When I first learned about biological effects from wi-fi's low-level radiation, engineers and physicists in my community had a hard time believing there could be a hazard at the non-thermal level. I am very grateful to the following for providing the evidence of harm. These references will help you to understand that the theory which indicates we must create heat to cause harm is now outdated. This means our FCC guidelines, which are based only on thermal effects and do not take into consideration the non-thermal effects, do not protect the public.
This document shows that cellular and wireless technologies are on the electromagnetic radiation spectrum as non-ionizing microwave radiation.
2025: Dr. Paul Heroux, The Collission Between Wireless and Biology: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844025006474
New Hampshire legislature passed a law to investigate the health and environmental impact of EMFs, especially 5G. Their commission, composed of engineers, physicists, medical doctors and others, investigated for a year and issued a groundbreaking report in November 2021 identifying wireless risks, conflicts of interest with industry and federal agencies, and 15 recommendations for safer technology.
NH commission member Kent Chamberlin, Ph.D., Chair and Professor Emeritus, University of New Hampshire, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, provides facts to counter industry disinformation during a Lenox, MA Board of Health meeting: https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/central_berkshires/lenox-wireless-safety-curtis/article_aa1b6d84-04ec-11ec-b517-97d4a38105c9.html?fbclid=IwAR1RO9UNaIuavVkElibzKYJjhoSPnCttxnW8tNfmhaVp4aJh2712vKHu6vU
The FCC failed to do a similar comprehensive review of the 11,000 pages of scientific evidence presented to them, and were sued by the Environmental Health Trust and Children's Health Defense. In 2021 the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the FCC to prove their radiation exposure limits are safe for the public and the planet: https://ehtrust.org/transcript-of-press-conference-following-eht-federal-court-victory-over-fcc-wireless-radiation-safety-limits/
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/seeking-justice/legal/chd-v-federal-communication-commission-fcc/#watch
In 2016, the IEEE acknowledged biological effects of non-ionizing microwaves in the IEEE Power Electronics Magazine article, "Some Effects of Weak Magnetic Fields on Biological Systems: RF fields can change radical concentrations and cancer cell growth rates."
In November 2018, the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) released peer-reviewed findings in a $30 million study, commissioned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, indicating "clear evidence" cell phone radiation causes cancerous tumors and additional findings of DNA damage: https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/results/areas/cellphones/
Hear directly from NTP study designer Senior Toxicologist Dr. Ronald Melnick on why we can no longer assume any wireless technology is safe without proper testing in advance.
There are thousands more peer-reviewed published studies showing harm: https://sites.google.com/site/understandingemfs/the-science
NH Rep. Patrick Abrami is an engineer. When a constituent told him about harm from EMFs, he was curious, did his due diligence and had a major WOW moment. Then he wrote a groundbreaking bill, H. 522, for NH to investigate the health and environmental impact of EMFs and especially 5G. It passed into law in just seven months: http://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/bill_status.aspx?lsr=0261&sy=2019&txtsessionyear=2019&txtbillnumber=hb522&sortoption=&q=1
A NH Commission was formed and brought in experts to testify, reviewed published literature, examined what other countries are doing to protect their citizens. Several of the members were engineers and physicians, see the final 2020 report with 15 recommendations here: https://mailchi.mp/bcad2bc679bb/nh-legislature-releases-groundbreaking-report-on-emf-5g-harm
In 2019 Michigan Senator Patrick Colbeck, an aerospace engineer released videos of RF experts who presented at his Wireless Technology: Benefits and Risks forum. Click below to hear directly from leading scientists, doctors, engineers, educators, lawyers and more. Each presentation is @10 minutes and each panel discussion is @20 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5f-qDbVvCQ&list=PLzxSfWG1ZjiB71mHLQQDUQbE8jjQtiZj0
In 2018 IEEE Microwave Magazine published, "Clear Evidence of Cell Phone RF Radiation Cancer Risk" by Dr. James Lin: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8425056/?part=1
Dr. Lin's article is also available in full here: http://www.avaate.org/IMG/pdf/lin_2018.pdf
In 2025 Dr. Lin documented the World Health Organization is a captured agency in IEEE Microwave Magazine, "World Health Organization’s EMF Project’s Systemic Reviews on the Association Between RF Exposure and Health Effects Encounter Challenges [Health Matters]" www.rfsafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/World-Health-Organizationx2019s-EMF-Projectx2019s-Systemic-Reviews-on-the-Association-Between-RF-Exposure-and-Health-Effects-Encounter-Challenges-Health-Matters.pdf
The scientific community is calling for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the International Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) to establish RF public exposure limits that protect public health. The Environmental Health Trust provides extensive information: https://ehtrust.org/?s=fcc+icnirp
Dr. Martin Pall, wireless radiation expert, explains that it is not necessarily the power level that is the main issue. The spiked, erratic, digital radiofrequency radiation pulse that carries data is the hazard. Wireless technology sends many bursts of pulsed electromagnetic radiation per second, and this constant, erratic square-wave pulse is what is damaging our cells at the voltage-gated calcium channels (and other points), and creating a host of illnesses in our bodies. He talks us through it here in a 16-minute lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kQQyU8NHv8
In the link to Dr. Pall’s work above, we learn that wi-fi radiation causes a particularly damaging free radical called peroxynitrite that leads to a host of health issues. In the following paper, a researcher has pulled together U.S. government database statistics on 40 diseases that have more than doubled in the U.S. since 1990. The common denominator is that all are tied to peroxynitrite. Peroxynitrite is caused by wireless radiation and other environmental toxins. Please see this report, it identifies the skyrocketing rates of autism, Alzheimer’s, bi-polar, chronic fatigue, sleep disruption, thyroid disease, social and emotional issues, and more: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303673576_The_Root_Cause_in_the_dramatic_rise_of_Chronic_Disease.
By simply using hard-wired technology instead of radiation-emitting wireless, we could dramatically reduce our risks of these diseases. If we don’t, the trajectory is that we will continue to become sicker and sicker as a nation, and as a world.
Columbia University’s Dr. Martin Blank speaks on behalf of more than 200 non-industry funded electromagnetic field (EMF) scientists and engineers from around the world who are urging the United Nations and World Health Organization to protect the public from wireless radiation. Please see the International EMF Scientists Appeal here, and Dr. Blank's three-minute video introduction: https://www.emfscientist.org/
Electrical Engineer Professor Om Ghandi, Ph.D., has proven that children and fetuses absorb more radiation than even adults as their brains are more aqueous and their skulls are thinner. You can see his work and contact him here with questions: https://faculty.utah.edu/u0029832-Om_P._Gandhi/bibliography/index.hml
The BioInitiative Report contains peer-reviewed, non-industry funded studies from around the world that show biological effects at the non-thermal level. To access searchable summaries of the research done, see Dr. Henry Lai's work at: http://www.bioinitiative.org/research-summaries/
Silicon Valley engineer Jeromy Johnson became ill when a bank of utility "smart meters" was installed beneath his living quarters. This set him on a journey to understand the biological effects of electromagnetic radiation. He discusses the issue and offers solutions in this 16-minute TedX-BerkeleyTalk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0NEaPTu9oI
Jeromy Johnson also published the following article in The Bent, the National Engineering Honor Society magazine. The organization has a membership of 87,000 engineers across the country. The article succinctly summarizes how EMF science now shows that wireless technology can harm our health and offers solutions for our society: https://www.emfanalysis.com/new-paradigm-emf-science/
Retired Harvard trained U.S. Government Physicist Dr. Ronald Powell, from Maryland, has issued open letters for schools and libraries to begin protecting their citizens from wireless radiation: http://www.scribd.com/doc/289778053/Message-to-Schools-and-Colleges-about-Wireless-Devices-and-Health
http://www.scribd.com/doc/300834441/Message-to-Public-Libraries-About-Wireless-Devices-and-Health
Dr. Powell has also authored several papers to help consumers and public agencies understand the implications of utility "smart meters" including illness symptoms, questions to ask your energy company, FCC limits, a ranking of smart utility meter types and more: http://www.scribd.com/doc/291507610/Documents-on-Wireless-Technology-and-Health-by-Ronald-M-Powell-Ph-D
Dr. Barrie Trower, Royal Navy microwave weapons expert and physicist from the U.K., explains how microwave radiation is used as a human warfare weapon. He indicates wireless radiation is particularly damaging to the DNA of fetuses and children, and should not be allowed in schools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z99_SzoXZdY
Technology should not be rolled out until it is proven biologically safe but that did not happen with wireless and cellular products. Harvard University's Captured Agency report explains how the telecommunications industry marketed products without proper safety testing and are now deploying big tobacco tactics to suppress evidence of harm: http://ethics.harvard.edu/files/center-for-ethics/files/capturedagency_alster.pdf
When Microsoft Canada President Frank Clegg retired, he sought out a dozen of the world's top scientists in electromagnetic fields (EMFs). He came back realizing our electromagnetic radiation public exposure limits in North America are not safe. Please see this briefing which he and Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate Dr. Devra Davis gave to the Massachusetts legislature. Mr. Clegg believes, given a nudge, the industry can absolutely create technology that is not only safe, but faster and less expensive. Please see their talk here: https://vimeo.com/134411701
This five-part cable series explains this complex issue in what some have found to be a very down-to-earth way. When viewed on YouTube, you will be able to access links below each video to the scientific evidence and other important resources. Each episode averages just 30 minutes so you'll be able to digest new information before moving onto the next episode: tinyurl.com/Dangers-of-Wi-Fi
This issue didn't really sink in for me until I could see and hear it for myself. I invested in a $400 Acoustimeter and my local cable station helped do a walk-through video in my home. We identified the wireless radiation emission sources, measured them, and offer solutions for safe technology access: https://vimeo.com/159873631
I hope you will really examine the peer-reviewed, non-industry funded evidence that wireless technology is biologically hazardous, and that our world scientists recognize this as the biggest public health threat we have ever faced. It is tempting to want to believe the industry spin in popular magazines and industry trade journals, but the independent peer-reviewed, published science, combined with medical cases, should be our sources of credible information.
Please explore the rest of this research repository to launch your investigation, particularly the pages on 5G & IoT, Cell Towers, Utility "Smart: Meters, and Impact on Children. Don't hesitate to reach out to the many experts included herein, they would be honored to speak with you.
Once you've done your independent review, I hope you will use your voice and talents to help be part of the solution.
Here's the roadmap: the policy paper, “Re-Inventing Wires: The Future of Landlines and Networks," details why the U.S. and our communities should instead invest in hard-wired telecommunications infrastructure to support economic growth, bridge the digital divide and diminish risks to security, privacy, public health and the environment.
In the meantime, please consider hard-wiring what you can, set your mobile devices to airplane mode, and only use active mode sparingly, when you have no access to a hard-wired connection. Please also be mindful of the second-hand radiation to which you expose others, especially our most vulnerable populations of children, fetuses, the elderly, and those with known health conditions.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Note: The information provided here is publicly available on the Internet.
It is intended to provide a starting point to inform you of EMF dangers.
Please do your own research, draw your own conclusions, and act accordingly to protect our world and those you love.