Science Cellphone Radiation Research Was Halted After Worrisome Findings, Expert Questions Why


Decades of animal research point to serious health risks from cellphone radiation exposure, but examining a possible link stops now.

The National Toxicology Program (NTP), tasked with studying potential toxins, recently announced it would no longer investigate evidence that cellphone radiation can harm animals or people. The move stunned scientists like Devra Davis, a former senior adviser to the assistant secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services, who called the abrupt reversal scientifically unjustified.

There’s “no scientific explanation or justification for this sudden reversal,” Ms. Davis told The Epoch Times.

Unpublished NTP Research Undermines Decision to Halt Cellphone Radiation Studies​

The NTP recently claimed that additional radiofrequency radiation (RFR) studies are not planned, stating the research was “technically challenging and more resource-intensive than expected.”

Ms. Davis criticized this decision, noting that technical challenges are not a reason to avoid studying something that appears to cause cancer in animals. “Everything that we know for sure causes cancer in people will produce it in animals when adequately studied,” she added.

Despite admitting to developing a novel small-scale RFR exposure system in 2019 to clarify earlier findings, the NTP canceled further investigations. This system only studied older 2G and 3G devices, not newer 4G or 5G technologies.

Ms. Davis, a former NTP advisor, said she helped recommend smaller test chambers. The agency takes years to plan studies, so scrapping this project is “beyond my comprehension at this point,” given millions of children’s daily exposure, she noted.

In an emailed statement, the NTP confirmed that although work on the small-scale exposure system and accompanying research has been completed, the results will be publicly available and posted on the agency’s webpage only “when internal reviews are finished.” As of this writing, the 2019 research remains unpublished.

Court Finds FCC Illegally Ignored 5G Health Risks​

The NTP published results in 2018 from two-year toxicology studies showing “clear evidence” of associations between 2G/3G cellphone radiation and tumors in male rats. Follow-up research in 2019 revealed DNA damage in the brains, livers, and blood cells of exposed rats and mice.

Despite originally requesting and overseeing these studies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has since dismissed the NTP’s findings, Ms. Davis said.

In 2019, the Federal Communications Commission affirmed outdated 1996 radiation exposure standards for new 5G technologies, which did not even exist then. To justify this, the FDA anonymously produced an unreviewed document in 2020. The Environmental Health Trust (EHT) sued the FCC.

In 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against the FCC. The court said the FCC acted improperly and illegally by keeping its 1996 wireless radiation exposure limits. The court found the FCC ignored evidence that radiation below its current limits can cause adverse health effects besides cancer, noting that the FCC also failed to respond to comments about the environmental harm caused by radiation.

The court ordered revised standards accounting for EHT’s records on risks to children and the environment.

FCC Let Carriers Abandon Landlines​

Since 2019, France has mandated cellphones include warnings to keep such devices away from teens and pregnant women’s lower abdomens because of radiation risks. The European Union also funds extensive research on RFR hazards.

“So why are we ignoring animal study results showing harm?” Ms. Davis said. “There’s only one reason: because there’s so much money involved.”

Landlines offered an alternative to cellphones, but the FCC’s 2019 order let carriers abandon copper lines. Companies like Verizon have begun retiring landlines, leaving consumers with only wireless options.

People can still reduce RFR exposure by:
  • Not carrying phones in pockets or bras
  • Using speakerphone and holding phones away from the head/body
  • Keeping devices away from reproductive organs
  • Using wired over WiFi internet
  • Not sleeping near phones
 
RF signals are not ionizing radiation. Next?
Neither is a microwave oven but that doesnt mean you should stick a hamster in one...

I'm not donning the tinfoil codpiece just yet but it would be nice to run to some tests, rather than "The (chinese-run) WHO say it's fine, now how many Huwai base stations do you want?"

Maybe I'm just being extra paranoid, but after the last couple of years I'm pretty sure they are out to get me.
 
Neither is a microwave oven but that doesnt mean you should stick a hamster in one...
Microwaves are dangerous merely because they heat up water in your food until it boils, any EM radiation can do the same with enough intensity provided the object is opaque to it because otherwise it just shoots straight through you which is the case with RF radiation. Case in point, your phone's RF signals are in the order of miliwatts, your microwave in the order of kilowatts.
 
any EM radiation can do the same with enough intensity provided the object is opaque to it because otherwise it just shoots straight through you which is the case with RF radiation.
Yes, no, you're half way there with the opacity. Microwave ovens specifically work on 915MHz or ~2.45GHz because water is not opaque at these frequencies, so the energy is picked up the water and heats your coffee. Your coffee mug does not contain water so you can pick up the hot coffee by the handle.

(Edit: fucked up, meant is opaque. Thank you @Spiny Rumples.)

So far far so good.

My follow up questions are, what are the frequencies for testosterone, and why does every 25+ male in a city look like this?
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I live in very rural area and all my mates have hair at 50+
Something is fucked.
 
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Yes, no, you're half way there with the opacity. Microwave ovens specifically work on 915MHz or ~2.45GHz because water is not opaque at these frequencies, so the energy is picked up the water and heats your coffee. Your coffee mug does not contain water so you can pick up the hot coffee by the handle.
opaque
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adjective
not able to be seen through; not transparent.
 
If you genuinely worry about this BS, you should know that visible light photons (400-800 Thz) carry over a million times more energy than even the highest frequency RF signals (300 Ghz).

RF signals are not ionizing radiation. Next?
It’s not all BS. There’s at the very least a thermal effect. It should be researched properly to determine what the risk is.
 
It’s not all BS. There’s at the very least a thermal effect. It should be researched properly to determine what the risk is.
I find comments like those (the one to which you are replying) amusing. Why are they so investing in claiming it’s safe, when they don’t actually know?

I know reddit types act like it’s a huge own to slam somebody with muh ‘dunning kruger’ but to me this really is is dunning krug in action (another example is MSG advocates who tell you it’s in carrots). They know enough physics to say that this radiation is mostly not interacting with the molecules in your body. They extrapolate that to swearing black and blue that it’s absolutely safe to be exposed to 24/7 and anybody who questions if it has any negative interactions with biochemistry in a system as complex as the human body is retarded.

These kinds of people would have called you a dipshit for asking to check if both enantiomers of thalidomide were safe.
 
I find comments like those (the one to which you are replying) amusing. Why are they so investing in claiming it’s safe, when they don’t actually know?
There's another recent A&N thread where someone moans about Starlink stopping amateur astronomy, and half the comments are "Just look at the stars on your PC lol".
Between this, that, and the special person who doesn't care if his chicken factory is hiring sub-minimum illegals so long as his tendies cost less, I'm convinced at least 40% of A&N regulars are actually bughive redditors who just want to say "Nigger".
 
Radios weren't invented for cell phones. There's tons of research on RF exposure and FCC-enforced maximum permissible exposure limits (which are pretty conservative compared to some other countries). Cell phones have killed thousands of people by distracting them while driving, but I doubt they have killed even one person with cancer, except maybe the Chinese slaves who build them.
 
These kinds of people would have called you a dipshit for asking to check if both enantiomers of thalidomide were safe.
Minor PL: I used to work in the same building as someone who worked on RF and biology. I would t say he was someone I knew well but at the time cell phones were pretty new as a mass market thing so I talked to him. He started out unsure and was getting more convinced of at the least thermal effects.
but I doubt they have killed even one person with cancer, except maybe the Chinese slaves who build them.
There’s a statistically significant risk of acoustic neuroma I think being more likely to happen on your phone ear side. Even if all it’s doing is heating tissue there’s a risk.
There’s also a risk to your eyes from the constant blue LED light. Use nightshift or whatever equivalent you have.
This is something that does need work done on it because we almost all have cell phones on our person most of the day. It should be done even if it’s to conclusively rule it out.
 
Minor PL: I used to work in the same building as someone who worked on RF and biology. I would t say he was someone I knew well but at the time cell phones were pretty new as a mass market thing so I talked to him. He started out unsure and was getting more convinced of at the least thermal effects.

There’s a statistically significant risk of acoustic neuroma I think being more likely to happen on your phone ear side. Even if all it’s doing is heating tissue there’s a risk.
There’s also a risk to your eyes from the constant blue LED light. Use nightshift or whatever equivalent you have.
This is something that does need work done on it because we almost all have cell phones on our person most of the day. It should be done even if it’s to conclusively rule it out.
>risk to your eyes
huh?????

>use nightshift
HUHHH?????
 
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