Who listens to the child who comes home from school saying:

 “Mummy I got a funny tummy and my head hurt today”?

 Well any responsible parent does, but often there is no way to puzzle out any specific cause. You run through the usual suspects of diet, colds, flu, dislike of some schoolwork, and pretty soon you are briskly packing little Johnny or Joanne off again, hating the hardening of your heart.

 Here at Electrosensitivity-UK we are getting calls from lady Chief Accountants and public schools Classics masters among others, with the same identical ill health reaction and symptoms. As powerful adults they have done their homework before contacting us and are shocked to find they are being unwittingly exposed to microwave radiation throughout their working hours and are reacting to new microwave computer connections. They turn to the proper institutions for advice and help, GPs and Dept of Health, or Health Protection Agency, HPA, but to their astonishment are met with blank disbelief, or offensive “You are deluded as to the cause”. 

What hope does the child have when powerful professional authoritative adults are dismissed in this offhand way? We have over three hundred adult sensitives in our database who have suffered these indignities, down to age fourteen, what is happening to the younger ones?

 This reckless introduction of another dimension of radiation pollution, what is now called ‘electrosmog’ by the Swiss government report ‘Electrosmog in the Environment’.  There on p7 we find:

  “Various studies have revealed that biological reactions may occur even if field strengths are well below the internationally defined thresholds”

 And on p6

  “The negative impacts of intensive non-ionising radiation on our health have been scientifically established and are undisputed”.

 This is a totally different message to our supposedly authoritative HPA who’s Dr Clark claimed there is “no hard evidence” on the You and Yours BBC radio 4 programme.

 Should parents and governors be concerned?

 “I might as well have a mobile phone mast in my living room”,

 said one angry complainant, and it does seem many parents who recognise mast dangers have missed this identical threat. All these systems transmit microwave radiation whose signals can disrupt our regular delicate internal signalling electromagnetic, EM, systems, neurological, hormonal, cardiac and more. We are not all equally sensitive, Johnny and Joanne may be extra-sensitive, as children they are anyway, but just as some electro-sensitive adults have a history of allergies and dietary sensitivities so can some children have a pre-disposition. Others may robustly brush it off for years, like Brian below, but as Sir William Stewart pointed out in his highly respected government safety report, MTHR in 2000 there are sound scientific arguments, especially for vulnerable sub-groups like children, for health risks no-one wants to listen to. These arguments refer to both the short and long term, evidence is of various kinds and constantly a hugely successful, popular and profitable industry naturally plays them down with noisy bluster.

  Why do challenges to the safety of this technology not go away?

 Well because as Sir William repeated in ‘The Times’ of November 20 this year under “Health Fears in Schools leads to Dismantling of Wireless Networks”:

“evidence of potentially harmful effects of microwave radiation has become more persuasive over the past five years”.

 Far from going away, as the density of microwave radiation surrounding and penetrating our bodies grows exponentially, the evidence is accumulating in a harder way, just as the deposition of that electromagnetic energy is accumulating in our bodies. We, none of us, know our personal limits or when we will be tripped over the edge into life-destabilising EM hypersensitivity. One of our sufferers, Brian Stein,  runs a 500 million pound turnover company as chief executive from an electricity free office. He has no choice, and switches off the power to sleep at home after getting there in a simple car free from electronically transmitting chips. It was fourteen years of accumulated heavy mobile use before… in his own words:

 FACT

 I used a mobile phone for 15 years.  14 years not a problem, no issues.

 15th year.  Severe pain in my head and ear, only when I put the mobile to my head. Why is my pain, psychosomatic?

 Put the phone to my head.  Instant pain, take it away and pain goes away.  Problem.  What is happening???  This can’t happen!

 Although I cut down on using my mobile I did not stop completely.  Why, good question.  I was assured by all it was only temporary and like a fool I believed the scientists, the medics, the media.

 Then, one day putting the mobile to my head an explosion in my ear.  So much pain I could not bear the mobile to my head.  This can’t happen!  Thereafter, the weird experience I had over the twelve months earlier using a mobile phone, I started to experience in front of my computer, in front of my TV and in my car.

 This developed over time to an ordinary phone, video, washing machine, dish washer etc.  Whatever damage the mobile phones/microwaves, can do had been done to me.”

 Yet now we are introducing this microwave radiation inside classrooms.

 His reaction increased over time and broadened to other frequencies, as may our childrens fightback, with his body straining to reject what it now sensed as a toxic invader, stressing his immune system, it has recently begun causing cardiac arrhythmia. Brian is angry at the lack of good advice even a well resourced, highly educated, individual like him received. As with  Michel Bevington the classics master, they both got more practical help and understanding from us at ES-UK a small under-resourced charity (1103018) set up to help sufferers and educate the public on this health risk. They and others are quick to say so. Massive government agencies and departments do not want to know and refuse to recognise their complaints. This may be the first politically incorrect illness. It goes against the grain of government ambitions (especially in schools) and a treasury license-fee and tax-raising bonanza of an estimated 45 million pounds so far.

 What is to be done?

 Ask to see safety test results, because there are none, and that is why we call it reckless. We know of research pointing at long run health concerns too, not just immediate upset from sensitivity but decades of research from Dr Henry Lai on damage to cells, DNA and initiation of malignancies.

Also their promotion by EM fields compromising the immune system as Professor of Human Radiation Effects Dr Denis Henshaw of Bristol University worries, or Brain Tumour expert from the US Federal Brain Tumour Registry, Lloyd Morgan. He talks of his “short historical synopsis of the cell phone scientific literature that was instrumental in convincing me of the harmful potential of continued cell phone use”.

He goes on to express his concern in rather vivid language:

“I fear, but hope that I am wrong, that we are at an historical moment, watching the tide recede prior to a health emergency tsunami that is poised to drown us in future health tragedies of unknown dimensions.”

That is his opinion, not that of the Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States, why? Because such institutions move much more slowly and they are fearful of bringing down on their heads the defensive wrath of a litigious industry, determined in the absence of what they now call ‘hard science’, to continue making massive profits. No ‘precautionary principle there’, despite Sir William Stewart’s clear MTHR call for it to be invoked in an arena of scientific disagreement, where there is a lack of scientific consensus, that is common sense to us.

 And a good reason not to risk our children’s health when perfectly good hard-wired connections can be used.