Asbestos and Wireless Radiation:
Parallel Stories of Greed, Genocide and Cover-Up
RF/microwave radiation across the spectrum is a scientifically-confirmed human carcinogen. And it is well-documented to be "a very efficient carcinogen." [5] Yet, as
a condition of employment, millions of Americans in the workplace are compelled, for hours each day, to endure multi-frequency exposure to this radiation. The same is true for millions of students caught in the pernicious web of wireless classrooms and campuses. The same is true for first responders, especially fire personnel, who often encounter acute antenna exposure during crisis situations. Most people are still uninformed about the myriad health hazards of compulsory, high-frequency radiation which cannot be naturally detected through sight, sound, taste, smell or touch. Left without adequate sensory and regulatory information, they cannot give informed consent for the macabre bio-experiment in which they have been forcibly enrolled.
Make no mistake: environmental Wi-radiation is a digital version of asbestos!
History replicates. This is the value of understanding history. Wi-workers and Wi-students need to know the sordid story of asbestos USA in order to fully comprehend their current perilous situation. The tragedies of asbestos and Wi-radiation are both the byproducts of greed and deceit. And they share many other commonalities, the most egregious of which is sinister and amoral cover-up by conniving federal officials.
With both asbestos and wireless radiation,
corporate and government interests are so intertwined
that it is impossible to separate murderous corporate polluters
from the federal agencies that have long empowered and protected them!
A stunning example is the 2009 federal court decision that claimants, sickened or killed by deadly wireless devices manufactured after 1996, cannot prevail in court because the federal Telecom Act of 1996 preempts such tort claims. Translation: Got cell phone or Wi-Fi cancer from exposure after 1996? The law says: "Tough luck, buddy!" [6]
So let us weave the Wi-asbestos story. Asbestos is a naturally-occurring form of several soft mineral silicates. Asbestos easily disintegrates into millions of microscopic fibers so light they can float in the air indefinitely. Needle-sharp and shaped like spears, thousands of asbestos fibers can be inhaled in a single breath of air. Globally, millions of people have died from asbestos-induced cancers and a variety of other lung diseases. The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation reports: "Starting at the turn of the [twentieth] century, British investigators discovered a relationship between exposure to high levels of asbestos and respiratory disease. These early studies were suppressed by the government at the request of the asbestos industry. By the mid 50s, American medical researchers had joined the chorus of concerned professionals identifying asbestos as hazardous. Much of their work was never published or was suppressed and/or disputed by scientists in the pay of the asbestos industry." [7]
Therefore, asbestos spewed haphazardly across the USA for decades continues to sicken and kill today. Millions of tons of asbestos remains embedded in older homes and commercial buildings across the nation. An estimated 1.3 million workers are still exposed to asbestos in their workplaces. [8] About 10,000 Americans still die each year from asbestos-related diseases. [9] On September 11, 2001, when the World Trade Center buildings
collapsed into rubble, the fireproofing spray foam used on at least forty floors within the North Tower infused the air, soil and buildings all over lower Manhattan with tremolite-actinolite series asbestos, the most deadly form of asbestos.
[10]
Many first responders at the WTC disaster are now dead or sick from
service-related toxic exposures. By 2018, nearly 10,000 first responders and New York City residents had reported 9/11-related cancers. [11] Asbestos casualties among the Manhattan population forced to breathe and ingest vast quantities of 9/11 asbestos dust plus other toxins will continue to mount for years to come. Some estimates are that this mass exposure will culminate in one in ten extra cancers. [12]
Cancer is believed to be induced by co-factors. Further increasing their risks for painful and premature death, residents of New York City are among the most heavily Wi-irradiated people in the world, with countless thousands of active microwave cellular antenna installations mounted across the metropolitan terrain, plus many others actually situated inside of buildings. Thousands of Wi-Fi networks pile on an additional radiation burden. Now here comes a tsunami of newly-engineered 5G radiation for good measure.
According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), at least 100 American-based companies have gone into bankruptcy because of asbestos-related liabilities. In 2011, GAO had identified $36.8 billion in assets spread among 60 personal injury trusts designed to pay out claims related to present and future asbestos litigation. [13] By 2002, there were already 730,000 claims, [14] with hundreds of thousands others still pending. The trust funds are feared insufficient to cover total future liabilities.
With nearly all Americans now heavily exposed to carcinogenic Wi-radiation from myriad sources, it's a safe bet that liabilities of the Wi-industry literally dwarf those of the early asbestos era. This is obviously why microwave peddlers cleverly crafted the Telecom Act of 1996 to stave off any and all claims of bodily injury or environmental damage, so long as their wireless products and services comply with radiation standards adopted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1992. We know now, after nearly thirty years of updated scientific information, that the FCC's ancient exposure and emissions standards are as deadly and negligent as the defective wireless products they shield from liability.
The Story of Libby, Montana, is a Parable for Our Wireless Age
The Libby asbestos story did not become national news until 1999, when the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that hundreds of asbestos miners and their family members had died and that thousands more had become ill. [15] By 2005, it was estimated that at least one-third of Libby's roughly 8000 townspeople would eventually die in an epidemic of asbestos-related disease. [16]
The mine near Libby was a hotbed of tremolite (also called amphibole), the world’s most dangerous variety of asbestos. This asbestos contains at least five types of chemically similar fibers. At its zenith, the mine produced two million tons of ore annually, employing about 200 people. For at least five decades, the mine's deadly products, including vermiculite used for agriculture, were shipped all over the US and throughout the world. The inches-thick dust that covered Lower Manhattan when the Twin Towers came down contained tremolite from
the Libby mine. [17]
The Center for
Asbestos Related Disease (CARD) said this in 2019: "The CARD is aware that many other towns
and cities will soon realize that they too have community-wide Libby
amphibole asbestos exposure issues to address. The latency of
asbestos-related diseases has allowed the serious health-related
problems of asbestos exposure to go unrealized in many communities thus
far. However, vermiculite contaminated with Libby amphibole asbestos
was shipped to nearly 300 processing plants around the country." [18]
Deceased Libby asbestos worker Perley Vatland is a perfect poster boy for our current Wireless Age. His story is analogous to the tragedy of millions of uninformed Americans and Canadians who are being equally exploited right now by a ruthless Wi-industry that poisons schools and workplaces with the digital version of asbestos.
Any worker or any student
who is RF/microwave-irradiated for hours each day
--as a condition of employment or education--
is another Perley Vatland.
Perley Vatland was a Montana resident and family man who landed his job in a vermiculite mine near Libby in 1954. The mine was operated by the Zonolite Company, which in 1963 merged with the politically powerful corporate megalith, W. R. Grace. Vatland and other workers at the mine had no idea that their work environment was loaded with asbestos fibers:
"As the new man at the mine, Perley's first job was working as a sweeper in the dry mill. Each day after work, he arrived home covered in a thick white dust....The dust at the mine was ubiquitous, but the men tolerated it with a shrug. 'No worse than farm dust they were told.' Ten years later, the price had escalated. Perley had come down with a series of lung ailments he didn't seem able to shake....Once robust and able to work long hours, his health broke down and he suffered greatly over the next decade. He was stunned that the managers at W.R. Grace didn't seem to care....He was unable to breathe most of the time, and his chest felt like it was on fire. After he died [five days before he was eligible for his 20-year pension] the company declined to pay his full pension to the family." [19]
In 2005, federal prosecutors, armed with numerous incriminating documents, alleged "environmental crime" and issued a 10-count criminal indictment against W. R. Grace
and seven of its top officials. Among the charges were conspiracy and the knowing endangerment of the
people of Libby. But in May 2009, some 50 lawyers for W.R. Grace, plus an overtly biased trial judge, managed to withhold enough evidence
from jurors to beat all charges and produce an acquittal. “It is
unfortunate that so much evidence was withheld from the jury by the
district court’s evidentiary rulings, including some of the most
compelling internal memos written by W. R. Grace officials about the
harmful effects of their mining operations,” said David Uhlmann, an early architect of the U.S. Justice Department's case against Grace. [20]
In 2011, the State of Montana awarded a $43 million dollar settlement to more than one thousand asbestos victims in the Libby area who had sued the state for failure to intervene while hundreds sickened and died. Montana had known as early as 1956 that miners and their families, plus the entire population of Libby and the neighboring town of Troy, were in extreme danger from tremolite asbestos. But officials protected the asbestos industry with tacit approval and silence, [21] just as the federal government and all state and local governments cover for the corpulent Wi-Radiation Industry today.
For years the stack on the dry mill at the Libby mine excreted about 24,000 pounds of asbestos laden dust per day. Although the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has spent at least $370 million since 1999 to mitigate asbestos contamination in the Libby area, it was recently discovered that tremolite still pollutes hundreds of treed acres around the mine. After some of these contaminated trees were harvested, their bark was trucked to many unknown destinations across the nation beginning in 2007. In 2011, CBS News reported that the EPA had known for at least three years that the bark was asbestos-laden, but did nothing to stop the shipment of 15,000 tons of the contaminated material until the Associated Press began an investigation. [22]
In his startling expose, Fatal Deception, Michael Bowker documents how both federal and state governments long withheld from Libby mine workers and their families critical information about the deadly hazards of their environment:
“By 1956, asbestos was officially listed as an ingredient of the dust at the mine….Company records showed the asbestos content of the dust to be from eight percent to 20 percent…. Despite this knowledge, the miners were not told of the asbestos dangers….Bob Wilkins still recalls the cool, spring day in the latter part of March 1979 when he first learned that asbestos was a danger at the mine….That day, the government man [NIOSH inspector Robert Smith] told Wilkins that he had been all over the country doing various mineral studies. He mentioned offhandedly that he had once found a deposit of asbestos in a copper mine in Arizona. 'I’m glad we don’t have any asbestos around here,' Wilkins told Smith. 'All we have up here in Libby is tremolite.' Smith gave Wilkins a long, funny look. Without a word, he turned and walked back to his government truck. A few minutes later he came back with a huge book on rocks and minerals….'Tremolite,' the book stated, 'is the most dangerous form of asbestos.' " [23]
Even a few microscopic of asbestos particles, inhaled or ingested by a victim, can initiate these terminal diseases:
1. MESOTHELIOMA: a fatal and especially painful asbestos-initiated cancer that begins in the lungs (pleural) or stomach (peritoneal) and progresses to eat out the ribs, diaphragm, spine and heart.
2. ASBESTOSIS: an asbestos initiated lung disease resulting in extensive scarring and a downward spiral of slow, painful suffocation as damaged lung tissues no longer pass oxygen to the bloodstream, nor properly rid the body of carbon dioxide. (A percentage of people with asbestosis go on to develop lung cancer.)
3. PLEURAL DISEASE: a painful condition involving hardening of lung lining tissues as fibrosis plagues rob the lungs of their elasticity, causing progressive and painful degradation of both breathing and circulation.
Bowker wrote in Fatal Deception: "The story of asbestos is a revelation of immense corporate, political and legal malfeasance. It is a story of profiteers who knowingly exposed unsuspecting workers and consumers to a sure and painful death." This observation is a precise description of today's predatory Wireless Radiation Industry, a precise description of the political malfeasance of the U.S. Congress and the industry-captured FCC.
In regards to the horrific health hazards of Wi-radiation,
Americans and Canadians of the Twenty-first Century
are caught in the same information vacuum
as were the downtrodden Libby miners prior to 1979!
Bowker also revealed: "The asbestos industry’s tentacles have reached the highest echelons of political power. The industry’s footprints via the Oval Office, are all over the backs of regulatory agencies that repeatedly failed to protect workers and consumers."
This again is an excellent description of today’s the wireless juggernaut, which through campaign contributions and massive propaganda, controls Congress, the White House and all five appointees at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Through tainted federal law, the Wi-industry expects to remain exempt from adequate regulatory control and financial liability as it pollutes the entire nation with the lucrative VOLTAGE OF CANCER.
After his excruciating death, Perley Vatland's family received $37 a month from W. R. Grace. That is BIG MONEY compared to what millions of US Wi-victims have NOT received from Wi-device makers, telecom service providers, smart meter manufacturers, tower profiteers and the purveyors of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies.
Parallels Between Asbestos and Wireless Radiation
Both asbestos mitigation workers and some radio antenna workers "suit up" with special gear that covers body, head and face. They enjoy protection not afforded to the bovine masses who still live/work in asbestos-contaminated buildings and those who live/work in ferocious microwave antenna beams that pollute the environment and the interior of buildings across the USA and Canada.
Parallel One:
♦ The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirms that “there is no known safe exposure level for asbestos” since asbestos is a potent carcinogen (IARC Group One) .
♦ Environmental expert Cindy Sage, who helped compile vast scientific documentation for the BioInitiative Report 2012 (2014) states: "There are no safe levels [of microwave radiation] for children. None. Zero." [24] This is the case because RF/microwave radiation propagated at various frequencies is well-documented to destroy (micronucleate) human DNA. Micronucleation of the DNA is a known precursor for tumors and blood cancers. The latest science concludes that wireless RF/microwave radiation across the spectrum is a confirmed human carcinogen as per the IARC Group One category; all toxins in the the Group One category are considered to be safe at the zero dose.
Parallel Two:
♦ All asbestos-induced diseases (mesothelioma, asbestosis and pleural fibrosis) are excruciatingly painful and life-shortening.
♦ Numerous bio-effects of wireless RF/microwave radiation are severely health-impairing and life-threatening to the entire human and non-human population. Communications microwaves lay the foundation for: a multitude of human cancers, hearing and vision damage, glandular malfunction, stroke, cardiac abnormalities, brain damage and immune system shutdown. Microwave-induced cancers are excruciatingly painful and life-shortening.
Parallel Three:
♦ The children of Libby and Troy in Montana were among those most horribly abused by the asbestos industry. Mine operators not only ruthlessly sickened and killed their working parents, but also knowingly contaminated school grounds with tons of asbestos-contaminated soils spread over the school track and ball fields used by the children of Libby until 1998. [25]
♦ The Wireless Radiation Industry not only endangers their parents, but children today are specifically targeted with provocative advertising for wireless devices and technologies while schools across the nation are burdened with toxic wireless antenna pollution, both indoors and out. The Wi-industry routinely places telecom antennas next to schools, and even on the roofs of school buildings, since children have been carefully cultivated to be the most avaricious of wireless consumers. Seen below is an antenna farm located next to a school for young children in Nevada. The situation is the same in all 50 states.
Parallel Four:
♦ The microscopic fibers of asbestos can enter human lungs and digestive tracts without being seen, heard, smelled or tasted. Victims breathe and eat these fibers with little or no preliminary physical indication of harm.
♦ Without being seen, heard, smelled or tasted, wireless RF/microwave radiation flows as a CARCINOGENIC VOLTAGE through human bodies, severely damaging DNA and interrupting normal bodily processes. Victims often overlook preliminary physical warning indications as inconsequential and few make the connection between their wireless exposure and resulting symptoms of allergies, heart abnormalities, immune dysfunction and nervous system disorders.
Parallel Five:
♦ Serious illness resulting from asbestos exposure can take from ten to 40 years to manifest. In the case of the Libby atrocity, the large lag time between exposure and death allowed the asbestos industry to successfully deny its culpability and blame the preliminary illness of asbestos workers on other factors, such as tobacco use.
♦ Microwave-induced Wi-cancers and Wi-dementia may require five, 10 or 20 years to manifest. The lag time between exposure and serious symptoms enables the Wireless Radiation Industry to deny its culpability and/or to blame radiation illnesses on other factors, such as aging or bad luck.
Parallel Six:
♦ For decades, the asbestos industry deliberately and successfully suppressed information on the deadly effects of its products. The industry quashed numerous damning medical studies and withheld medical information about the dangers of asbestos from both its employees and consumers. Prosecutors who indicted W.R. Grace officials for environmental
crimes in Libby verified that the company was secretly armed with
numerous studies documenting the dangers of their mined products. [26]
♦ The wireless radiation industry has spent unlimited $billions to cover up the deadly effects of its wireless products and services. It has blatantly suppressed its own damning medical studies [27] and it continues to withhold, from both workers and consumers, full disclosure about the dangers of chronic, near-field microwave exposure from wireless technologies and devices. The Wi-industry has full access to all of the studies listed HERE, yet it continues to deny any and all harm from wireless microwave exposure with the false narrative that there is no evidence of harm.
Parallel Seven:
♦ Already by the 1930s, there were medical reports indicating that asbestos dust was a significant danger to both workers and the general public. Federal and state agencies were fully apprised of these reports, but they failed to warn. Governing authorities had reason to pamper and protect the asbestos industry because the military used asbestos in large quantities for American warships, battlefield equipment, etc.
♦ During WWII, when radar microwaves began to manifest illness and impairment among US military personnel, volumes of subsequent military studies verified the toxicity of microwave radiation. Many new reports from labs all over the world continue to reaffirm the hazards. Both the military and federal regulators are fully apprised of these studies and reports which they refuse to publicly acknowledge. The U.S. government pampers the Wireless Radiation Industry because it derives billions in revenues from selling wireless spectrum and because it uses wireless radiation for surveillance and tracking networks across the nation.
Parallel Eight:
♦ There is still little federal oversight on the manufacture and use of thousands of asbestos-containing products sold in USA and Canada today. Government regulators rely mainly on asbestos industry data. There is virtually no warning labeling required for the numerous asbestos-contaminated consumer items still sold across the nation. The public is not adequately warned about the millions of older asbestos-contaminated buildings, while many dangerous asbestos waste sites still blight the nation.
♦ There are no realistic health warnings required on consumer wireless products and devices which emit high-frequency RF/microwave and millimeter wave radiation. The general public remains in the dark as to the dangers of ubiquitous antenna installations that emit high levels of mixed-field carcinogenic waves across the environment, in some cases, in blatant violation of FCC exposure standards. [28] FCC regulators impose almost no enforcement actions and rely on the radiation industry to churn out tainted studies and to voluntarily "comply" with obsolete and non-protective emissions and exposure “guidelines.”
Parallel Nine:
♦ Asbestos-related diseases have been ignored by the U.S. government and little federal money has been spent on prevention and treatment of asbestos illnesses. There are few medical experts fully-qualified to identify and recognize asbestos diseases. It is certain that thousands of asbestos-induced deaths each year are not properly certified as such.
♦ Microwave-related diseases have been virtually ignored by the U.S. government and no federal money has been spent on the prevention and treatment of microwave sensitivity and microwave-induced illnesses. There are currently few medical experts qualified to identify and recognize microwave and millimeter wave induced conditions. Many, if not most wireless radiation cancers and deaths across the nation will never be properly certified as resulting from RF/microwave exposure.
Parallel Ten:
♦ By 1932, many insurance companies had opted out of insuring most asbestos workers.
♦ Today, insurance companies opt out of insuring against product liability on wireless devices and no insurance company insures against illness or death from exposure to wireless technologies.
Parallel Eleven:
♦
Asbestos levels found by independent labs in the 9-11 dust inundating Manhattan was comparable to those found in Libby after years of
mining pollution. [29] EPA head Christine Whitman ordered EPA
headquarters to be decontaminated, then falsely assured citizens of
Manhattan that the pollution levels in the general environment were
“safe.” [30]
♦ Despite
massive scientific and medical evidence to the contrary, FCC and FDA
and federal health agencies still falsely assert that there is “no
evidence” of a public health hazard from wireless devices and
environmental transmitters irradiating at power densities within the
deadly, thermal-based emissions and exposure guidelines condoned by the
FCC.
Parallel Twelve:
♦ After
many years of struggle and defeat in the legal arena, asbestos victims
began to prevail in litigation against asbestos companies on grounds
that the industry KNEW but FAILED TO WARN.
However, to this day asbestos victims as a whole have never been
adequately compensated for their illnesses and death by the asbestos
corporate megalith. The industry has managed to protect itself from
paying adequate compensation through a variety of legal machinations and
avoidance strategies, including bankruptcy filings and under-funded
liability trusts.
♦ If
and when wireless radiation victims ever begin to win tort cases
against the wireless corporate megalith on grounds that the industry KNEW but FAILED TO WARN,
Wi-victims will predictably never be fully compensated for their
suffering and loss because the industry will likely find numerous ways
to avoid adequate compensation.
What Additional Lessons Can the Sane Among Us Learn?
In 1989, the EPA attempted to ban most asbestos-containing products under the Toxic Substances Control Act. But in 1991, the George Bush Sr. administration
obstructed this ban [31] and that same year the EPA's rule to ban was remanded by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Still today, Congress is unable to take reasonable action on urgent asbestos issues because Capitol Hill is an auction house and the highest bidders are invariably the most egregious corporate polluters. Therefore, asbestos is still a legal additive found in thousands of consumer products sold across the US. None of these products contain a warning label: "...The number of household products containing asbestos, including washing machines, dishwashers, toasters, floors and ceiling tiles--as well as textile products such as clothing, thread, yarn and string--is increasing each year. At the same time, millions of pounds of asbestos are being used annually in the construction of new homes and buildings in the United States. Far from being a problem of the past, asbestos is still legal and still killing us." [32]
America’s military-industrial complex has unleashed both the asbestos and the wireless radiation disasters for its own convenience and profit. It protects these and other genocidal corporate interests through subjugated congressional and judicial systems. History advises that every person is required to EDUCATE AND PROTECT HIMSELF, or risk the consequences of disability, pain and premature death from state-sanctioned environmental toxins. Wi-addicts who rely on authorities to "protect" them will, like millions of asbestos victims, eventually "drop off the radar" while no one notices that they are gone. Most tragically, millions of children, the elderly and the impaired, those who cannot easily inform themselves, are left dangling in the wind.
After
Libby mine workers and their families finally became apprised of their asbestos exposure in
1979, many continued to work in the mine until it was closed by the EPA
in 1990. These workers used the rationale that jobs were hard to come
by. Nowadays, even after
wireless device users and Wi-Fi workers are apprised of the dangers of their exposures, many
continue to Wi-abuse their bodies while nurturing
rationalizations such as: "I need my job" or "Everyone has to die
sometime."
Often, only when the expense and pain of dying from toxic exposure becomes unbearable, do victims finally get the message. After the May 2009 federal trial in which W.R. Grace executives escaped punishment for the suffering and deaths of thousands, "....Mike Crill, a former Libby miner sickened by
exposure to the asbestos dust, remained outside the Russell Smith
federal courthouse crying loudly. 'What did they die for? What am I
dying for?' Crill sobbed. 'They are guilty of killing us.' " [33]
Wi-victims by the millions would certainly feel the same despair if they had the wherewithal to understand that their suffering is due to microwave exposures for which they will never be compensated. Ironically, it was only five months after the unjust and jaundiced Grace trial that the federal court of appeals in Washington D.C. slammed the door on wireless phone victims who might seek compensation for disease-causing wireless phones sold after 1996! [34]
Crill's haunting message was echoed in 2012 by attorney Jimmy Gonzalez, who stood before his city commissioners in Florida's Pembrook Pines in order to testify that wireless radiation yields a sickly life and early death. Gonzales told the commissioners: "I, for one, happen to know that cell phones DO cause cancer." Gonzalez told the commissioners that he had stage four glioma brain cancer due to many hours of cell phone use during the years 2001 to 2011. When not talking on the phone, he carried it inside a breast pocket of his suit. He subsequently developed another tumor in the area of his aortic bifurcation near the site of his phone pocket. [35] Gonzalez, who worked valiantly to save other lives by sharing his story, died in late 2014 at the age of 42. Millions of workers and college students, most of whom are never separated from their mobile devices, and who never escape the horrors of Wi-Fi, should listen to Jimmy's informative and impassioned message RIGHT HERE.
The federal government has strategically set current RF/microwave radiation exposure standards to prevent thermal effects among the general public, that is, effects which cause immediate and acute symptoms such as burned skin and internal organ damage. Burned skin and acute organ damage from cell tower antennas would make the bio-effects of Wi-radiation quickly obvious to all. But bodies piled in the street is not the way this dirty game is played. By chronically dosing the population non-thermally, erosion of the public health is deceivingly gradual. Because everyone is genetically different and because every lifetime of Wi-exposure is unique, the masses can be furtively induced to slowly disintegrate into weakness, low fertility, low immunity, then spiral down into the grave, each Wi-victim in his own way, each in his own time.
Michael Bowker's warning about the lessons of asbestos should resonate in the minds of all Americans who are now continually irradiated by myriad sources of Wi-pollution, while their government and the Wi-industry remain determined to conceal the inevitable and devastating bio-effects: "....Illness from asbestos exposure usually take from ten to fifty years to manifest itself in serious symptoms. Had workers and consumers suffered symptoms immediately after exposure, concealment would not have been possible. But they couldn't see, taste or touch the fibers they breathed in, nor could they feel the tiny spears penetrating the soft tissue of the lungs....This prolonged time lag from exposure to symptoms enabled the asbestos industry to continue to deny that asbestos was harmful." [36]
Gloria Vogel, adjunct professor at NYU, wrote in 2017: "Imagine an enterprise sector that utilizes a known human hazard and knowingly turns a blind eye to the health and safety of third party workers. Yet this is exactly the situation surrounding radiofrequency (RF) radiation within the wireless industry. Wireless carriers have long hidden behind the veil of federal compliance to avoid implementing a meaningful RF safety solution. To date, the wireless industry has remained relatively unscathed financially from injuries related to RF radiation. This is largely due to the medical community's ignorance of the effects of RF injuries, either cognitive or physical." [37]
Among the most highly regarded radiation experts a generation ago was Dr. Milton Zaret, who conducted RF/microwave research for the US government, including the military. Among his greatest contributions was research on microwave-induced cataracts. In 1973, Dr. Zaret advised a Senate committee that public exposure to the non-ionizing portion of the electromagnetic spectrum is a "clear, present and ever-increasing danger." He explained: "The dangers cannot be overstated, because most non-ionizing radiational injuries occur covertly, usually do not become manifest until after latent periods of years and when they do become manifest, the effects are seldom realized." [38]
Gloria Vogel reaffirms this warning today: "If experts in the medical community have no understanding of RF radiation, how can a worker realize they have been injured when RF radiation is invisible, odorless, tasteless? Workers [and all other people] have no way of connecting their overexposure incident with the manifestation of symptoms which may not arise immediately." [39]
AND SO, THE QUESTION REMAINS:
HOW MANY WI-VICTIMS
WILL LIVE PAINFULLY, DIE EARLY AND MISERABLY
BECAUSE THEY WERE USED AND DECEIVED
JUST LIKE PEARLY VATLAND?
Asbestos: Still Killing Americans Today
Two historically-important books documenting the perfidious cover-up of
America's asbestos and Wi-radiation scandals are these classics:
Fatal Deception: The Terrifying True Story of How Asbestos is Killing America
Michael Bowker, Simon and Schuster (2003)
Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age
Dr. George Carlo and Martin Schram, Carroll and Graf Publishers (2001)