“Truth Passes Through Three Stages: First, It Is Ridiculed. Second, It Is Violently Opposed. Third, It Is Accepted As Self-Evident”
~Arthur Schopenhauer
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He didn’t make it past 84, died of pneumonia. Instead of shielding himself from electric outlets, he should have shielded himself from pneumonia, which did him in. I’m hoping for more than 84. Personally, I’m not going to be fondling high power electric transmission wires, but mostly I’m keeping up with my vaccinations, especially pneumonia, which I just did late last year, and intend to boost every five years. YMMV.
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“If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.”
~Seth Godin
Like lead…
“Clair Patterson—a scientist who helped build the atomic bomb and discovered the true age of the Earth—took on a billion-dollar industry to save humanity from itself.”
Details below.
When I was a teenager I was moving up a log in the woods when it hit the 25kV power cables above me. That was a bit of a surprise.
It is obviously the case that electrical fields have the abillity to affect life. The very high electrical gradient in mitochondria is one example and the work of Michael Levin looking at how electrical fields affect differentiation is another.
However, although I would not wish to live under power cables I think many people over worry about electrical and electromagnetic fields. I don’t think it can be said that he “exposed” the fields, but over stated the position in such a manner that would excite people. (even if said calmly)
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As happens I checked for lead in my last blood test. According to LabCorp, my lead levels are below their detection limits. I took the test because I eat fish, drink coffee with cocoa, and am somewhat worried about heavy metals. No test was offered for effects of EMFs.
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FWIW
“Paul Héroux: Electromagnetic Energy as a Threat to Life”
Ricci Flow Nutrition Podcast by Cameron Borg
Aired April 6, 2025
https://rss.com/podcasts/ricciflownutrition/1972680/
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I am sorry, but if you are going to imply or argue that we all need to live in Faraday’s cages then you need to actually argue that case whilst providing references, not point me at something which given the track record of what you have been posting recently is unlikely to be that scientifically valid. I am not going to read it.
About an hour ago I replaced a battery in a smoke alarm. I did switch the mains circuit off first and I am quite cautious with electricity, electrical fields and electromagnetic fields (as well as other things that are potentially hazardous). However, I don’t go overboard on these things. I rely on solid scientific evidence. Science gets it wrong some times, but not always and normally people muddle through in the right direction.
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Radiated electric fields are interesting 
I’m trying to think back 40 decades when I first found out about the “dangers” of one specific type, ELF. Extra Low Frequency. These fields are created by AC (alternating current) between 1hz and 300hz. The power in your wall sockets (50 and 60hz), wires in your walls, all your plug in electric devices, etc. emit ELF.
It’s easy to measure, all you need is a super het receiver and away you go. I made one back then, had a nice little display and was measuring ELF fields all over town LoL! Several interesting things about these, distance is your friend as low frequencies penetrate well but drop in power quickly with distance. This is the Inverse Square law (which applies to light as well), distance matters.
The higher the frequency k/hz, m/hz on up to millimetre wave (microwave) the ability to “penetrate” diminishes significantly, the higher the freq the greater the power required to penetrate. This is why cellphones are tightly regulated for RF power.
Cellphones are interesting. Did you know the typical cellphone has 8 to 12 (some more) antennas to deal with all the freqs and improve performance with multi path reception. Multi path is why cellphones work in places you would not expect.
Any ways… there is basically no way to avoid all this radiated energy. Other than leaving society and living in a cave or cabin in the deep woods.
Fortunately these are non-ionizing radiations. The ionizing ones are the ones you definitely do not want exposure to.
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Review
“The Collision between Wireless and Biology”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844025006474
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When I see a wall of words and formulas it’s makes me suspect of the author. There is an old expression “BS baffles brains” and this type of paper is designed to do just that.
As far is the near complete dismissal of the hazards of ionizing radiation, another misleading and odd comparison to enhance the much more “important” points the author is making.
I don’t disagree completely with this whole line of thinking as we are electric beings and outside “interference” is probably not innocuous but we have lived in this environment since electricity became common place in everyone’s homes, all the while our life expectancy has increased significantly and most disease and conditions are a result of many factors, environment, diet, activity, genetic predisposition, etc.
From that perspective, it seems to me we have bigger fish to fry.
Also 5G is not a frequency, it’s a modulation method, like AM or FM and it works in a wide rage of frequencies.The following actually makes me laugh. Talk about hyperbole. Like 5G is going to win a war, it’s not a fn death ray LoL!
Innovations such as 5G are useful to the military. Consequently, the military support these developments with the goal of achieving superiority over their adversaries in a theater of war (Department of Defense 2020).
The alliance between industry and the military certainly has some practical advantages, but it has one major drawback.
If your environment is made to mimic a theater of war, it will not be a theater of health."
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While I try to keep open-minded, the bigger picture seems to show that while the amount of electromagnetic fields has increased massively in our lifetimes, there hasn’t been any sort of unexplainable increase in harm associated with it. It’s the whole “cell phones and brain cancer” thing. We went from 0 people having phones to billions of people having them, and brain tumour rates haven’t moved. The actual plagues of society (obesity, diabetes, heart disease etc) have much more obvious explanations backed by solid evidence.
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The people who campaign against mobile phone masts mainly still use mobiles and don’t understand the power with distance formula.
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Not difficult to locate…
Simple Search, more published papers than most would read.
As noted in this paper, there is good and bad that comes with EMF (electromagnetic fields) in/near humans. One of those 2 edged swords. Lots of EMF therapies helping people these days.
> It has been demonstrated that the effects of EMF stimulation depend on the intensity and frequency of the EMF and the time of exposure to it.
It’s no different than any other potential hazard, what matters is; dose, dose frequency, length of dose usage, no different than Rapamycin use. Except you have a choice with Rapa, you don’t have a choice with RF.
I’ve read a lot of on this topic over the years and have worked in the RF industry designing antennas and wireless transmitters for broadcast applications. Four years of working on the worlds smallest broadcast quality units used by the NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL, the Olympics, pretty much every major sports and broadcast company in NA and the EU. Look up www.Q5X.com
The regulatory bodies all have very tight specs on emission power and passing those regs is not easy but every legit company that sells these types of devices is under the same microscope.
All those “harms” listed in the papers are also harms from daily living, regardless of RF exposure. There are things I can control in my life, RF is not one of them. I possibly could avoid “some” but definitely not all.
One of my little experiments back 40 years ago with my ELF meter was in a high rise apt building. I found the steel structure made a good antenna and there were peaks of ELF where the girder were.
Control what you can and live with what you can’t… or like I said, move to a cave in the hills and stop using any electrical device.
Ok, but even then, you take cells in a dish and blast them with something and you see changes in ROS, intracellular pH… I can believe that… but so what?
If we’re labelling this as “the invisible danger we face every day” then there needs to be some strong evidence of harm, right?
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Rushing out now to buy a grounding mat. Seriously though, people more qualified than I have said unless your body is subjected to EM that is ionizing radiation, there is not a health concern. However, if one is concerned, there is no doubt we are bathed in EMF like never before and with the rise of EVs, more coming. It was fascinating to discover that walking anywhere near my Rav4 hybrid with a portable radio, it emits very strong pulsed static even with the vehicle off.
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So you’re saying a Tesla can kill you even while not moving, just sitting in the garage? I thought it was the job of the “self-driving” feature to do you in, lol.
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I know you were tounge in cheek with the grounding mat
Interestingly a grounding mat won’t protect one from RF. Sure they can ground you (when used properly) but that is not protection from RF. Not even close.
If one is determined to sleep or live in a RF free environment. without moving to a cave, the only way is a Faraday Cage. We had 4 small ones and 1 that was 1 meter square. We got it for $3k at a Blackberry auction Today that would cost $15k and not big enough to sleep in
If you wanted a Farady bedroom, plan to spend $250k plus.
Then you should get yourself a wide band spectrum analyzer, our Rohde & Schwarz was $120K
Once you understand how EMF’s propagate you will realize why.