Don’t believe everything you read
Tuesday, Nov 5, 2019 - Posted by Rich Miller
* This blatant falsehood has popped up in my Facebook feed. Turns out, it’s hostile foreign propaganda…
The cellphones known as 5G, or fifth generation, represent the vanguard of a wireless era rich in interconnected cars, factories and cities. Whichever nation dominates the new technology will gain a competitive edge for much of this century, according to many analysts. But a television network a few blocks from the White House has been stirring concerns about a hidden flaw.
“Just a small one,” a TV reporter told her viewers recently. “It might kill you.”
The Russian network RT America aired the segment, titled “A Dangerous ‘Experiment on Humanity,’” in covering what its guest experts call 5G’s dire health threats. U.S. intelligence agencies identified the network as a principal meddler in the 2016 presidential election. Now, it is linking 5G signals to brain cancer, infertility, autism, heart tumors and Alzheimer’s disease — claims that lack scientific support.
Yet even as RT America, the cat’s paw of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has been doing its best to stoke the fears of American viewers, Mr. Putin, on Feb. 20, ordered the launch of Russian 5G networks in a tone evoking optimism rather than doom.
* In a similar vein, I’ve seen this Twitter ad numerous times the past few days…
* Dr. Bruce Solka, a retired senior principal scientist at Unilever Corp., took on this claim. His conclusion…
Although both of these papers show a few ppb ethylene background in their subjects before oxidation tests or surgery the authors do not comment on that background. The systemic background may be due to inhalation of the ubiquitous 5 to 20 ppb background ethylene in ambient air. In any case ethylene (and hence ethylene oxide) quantities in the human body seem to be very dependent of various disease or stress conditions. This may suggest that concentrations of such a compound may not be the best means to support establishment of disease risk factors.
* From Jen Walling at the Illinois Environmental Council…
To me, I think they have a hard time getting over the fact that the [Willowbrook-area] readings were all near zero [for EtO] after Sterigenics closed.
Yep.
- Not a Billionaire - Tuesday, Nov 5, 19 @ 12:02 pm:
Fascinating the stuff that starts off on RT and ends up in right wing domestic media.
- Three Dimensional Checkers - Tuesday, Nov 5, 19 @ 12:02 pm:
Yes, everything RT is propaganda. I really like this Russian series Trotsky, but some academics think it is propaganda too. I don’t care though. It is interesting TV to me.
- NotRich - Tuesday, Nov 5, 19 @ 12:04 pm:
An apple a day, and never uses a cell phone..we all know someone who will live to 100!!!!!
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Nov 5, 19 @ 12:11 pm:
I got a call from a legislator seeking research on the health impacts of 5G. The legislator was hearing from a number of constituents who are alarmed about located 5G cell towers in their communities.
There’s a lot of gullible people out there and the Russians are having a field day stirring them up.
- Fav human - Tuesday, Nov 5, 19 @ 12:19 pm:
“air concentration”
But what are they in Waukegan?
“Trotsky”
Yes comrade, I too know what breakfast with Frida means. Great show
- Roger Abbott - Tuesday, Nov 5, 19 @ 12:32 pm:
It’s apparent the Russians are using this 5G health issue as a stone on which to sharpen their attacks on unsuspecting US citizens in order to sow seeds of discontent. This is a precursor to future meddling into US affairs.
I hope legislators don’t succumb to these false stories about technology everybody wants.
- FormerParatrooper - Tuesday, Nov 5, 19 @ 12:43 pm:
I work in the RF field (radio frequency) and I have read legitimate research about the health dangers. 5G poses no known risks, The New England Journal of Medicine has published peer reviewed studies about radio waves and health.
Radio waves and the electromagnetic spectrum are things we should have learned in 8th grade.
- Naperthrill - Tuesday, Nov 5, 19 @ 12:52 pm:
—-Response to Walling—-
The current law puts restrictions so strong that Sternigenics and others would emit something undetectable, compared to the ambient
- Allknowingmasterofraccoondom - Tuesday, Nov 5, 19 @ 12:56 pm:
If someone falls for that 5G thing well… they deserve to fall for it.
- OneMan - Tuesday, Nov 5, 19 @ 12:58 pm:
== If someone falls for that 5G thing well… they deserve to fall for it.==
The problem is they may be on your local zoning board.
- Huh? - Tuesday, Nov 5, 19 @ 1:14 pm:
“linking 5G signals to brain cancer, infertility, autism, heart tumors and Alzheimer’s disease — claims that lack scientific support.”
But will 5G bring you coffee in bed?
- FormerParatrooper - Tuesday, Nov 5, 19 @ 1:40 pm:
Huh? You will have to wait for 12G for coffee in bed. That is nothing compared to what 14G will do to a steak.
- Roger Abbott - Tuesday, Nov 5, 19 @ 3:09 pm:
Rich, first, I hope the root canal went well. Second, have I been banned? My comment from 12:32 is no longer up. It wasn’t a controversial post as far as I could tell.