psychologically and physically. That extreme view of protectionism is not something I view as desirable attitude of a government or politician. And Kennedy is very reflective of that. There certainly is a place for ensuring the safety of our environment, but there is actually a line that can be crossed where it is unhealthy and undesirable and deeply irrational.
Im glad you agree with my assessment of RFK's stance on Gaza. The reason I was originally drawn to RFK was because of his opposition to the "Establishment" and his alleged views on the military industrial complex, as well as the complete shit show that was the government's response to covid. Unfortunately, his stance on Gaza has demonstrated he is a fraud when it comes to his anti-establishment posturing and the huge inconsistencies when it comes to his rationality with regard to scientific subjects makes me deeply skeptical. I write here because I still have a molecule of hope that RFK will actually do a 180 when it comes to Gaza--and I suspect the only way for that to happen is if he realizes thats the only way he can win, and that will only happen if those people who were once contemplating voting for him let him know that they wont if he continues to express support for the genocide. As of now, he is banking on the same thing that Biden is banking on -- that Gaza wont be a salient issue for his plausible voters, and things like the hypothetical dangers of 5g technology will be. Which I think is totally bonkers. But I shouldn't really be surprised, because RFK seems a bit bonkers.
I am very sorry not to respond sooner. Thank you for your long and thoughtful response. The issue of wireless radiation and its hazards is such a big and long history. It is not just this one study. Here is one response to the fact that the exposed rats lived longer. From Arthur Firstenberg's book The Invisible Rainbow https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-invisible-rainbow/ , you might take a look at it, it contains an encyclopedic amount of information, and gives one a completely different perspective:
"In the late 1950s, Charles Süsskind at the University of California, Berkeley received funding from the Air Force to determine the lethal dose of microwave radiation in mice, and to investigate its effects on growth and longevity. At that time, the Air Force thought that 100 milliwatts per square centimeter was a safe dose; Süsskind soon found out that it was not. It killed most mice within nine minutes. So after that, Süsskind only exposed mice for four and a half minutes at a time. He irradiated one hundred mice for 59 weeks, five days per week for four and a half minutes a day at a power density of 109 milliwatts per square centimeter. Some of the irradiated mice, which subsequently died, developed extraordinarily high white blood cell counts, and had enlarge lymphoid tissue and enormous liver abscesses. Testicular degeneration occurred in 40 percent of the irradiated mice, and 35 percent developed leukemia. However, the unirradiated mice, although they were much healthier, did not live as long. After 15 months, half the control mice were dead, and only 36 percent of the irradiated ones.
From 1980 to 1982, Chung-Kwang Chou and Arthur William Guy led a famous experiment at the University of Washington. They had a contract with the United States Air Force to investigate the safety of the early warning radar stations recently installed at Beale Air Force Base in California, and on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Known as PAVE PAWS, these were the most powerful radar stations in the world, emitting a peak effective radiated power of about three billion watts and irradiating millions of Americans. The University of Washington team approximated the PAVE PAWS signals at a “very low” level, irradiating one hundred rats 21.5 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 25 months. The Specific Absorption Rate—approximately that of the average cell phone today—was 0.4 watts per kilogram. During the two years of the experiment the exposed animals developed four times as many malignant tumors as the control animals. But they lived, on average, 25 days longer.
Recently gerontologists at the University of Illinois exposed cell cultures of mouse fibroblasts to radio waves (50 MHz, 0.5 watts) for either o, 5, 15, or 30 minutes at a time, twice a week. The treatments lowered the mortality rate of the cells. The greater the exposure time, the lower the mortality, so that the 30-minute exposure reduced cell death by one-third after seven days, and increased their average lifespan from 118 days to 138 days.18
Even ionizing radiation—X-rays and gamma rays—will prolong life if not too intense. Everything from Paramecia to coddling moths to rats and mice to human embryo cells have had their average and/or maximal life spans increased by exposure to ionizing radiation. Even wild chipmunks have been captured, irradiated, and released—and had their average lifespans thereby extended.
Rajindar Sohal and Robert Allen, who irradiated house flies at Southern Methodist University, discovered that at moderate doses, an increase in lifespan occurred only if the flies were placed in compartments small enough so that they could not fly. They concluded that radiation always produces two opposite kinds of effects: injurious effects that shorten the lifespan, and a reduction in basal metabolic rate that lengthens the lifespan. If the dose of radiation is low enough, the net effect is a lengthening of life despite obvious injuries.
Loren Carlson and Betty Jackson at the University of Washington School of Medicine reported that rats exposed daily to moderate doses of gamma rays for a year had their lives extended, on average, by 50 percent, but suffered a significant increase in tumors. Their oxygen consumption was reduced by one-third.
Egon Lorenz, at the National Cancer Institute, exposed mice to gamma rays—one-tenth of a roentgen per eight-hour day—beginning at one month of age and for the rest of their lives. The irradiated females lived just as long, and the irradiated males one hundred days longer, than the unirradiated animals. But the irradiated mice developed many more lymphomas, leukemias, and lung, breast, ovarian, and other types of cancers.
Even extremely low doses of radiation will both injure and extend lifespan. Mice exposed to only 7 centigrays per year of gamma radiation—only 20 times higher than background radiation—had their lives extended by an average of 125 days. Human fibroblasts, exposed in cell culture once for only six hours to the same level of gamma rays that is received by astronauts in space, or during certain medical exams, lived longer than unexposed cells. Human embryo cells exposed to very low dose X-rays for ten hours a day had their lifespans increased by 14 to 35 percent, although most of the cells also suffered several kinds of damage to their chromosomes.