By Patricia Burke On Feb. 8, Politico reported: THEY SAY IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY: HAPPY 25TH, TELECOM ACT! — Today marks 25 years since President Bill Clinton signed into law the 1996 Telecommunications Act, aimed at expanding competition in the telecom space. Watch for a celebratory…
By Patricia Burke Part 1 of a Commentary on Paradigm Shifts in Telecommunications, Environmental Pollutants, Ecosystems, Human Health, Health Care Delivery, and the Human Capacity for Consciousness, Against the Backdrop of the Concurrent Challenges of Covid-19 and Microwave Poisoning *Words with multiple layers of meaning,…
By Patricia Burke Let’s say that a television show wants to explore the covid epidemic. But for a “representative” patient, the show features an individual who was a cocaine addict, who smokes, and who may or may not have some long-standing undiagnosed mental health issues,…
By Patricia Burke INTRODUCTION: Havana Syndrome “Havana Syndrome” is the term coined to describe unusual injuries and harm experienced by diplomatic personnel from the U.S. and Canada working overseas, initially reported to be occurring in Cuba. In December of 2020, the “Consensus Study Report: An…
By Patricia Burke The story goes like this: A mother tells her child, “I cut off the ends of the pot roast because that’s what my mother did.” But the great grandmother eventually clarifies, “When I was first married we had a very small roasting…
By Patricia Burke A recent post from Australians for Safe Technology asks: Did you know that children have thinner brains than adults? Did you know that children’s brains have a higher water content than adults? Is should be no surprise then that children absorb significantly…
By Olle Johansson The drive by tech giants to develop artificial intelligence envisages every facet of our lives dominated by 5G networks. The media paints it as the technology of the future but 5G is invading the public domain without public oversight. By Olle Johansson, associate professor, retired…
By Patricia Burke “There are times when this house feels like it is hooked up to a high powered electric fence.” “And so does my brain, especially in the middle of the night when I should be sleeping.” In August and early September, 2020, Massachusetts…
By Patricia Burke Massachusetts Led Nation with Caution and Human Rights Protection, and Should Continue to Do So E-waste rates skyrocketed across the planet in 2019. (See: Electronic waste grew 21 percent in five years https://www.theverge.com/21309776/record-amount-ewaste-2019-global-report-environment-health) Because Massachusetts was one of the few states that…
By Ali Le Vere and Sayer Ji Novel research reveals that blocking exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) produces significant symptom changes in 90% of patients with autoimmune disease. No longer can it be ignored that manmade electromagnetic radiation poses innumerable risks to human health. The…
By Patricia Burke The airwaves are filled with advertisements about the new, faster, 5G network now blanketing the country. Increasingly, the airwaves are also being filled with man-made artificial radio frequencies that have not been tested for safety. As different carriers promote the coverage and…
By Patricia Burke As concerned organizations and individuals attempt to plead with the fox guarding the hen house in the United States about the issue of safety and wireless technologies, including 5G, it is difficult to imagine a different outcome than what happened the last…
By Patricia Burke Let’s say that you read the mainstream news back during the tobacco years, not noticing that the magazines are full of tobacco ads and pro-tobacco writings. And you kept smoking… Let’s say that now, readers relying on the mainstream press are most…
By Patricia Burke Now Casting! For the hybrid fantasy romance survival action series “Planet of the Shark Tank Survivor Bachelorette!” The search is on…. for eligible men who are looking for true love! With one gorgeous, perfect planet! Do you have the charm, style, class…
By Patricia Burke For information on how to submit your own comments, please visit Physicians for Safe Technology here. I am requesting independent, non-industry affiliated, pre-market health, environmental, and safety research regarding 5G technology. I oppose any further deployment of new wireless telecommunications infrastructure, until…
By Peter Tocci Introduction In effect, “5G” (per se) opposition gives us this barrage of logic: “We know 2G-4G can kill almost all living things, so we must stop 5G, or we’ll be more dead.” The subject has been covered elsewhere and at length, so…
By Patricia Burke “The future depends on what we do in the present.” – Gandhi Back in late December of 2013, while many Massachusetts residents were focused on the holiday season, the Dept. of Public Utilities published its order 12-76: D.P.U. 12-76-A December 23, 2013,…
Op-Ed by Patricia Burke National and international news outlets have been reporting that celltower fires in Europe and elsewhere have been started by conspiracy theorists linking the new 5G telecommunications network to the covid pandemic. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-5g-fires-quebec-1.5560570 https://business.financialpost.com/technology/how-europe-got-caught-up-in-crackpot-5g-coronavirus-conspiracy-theories https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-dangerous-coronavirus-conspiracy-theories-targeting-5g-technology-bill-gates-and-a-world-of-fear https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/4/24/21231085/coronavirus-5g-conspiracy-theory-covid-facebook-youtube https://thehill.com/policy/technology/493927-arsonists-falsely-linking-5g-to-coronavirus-burn-cell-towers-in-europe https://www.businessinsider.com/77-phone-masts-fire-coronavirus-5g-conspiracy-theory-2020-5“ https://www.businessinsider.com/why-people-believe-conspiracy-theories-about-the-coronavirus-pandemic-2020-4 https://www.denverpost.com/2020/04/26/5g-conspiracy-theories-coronavirus-link/ https://www.cnet.com/health/5g-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-sees-77-mobile-towers-burned-report-says/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/amid-5g-mast-arson-and-coronavirus-conspiracy-theories-social-media-walks-a-fine-line/…
By Patricia Burke Dearest John, I was so sorry to read that you got caught up in a Twitter storm when you mentioned a little something about the wireless industry’s plans for the next generation of connectivity. You dared to be great. We won’t mention…
Op-Ed by Patricia Burke Years after the fact, the truth of unethical experimentation on American citizens during the 1900s came to light … for example, the Tuskegee Syphilis trials. Poor black men were told that they were being treated for the disease, but in fact,…
