By Devra Davis, PhD , President and Founder, Environmental Health Trust, author of Disconnect: the truth about cellphone radiation, Plume, 2011.
Children are growing up in a sea of radiofrequency radiation that has never existed in human history. In America today, about twenty million children under the age of fourteen have cellphones. Increasingly, scientists and policy makers in tech savvy nations like Israel and Finland are concerned that the ways these devices are used imperil the brain. The iPhone plastic baby rattle case protects the phone’s glass screen from cracking when chomped on by teething babies, but does not protect the infant’s young brain from the phone’s pulsed digital microwave radiation.
The proliferation of wireless gadgets overlooks a critical health issue for pregnant women, men who wish to father healthy children, and those they produce–non-ionizing or microwave radiation damages the brain and sperm of experimental animals. A cellphone is a two-way microwave…
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