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Transcript: http://ehtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Transcript_Mitchell-Gaynor-MD.pdf Mitchell Gaynor explores the environmental exposures that contribute to cancer growth. “Everyone is walking around with cancer in their bodies." He explains that the strategy is not to eradicate every cancer cell but rather to keep cancer cells dormant so that they do not become active. He discusses the key things each person can do to protect themselves from toxic environmental exposures such as flame retardants, phalates, dioxins, white sugar and radio frequency radiation.  “Be careful with cell phones and electronic items, use wired rather than wireless when possible.” He details detoxifying enzymes and foods we can eat to increase our bodies' ability to fight cancer.    Dr. Mitchell Gaynor is a  board certified medical oncologist, internist and hematologist,  Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Gaynor has served as the medical director and director of medical oncology at the Weill Cornell Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine.  #PracticeSafeTech www.ehtrust.org

Kate Kheel talks at 5G Free CA Fundaraiser

Unbreathable: The Fight for Healthy Air is directed by award-winning filmmaker and American University School of Communication (AU SOC) professor Maggie Burnette Stogner and is produced by SOC alumna Elizabeth Herzfeldt-Kamprath. It is Executive Produced by SOC's Center for Environmental Filmmaking with support from the American Lung Association, AU’s Center for Environmental Policy, and the Hanley Foundation.

Waking up to our wireless reality!  Jonathan, of Piti Theatre, uses a comedic lens to explore fatherhood, marriage, and environmental health. The must watch show, which premiered earlier this year, was well received at the Ko Fest, so much so that he’s held command performances and it’s now available to stream on demand.  Jonathan shares his experience and the art of telling a difficult story about the severe neurological symptoms triggered by exposure to EMFs. He will discuss the disconnect between the passionate embrace of wireless technology by society and his own need to become a public health advocate as Godeliève’s electro-hypersensitivity (a.k.a. “microwave sickness”) worsens. Jonathan fashioned a 21st century love letter as well as a wakeup call to the risks of 24/7 wireless exposure.

In an historic decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit judged in favor of environmental health groups and petitioners on Aug. 13, 2021, finding the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) violated the Administrative Procedure Act and failed to respond to comments on environmental harm.

The court ruled that the decision by the FCC to retain its 1996 safety limits for human exposure to wireless radiation was “arbitrary and capricious.”  and held that the FCC failed to respond to “record evidence that exposure to RF radiation at levels below the Commission’s current limits may cause negative health effects unrelated to cancer.”   

Further, the agency demonstrated “a complete failure to respond to comments concerning environmental harm caused by RF radiation.” The court found the FCC ignored numerous organizations, scientists  and medical doctors who called on them to update limits and the court found the FCC failed to address these issues:  

On August 16, 2021, Environmental Health Trust held a Press Conference with Devra Davis PhD, MPH, EHT president; Dr. Hugh Taylor MD Chair of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital and president of American Society of  Reproductive Medicine; Edward B. Myers, EHT attorney; Theodora Scarato MSW, EHT Executive Director and a petitioner in the case; Frank Clegg, CEO of Canadians for Safe Technology and former President of Microsoft Canada; Paul Ben Ishai PhD, professor of physics at Ariel University in Israel; Cindy Franklin, founder of Consumers for Safe Cell Phones and a petitioner in the case, and Elizabeth Barris, director of the Peoples Initiative Foundation and a petitioner in the case.  

Human exposure guidelines for wireless radiation were last set in 1996.   

Full details on the case found at https://ehtrust.org/in-historic-decision-federal-court-finds-fcc-failed-to-explain-why-it-ignored-scientific-evidence-showing-harm-from-wireless-radiation/ 

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"A technology that I had once thought was harmless, it turns out to be harmful so I'm here to tell you what that harm is."    Dr. Kent Chamberlin is chair and a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of New Hampshire.  In this Patreon presentation, Chamberlin discusses how the telecom industry fights against any limitations to its wireless infrastructure, the FCC's unprotective safety standards, and why our regulatory agencies don't do more to protect the public.    Chamberlin was appointed in 2019 by the university system chancellor to serve on the New Hampshire 5G Commission. The commission was formed by legislation passed by the state assembly. The 12-person commission met for a year to review the science and to speak to outside experts.    Chamberlin said all the presenters except one provided clear evidence that wireless radiation posed a threat to human health and the environment. The presenter who did not acknowledge those risks was the presenter from the telecom industry. That presenter was also the only person paid to present to the commission.    The commission concluded in its report that 5G poses a significant risk to health and the environment. Three commission members dissented, including the two commissioners who were representing the telecommunications industry and state Sen. James Gray.    Nonetheless, the majority of the commission developed a list of recommendations, including establishing a 500-meter setback for the installation of cell towers. A setback law is designed to protect the people from wireless radiation exposure from cell towers, It would mean more costs to the telecom industry to position towers out of harm's way.     Legislation has been written to implement the commission's recommendations but it won't be voted on until fall 2022. Chamberlin calls it an uphill battle because of telecom's deep pockets and its threats to challenge lawmakers who vote against the wireless industry.     In the meantime, telecom continues to argue that the health impacts are not attributable to the wireless infrastructure despite hundreds of studies showing a relationship. Chamberlin says telecom is counting on the public shrugging at the experiences of those who are electro hypersensitive since many of the onset symptoms are common — nausea, headaches, fatigue, insomnia, memory loss, confusion, and weakness. Studies show that ongoing exposure to electromagnetic fields may cause more serious issues, like the creation of radical oxidative stress in the body that could lead to other diseases.     "You're probably going, 'Wow this is serious stuff. How come we don't know about it?'" Chamberlin said. "You would expect this to be on the front page of newspapers but please consider where does a lot of the advertising revenue come from? For many news outlets, who advertises a huge amount? You know, the companies, the telecom industries. So apparently from what I've seen, news outlets are very unwilling to bite the hand that feeds them."

Imagine being told that you don't have to worry about your children being poisoned by lead because you don't fit the demographic. That's what Tamara Rubin heard from medical professionals after her children were poisoned during the rehab of their family home.   After she moved her family out of the house, Rubin, who had a background in film production and performing arts began investigating the toxicity of lead paint and laws to protect families. She decided that she needed to produce a film for families from all walks of life who may not realize that their children's behavioral problems could be caused by lead in paint that is not adequately regulated.  As it turns out, even though lead paint is "outlawed" in the U.S., lead paint is still used in imported household products and toys, and lead is still used in industrial paints for marine and transportation infrastructure.   While new household paint is "lead free," meaning it contains fewer than 90 parts per million lead, the level that is toxic for children, lead paint on existing homes is not "illegal" in the U.S. if the paint contains fewer than 600 parts per million. In th U.K., the limit is 20,000 parts per million.   But in order to get federal funding for remediation of your home, a property must test positive for one milligram of lead per centimeter squared, which is roughly equivalent to 5,000 parts per million lead. If your house tests positive for 0.9 milligrams per centimeter squared, or roughly the equivalent of 4,500 parts per million lead, — which is a lot more than 90 parts per million lead — then the home is not eligible for federal funding and intervention.  With the laws as incomplete as they are, Rubin, who runs the Lead Safe Mama blog (https://tamararubin.com/), urges families to get educated so they can create a groundswell to petition government agencies to combat lead in household products and remediate older properties.

Rose Madrone was asked how she can make a difference and she had to think long and hard about it? Then she realized that she could show how one person's impact creates a chain reaction. So she started working on "Connectivity Project," a film on the ripple effect of our actions. Ironically, the 10-year effort to make the project was a ripple effect of its own. Everytime the project seemed dead, something happened to give it new life until the film was fully realized.  Madrone fell into the moviemaking business. She was a botanist, which lent to her interest in interconnectedness after spending years working on hybrids and blending of herbals. But she was able to assemble a crew.   Don't think you have much effect on the environment? Connectivity Project demonstrates how birds, bees, and butterflies — indeed everything in the natural world — are related and how a swell of individual voices can create a movement for change.

The electronics industry has guaranteed demand for its products by making it impossible to fix broken devices.  This wasteful "planned obsolescence" creates all kinds of detrimental impacts around the world — from environmental degradation, energy overconsumption, and recycling bottlenecks. It's waste for waste's sake and it is going mostly unnoticed by hungry electronics consumers.  In "Death By Design," writer, producer, and director Sue Williams shows how the supply chain for some of the biggest companies in the world — companies like Apple, IBM, and Samsung — are creating avoidable environmental and health hazards. She and iFixit cofounder Kyle Wiens join EHT Executice Director Theodora Scarato for a conversation about the film, what is happening inside China's electronics production facilities today, and what to expect in the coming years.  Will companies stand up and do the right thing? At the time of the shooting, Apple would not disclose its supply chain. It has since disclosed a list of suppliers, but it does not reveal who its suppliers' suppliers are. It's when you follow this chain that the quality of China's electronics production gets murky — and the risks become real, both for workers on the ground, the water they drink, and the land they farm.  Is there an ethically made electronics device out there? Which data centers are being most economical? Will China take any responsibility for its factories? Will consumers change the way they purchase, use, and toss devices?  Watch this fascinating interview and learn more about "Death By Design" at https://ehtrust.org/the-jackson-hole-environmental-health-trust-film-series-death-by-design/

Soozie Eastman became a guinea pig so that you don't have to. The "Overload" director put herself through four rounds of blood tests and a 30-day detox to learn what happens when the body is cleaned of some of the thousands of chemicals that end up in it — from the first day of life!  Even as someone who was paying attention to what she put in her body, Eastman said she felt like she didn't have the information she needed to make some critical decisions before starting a family.   So she gave away a lot of her blood and spent $12,000 on lab diagnostics to test her levels for 419 of the most commonly used chemicals. Many of these chemicals are parabens and phthalates, the products that go into fragrances, plastics, and cosmetics. Then there are the toxins that end up in the environment around us, whether through manufacturing of carpets, wall paint, and pesticides.   Spanning a timeframe that included a pre-discovery period and a 30-day detox, and a post-detox follow-up, Eastman tested again and again. Not only did she learn that some toxins can quickly be cleaned from the body — and chemical levels can go up as toxins prepare to exit the body — but ​that consumers do have a little bit of control over their choices. Eastman found that a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel is not an oncoming train. Consumers can focus not just on their one-time cleanse but also on their consumer power and make informed decisions about what they bring into their homes, put on their bodies, and feed themselves and their families.  And the cherry on top: Living a greener life or a little bit leaner is not nearly as expensive as the consumer products industry would have you believe. In fact, alternatives to common household products are very similar in price.   Doctors say 80 percent of our illnesses are tied to environmental causes, which can be a very scary situation. "While documentaries are fascinating, they sometimes can leave many people feeling a little hopeless, overwhelmed, or frustrated about what to do. Overload" is a fun film to watch despite the challenging subject.  It is hightly empowering and Eastman's story offers a toolkit for people to follow so they can become advocates for themselves without the feeling of gloom and doom.  In this Q&A, Eastman suggests starting by picking one silo of exposure — bathroom products, cleaners, makeup, or wherever is easiest for you — and tackling the products list one at a time. You don't even have to throw away the bad products. You already purcahsed them and the landfill doesn't need them. Finish them up and then make a clean start with each replacement. Over time, the changes add up and your body will feel the difference.  Skip doing your own laboratory tests or spending a fortune to learn what your levels are. Hear from Eastman in this Q&A, watch "Overload," and learn what you can change for yourself!  Start by making smarter decisions at whatever level is comfortable for you.

Dr. Devra Davis is a respected leader in environmental toxicology heading the Environmental Health Trust, a non-profit organization raising awareness about human-made health threats. In this 5 part podcast series, Dr. Davis will share the latest in policy and research concerning environmental hazards, as well as how to reduce exposure at the individual and community levels. Dr. Davis has authored over 200 publications as well as three books, one of which was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has advised Congress, the UN, and The World Health Organization. She will address other environmental hazards as well, including cell phones, wireless technology, and blue light. Her lecture will also draw parallels between human and ecological impacts, touching on the effects of environmental toxins in the climate change debate.  She will end the talk with a focus on tips for reducing your exposure, as well as what communities can do to reduce toxins, and decrease greenhouse gases.

Dr. Devra Davis is a respected leader in environmental toxicology heading the Environmental Health Trust, a non-profit organization raising awareness about human-made health threats. In this 5 part podcast series, Dr. Davis will share the latest in policy and research concerning environmental hazards, as well as how to reduce exposure at the individual and community levels. Dr. Davis has authored over 200 publications as well as three books, one of which was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has advised Congress, the UN, and The World Health Organization. She will address other environmental hazards as well, including cell phones, wireless technology, and blue light. Her lecture will also draw parallels between human and ecological impacts, touching on the effects of environmental toxins in the climate change debate.  She will end the talk with a focus on tips for reducing your exposure, as well as what communities can do to reduce toxins, and decrease greenhouse gases.

Dr. Devra Davis is a respected leader in environmental toxicology heading the Environmental Health Trust, a non-profit organization raising awareness about human-made health threats. In this 5 part podcast series, Dr. Davis will share the latest in policy and research concerning environmental hazards, as well as how to reduce exposure at the individual and community levels. Dr. Davis has authored over 200 publications as well as three books, one of which was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has advised Congress, the UN, and The World Health Organization. She will address other environmental hazards as well, including cell phones, wireless technology, and blue light. Her lecture will also draw parallels between human and ecological impacts, touching on the effects of environmental toxins in the climate change debate.  She will end the talk with a focus on tips for reducing your exposure, as well as what communities can do to reduce toxins, and decrease greenhouse gases.

Dr. Devra Davis is a respected leader in environmental toxicology heading the Environmental Health Trust, a non-profit organization raising awareness about human-made health threats. In this 5 part podcast series, Dr. Davis will share the latest in policy and research concerning environmental hazards, as well as how to reduce exposure at the individual and community levels. Dr. Davis has authored over 200 publications as well as three books, one of which was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has advised Congress, the UN, and The World Health Organization. She will address other environmental hazards as well, including cell phones, wireless technology, and blue light. Her lecture will also draw parallels between human and ecological impacts, touching on the effects of environmental toxins in the climate change debate.  She will end the talk with a focus on tips for reducing your exposure, as well as what communities can do to reduce toxins, and decrease greenhouse gases.

Dr. Devra Davis is a respected leader in environmental toxicology heading the Environmental Health Trust, a non-profit organization raising awareness about human-made health threats. In this 5 part podcast series, Dr. Davis will share the latest in policy and research concerning environmental hazards, as well as how to reduce exposure at the individual and community levels. Dr. Davis has authored over 200 publications as well as three books, one of which was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has advised Congress, the UN, and The World Health Organization. She will address other environmental hazards as well, including cell phones, wireless technology, and blue light. Her lecture will also draw parallels between human and ecological impacts, touching on the effects of environmental toxins in the climate change debate.  She will end the talk with a focus on tips for reducing your exposure, as well as what communities can do to reduce toxins, and decrease greenhouse gases.

This press conference took place in New York City on June 3, 2014. Speakers include Grassroots Executive Director Patti Wood, Dr. Devra Davis, Dr. Hugh Taylor, and Dr. Maya Shetreat-Klein. 

David Carpenter, M. D., professor and former Dean of the University at Albany School of Public Health, discusses wireless radiation and its impact on public health, particularly children. This is an edited version of a longer presentation made in April, 2019 in Shrewsbury, MA.

Theodora Scarato, Executive Director of Environmental Health Trust, talks about how schools around the world are pushing back against wireless technology in classrooms.

This podcast is from the expert forum held in Shrewsbury, MA on March 25, 2019, "Questioning the Safety of Our Children's Exposure to Wireless Radiation in the Classroom." Please watch the other presentations in this series and share with friends, school officials and legislators.

Dr. Herbert talks about her research into the brain and how various environmental exposures, including wireless radiation from all sources, may impact its performance.

This podcast is from the expert forum held in Shrewsbury, MA on March 25, 2019, "Questioning the Safety of Our Children's Exposure to Wireless Radiation in the Classroom." Please watch the other presentations in this series and share with friends, school officials and legislators.

"Protection Against Radiation is in Conflict with Science" by Dr. Franz Adlkofer, former Executive Director, VERUM Foundation for Behaviour and Environment. It is well known that findings in conflict with industrial policies require decades of research and discussion until they are finally accepted. One example is the area of cell phone radiation research. The assertion made in the 1950s that there are no effects of radio frequency electromagnetic fields besides the thermal ones, as such an assumption contradicts the laws of physics, is until today successfully defended by the cell phone industry on purely economic reasons. Involved are scientists who - against their better knowledge or because of naivety - deny any possibly non-thermal health damaging effects from cell phone radiation. Appointing them as "experts" and placing them in national and international committees that give advice to governments means that the status quo is usually ensured for decades. The result: substantial profits – at the cost of 'body counts'?

The nation's leading experts on wireless radiation and human health impacts participate in a live press conference prior to their panel at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting in Baltimore.  Featuring Dr. Devra Davis, Dr. Hugh Taylor, Dr. Martha Herbert and Dr.Catherine Steiner-Adair.

Dr. Lisa Bailey, M.D., presents evidence that breast cancer in young women is related to carrying a cell phone in their bras. Dr. Lisa Bailey, M.D., a breast surgeon and former President of the, American Cancer Society, CA.

Scientists provide an update on latest (peer-reviewed) science of prenatal cellphone radiation exposures of tested mammals finding damage to their brains and their offspring.  Also presentation on findings that cellphone radiation exposures cause human sperm damage.

Featuring: • Hugh Taylor, Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale Medical School (via link) • Ronald B. Herberman, TNI Bio Tech Inc,  president of  American Association of Cancer Institutes  • Devra Davis, President Environmental Health Trust • Nesrin Seyhan, Chairman, Department of Biophysics, Gazi University • Suleyman Kaplan, Embryology, Ondokuz Mayis University • Igor Belyaev, Deputy Director, National Cancer Institute of Slovakia and Russian Academy of Sciences

Conference sponsored by Environmental HealthTrust, Ondukucz Mayis University & Gazi University in Turkey, and the National Cancer Institute of Slovakia  Cell phone radiation, pregnancy and sperm: what you don't know, what you need to find out, and what you can do now

Cell phones are a ubiquitous part of our lives. But, several new, independent studies confirm previous findings that pulsed digital signals from cell phones disrupt DNA, impair brain function and damage sperm.

Fetuses, children and teens are particularly vulnerable such that the American Academy of Pediatrics sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission asking for a review of the exposure limits.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently issued a Report calling for an update of cell phone exposure limits. The GAO recommended, "FCC should formally reassess and, if appropriate, change its current RF energy exposure limit and mobile phone testing requirements related to likely usage configurations." and FCC stated on page 40 of the GAO Report "...the Commission's staff ... arrived at the same conclusion [and the] document is ... under consideration by the Commission ...".

Dr. Devra Davis, Fellow at American College of Epidemiology, provides an overview of the science connecting wireless radiation with DNA damage, infertility, and adverse health impacts in children. DATE: December 4th, 2018  LOCATION: Lansing, MI

Dartmouth's Jones Seminars on Science, Technology, and Society. "Lessons from the Secret History of the War on Cancer for Public Policies on Cell Phones and Other Microwave Emitting Devices." Devra Davis, Visiting Scholar, Goldman School of Public Policy & Management, Center for Environmental Public Policy, University of California Berkeley; President, Environmental Health Trust. Friday, October 25, 2013.

“Every day lost, every excuse invoked, every tactic invented only increases the damage to human life, to the environment and to the generations who will have to fix the broken pieces.” Documentary filmmaker Pascal Gélinas wrote these heart-wrenching words to his grandson in a public letter released in November 2020. These words are the concluding statements that followed a long, detailed description of the biological effects of RF-EMF that Gélinas has been documenting and sharing with his many followers.

The consequences that accompany the so-called “advancements” of 5G have been largely ignored by both the U.S. and Canadian governments despite ample up-to-date science linking RF-EMF radiation to effects on humans as well as on birds, bees, and trees. EHT founder Devra Davis recently described how the technological push toward 5G has been provoked by unnecessary geopolitical and ecological gamesmanship — a game with no victor, and certainly no eye toward public health.

In this Silver Patreon event, Gélinas, Davis, and Fauteux discussed why this rejection of sound science continues and the “malpractice” committed by federal agencies for their refusal to address public health concerns. They also evaluated priorities for the incoming Biden administration, including appointing independent commissioners to the FCC, requesting a National Academy of Science committee review of the science underlying 5G, and identifying major data gaps and uncertainties about the economic efficiency of 5G. They also discussed the new film, Prisons Without Bars, a documentary produced by Gélinas’ wife Nicole Giguère about electromagnetic hypersensitivity.

About “COMPLICIT”  Yi Yeting’s brave fight to expose the dangers from cell phone manufacturing in China’s largest factory is documented by Heather White in the film “COMPLICIT.” In this lush and moving documentary, White and co-directer Lynn Zhang trace the journey by millions of young people from China’s farmlands to its electronics factory floors. The search for a better life is elusive to many of these workers, who must cope with work-related illnesses in a country without medical benefits or workers compensation.  “COMPLICIT” details dozens of stories of young workers who became ill at their jobs, the Chinese government’s shuttering of worker advocacy offices, and the growing movement outside China to protect exposed workers. It documents the government’s efforts to isolate protagonist Yi as he reveals the truth behind the dangers that lie in the production of the world’s computers and cell phones.  First released in 2017, “COMPLICIT” has been screened at 40 film festivals and has won nine international festival awards. Shortly after the documentary’s release, Apple agreed to ban the use of benzene and n-hexane in its cellular phone production, but do these factories continue to ignore Chinese regulations, which are rarely enforced?

Do you notice when you turn off the Wi-Fi that you fall asleep faster and sleep better? Do you ever have headaches or nausea when you cross under electric lines? Do you know someone who has severe reactions to electromagnetic radiation? EMFs are everywhere, including our work environments, hospitals, and public places. But people who suffer from electromagnetic sensitivity (ES) often suffer in silence. They are treated like complainers or hypochondriacs or worse. Sheena Symington, the director of the Electrosensitive Society in Canada, is a fierce advocate for those with acute reactions to electromagnetic radiation and has worked on this issue for years. The scientific evidence demonstrating acute effects from electromagnetic radiation exposure is documented. Important first steps for recovery are to create a low EMF environment and to find medical practitioners familiar with treating and accommodating ES. Silent sufferers need to know they aren’t alone and they aren’t crazy. In fact, Peterborough, Canada, is one municipality that is informing its community about the dangers. It has provided information to help organizations accommodate individuals who have electromagnetic sensitivity. It recommends – among other things: To temporarily disable city-owned WAP devices. To turn off or minimize fluorescent and LED. To notify attendees to set mobile phones to airplane mode. At this Patreon event, Symington described how she got involved, the key issues facing those who suffer, and what can be done to help them, including finding and creating low EMF zones where they can comfortably live, work and better enjoy life. Symington, who helps people who are Electro Hypersensitive (EHS), has been researching chemical and electromagnetic pollutants and their effects on natural and human ecosystems for many years. A Research Associate with Professor Emeritus Dr. Magda Havas (theroselab.com) she offers advice on electromagnetic hygiene and shares what more can be done in the public health arena to educate people on maintaining an electromagnetically clean environment.

Hosted by St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Montana, Turning the Tide health education conference is focused on how human health problems are often related to environmental damage caused by humans.

489 million 5G phones are expected to be rolled out in 2021. If the environmental hazards associated with their production, use, and disposal don't bother you, maybe the safety implications will. Phones are tested in an antiquated method using a large plastic bowling ball-sized head of a male dummy named Standard Anthropomorphic Mannequin (or SAM for short). SAM's head is nearly double the size of the head of a toddler and larger than 97 percent of all people. A big guy with a thick skull, SAM looks like military recruits from nearly a century ago. SAM is not representative of the public, yet SAM is the standard by which cell phone safety is tested. Typically, manufacturers select a single device among their product lines to test on SAM to ensure the syrupy liquid inside the dummy’s thick skull doesn't heat up.

Despite thousands of studies on non-thermal effects, national and international regulatory agencies, including the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), still rely on thermal testing to measure the safety of cell phones. Not surprisingly, SAM is not very talkative — test calls average six minutes in duration. His behavior doesn't resemble the way the public uses cell phones today. We are Not SAM! This outdated and misleading “SAM” dummy for testing data on cell phones and other microwave radiating devices, including whatever equipment 5G may ultimately entail, is "fake news," and the world is waking up. Cell phones and wireless devices are not tested the way we use them — directly next to our bodies. Even if they were tested in body contact positions, current cell phone radiation limits do not protect us. We Are Not SAM is an organization aimed at educating consumers about the danger of wireless radiation. Co-creators Rinat Strahlhofer, a former telecommunications insider from New South Wales, Australia, and Tashi Lhamo, who was first exposed to the danger of the technology while studying the then-emerging industry during college, describes efforts by the telecommunications industry to hide the effects of cell phone radiation exposure — in part by using "decoys" like SAM. In this exclusive interview with EHT founder Devra Davis, the two describe how they came to understand the dangers of wireless radiation and how they are fighting to boycott the expansion of 5G, which isn't a replacement to 3G and 4G, but rather an addition to it that causes more and more radiation exposure to the public as well as to our flora and fauna. "When it comes to safety, we just assume that it's there, and we're using devices under the assumption that regulatory bodies are taking care of safety," Strahlhofer said. "Right now we're faced with a rigged test... At what point do we draw a line in the sand?"

Devra Davis combines her deep personal connection to issues of health and the environment with her formidable scientific expertise, arguing for fundamentally new ways of thinking about health and the environment. Before she became one of the world’s leading epidemiologists, Davis was the victim of environmental pollution. As a young girl in Donora, Pennsylvania, she saw 20 of her home town community members die and scores permanently injured in the smog disaster of October 26th, 1948. In her new landmark book, When Smoke Ran Like Water, Devra Davis documents how environmental toxins contribute to a broad spectrum of diseases. The book’s title alludes to an event 50 years ago in London. Davis writes that “cool air from across the English Channel settled over the Thames River Valley and did not move. London’s eight million residents huddled indoors and warmed themselves by their coal stoves. Smoke ran like tap water from a million chimneys.” The inversion layer that had formed over the English capital trapped the coal smoke at ground level. The result was smog so thick that people could not find their own homes, automobile traffic ground to a halt, and people died in droves. The smog is now estimated to have killed some 12,000 people.

Devra Davis, Theodora Scarato and Dr. Erik Peper discuss the book Tech Stress - How Technology is Hijacking Our Lives along with other ways technology is affecting the environment around us.

At Georgetown University in Washington, DC., Dr. Devra Davis argues that cell phone radiation damages our bodies.  She says that recently disclosed research shows that cell phones negatively affect human DNA and increase the user's risk of developing memory loss, cancer, and various neurological diseases. 

Devra Davis was Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. She presents her book, a National Book Award Finalist - When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution in a March 20, 2008 Lecture at the Miller Center at The University of Virginia.

Interview with Dr. Devra Davis author of "The Secret History of the War on Cancer" October 14, 2007 on Mind Over Matters KEXP 90.3 FM Seattle.

Lauren Steiner discusses with Theodora Scarato and Catherine Dodd on two REALLY bad telcom bills moving through the CA legislature that will enable 5G eliminating local control. We discuss why these bills are bad. They do not achieve the stated purpose of improving connectivity or eliminating the digital divide. They are bad for human health, the environment, increase climate change, reduce property taxes, are not insurable and increase potential for hacking and surveillance. Learn how YOU can stop them. My guests are Theodora Scarato, MSW, who is Executive Director of Environmental Health Trust (EHT), a scientific think tank that publishes research and educates policymakers on environmental health issues. EHT scientists are among the leading independent voices calling for reducing wireless worldwide. Scarato directs EHT educational programs, publishes research and coordinates scientific conferences and programs in the US and internationally alongside EHT’s Senior Science Advisors. Scarato has co-authored several articles on electromagnetic field policy and is a lead policy analyst and researcher for the EHT database on international actions– the most comprehensive collection of information on policy actions on cell phones and wireless. My other guest is Catherine Dodd, PhD and RN, who is a policy advisor to the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments. Until 2017, she directed the San Francisco Health Service System. Prior to that, she was Deputy Chief of Staff to Mayor Gavin Newsom. She was District Chief of Staff to Nancy Pelosi. Currently she serves as Vice Chair to Commonweal, a social, health and environmental incubator and policy advisor to FACTS: Families Advocating for Chemical and Toxic Safety.

In this episode, Theodora Scarato and Andrew Campanelli speak about 5G, local legislation, and cell tower setbacks.

Numerous US Cities are enacting policy to ensure they have authority over the placement of 5G small cells to protect property values and minimize health effects from cell tower radiation.

In this episode, Dr. Devra Davis discusses the latest scientific research surrounding 5G, the Internet of Things, and wireless radiation. She is the founder of the Environmental Health Trust.

Dr. Davis is also an award-winning, internationally renowned scientist who has published over 200 peer reviewed scientific articles and also was the founding director of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the U.S. National Research Council and National Academy of Sciences.

In this episode, cancer survivors speak out against the dangers of cellphone radiation, and share their own personal battles with brain, heart, breast and neck tumors.

This episode is part 4 of a series where you will hear Theodora Scarato, executive director of the Environmental Health Trust, interview retired radiation health physicist Victor Leach.

This episode is part 3 of a series where you will hear Theodora Scarato, executive director of the Environmental Health Trust, interview retired radiation health physicist Victor Leach.

This episode is part 2 of a series where you will hear Theodora Scarato, executive director of the Environmental Health Trust, interview retired radiation health physicist Victor Leach.

Victor Leach has worked as a radiation health physicist and atmospheric scientist for the past 40 years. Soon afterwards, he was one of the founding members of Oceania Radiofrequency Scientific Advisory Association Inc. (ORSAA) in 2015 to present a balanced view when setting EMF standards. He has been a founding member of Australasian Radiation Protection Society (ARPS) since its inauguration in 1975, where he has been a past treasurer and is currently on the organising committee for conferences in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns and Darwin. Vic has been involved in many occupational and environmental aspects of mining and non-mining projects at both the planning and operational stage. He has published in refereed scientific and engineering journals on subjects of dust and radioactivity exposure and the inhalation effects on health of workers and members of the public. He was University Radiation Advisor (RPA) at both the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the University of Queensland (UQ).

In this episode, Victor Leach discusses the research about wireless, non-ionizing radiation and what the data shows regarding its dangers to human health. Victor Leach is a retired radiation health physicist and atmospheric scientist with over 45 years of experience in both the private and the public sector.

He has been a founding member of the Australasian Radiation Protection Society since its inauguration in 1975.

In this episode Theodora Scarato, executive director of the Environmental Health Trust interviews award-winning writer Katie Alvord about her recent article "Is Wireless Technology an Environmental Health Risk?". This article was featured in the SE Journal at sej.org. Her article covers the wireless radiation health risks, discusses 5G, as well as the effects of wireless radiation on nature. She also explains ways for people to use technology more safely.

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In this episode, you will hear doctors, scientists, cancer survivors, and safe technology advocates testifying against 5G small cell towers. Several of these testimonies mention the fact that radiofrequency radiation from cell towers has only been tested on a 200 pound male. Due to their smaller body size, children are proportionally more vulnerable to this radiation at the most critical periods of their development. As one gets closer to a cell tower, the amount of radiation increases exponentially. To make matters worse, it is estimated that about one in ten cell tower facilities was out of compliance with FCC guidelines and limits. This is why so many people are speaking out about the proximity of 5G cell towers to schools, playgrounds, and homes.