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the end, it was discovered that the money came from the ended in remission, hence "cured" and is not counted, for the
telecommunications industry, an outrageous conflict of criterion is mortality not morbidity.
interest, if ever there were one.
The WHO'S specialized agency on cancer, the International
When I questioned Dr Maria Neira, Repacholi's supervisor, Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has listed
if the WHO intended to have the work redone, properly, she electromagnetic radiation as a "possible cause" of cancer. In
replied that there were no funds and, in a round-about way, its ultra-cautious terminology, this means that such radiation
said that the only entities interested in funding such a project causes cancer but that there are still some hold-outs in the
were telecommunications companies... Thus, Repacholi's scientific community unwilling to admit this. These hold-
"safety" norms stand and are cited by industry without outs are the scientists who have been paid by industry to
hesitation to prove that their products are perfectly safe. produce bogus science. At the time of this designation, there
was pressure both to have electromagnetic radiation listed
Having left the WHO, Dr Repacholi now works as an industry as a carcinogen and to not have it listed at all. The current
consultant, using the norms he formulated at the WHO to designation was thus something of a compromise, although
support industry's claims. Among the pressure is building, greatly, to
his statements are such gems as "... "The deployment change the designation to "carcinogen"
epidemiological evidence cannot be outright.
used as a basis for standards (exposure
limits):' of5G constitutes So far, the telecommunications
industry, backed by the military, has
an experiment on
The matter of "electrosmog" or ambient spent billions on bogus scientific
electromagnetic radiation is of ever "studies", all of which have at least
greater concern as the use of mobile humanity and the some element of truth to them, hence
devices spreads, with the enthusiastic can appear at least plausible. The
support of the Geneva-based environment that is greatest obstacle in assessing health
Telecommunications
International effects, however, is the long gestation
Union (ITU - part of the United de 6ned as a crime under period for most cancers, which makes
Nations system). Hundreds of millions establishing a clear cause-and-effect
of people are affected by it to varying international law." relationship difficult and costly.
degrees, mostly without understanding
what is wrong with them. In France, As the pressure heats up to launch G5,
where its harmful effects have been much more studied than 170 scientists from 37 countries last November launched a
in most other countries, it is estimated that over ten percent major petition to the United Nations demanding a halt to its
of the population (some 6.5 million persons) are electro- implementation. (INTERNATIONAL APPEAL - Stop 5G
sensitive, and the number is climbing. on Earth and in Space: (https://www.5gspaceappeal.org/the-
appeal).
France has a specialized public health agency that must test
all cell phones before they are put on the market. The results Its preamble reads: "We the undersigned scientists,
of these tests, supposed to be public, were never released doctors, environmental organizations and citizens from
until Dr Marc Arazi took the French government to court to () countries, urgently call for a halt to the deployment
obtain them. It was thus revealed that, even under a regime of the 5G (fifth generation) wireless network, including 5G
of bogus thermal norms, ninety percent of some 450 models from space satellites. 5G will massively increase exposure
tested were not safe. The scandal was dubbed "phonegate" by to radio frequency (RF) radiation on top of the 2G, 3G
a French journalist writing in Le Monde, and the name has and 4G networks for telecommunications already in place.
stuck even as Dr Arazi has continued his at times exhausting RF radiation has been proven harmful for humans and
court fight against the French government over this its refusal the environment. The deployment of 5G constitutes an
to enforce its own norms. experiment on humanity and the environment that is defined
as a crime under international law:'
The incidence of brain cancer is rising exponentially; however,
glioma, the worst form, and one of the worst cancers known, The petition continues to grow as knowledge of the danger
is often not entered on the cancer registries, hence not taken slowly - finally - permeates the minds of the general public.
into account for statistical purposes. Generally, cancers are As of 7 June 2019, 100,091 more persons from at least 187
entered only if a death can be irrefutably attributed to them. countries had added their signatures and their refusal of G5
Thus, for example, if a person dying of cancer contracts to the document.
pneumonia and dies of it, the case does not go on the cancer
registry, for the patient is considered to have died from
pneumonia. In other words, for statistical purposes, the
patient is treated the same as somebody whose cancer has

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