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Science on Electro-magnetic exposure

Presentations:

• Cece Doucette: "Current evidence on wireless harm" (Ashland, MA Board of Health: EMF/RF Update, June 26 2018, 24 min.)
• Denis Henshaw: "Scientific basis of health effects of electric and magnetic fields associated with the use of the electricity supply" (2014)
• Erica Mallery-Blythe: "Electromagnetic Radiation, Health and Children" (Phire, 2014)
  
• Jerry Flynn: "Wireless Technology: The Worst Threat to our Health, Personal Privacy, Democracy and National Security in Canada's Entire History" (2014)
• Magda Havas: "Electrosmog & Electrosensitivity" (2014)
• Magda Havas: “The Truth About Wired & Wireless Technolgies” (2009)
• Jeromy Johnson: "A New Paradigm in EMF Science" (The Bent, the National Engineering Honor Society 2016)
  
• Oram Miller: "Hazards, Myths, and Science of EMFs: Oram Miller Interview Part-1/3" (2017, 67 min)
• Oram Miller: "The Most Dangerous, Overlooked EMFs and Solutions: Oram Miller Interview Part-2/3" (2017, 56 min)
• Oram Miller: "How [and Why] to Reduce RADIO FREQUENCIES at Home: Oram Miller Interview Part-3/3" (2017, 52 min)
• Martin Pall: "How WiFi and other EMFs Cause Biological Harm" (2014)
• ​Martin Pall: "Wireless Radiation Produces Health Effects by Activation of Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels" (2014)
  
• Paul Dart: "The Health Effects of Microwave Radio Exposures (Wireless Technology)" (2014)
  
• WiFi Australia: "Safe & Smart 4 r Kids - reduce wireless radiation" (2013)
  

USA, USSR, etc and military documents:

• Department of the Army: "Bioeffects of Selected Nonlethal Weapons (fn.1)" (Addendum to Nonlethal Technologies - Worldwide NGIC-1147-101-98, 1998)
• Ronald Adams & R.A. Williams: "Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Radiation (Radiowaves and Microwaves): Eurasian Communist Countries" (US Army Medical Intelligence and Information Agency, DST-1810S-074-76, 1976)
  ("Personnel exposed to microwave radiation below thermal levels experienced more neurological, cardiovascular and hemodynamic disturbances ... headache, fatigue, perspiring, dizziness, menstrual disorders, irritability, agitation, tensions, drowsiness, sleeplessness, depression, anxiety, forgetfulness and lack of concentration." p.6, p.8)
• Mariya Tolgskaya & Zinaida Gordon: "Pathological Effects of Radio Waves" (Consultants Bureau, New York, 1973, reprinted in Studies in Soviet Science, Springer, 1995, ISBN: 9781468484212) 
  
• Nicholas H Steneck: "The Microwave Debate" (MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 279 pages, ISBN: 0262192306,1984)
  ("The studies consistently and repeatedly report that human beings do exhibit behavioral disturbances when subjected to low intensity microwaves" R.J. MacGregor, Rand Corporation, 1970, p.69).
  
• Scott M Bolen: "Radiofrequency/Microwave Radiation Biological Effects and Safety Standards: A Review" (Rome Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command, Griffiss Air Force Base, New York, AD-A282 886, 1994, 29 pages)
• Stanislaw Baranski & Przemyslaw Czerski: "Biological Effects of Microwaves" (Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Pennsylvania, ISBN: 0879331453, 234 pages, 1976)
  ("The pathogenesis of these syndromes may be controversial, but their existence cannot be denied." p.168)
  
• US Senate: "Microwave irradiation of the US Embassy in Moscow: (review of its history and studies to determine whether or not related health defects were experienced by employees assigned in the period 1953-1977)" (Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, 90th Congress, 1st session, April 1979)
• W. Bergman: "The Effect of Microwaves on the Central Nervous System" (trans. from German, Ford Motor Company, 1965, 77 pages)
  ("The autonomic system is affected by microwaves of the centimeter wave length band. These waves affect circulation, respiration, temperature control, water balance, albumin and suger concentration in the cerebro-spinal fluid, hydrogen ion concentration, EEG, GSR, sleep, conscious awareness, etc." Absract)
  
• Zhaojin Cao: "General EMF and Health Research in China (1994-2006)" (NIEHS of China CDC, 2007)

• Zorach Glaser: "Bibliography of Reported Biological Phenomena ('Effects') and Clinical Manifestations attributed to Microwave and Radio-Frequency Radiation" (Naval Medical Research Institute, 2nd ed., 1972)

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International Programme on Chemical Safety: "Radiofrequency and Microwaves" (Environmental Health Criteria 16, World Health Organisation, (WHO, UNEP, IRPA, 1981))

       ("The USSR occupational and public health safety standards are based on the principle of complete prevention of health        risks and therefore include large safety factors" 9.2)

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Simple explanations of Radio Frequency and Microwave effects on people

• Andrew Goldsworthy: "The Cell Phone and the Cell: the Role of Calcium" (2008)
• Andrew Goldsworth: "The Dangers of Electrosmog" (2007)
• Andrew Goldsworth: "How electromagnetically-induced cell leakage may cause Autism" (2011)
• Andrew Goldsworthy: "WiFi in Schools" (2011)
• Andrew Goldsworthy: "The Biological Effects of Weak Electromagnetic Fields: Problems and Solutions" (2012)
• ​Barrie Trower: "WiFi: A Thalidomide in the making" (Ministry of Health, 2013)
  

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Cell phones causing brain cancer and tumors:

• Today Tonight: "Mobile Phone Cancer Danger" (Today Tonight, June 21st 2011, 5 mins)

EM and photo-biological effects:

• John Ott: "Exploring the Spectrum: Photo-Biology" (7m) 

Cryptochromes in Humans and Animals Sensitive to Earth's Magnetic Field:

• Sherrard RM et al.: “Low-intensity electromagnetic fields induce human cryptochrome to modulate intracellular reactive oxygen species” (PLoS Biol., 2018) 
  
•  U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory Public Affairs: “Bird’s-eye view could be key to navigating without GPS” (July 26 2021)
  
• U.S. Army Research Laboratory: "Bird’s-eye view could be key to navigating without GPS" (ScienceDaily, July 27 2021)
  
• Xu J et al.: “Magnetic sensitivity of cryptochrome 4 from a migratory songbird” (Nature, 2021)

Dowsing as an EM sensitivity:

People able to dowse or locate underground aquifers and other geomagnetic anomalies or disturbances seem to be reacting to electric fields induced in their body by passing through a magnetic ramp, according to the Faraday effect. This means that they need to be moving, either walking or in a vehicle, across the water flow or across a similar feature with a magnetic gradient.

A similar effect has been established as occurring to sensitive people moving through the strong magnetic fields of a MRI scanner, where operatives are allowed only to walk slowly and not to run or walk fast.

Many people are sensitive down to 0.1 nanoTesla (0.000001 Gauss: 1 x 10-6) when the effect is magnified by holding metal wires such as bent coat-hangers. The magnetic field from an underground aquifer can be 430 nT (0.0043 G). Magnetic fields pass through the ground easily, whereas electric fields need conductors like metal rods and the human body.

• Professor Sir William Barrett in 1884 concluded it was caused by a magnetic sensitivity.
      Barrett WF: "On a 'magnetic sense'" (Nature, 1884, 29, 476-477).
  
• Charles Richet, a Nobel prize winner, in 1923 agreed with some type of magnetic field or radiation.
      Richet C: "Thirty Years of Psychical Research" (trans. De Brath S; New York: MacMillan, 1923)
  
• Professor Tromp in 1949 experimented on dowsers and showed that they were accurate in 80% of tests and were sensitive to gradients of less than 10,000 nanoTesla (0.1 Gauss) per meter (i.e. 5 times lower than the earth’s magnetic field) when blindfolded.
      Tromp SW: "Psychical Physics Psychical physics; a scientific analysis of dowsing, radiesthesia and kindred divining       phenomena" (New York: Elsevier, 1949)
• Professor Rocard in 1964 showed that sensitive individuals could detect 30 nT (0.0003 G) per metre when walking and smaller gradients if walking faster or travelling in a vehicle at above 30 nT per second.
      Rocard Y: "Le Signal du Sourcier" (Paris: Dunod, 2nd ed. 1964)
  
• Professor Harvalik in 1970 showed that dowsers are sensitive to 0.1 nT (0.000001 G: 1 x 10-6) per second, and a very sensitive dowser to 0.00002 nT (0.0000000002 G: 2 x 10-10) per second.
      Harvalik ZV: "A biophysical magnetometer-gradiometer" (The Virginia Journal of Science, 1970, 21(2):59-60)
• Professor Harvalik in 1978 showed that dowsers appear to have sensitive organs located in the areas of the pineal gland and the kidney.
      Harvalik ZV: "Anatomical localization of human detection of weak electromagnetic radiation: experiments with dowsers" (Physiological Chemistry and Physics, 1978, 10:525-534; PMID: 754193)
  
• Drs Chadwick and Jensen in 1971 showed that an underground aquifer can produce magnetic fields of 430 nT (0.0043 G).
      Chadwick DG, Jensen L: "The Detection of Magnetic Fields Caused by Groundwater and the Correlation of such Fields with Water Dowsing" (Logan, Utah: Utah Water Research Laboratory, College of Engineering, Utah State University, PRWG 78-1)
• Since 1939 (Maby JC, Franklin TB: "The Physics of the Divining Rod" London: George Bell, 1939) it has been shown that modern electromagnetic energy, as from radio and TV masts, can distort some tests on dowsers whose sensitivity picks up such interference. This was confirmed by in 2012.
      Huttunen P, Niinimaa A, Myllylä R: "Dowsing can be interfered with by radio frequency radiation" (Pathophysiology. 2012, 19(2):89-94. PMID: 22365422)
• Hansen GP: "Dowsing: A Review of Experimental Research" (J SocPsychical Res. 1982, 51(792):343-367)