TUC Radio Archive (links to mp3 files)
Our bodies are finely tuned and responsive electric organisms and the super-imposition of an ever thickening layer of electric signals from cell phones and towers to WIFI to other communications systems can interfere with our innate electric life within our cells, nerves, immune system, heart and brain.
Dr. Neil Cherry said that electromagnetic fields are intrinsic to us. But today we are living with exposures from technological sources up to a million times higher than those from the sun and other natural sources and we give little thought to what that is doing to us. Cherry was Associate Professor of Environmental Health at Lincoln University, NZ. He died in 2003 of motor neuron disease.
Henry Lai is research professor in the department of bioengineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is often quoted as the first to have written how DNA breaks can occur under exposure to electromagnetic radiation. Each DNA molecule contains the blueprint for life. When both DNA strands break and the DNA dies or mutates the person can develop cancer, Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s.
More recently Henry Lai became know as one of the authors of the Bioinitiative report. <http://www.bioinitiative.org> Published in August of 2007 the report made it to the web site of the Environmental Agency of the European Union. The European Union agency suggests that we need new and stricter Public Exposure Standards for electromagnetic fields from power lines, mobile phones, and many other sources of EMF exposure in daily life.
This is a TUC Archives program, celebrating, with a 1998 recording, the memory of people who had the courage to speak out early on controversial issues. For the ongoing work on electromagnetic radiation safety check <http:/www.energyfields.org/> or <http://www.microwavenews.com/>