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Calls for a smartphone free childhood, and no mobiles in UK schools, has been quite a theme this year. The campaigns focus on mental health and addiction of course, but provide a fair wind for gradually raising awareness of the radiation dangers as well. Under ‘Health and Research’ below we have new articles on the topic of smartphones and children.

From Tim Arnolds substack: “A Parent Pact has gathered signatures representing 72,697 children across over 9,602 schools who advocate for smartphone-free schooling. Spearheaded by the Smartphone-Free Childhood movement and based on the original pact by Hannah Oertel’s Delay Smartphones group, this initiative is a testament to where our digital norms are heading.


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Mast Applications

•Take action steps on RFinfo: UPDATED Template Letter Step2: rfinfo.co.uk/mast-objection/

•New portal for Mast planning application comments – ‘Esthers list’ August 2024.


Environment

Data Centers in Ireland Overtake All Urban Electricity Use Combined

As the market demand for this new ‘fast and effective’ communication technology is expected to expand exponentially in the near future, we face a very realistic question: “Where are we going to generate all of this energy simply to transport and store data?” 5G and the fast connectivity technologies are promoted as more efficient and energy saving. But how environmentally friendly will this be with exponentially increasing and widespread use?

Residents object to ‘ridiculous’ plans Wi-Fi masts on Sussex beach


Health and Research

The glaring omission in the smartphones and children debate. Daily Sceptic UK.

Effects of Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields: Thirty years of research. Moskowitz

It’s Okay To Be Off-Grid If You’re A Kid. Tim Arnold Substack

The Movement You’ve Missed: Smartphone Free Childhood

Bad connection: Study links cellphone radiation to brain cancer

Wireless technologies, non- ionizing electromagnetic fields and children: Identifying and reducing health risks

Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones vs. Smart Kids. National summit on education. 52mins youtube.

New Clues on Colorectal Cancer Among Young Adults Higher Risks When Cell Phone Is Carried Below the Waist

Washington Post Shines Light on What Modern Life Is Like for People With Electromagnetic Sensitivity. CHD – USA.

For a Growing Number of Kids, Back to School Means No Cellphones. CHD – USA.


Legal and Resistance

The Safer Phones Bill: by Josh MacAlister OBE MP. A Bill to make smartphones less addictive to support healthier, happier childhoods

Stephen Fry, Chrissie Hynde and Sophie Winkleman sign letter protesting 5G advertising on the Tube. The message, which is spearheaded by musician and Save Soho founder Tim Arnold, warns of the “potential dangers” of this advertisement. “As parents and health professionals campaign worldwide to protect their children from the numerous harms associated with smartphone apps, your administration is normalising the pervasive technology they’re fighting against,” it says.

SUPER CONNECTED – the movie, COMING TO SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES AND THEATRES IN 2025

Conference on exposure of children to wireless radiation in schools

Key document of credible expert evidence countering the ‘thermal dogma’ : ICBE-EMF: Scientific evidence invalidates health assumptions underlying the FCC and ICNIRP exposure limit determinations for radiofrequency radiation: implications for 5G


Technical

First transparent 5G antennas

Hypothesis on how to measure electromagnetic hypersensitivity


As a thought experiment: if you could buy a house next to a new 4G/5G mast or on a site with no mast nearby, which would you choose ?

Typically people take the precautionary approach …

Occasionally someone with skin in the economic ‘imperative’ of a ‘smart society’ will choose the one with a mast, maybe to make a point ;))

Smart City Bath

The ONE WORD project, led by Telet, will provide the City of Bath with a new 5G network utilising around 24 small cells deployed in the central area. The project will build new Open RAN systems integration and will focus on testing how the network copes with “High Demand and Dense” environments.

Project Overview – One Word


5G ? You’re having a Bath

On November 13th, the 5G pilot ONE WORD will demonstrate how 5G SA small cells can provide high capacity without being an environmental eyesore.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/5g-youre-having-a-bath-tickets-1028929424607

Please also come along and have your say:


A rally was held on July 7th to protest the lack of consultation and transparency over this trial. BATHNES are denying our right to be consulted and protected from untested exposures.

October 2024: we have had a second refusal to issue the ISO non compliance report, so we have gone back again and asked for contracts and reminded them of ‘principles’ in an agreement between DSIT and all members of the consortium including BATH NES. There are five principles we assume they have accepted formally which they have to comply with which re-enforces the importance of the NCR and the evidence. 

So in a corner they are, let them try and wriggle this time!

This is link to the application the council made to themselves for the trials:

https://www.bathnes.gov.uk/webforms/planning/details.html?refval=24%2F01855%2FCLPU#documents_Section

EVIDENCE

Here are 3 important webinars about environmental effects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYonbiK0MQQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE72mU-mH4o&t=597s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU4Qnehuqak&t=426s

This critique paper thoroughly debunks the claims made in the paper used by the government and Telecoms to support their claim that 5G is safe:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-022-00497-8

Michael Bevington reported on 5G adverse health effects ‘in situ’ studiesin 2023: 

Health Concerns of 5G and Setting Suitable Restrictions, he concludes :

‘5G, like some other technologies, was deployed ahead of actual health studies. Health evidence, including six case reports of 2023, now shows that 0.06 μW/m2 (0.005 V/m) is a suitable interim non-thermal restriction and needs to be set by public regulators.’


Here are three webinar recordings of lectures presented at the  Royal Society of Medicine in London last summer.

https://icbe-emf.org/activities/webinar-june-14-2023/

We recommend all recommend all three recordings on the page.  

In webinar 1 David Gee gives a very useful context of the history of environmental toxinson text of the history of environmental toxins & Dr Erica Mallery Blythe  logically and clearly presents scientific argument and medical evidence as to why the ICNIRP guidelines are not protective. 

In webinar 2 Dr Kent Chamberlain demonstrates why at least a 500m setback from masts is justified by current science.

In webinar 3  Professor Lin, who is an  ex-ICNIRP member, shares his reasoning why ICNIRP guidelines cannot be relied upon to protect public health, especially of children.


This ICBE paper is a detailed paper on the state of the science and ICNIRP’s false assumptions about safety.

https://icbe-emf.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/ICBE-EMF-paper-12940_2022_900_OnlinePDF_Patched-1.pdf

Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health Dr Martin Pall, Washington State University

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323998588_Wi-Fi_is_an_important_threat_to_human_health


This milestone is important in regard to the recognition of EHS :

Press release https://phiremedical.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/phire-2022-press-release-hm-courts-and-tribunals-service-ehcp-for-uk-child-with-ehs.pdf. regarding ‘Parents have now won a 5 year legal battle against 2 local authorities to have their child accommodated in school for EHS. They won in the Upper Tribunal, thus the ruling is also precedent setting. We believe this is the first case in the world where a government body is legally mandated to make low-EMF educational provisions to accommodate a child with EHS.

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