Located between the reptilians and the power of the pyramid, there is one or several conspiracy theories that have been with us since the first high-voltage lines began to cross the states, namely that the antennas, the WiFi, the radio and even microwaves cause serious illnesses.
Every few years the subject returns to the media and the streets despite the fact that every few months studies are published with reassuring data.The list of proven and independent research is very extensive. Why do people keep saying that Do you have allergy to radio waves?
The conspiracy started with the high voltage lines
Long before the radio waves associated with communication standards such as GSM, DCS, UMTS, LTE (4G), Bluetooth or WiFi jumped to the forefront of the foundations of a worldwide conspiracy, the first voices of alarm appeared in the United States as power lines covered the landscape , saying they caused cancer.
But in 2016 the National Cancer Institute, supported by a selection of 56 scientific studies , announced that «no mechanism has been identified by which EMF [electromagnetic fields] of FEB [frequency extremely low] could cause cancer »(NIH, 2016).
It is not the first time that they have to say it, and it probably will not be laultima, although the 50Hz fields generated by the power lines reduce their intensity ten thousand times if you move ten meters away from the cable.more height.
The concern of the citizens was jumping from invention to invention as they were produced.The latest technologies to be attacked have been the antennas on the buildings, the free WiFi in the cities and the LTE of some urban centers.
In our country, it is such that some local governments have had to launch their own guides to make the knowledge they need to reach the population to understand electromagnetic waves.The Antennas and Health guide is well known , written and signed by the Corunna Scientific Museums in 2002.
But the radio waves heat the tissues
It's true.The radio waves, especially those of the mobile phone, act in a very similar way to a microwave, and therefore heat human tissues .But there is a huge difference between a microwave and a mobile, and you have to pay attention to the order of magnitude, millions of times lower.
It would take an impossible number of mobile phones attached to our head to match what is heated with the Sun of a winter morning.
When WHO and other agencies have investigated the effects of telephone antennas and mobile phones on brain activity, cognitive function, sleep, heart rate, blood pressure, impotence, stress and many others indicators, nothing has been found.«To date it has not been confirmed that the use of the mobile phone has detrimental effects on health », confirmed the WHO, in 2014)
And don't antennae produce brain tumors?
Relatively frequently, people living in residential apartments under telephone antennas have contacted local authorities to report that they have developed a disease due to electromagnetic waves .Sometimes they are headaches, others some type of histamine increase, and the most serious cancer or brain tumors, among others.
There is a worldwide study known as Interphone Study , in which more than 50 first-hand researchers and 13 countries participated, providing data, coordinated by the International Center for Cancer Research (CIIC) , which already stated in 2010 that there was no relationship whatsoever.
Other experiments, such as the Danish cohort study or the The Million Women Study (not specifically on waves, but on women's health), also do not point to a relationship between the antennae and no disease.
To be cured in health, but especially to encourage further studies in this regard , WHO included in 2014 at the IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) some types of electromagnetic waves and uses within Group 2B.
Group 2B is used when “a causal association is considered credible, but chance, biases or confounding factors cannot be ruled out with reasonable confidence.” A tailor's drawer with possible risks does not demonstrated was controversial in 2015, when WHO also included eating huge amounts of red meat as a possible carcinogen.
It is probably not necessary for a scientific study to indicate any abuse to us as something unhealthy.Nor is it “talking with the cell phone stuck to the head for more than 10 hours a day for 10 years,” as I stressed the Interphone Study , even for the health of the arm with which we hold the phone.
So far there is not a single scientific evidence that justifies the fear of antennas , and if a lot of misinformation and low scientific literacy.If the population does not know how to distinguish between ionizing or non-ionizing radiation, It is unlikely that they can understand how antenna technology works and think of them in an objective and scientific way.As a consequence, they are feared because their basic functioning is not understood.
False studies don't help either.The scientific process requires experiments to be replicable.But when one of the studies that point to the antennas as harmful to health has undergone peer review, the results of the second study have denied those of the first.
And the electromagnetic hypersensitivity?
Regarding the electromagnetic hypersensitivity , the WHO organized an international workshop in 2004 in which it was concluded that «after numerous well-controlled and designed double-blind studies, the symptoms of those affected do not show correlation with exposure to electromagnetic fields »and that« there are indications that these symptoms are more likely to be due to pre-existing psychiatric conditions or stress reactions resulting from concern about the belief in the effects of electromagnetic fields on health than own exposure to electromagnetic fields ».
These conclusions are important because they do not deny the evidence: that there is a person with a lack of health, or who thinks they have it, but all the evidence suggests that there is no relationship between radio waves and these ailments, so the cause must be found elsewhere.
In 2005, WHO published a Spanish-language FAQ document on electromagnetic hypersensitivity.A direct relationship has not yet been demonstrated.In fact, cases of people allegedly affected usually appear under antennas (and not opposite).of them, where the radiation lobes are concentrated).
A few months ago, the Scientific Advisory Committee on Radio Frequency and Health (CCARS) presented a report that gathers all the evidence regarding electromagnetic fields and its impact on human health.rigorous that I analyze 350 previous studies.
Francisco Vargas, epidemiologist and scientific director of CCARS, kept repeating during the presentation of the report that "there is no evidence", and concludes by saying that "you would have to get on an antenna for hours to feel a headache."
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