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In terms of mobile phone use, there is understandably a discussion on the topic of electromagnetic pollution. It is very difficult to prove a loss of electro. It is the professional world is united. Of course there is a lobby that deserves to mobile phone use and others who make ethical or moral reasons worries.
Dr. Joachim mother brings the dilemma to the point by quoting Upton Sinclair:
"It is difficult a scientist to get them to understand something when his income depends on not understanding it"
Now I am not afraid and know very well outweigh the risks of radiation to the benefits of a new development, such as mobile phones.
can also be discovered by damage of a technology sometimes just new applications, such as the irradiation of cancer patients to radiation.
Nevertheless, you should do is start thinking about this issue - and write Listen, what I noticed. In particular, the cases of nuclear radiation and X-rays will be studied as examples because they are in the same category we include the cell phone radiation.
precedents
there any documented many examples of precedents that have similar claims in the history of medicine and technology have harmed through ignorance or concealment significantly longer than necessary - because some producers, even after the evidence of the harmfulness their plants to operate longer. For example, one may (in addition to the radiation margins) give two examples: asbestos and cigarette.
asbestos
of Factory Inspector Lucy Deane discovered in 1898 the reason for asbestosis - Only One hundred years later, in 1998, the British government decided on a ban of asbestos. In the next 35 years in Western Europe expected to asbestos-based cancer of 250000-400000 cases (Peto, 1999). a
cigarettes 2
A rodeo rider, who appeared in 1976 in a cigarette advertisement had, even after the diagnosis in the two years until his death Non smoking organizations used. Even better known is the case is strained by an actor from the early 1960s, the widow of a lawsuit against the advertising medium. She claimed that her husband would have to smoke during the photo shoot up to five packs of cigarettes. Initial studies, which pointed to the risk of lung cancer due to smoking were published as early as the 1950s. At that time, was already known that the inhalation poison endangers not only the smokers themselves, but also present for Non smoking. The tobacco industry responded with the introduction of filter cigarettes and so-called light cigarettes, which suggested not to endanger health.
hear every day people to smoke on (in 2002 in the U.S. every day 3500), more die from the effects of smoking (every day in 2002 1200 in the U.S.).
The cigarette industry has for years assured the smokers, the risks of smoking was safe until she has been informed by their own advertisers a better one.
→ witness the smoking lobby, paid by the tobacco industry
The tobacco industry even the patent has retained a safe cigarette deliberately, because one it just does not deserve so much could. "Safer" Cigarettes: A History
X-rays
are the first reports of radiation injuries from 1896 - as described in Edison, Tesla and Grubbe eye and skin damage, especially Edison warned against excessive radiation exposure (Edison, 1896 ). For his assistant, Clarence Dally, this came too late. He suffered from severe dermatitis Radio, the first cost him an arm and in 1904 the life.
recognized Paradoxically, some physicians, particularly by the increasing knowledge about radiation damage to the potential therapeutic value of radiation. About the first "treatment" reported from 1896 (Stone, 1946), as was irradiated in Chicago a woman with advanced cancer in the left breast.
nuclear radiation
Just weeks after the publication of Roentgen's work Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity, and in 1898 gave Marie and Pierre Curie announced the discovery of radium.
with radium paint was activated - for example, on the dials of watches - often applied with a brush. The danger of this work was not recognized until 1924, when New York dentist Theodore Blum's work on a new disease - he called it "radium jaw" - Published, he had with former dial painters observed. He attributed the symptoms of the toxicity of phosphorus. But Harrison Martland, a pathologist from New Jersey acknowledged that the bone damage was caused by radium.
Paradoxically radium was in the twenties seen as sources of health and healing. This culminated in the sale of various radium-containing medicinal potions, the best known under the name "Radio Thor". Their danger came to light when the famous American golfer and a millionaire industrialist Eben Byers died of a disease caused by radioactive radiation, after a long Period a total of about 1 000 bottles had been drinking it (Macklis, 1993).
In the forties and fifties, were in almost all shoe stores Röntgenfluoroskopiegeräte that are adapted to children new shoes. They could produce a dose rate of 1 roentgen per minute. I myself was screened with one of these devices yet.
electromagnetic radiation
concern in all this is that the EU report Late Lessons from Early Warnings contains not a single reference to the risks of electromagnetic radiation other than X-ray and nuclear radiation, although there are probably risks in the low area also.
a dozen examples
asbestos, lead, dioxin, DDT, thalidomide, amalgam, mercury-containing Zahnungspulver, radar, radiation, benzene, tobacco smoke: they all have a legend of innocence and an exceedingly long criminal record. The Federal Environmental Agency in Berlin in 2004 to even published a booklet: "Late Lessons from Early Warnings (D as precautionary principle 1896-2000) " 3 . The report is divided into a dozen examples of how it's just not to do:
- Fisheries (Overfishing, population injury, herring)
- radiation (X-rays, nuclear radiation, but no general electromagnetic radiation),
- benzene,
- asbestos
- PCB
- halocarbons ( ozone layer)
- long-term consequences of prenatal exposure
- antibiotics as growth promoters
- sulfur
- MTBE as a lead substitute in gasoline
- contamination of large Seen
- tributyltin-containing paint (against Fäulung)
- hormones as growth promoters
- mad cow
The overview is a pointer to that in our global and thus local society is a systematic belittlement (usually technical) of health risks and dangers are, which conflict with the interests of some specific industries and their loss limits can be enforced only reluctantly and with delays.
In some examples, it will take decades until a (more or less effective) prohibition imposed is.
electrosmog also belongs to the dozen. It belongs to the same class as nuclear radiation and Röntgenstralung: not significant, silent, invisible, odorless, so probably harmless at first, because as we shall no sensors on the body.
electromagnetic pollution from military installations 4
had to as of June 2006 recognized the Bundeswehr in 679 of 3,500 jobs of an application addressed the relationship of cancer with their official duties. [2] Several hundred people have died of the consequences [3] estimated number of sufferers die every month. [4] [5]
In the 20th Century conventional military radar technology was developed in the high voltage electronics of the device to be technically unavoidable by-product X-ray radiation that is too little has been shielded. [6]
as recommendations for the compensation practices of the Bundeswehr, the Commission recommended, in principle, all malignant (malignant) tumors and cataracts (cataract) as compensation for a qualifying disease to be considered, with the exception of chronic lymphocytic leukemia . [19]
According to the Commission of the armed forces from radar about 1958 the problem of X-ray radiation from radar equipment was known. [19] Following statements by soldiers and documents was pronounced general until 1976 when the Federal Navy, then from the early 1980s, warnings, warnings and appropriate protective measures taken. [26]
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Bundeswehr soldiers and technicians largely ignorant of the dangers, as well as that of the army of the GDR. [27] There was also no prescribed measures for radiation protection such as wearing lead aprons. [13]
Until the mid-1980s, the shielding this radiation was both the one used in the Bundeswehr American radar equipment, as well as Soviet types sometimes insufficient [7] introduced to appropriate shielding and protection. This was done for different types of radar and arms at different times, sometimes only around 1985. [7] The operating and maintenance personnel has been exposed for long periods because of radiation doses , which was estimated to often many times over in the civil sector permissible limits . X-ray radiation damage at low radiation doses, the heritage and promotes the subsequent development of cancer .
At least five children of former military radar, some of which have now grown up, [22] have physical disabilities. Those affected attribute this to the radiation exposure of fathers. These include particularly severe malformations on the arms and legs, such as six-fingered hands and shortened legs. [22] [24] [25]
Nevertheless, the electromagnetic X-ray radiation is only when compared with cell phone radiation, the risks are, has remained for years unnoticed and protective measures have been cleared only 1980th Even then it took until 1985 to the older devices anywhere adequate shielding could be installed afterwards.
The harmful effects of transport used for microwave radar principle itself is not been fully resolved, is proven [10] but when the induction of cataracts by the thermal effect .
These risks are assessed by microwaves in my opinion different from the damage caused by X-ray radiation.
first significant, statistical damage
I believe it is in the detection of possible damage to a newly introduced technology (in this case mobile phones) to the first significant statistical damage identified. According to the Commission of the armed forces from radar about 1958 the problem of X-ray radiation from radar equipment was known. From that moment it took until 1980 to soldiers first warnings were issued. Then it took another 5 years were completed by the protection measures. As late as the 1990s, denied any link between the Bundeswehr radars and diseases. Sick soldiers with complex conditions have been partly as a hypochondriac [1] expect with such a writer must also phone in damages. classified.
It is quite possible that the first statistical claims are already known, are still not as significant.
strokes
O mega news published technical papers, which document the damage by electromagnetic pollution.
I'm not very anxious and had failed for years worked in a laboratory microwave antenna radiation. The klystrons were working in the range of 1 watt, which may well have cause damage. Tues e health by military radars sin d already known on record (see above).
Perhaps what stands out is the reported accumulation of stroke in young people who obviously statistically increase. Here, the stroke in infants and young children rarely manifests with paralysis, but more often by seizures 5 .
The latest figures were more than twice as high as figures from previous decades 6 . Part of the reasons is due to thickened blood and pathological behavior of the control of blood flow in the body. A doubling within 10 years could be significant in my opinion.
are Unfortunately stroke in young people - defined by the WHO 18 - to 55-year-old - not necessarily due to radiation.
drug 7
could especially cocaine, heroin and the designer drug Ecstasy among young people already trigger a stroke. "Many young people underestimate the risks of drug use. When cocaine use may already lead to one stroke, because the drug dramatically narrows the vessels. Most of the triggers in childhood and adolescence are innate, however. 60 percent of children who suffer a stroke tend to have thick blood which can clog the arteries. Heart disease, malformations of blood vessels and infections can also be frozen, according to strokes in children and Youth leader.
cigarettes
risk factors for the occurrence of stroke is generally a high blood pressure, obesity, and alcohol and especially cigarettes. Nicotine damages the cardiovascular system. The brain is supplied with oxygen so bad. Studies have shown that even in middle age smokers are at increased up to fivefold risk of having a stroke, suffer with perhaps lifelong health. For smokers, the risk increases even more in if they take the same birth control pill.
is the diagnosis of stroke each year in Germany at about 500 Children and young people placed under 18 - nearly a third of whom are newborns. The causes of childhood stroke can be blood clotting disorders and cardiovascular diseases. Sometimes it can also be an infection that causes a stroke.
As in adults, an infant stroke by circulatory disturbances caused in the brain: Hirnversorgende vessels (arteries) are blocked, tear or rupture. The resulting reduced supply of oxygen and nutrients to brain cells to die can be important functions of the brain cells begin to fail suddenly and. Other causes of stroke in children are Heart defects, vascular injury or vascular inflammation.
The typical warning symptoms of stroke are similar in all age groups: sudden unilateral paralysis, seizures, walking or speech problems and confusion. Combined with the strongest headache is often a cause of bleeding stroke.
More info provides the world's largest study on stroke in young patients 5000 - Importance of Fabry disease. The hereditary storage disease causes a deficiency of the enzyme alpha-galactosidase. Since the enzyme in the degradation of fats missing form in blood vessels and renal deposits. These often lead to early death from stroke, heart attack or kidney failure.
The number of strokes in recent years in Hesse fell 8 . In 2005, health insurance, according to the technician (TK), around 24 300 Hesse suffered a stroke - nearly 2,000 died as a result. After telecommunications information in 2003 to around 27,000 patients were registered with stroke, the number of deaths was 2280.
The argument of the reported cluster of strokes in young people can convince me, however. There must be a convincing proof be delivered. Perhaps it is possible to identify because of the phone costs a relationship between mobile phone-related diseases and telephone costs.
Summary (my personal opinion)
damage through innovations such as electromagnetic field in the mobile phone can only be detected by identification of a harmful effect: the so-called first typical claim .
lie between introduction of new technology and the first loss typical case usually decades. To eliminate the sources of damage can - as the practice is proving - once again decades . Elapse
As an example of a successful identification of a hazardous substance (or impact) is the self-test of the famous American golfer Eben Byers, who has been drinking 1000 bottles of "Radio Thor" medicine.
Who really statistically phone very much, is statistically first typical claim . some point the
One might as well be the group of much-callers analyze the damage that may in the eyes (Star, retinal detachment, etc.) or the brain (stroke, neurological disorders, cancer) can occur. Only such evidence is under scientific conditions recognized as significant First, statistical damage.
Personally, I suspect that the impact of electromagnetic pollution in adolescents are significantly less than the physical injuries caused by smoking, drug use 9 and nutrition claims. Among the leading causes of death of the phones probably are even traffic victims of phone calls while driving.
long as outweighing the harm to the victims of road accidents, drug addicts and diet-related diseases, it will probably be impossible to so-called first typical case of damage by electromagnetic field in the mobile phone to determine at all.
3 The views expressed in this publication implied opinions do not necessarily reflect the official position of the European Commission or other bodies of the European Community. The European Environment Agency and on whose behalf active persons are not liable for any use of the information contained in this report.
5 For me as an electrical engineer suggests cramps rather than irritation and damage rather than blocking the oxygen supply.
9 especially on the question whether mobile phones and drugs cause strokes in young people
