Dear respondent, Anthony Sharp,
This is alleviate some of your concerns regard my 'fishy' letter of late. I am smiling.
I, Arthur Lake, appreciate your responding letter to my own which described in very general terms my personal experience with a cell tower located across the road and within the safe less range of 500 meters. Incidentally, your comments on the physics of information suggest that you don't examine the science and discovery very deeply and probably don't really care much about the subtleties. That is pretty normal, but I do!
We are on the same side of concerns, only you are much less well informed than the writers of scientific papers about cell towers. I can guess that from your the way your letter was written. You also do not quote statistics and quite rightly so. I am retired and hate the thought of going through endless papers and numbers just to prove a point that is obvious to the lay person. We are not engaged in a scientific study here just a socio-polical-technological discussion with potentially serious health consequences. I suggest you read a book edited by B. Blake Levittown entitled Cell Towers - Wireless Convenience? Or Environmental Hazard? It contains the Proceedings of the "Cell Towers Forum" and includes many presentations by people much better informed and committed than myself. Since you like statistics the stimulate those brain cells, it is full of statistics as well.
On the numbers side, I very recently acquired a German device from a Toronto company called EMR Shielding Solutions Inc. I did so on advice from a Swiss Canadian involved in making people aware of how they can serve themselves by gathering EMF information themselves. The device is a HF35C EMF Meter High Frequency / RF Analyzer (800Mhz -2,500 MHz). It cost $579.07. To help you understand my concerns, I put it to work yesterday and determined that my AT&T handset with four phones was a more significant pollutant than the nearby tower. The numbers over 200 uW/m2 showed that there was a place in my home that seemed to gather all the energy waves. It was an awesome discovery, but I immediately unplugged the system in favour of a wired old fashioned phone. I eliminated almost all the sources of radiation within my home one by one, the WIFI, the water meter (using tin foil). I found that the microwave oven was not really shielded enough and had scary leakages, off the charts? At the windows within 6 feet, I found levels that were about 10-40 times as high as beyond six feet. If there was a brick wall, this provided a great shielding.
Please don't ply your arguments with the comment that electricity and electric fields do not affect your health. Of course, they do...
The point, I would initially make is that there is radiation and that it is man made. Eliminate the man made radiation and your environment returns to what the natives once enjoyed. If you import objects into your home that generate radiation you can produce it yourself to an awesome level, well off the charts. This at least is your choice.
My second point is that the radiation coming from the tower nearby is not of my choice. It is involuntary man made radiation. I do not voluntarily benefit from it in any way. I do not have shares in Bell stock. I want the tower relocated outside of town near some wind generator.
My third point is that you can mitigate the amount of radiation in your home and virtually eliminate it. Just recently, we acquired fibre optic entertainment from Hays. It seems that they will pipe it directly into the home. That is good news for me and my family because we like the radiation free zone where we don't have to worry so much about health risks arising from imports into our quiet area. That is definitely a personal choice.
So far I have not challenged you with stats and measurements, but feel free to go to the many websites such as that of the NIH in Washington to learn more about what is affecting scientific and public opinion in the states. I do know where you are coming from. There are many disagreements about policy. That is not my aim here. It is rather to prick your self defence mechanisms to start thinking about the objects that you use in your home and that affect you at play and at work.
In the end, unless you own shares in Bell or a similar company, you may come to see things mire my way. If you don't that all right too. In a democracy, we allow people to make many mistakes in choices of things they consume. We are not a push over society of victims.
It's good to have a responder that thinks and I am sure that you will make your own way without me interfering in any form other than this warning, that the writing really is on the wall. Go find it.
Arthur Lake unleashed..
