Government and Industry Denies the Risk of Electromagnetic Fields and Microwaves: 2010 Article

by Aliss Terpstra, stayonthetruth.com, October 2010
The growing number of people with sensitivities to electromagnetic fields and microwaves (EMF) is testament to the fact that average exposure allowances from modern telecommunications are too high to be called safe for everyone. And these people are getting tired of hearing a certain phrase: “If it was harmful, the government would never have approved it.”


The world according to Health Canada works like this: Selected science from corporations or approval from an unquestioned authority (ie. the World Health Organization) equals safety. Therefore, people who claim to get sick from cell phones, computers, wireless internet and phones emitting microwaves at WHO-approved exposure levels must be suffering from something else – or they are crazy. In the real world, true evidence of safety is the healthy functioning of the most vulnerable – pregnant women and children – when they are intentionally, unavoidably, or accidentally exposed to microwave radiation at approved levels. Yet an increasing number of people (around 15% according to Dr. Magda Havas), including children all over the world, are showing symptoms of ill health after exposure to WHO-approved levels of microwaves from transmitter towers, wireless internet and phones. The scientific research was there all along to show that this would happen, especially to children, but the science was simply not used by the WHO committee setting the standards. The committee members were from the telecommunications industries.

So, on weight of evidence, it is more likely that the ‘approved’ levels are unsafe and the craziness lies in the agency doing the approving.
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