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I will be excerpting from a recent article in the Townsend Letter for Doctors entitled The WIFI Blues, in Acres USA (the finest eco-agricultural newspaper in the USA) entitled Nuking the Birds and the Bees, and in Total Health magazine entitled The Electro-pollution Solution. All three hit the street at about the same time and were impossible to ignore. All three articles cited the health risks and environmental risks related to this technology.

There is only one remaining laboratory researching this area in the USA, and that's at the University of Washington in Seattle. Unfortunately, no one in the USA is willing to lay down money to clarify the science behind WiFi (wireless broadband internet). These days we have to depend on the Europeans, who have continued to research this area, and continue to warn of the associated risks. If WiFi isn't as safe as the WiFi companies tell us, we need to take precautions, because entire cities are considering going WiFi, with Philadelphia leading the charge. That could be very good for the wireless industry, and perhaps very bad for the citizenry. I have already started seeing patients who have become allergic/sensitive to their cell phones and cell phone towers, so it's not as innocent a technology as the WiFi companies are saying it is. I have never considered the physiological burden created by radio frequency radiation and microwave from familiar sources like TV broadcast sig nals, radar, and the ubiquitous cell phone a problem, but the ongoing science around this technology is now creating some genuine concern.

Most new technologies seem harmless until they have been entrenched in our way of life. Then the goblins seem to come out. While the dangers of any new technology begin showing up in the long term research, our government, motivated by the lobbying dollars from the new technology innovators, continually reassures us that we're safe, and "all is well." However, as most of us have figured out, the government looks out for those it belongs too, and that's not you and I, but big business. Knowing we can't believe our government, who or what do we believe?

Unfortunately, a lot of the research is biased, and the bias works both ways. You tend to get what you pay for, and the WiFi companies are careful to promote the positive outcomes of the research that they fund, while the naysayer scientists and consumer groups promote the negative outcomes that they fund... and it can all get very confusing.

Probably what convinced me to look at WiFi with a more critical eye was a resolution passed by the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) in August of 2004. Some research was done using fire stations as a location for cell phone antennas. Based on the evidence reviewed in the scientific literature and the following wide range of effects experienced by the firefighters: slowed reaction times, lack of focus, lack of impulse control, severe headaches, anesthesia-like sleep, sleep deprivation, depression, tremors, and vertigo, it was considered an unacceptable risk. Three things are worth noting about the substance of the resolution and the IAFF's official position. First, the firefighters were focused on their ability to do their job. Second, firefighters were involuntarily exposed to a health risk. Third, the firefighters opposed the cell antennas until they are proven safe.

Some of the latest emerging science suggests that the problem with cell phones does not come from voltage, but from information piggybacking on the radio frequencies emitted and received from antenna to cell phone. It is called an information carrying radio wave (ICRW). This ICRW is a frequency that has never before existed. Our bodies, being unfamiliar with it seem to perceive it as an invader. Microtubules on our cell membranes sense frequencies, and when they perceive an unknown frequency they respond accordingly and go into a protective mode. In that mode, all physiological activity may be compromised sufficiently to produce long term health challenges, some simple and some severe. Since more than 37 million locations are presently connected to wireless internet, it has become impossible to escape continuous and unrelenting exposure to ICRWs.

We now have a world wide phenomenon with 3 billion cell phone users with cell phones that are on all the time. They constantly send and receive these ICRWs. The next question could be the scariest. What could be the greatest cause for alarm, beside personal health problems such as those reported by the IAFF?

Honey bees are in a frightening state of decline all around the world. Honey bees are responsible for the pollination of crops that are essential to our continued existence on this planet. Bee keepers have noticed that hives are not littered with the bodies of dead bees, so the problem isn't a hive related epidemic. The bees leave and then don't return. Scientists the world over are pursuing a solution to this problem with a fervor due to the catastrophic possibilities if a solution isn't found. It is called "colony collapse disorder" (CCD).

One scientific theory that has emerged regarding CCD, is that the bees simply can't find their way home. Bees navigate on electromagnetic fields, and the theory suggests that when you disrupt intercellular communication, you take away the ability of the bee to sense these fields. There is more than adequate science demonstrating that ICRWs disrupt intercellular communications. Perhaps it's a coincidence, but this CCD has occurred in the last two years when we have experienced the exponential increase in ICRWs. Let's hope this theory is wrong even though the knot in my gut is telling me that it's not.