Maryland State Children’s Environmental Health and Protection Advisory Council Recommendations To Reduce Wi-Fi
“Children’s environmental health experts respond to new US study linking wireless radiation to cancer after the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends reducing cell phone exposures”
ehtrust.org/maryland-state-childrens-environmental-health-protection-advisory-council-recommendations-reduce-wi-fi
peukpokicuzo: The propensity for hypochondriacs to inappropriately self-diagnose with reference to search engines and the like is not to be ignored, certainly. Nor too, however, is the plight of those succumbing to the effects of chronic exposure to anthropogenic pollution repeatedly shown to induce adverse physiological effects
Molliekat19: You are entirely right to question the sensible application/extension of existing guidelines. As the forthcoming documentary film Generation Zapped points out, in line with your own rhetorical question, classrooms choc full of wireless tech are cause for concern
Institutional guidelines are woefully inadequate, however, and many public buildings, including most hospitals, have become toxic places as a result (and intolerable for people with ES/EHS i.e. paradoxically and perversely liable to make health matters worse for them, by default)
The following chart provides a flavour for the wide variety of regulatory benchmarks out there (very few of them informed by meaningful analysis of contemporary biophysical/medical data):
www.wirelesstechsafety.com/international-standards.htm
For a clue, or two, as to why Western establishments, and their proxies, have historically been reluctant to engage with certain inconvenient truths (by no means limited to this issue), consider the scale and vested special interests of related industries
The UK wireless industry employs hundreds of thousands of people, brings in tens of billions to the economy each year, and requires massive, fairly long term investment and planning. All of this against a backdrop of public debt running at over 90% of GDP
Consider also, the market capitalisation of directly and indirectly linked companies, and the ownership of their stocks not just by private individuals of varying personal wealth, power, and influence but by public (and pension) institutions: many pension funds are already shaky as it is
Corruption/extortion and economic hard headedness aside, there’s also the question of recklessness and (in some cases deeply) compromised public institutions/experts (e.g. Iraq War and the 'dodgy dossier') and apathy/neglect (e.g. Flint, Michegan)
Plainly, it would be extremely naive to assume that political actors will always act in the best interests of the people and without hesitation; hence, the rise of anti-elite populism