http://bit.ly/xjsNCr As if we don't have enough about radiation in our news already. The following blog post is one more great example, if you still think that electromagnetic radiation doesn't exist and causes no harm, that it is an apparent issue in modern society and that we need to take action, better sooner than later. Here's the story:
Russ Loader and his wife Kathy moved into an apartment on Colborne St. in Oshawa eight years ago. The building was new and clean, and was run by Gateway Community Homes. Then, the happy setting around this story all changed when the couple got their wish to move into a supposedly nicer apartment across the hall, and in doing so, moved into hell. Even though this 'better' apartment looked and sounded nicer, shortly after unpacking, they began to get severely sick. Russ, who has arthritis said, “My feet are size 10; they swelled up to size 14.” Worse, he soon developed gaping sores on his legs, had ballooned ankles and rotted toenails. Kathy said, “I also lost my ankles. I had skinny ankles before we moved in.” On the bottom of her legs, swelling was visible, and didn't look right. Russ, who used to be an amateur runner said, “I had to have home care for a year because of my sores; people thought I was an AIDS patient.”
Obviously, something is wrong here. How can such illness effect such young, healthy members of the community? There has to be an explanation, and of course, there is. The problem was that there was an electromagnetic field under the floor of the apartment! Watch the video below for test results of the floor of the apartment. The EMF is strong enough to light a light bulb!
Video from http://bit.ly/xjsNCr.
What I Think
Well, the truth is finally starting to emerge! After all these years, society finally beings to doubt what the industry has been feeding to us for what seemed like an eternity: cellphone radiation is dangerous. I believe that this is, again, just one more example supporting my theory. However, in this case, the problem hasn't been completely solved yet, for once Russ reported the problem to Gateway Community Homes, they "conducted a report" that comes up with results that don't suggest any EMF, and say that it could be coming from the computers in the home. As highlighted in one of my previous posts, any company can easily "conduct a report" and come up with whatever results suit them best, so its safe to say that the company is displaying these results for the sole purpose of maximizing profit. What angers me even more is that Russ then wrote to the Ministry of Health... Who responded to him saying “Unfortunately, your problems lie outside (our) jurisdiction . . . and this ministry is unable to be of assistance.” Finally, when Russ contacted the Landlord and Tenant Board, he got the response he was looking for... almost. The LTB judge was impressed enough with their presentation that he invited himself over to the Loader apartment in order to see the problem for himself. And then he ruled against them.
So the big problem here? No, not that radiation is unsafe for our society, although that is equally true. What's truly wrong here is that the world around us doesn't accept what's true, and still refuses to believe, after all these studies and radiation being featured in the news, that it is a threat to our health. We need to educate others. Although there are some obstacles in a road to life completely without EMR exposure, people can still manege... even if we only use cellphones once in a while. The thing is, because we have had them for such a long period of time, people are so used to them that they refuse to believe that they are a potential threat. We need to change that.
So what's your opinion? How long could you go without your cellular device? What about your microwave (which also emits EMR)? I myself am living without a microwave, and once you get used to it, it is very easy to adapt (topic of future post). Please comment with your thoughts. Thanks for reading, more to come!
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Great post!!!! You have put a lot of effort into it. I hope to hear more about this soon!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot for reading, I hope you really enjoyed the post! What's your opinion? How long could you go without your cellular device. I know that I always have to be connected to the Internet, since I am use to it's presence. Do you think that if we didn't have cellphones for as long as we had now, we would have given them up because of their danger by now?
DeleteThis is a good article. I'm learning new things already. As for the question, I don't think that I can go for even a day without using my microwave, but I will try. I believe that if we get used to a certain norm in our society, it is way harder to let it go (in this case, cellular phones). Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteNo problem, I believe we need to get people educated. Since cellphones have taken a place in our list of societal norms for such a long time, it is harder to get rid of them because of the potential threat they posses then if they would have came out a couple of years ago. Stay tuned, there are lots more posts to come!
DeleteI've never had a microwave at home and I do without it just fine. That having been said, a microwave is used to cook food. My toaster oven and stovetop do the same job just as easily and they do it better. A cell phone can't be compared to a microwave. A cell phone provides opportunities for access to information communication to which we have no alternative. One question to consider is this - if you were to snap your fingers and make all cell phones on the planet disappear, would it cause more harm than the EMR is causing now? I believe many people might argue yes.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading and for the comment, I hope you enjoyed! That being said, I never compared a cellphone to a microwave, I only said that microwaves emit the same electro-magnetic radiation that cellphones do, and create the same EM field. It's true, a cellphone cannot be compared to a microwave, as a cellphone provides Web 3.0 interaction and connects you to a whole, huge digital world while a microwave... cooks food. The thing is, if I would snap my fingers and make all cellphones on Earth disappear, sure it would cause a lot of harm... But would it be long term harm? People have other ways of staying connected, and could develop new technology to allow us to stay connected without the dangers of EMR, but cellphone radiation? Cellphone radiation wouldn't cause short term harm, as all cellphones disappearing would, but people can get used to life without cellphones. When we are in our senior years, we can get cancer from cellphone radiation and that-- that is when the real harm occurs.
DeleteAnother quick point - there's a very loose, if any, connection to be made between the story you cited and EMR from cell phones. I have yet to hear a person be able to light a bulb using their cell phone, or a cell phone registering anything near 100 on a gauss meter, even when using sensitive near field devices. In fact, CellSensor, a popular low-cost tool for measuring radiation from a cell phone only goes up to 100 mW/cm^2 and up to 250 milligauss. By comparison, I've found some websites that suggest hair dryers and electric razors create an EMF that can measure up to 500 mG. When a tool designed to measure cell phone radiation is only sensitive up to 250 milligauss it becomes difficult to compare with a bedroom registering 100 gauss. Also, chronic exposure to a magnetic field is more harmful than intermittent exposure to one. An MRI produced a magnetic field in the tens of thousands of gauss. The story does a good job at demonstrating the harmful medical effects of chronic exposure to a moderately powerful magnetic field - a point that i doubt anybody disputes; however, it doesn't add to the argument that the radiation from cell phones or other wireless electronics is harmful.
ReplyDeleteGood point; however, there is a flaw in your structure. In this post, I talk about the dangers of EMR, and mention how cellphones emit EMR too. In this case, the house has such a strong magnetic field that it can light a bulb and harm the human body with non-ionizing radiation. This magnetic field of radiation I blogged about is emitting the same radiation type as the cellphone, just at a much stronger level. The thing is, the intermittent exposure to the cellphone radiation adds up, and if you hold the cellphone against your head for a long enough time, your brain will get damaged. Think of it; the human body gets damaged severely at a certain level, what can a cellphone do to your brain and head? Finally, your point about EMR measurer doesn't add up; it doesn't matter how much you can sense, only the actual amount of radiation the cellphone emits. If anything, your example is just supporting my point. Thanks for your comment, I hope you enjoyed the post. Please tune in for future blog posts by me.
ReplyDeleteYou're right. Cellphone radiation does add up. But my point was you can't use a story which talks about the effects of chronic exposure to a 100 gauss magnetic field to support the argument that intermittent exposure to a 100mg magnetic field is harmful. The fact that they both create the same type of magnetic field on it's own is not enough. The intensity of the field. The size of the field. The location of the field. The amount of exposure to the field. All of these factors need to be taken into account. Presenting the Oshawa story as evidence to support the idea that cell phones are harmful would be like using data from people living in and around Chernobyl as evidence to support the idea that x-rays should be banned. You simply cannot compare long term exposure to relatively strong levels of any harmful substance to intermittent and short-term exposure to relatively minute quantities of that same substance - whatever it may be.
DeleteI'm not trying to suggest that there are no compounding effects of cell phone use. I've read some of your other posts and you do present quite a bit of information that, while hasn't convinced me, does make me feel like there needs to be some serious mainstream discussion about the topic. However, this topic is very polarizing and most people have a pretty strong opinion one way or another. In my opinion, the most successful media in this debate would be one that recognizes both points of view, recognizes that we really don't know for sure one way or another, and presents relevant scientific data that very specifically addresses a very specific point. I'm not sure that's what this particular post is doing by making the very long and difficult leap to try and connect the Oshawa bedroom to my cell phone.
Thanks for your reply. Although this is very much true, people do have their own opinions, I'm just trying to spread the message. All the factors that you mentioned above classify into the exact same category; EMR. And even though you are right, one can still compare. I don't think you truly understand my point, and how it is supposed to be coming across. We are swimming in a sea of radiation. We simply don't realize how much cellphone time we are using, and refuse to believe because we as a society are addicted to it. Why? Because we don't want to believe it's causing us damage. On top of this, radiation from other cellphones effects us too, not just our own. We are swimming in a SEA of radiation. How many people at your workplace use cellphones? In today's modern setting, where all offices, schools, and many, many homes are being equipped with more and more EMR technology (Wi-Fi networks, microwaves, cellphones), it's just getting impossible to completely avoid access.
DeleteI completely agree that factors need to be taken into consideration; however, you are making a mistake. It is not an intermittent, short-term exposure we are talking about here. Now, it's becoming into an unavoidable, everlasting, dangerous radiation that we need to be precautions of. While it is true that most people are pretty lenient on this topic towards one side or another, I believe that people need to open up their minds and think. There's no apparent reason for the mainstream society to have brought this topic up for no apparent reason. Overall, in this post, I intend to talk about EM radiation as a whole. Just look at the long term effects. If they are this serious, what could happen in a world which is growing to be one in which EMR is unavoidable, even if you get it less that full time exposure? Please do not hesitate to comment here with thoughts. Be sure to check out future posts and leave suggestions/feedback for me on the 'Suggestions' page which is accessible at the top of the page.
No you're absolutely right. I'm a teacher, and my school has two Wi-Fi networks not to mention the half a dozen that we can pick up from the community. Right now I'm sitting at home and my computer can pick up 15 distinct Wi-Fi networks. And that's not even factoring in the fact that there's a cell phone tower 500m from my head right now. Another one 800m away. And if we extend that radius to 1km there are a total of 8 separate towers, each likely hosting more than one transmitter. It really is a sea of radio waves. But despite the 15 wi-fi signals and 8 cell phone towers nobody in my family is experiencing the medial effects that this article is referring to. That's not to say that we won't or that the radio waves aren't slowly compounding over time, but it isn't swelling up our feet or ankles or aggravating my father's arthritis.
DeleteI understand that you're looking at EMR as a whole. I would suggest that it might be more valuable to focus on the areas of EMR that are the most polarizing. Very few people would disagree that all EMR is safe regardless the source or the intensity. I don't think many people would be willing to sleep in a bed on top of a magnetic field described in this article. Most of the debate surrounding EMR has to do specifically with wireless communication, which is where I might want to focus a discussion. Presenting this Oshawa article alongside your posts that are specifically about wireless communication makes it appear, at least in part, that you're using this case as an argument against EMR in general. I don't know that you can do that. You can certainly use this Oshawa case as an example of the potential dangers to a sustained magnetic field measuring 100 gauss, but it has very little to do with the potential dangers of the compounding effects of low level radiation from wireless communication devices. These should be two separate discussions.
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