Washington Spectator: Federal Court Instructs FCC to Review Electromagnetic Radiation Standards
By Barbara Koeppel January/February 2022
The Washington Spectator has published an expose featuring Environmental Health Trusts’ winning lawsuit against the FCC and also our latest November filing to the FCC calling for them to ensure a review of the up to date science. Dr. Devra Davis and Theodora Scarato of Environmental Health Trust are quoted as well as Dr. Joel Moskowitz and Dr. Ronald Melnick.
Excerpts from the article,
“Theodora Scarato, the executive director of the Environmental Health Trust, says that since the FCC had not yet responded to the court’s August ruling by last November, the EHT asked the commission to consider additional studies that were completed after 2019, when the suit was filed.
For example, in late 2019, the European Parliamentary Research Service said that electromagnetic fields (EMFs) emitted by 2G, 3G, and 4G cell phones (which operate at 450 to 6,000 megahertz) are “probably carcinogenic for humans,” particularly in causing gliomas, acoustic neuromas, and meningiomas (slow-growing, mostly nonmalignant brain tumors).”
“Also in 2020, Devra Davis (an epidemiologist and co-founder of the Environmental Health Trust), Aaron Pilarcik (a biophysicist at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute), and Anthony Miller (an epidemiologist specializing in cancer etiology and an adviser to the World Health Organization) reviewed data on colon and rectal cancer from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the U.S. SEER Program at the National Cancer Institute, and the Iranian National Cancer Registry. They found that the colon cancer risk for adults born in the 1990s had doubled and the rectal cancer risk had increased fourfold by the time they were 24 years old—when compared to those born 60 years ago. They hypothesized that cell phone radiation could play a role in the increased risk and recommended the FCC set limits to reduce the exposure. Their study, “Increased Generational Risk of Colon and Rectal Cancer in Recent Birth Cohorts Under Age 40—the Hypothetical Role of Radiofrequency Radiation from Cell Phones,” was published in the Annals of Gastroenterology and Digestive Disorders.”
Washington Spectator: Federal Court Instructs FCC to Review Electromagnetic Radiation Standards By Barbara Koeppel January/February 2022
