EMF Book: What You Should Know About Electromagnetic Fields, Electromagnetic Radiation & Your Health by Mark Pinsky

Author:Mark Pinsky
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2009-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

People like you have never been more concerned—and confused—about the possible hazards of EM fields and EM radiation. News reports regularly warn that a new study has added to the evidence linking exposure to cancer, learning disorders, and other, more subtle hazards. Most people you meet have heard something about how power lines “cause” cancer or computers cause miscarriages.

Awareness that something is going on is at an all-time high. Public officials at the federal, state, and local levels now concede that the issue will not fade away, utilities respond to the issue daily, cellular phone companies have watched their stocks sink on mere allegations of a health risk, law firms have started a bidding war for experienced EM field and EM radiation attorneys, and the task of reducing exposures is expanding from a cottage industry to a substantial business.

It may be the environmental issue of the decade, bigger than asbestos; or a nonissue that has resulted from fear-mongering and junk science. Without question it is one of the most contentious and complex public health issues in history—one that analysts already compare to asbestos and cigarettes, for better or worse. What is certain is that this issue will not go away quietly. Nor should it.

The health-effects research is inconclusive hut suggestive. Too many studies link EM fields and FM radiation to cancer, learning disorders, reproductive problems, and changes in body chemistry to think that the issue is a scientific fad. We are facing a period of scientific uncertainty and controversy that is likely to continue, at a minimum, into the twenty-first century. We live in an environment filled with EM fields and EM radiation, and escalating demand for electricity and wireless devices ensures that our electromagnetic environment will get more crowded, more complex, and perhaps—if this stuff really is hazardous—more dangerous.

WHY PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED

You may wonder how an issue can seem so important and yet so obscure. For more than a decade, study after study has linked EM fields and, less often, EM radiation to a range of health problems. Public attention has focused on cancer. Like a steady, slow drumbeat, the studies have attracted a curious public.

Since the first modern EM field study was published in 1979, research results have accumulated linking it to a few types of cancer in particular and all types of cancers in general. The results have been reasonably consistent—for instance, two independent research teams repeated the 1979 study and found similar results. Together they make a compelling cause for concern that EM field exposure can cause cancer in children living near power lines. Other studies in homes and workplaces show consistent, hut not conclusive, links to brain cancer, leukemia, and male breast cancer.

Laboratory experiments using animals or animal organs indicate that EM field exposure changes some normal biological functions. These studies support the possibility that there is a cancer link and point to a variety of other effects, including learning delays, sleep disorders, and reproductive abnormalities.

For EM radiation the cancer link arises as well, though researchers have not studied it thoroughly.

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