Showing posts with label cell phone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cell phone. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

5G Wireless: A Dangerous ‘Experiment on Humanity’



Bravo to RT for doing this important 5G story!
"Is there a catch?"
"There is. Just a small one. It might kill you... This is an experiment on humanity and that this should be called a crime under international law... Science shows that this causes DNA damage, cancer, among other things..."
Dr. Sharon Goldberg:
"Wireless radiation has biological effects. Period. This is no longer a subject for debate when you look at PubMed and the peer-review literature. These effects are seen in all life forms; plants, animals, insects, microbes. In humans we have clear evidence of cancer now. There is no question. We have evidence of DNA damage, cardiomyopathy, which is the precursor of congestive heart failure, neuropsychiatric effects..."

Michele Greenstein:
"There's going to be a cell tower in front of every few houses..."

Dr. David Carpenter:
"There's been no safety testing of 5G.  The reason I think that it's dangerous is that there isn't any specific information to 5G, but we know that radiofrequency radiation of 3G and 4G are associated with a whole variety of different human health effects.  Everyone is going to be exposed to radiofrequency radiation more continuously and at higher intensities, and that's going to cause more human disease."

Michele Greenstein:
"And the fact is the government is completely not jumping on the ball because of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which says that no state or local government can regulate the placement of any cell towers regardless of environmental effects.  That has really laid the groundwork for this toxic infrastructure...  And the FCC, which has no health expertise itself, is completely captured by the wireless industry..."
"You know who hasn't been fooled?  The insurance companies.  They are not selling any product liability policies that cover cell phone radiation..." 

Video description:
"Scientists, environmental groups, doctors and citizens around the world are appealing to all governments to halt telecommunications companies’ deployment of 5G (fifth generation) wireless networks, which they call 'an experiment on humanity and the environment that is defined as a crime under international law.' Research has shown that wireless radiation can cause DNA damage, neuropsychiatric effects and other health problems. RT America’s Michele Greenstein joins Rick Sanchez to discuss."

Sharon Goldberg, MD, 
Integrative & Functional Medicine Physician


Sharon Goldberg is an Integrative/Functional Medicine physician in private practice. Her background includes fifteen years as an academic Hospital Medicine physician and clinician educator who helped train hundreds of medical students and resident physicians. She was an Assistant Professor at New York City’s Mount Sinai Hospital; Albert Einstein College of Medicine and at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Integrative Medicine, and has advanced training in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Gorgas Memorial Institute in Lima, Peru. Her clinical and research interests include dietary, lifestyle and environmental modifications in the setting of complex chronic disease. Dr. Goldberg has clinical expertise in environmental intolerance including Microwave Sickness (Electro-Sensitivity).


David Carpenter, MD
Director, Institute for Health and the Environment
University of Albany, NY

Professor David Carpenter, MD is a world renowned public health expert, including the issue of electromagnetic fields and wireless radiation. He is currently the Director of the Institute for Health and Environment, in the University of Albany, a collaborating center for the World Health Organization. He is also a Professor of Environmental Health Sciences within the School of Public Health at the University at Albany.

Previously, he was Chairman of the Neurobiology Department of Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute at the Defense Nuclear Agency in Washington, DC. He was also the Director of Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research of the New York State Department of Health, the third largest public health laboratory in the US after NIH and CDC.

He holds several research positions including at the National Institutes of Mental Health. Dr. Carpenter’s research initially was basic neurobiology, and more recently has primarily been the study of human disease resulting from exposure to environmental contaminants including non-ionizing radiation.

Dr Carpenter is a Harvard trained physician and researcher. He is author of more than 350 scientific papers; has edited five books; and he is the Editor in Chief of two scientific journals.


Prof. Carpenter’s work on Non-Ionizing radiation started when he arrived in Albany in 1980 as the Director of the Wadsworth Laboratories of the New York State Department of Health, he was given the responsibility of administering a program to determine whether there were adverse human health effects of electromagnetic fields (EMFs), initiated because of concern of hazards from high voltage powerlines. A 5 million dollar research program was begun, and when finished in 1987 the program concluded that while there were effects of EMFs on many organ systems, a particular concern was an increased incidence of leukemia in children living in home with elevated magnetic fields. After that time Dr. Carpenter became for the spokesperson for New York State on issues related to EMFs. He has continued to evaluate research in this area, and has edited two books and written several review articles on the subject. He testified before the President’s Cancer Panel in 2009 on human health effects of both power line and radiofrequency EMFs from a variety of sources, particularly from cell phones. He is the Co-Editor of the Bioinitiative Report (www.bioinitiative.org), published first in 2007 and revised in 2012. This is a comprehensive review of the effects of EMFs.


WeAreTheEvidence.org



Friday, November 9, 2018

FDA ‘Ignoring The Evidence’ on Cellphones & Cancer




"A $25 million study on the effects of cellphone radiation on rats found clear evidence of tumors. But the Food and Drug Administration, which had requested the study in the first place, is casting doubt on its conclusions. RT America’s Dan Cohen has the details."

Dan Cohen then "tweeted":

"The FDA ordered the program studying the effects of cell phone radiation on humans in 1999. It's now under the leadership of industry insider, venture capitalist and former neocon think tank fellow Scott Gottlieb." Physician with drug-industry ties is Trump's FDA pick

"Before Trump appointed Gottlieb to head the FDA, he was a partner at New Enterprise Associates whose portfolio includes multiple wireless companies that would hate for the public to know about the dangers of cell phone radiation." NEA "wireless" search

"While the FDA suppresses science on cell phones causing cancer, it approves powerful opioids that it knows will kill people."

It looks like not only is the FCC a captured agency, but so may be the FDA...

The good news is, we can't fix a problem unless we shine some light on it and know what's happening.



Monday, October 15, 2018

The Nation: How Big Wireless Made Us Think That Cell Phones Are Safe: A Special Investigation


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The disinformation campaign—and massive radiation increase—behind the 5G rollout.


MARCH 29, 2018


Things didn’t end well between George Carlo and Tom Wheeler; the last time the two met face-to-face, Wheeler had security guards escort Carlo off the premises. As president of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA), Wheeler was the wireless industry’s point man in Washington. Carlo was the scientist handpicked by Wheeler to defuse a public-relations crisis that threatened to strangle his infant industry in its crib. This was back in 1993, when there were only six cell-phone subscriptions for every 100 adults in the United States. But industry executives were looking forward to a booming future.

Remarkably, cell phones had been allowed onto the US consumer market a decade earlier without any government safety testing. Now, some customers and industry workers were being diagnosed with cancer. In January 1993, David Reynard sued the NEC America Company, claiming that his wife’s NEC phone caused her lethal brain tumor. After Reynard appeared on national TV, the story went viral. A congressional subcommittee announced an investigation; investors began dumping their cell-phone stocks; and Wheeler and the CTIA swung into action.

A week later, Wheeler announced that his industry would pay for a comprehensive research program. Cell phones were already safe, Wheeler told reporters; the new research would simply “re-validate the findings of the existing studies.”



George Carlo seemed like a good bet to fulfill Wheeler’s mission. He was an epidemiologist who also had a law degree, and he’d conducted studies for other controversial industries. After a study funded by Dow Corning, Carlo had declared that breast implants posed only minimal health risks. With chemical-industry funding, he had concluded that low levels of dioxin, the chemical behind the Agent Orange scandal, were not dangerous. In 1995, Carlo began directing the industry-financed Wireless Technology Research project (WTR), whose eventual budget of $28.5 million made it the best-funded investigation of cell-phone safety to date.

Outside critics soon came to suspect that Carlo would be the front man for an industry whitewash. They cited his dispute with Henry Lai, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington, over a study that Lai had conducted examining whether cell-phone radiation could damage DNA. In 1999, Carlo and the WTR’s general counsel sent a letter to the university’s president urging that Lai be fired for his alleged violation of research protocols. Lai accused the WTR of tampering with his experiment’s results. Both Carlo and Lai deny the other’s accusations.

Critics also attacked what they regarded as the slow pace of WTR research. The WTR was merely “a confidence game” designed to placate the public but stall real research, according to Louis Slesin, editor of the trade publication Microwave News. “By dangling a huge amount of money in front of the cash-starved [scientific] community,” Slesin argued, “Carlo guaranteed silent obedience. Anyone who dared complain risked being cut off from his millions.” Carlo denies the allegation.

Whatever Carlo’s motives might have been, the documented fact is that he and Wheeler would eventually clash bitterly over the WTR’s findings, which Carlo presented to wireless-industry leaders on February 9, 1999. By that date, the WTR had commissioned more than 50 original studies and reviewed many more. Those studies raised “serious questions” about cell-phone safety, Carlo told a closed-door meeting of the CTIA’s board of directors, whose members included the CEOs or top officials of the industry’s 32 leading companies, including Apple, AT&T, and Motorola.

Carlo sent letters to each of the industry’s chieftains on October 7, 1999, reiterating that the WTR’s research had found the following: “The risk of rare neuro-epithelial tumors on the outside of the brain was more than doubled…in cell phone users”; there was an apparent “correlation between brain tumors occurring on the right side of the head and the use of the phone on the right side of the head”; and “the ability of radiation from a phone’s antenna to cause functional genetic damage [was] definitely positive….”

Continue reading HERE.


Saturday, February 17, 2018

"Is A Cell Tower Going Up in Your Neighborhood?"



"If it's not now, it may soon."

“…Julie Watts asks the question you’re not supposed to ask:  Are there legitimate health concerns?"

Why are you not supposed to ask that question?

The Telecom Act of 1996 made it illegal to refuse the installation of telecom equipment for health reasons (radio frequency emissions).  Telecom can, will, and have sued us if we do.

Why do you think it was necessary to include that in the Telecom Act of 1996?

Maybe because cell phones were released with NO pre-market testing, and, after-market testing plus the experience of perhaps thousands of people, show that cell phone use can lead to, or contribute to, cancer, especially cancers where the cell phones are held or carried.

In fact, a highly credentialed cancer researcher recently released a statement definitely linking cell phone radiation to cancer.

However, in the video above, California Assembly Member, Bill Quirk, former NASA scientist, says, “I know scientifically that putting up these… cell towers are safe.”  Later in the interview he admits that he is motivated by votes, (not health or safety).

What we really need is actual human safety testing. 

That is why I propose all the people in government who want to support 5G small cell towers and DAS nodes in public right of ways, to have them installed every 500 feet INSIDE their property first, and get back with us in a generation.


“The bottom line is that caution is often less convenient, 
but it is seldom harmful." *


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Sunday, February 4, 2018

GENERATION ZAPPED is Coming To Michigan!!!







!!! GENERATION ZAPPED !!!

Please attend this premier screening of Generation Zapped in Michigan.  This is a new documentary film about the health risks of wireless technology.  A must-see!!!

Hosted by Environmental Health Trust, Michigan Safe Technology, Analog Meter Choice, and Utility Meter Choice 4 Michigan.


Date:  Sunday, February 11, 2018
Time:  5:00 to 7:00 pm (seating begins at 4:30)
Location:  The Maple Theatre, 
4135 Maple Road, Bloomfield Township, Michigan
Tickets:  $5.00 


Click HERE for the Generation Zapped official trailer.
Click HERE for the Generation Zapped flyer.

The screening will be followed by a Question & Answer discussion with three leading experts in the field of safety and wireless technology:



Theodora Scarato MSW
Executive Director - Environmental Health Trust
From EHTrust.org:  Theodora Scarato directs EHT programs and coordinates scientific programs in the US and internationally with EHTs Senior Science Advisors.  Scarato is lead policy analyst and researcher for the EHT database on international actions– the most comprehensive collection of information on policy actions on cell phones and wireless. She previously worked with EHT as Director of Educational Resources and Public Affairs, developing educational resources for communities and governments.
She has co-founded several organizations both locally and nationally that address environmental health and safety concerns. As a practicing clinical psychotherapist, her two decades of work with children and adolescents includes directing an intensive  special education therapy program in Montgomery County Schools and working a psychotherapist at an ADHD clinic. Her research interests include not only the effects from radiation exposures but also the social emotional effects of technology overuse.

Anthony B. Miller MD, FRCP, FRCP(C), FFPH, FACE
Senior Medical Advisor - Environmental Health Trust
From EHTrust.org:  Physician-epidemiologist Dr. Anthony Miller is currently Professor Emeritus at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.  He has served as Director of the Epidemiology Unit of the National Cancer Institute of Canada, Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, University of Toronto, Senior Epidemiologist, International Agency for Research on Cancer, and Head, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Centre, 2000-03; consultant to the Division of Cancer Prevention, U.S. National Cancer Institute and to the World Health Organization. Read his full Bio here.


Frank Clegg
 Former President of Microsoft Canada and 

How industry has not been forthcoming on the dangers of technology and how there are solutions for safer technology.  VIDEO of Frank Clegg, former Microsoft Canada President, on Canadian AM.  He was longtime President of Microsoft Canada and now CEO of Canadians For Safe Technology (C4ST), a not-for-profit coalition whose mission is to educate and inform about the dangers of technology and promote the use of safe technology. 

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We are fortunate to have these experts in Michigan for this event!  


I hope to see you at the Generation Zapped Michigan premier showing this coming Sunday, February 11th!



Monday, January 23, 2017

Senator Thune & 5G Technology




Letter to Senator Thune in response to Kevin Mottus's request in the above video (at about 5 minutes in):
January 23, 2017 
Dear Senator Thune, 
Topic selected was "Telecommunications and the Internet" because it was the closest to the topic I wish to address, which is the Mobile Now Act, 5G technology, and wireless radiation health effects. 
We know that people are getting brain tumors from cell phones, and neurological effects from other electronic and wireless technology (smart meters, WiFi, cell towers, antenna, etc). 
The Mobile Now Act, which you have introduced, will put 5G technology, high frequency microwave radiation into our environment, and will certainly make even more people sick. 
This high frequency radiation has never been tested for biological effects.  Because it pulses more, and has more waves per second, people will get sicker, faster, with 5G technology. 
Current safety standards are sorely inadequate. 
Here are a few links to critical information concerning health effects from wireless and electronic technology: 
Please do everything to can to assure the safety of the people of America by stopping the Mobile Now Act, stopping the 5G roll-out, stopping the smart meter roll-out, and invoking the Precautionary Principle in regards to all wireless and electronic technology. 
Most Sincerely, 
Jeanine Deal
I encourage YOU to call or write Senator Thune also.  Feel free to use my letter, though it would be better if you stated it in your own words.

Bless us all! 

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Furthermore...


Since the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research, said they would take unlimited comments (until December 12, 2016), I submitted the following written comment after giving my oral comment (here).

The evidence of harm is rather overwhelming.

I pray that 2017 is the year Analog Utility Meter Choice legislation is passed in Michigan, and anywhere else citizens are asking for a choice.


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Ladies and Gentlemen,

This is in addition to my first comment, submitted at the December 5, 2016 call-in Listening Session.

Please invoke the precautionary principle in regards to the proliferation of wireless technology:  Precautionary principle - Wikipedia
"The precautionary principle (or precautionary approach) to risk management states that if an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing harm to the public, or to the environment, in the absence of scientific consensus (that the action or policy is not harmful), the burden of proof that it is not harmful falls on those taking an action that may or may not be a risk."
Harm from wireless and electronic technology is becoming epidemic, as you witnessed on the December 5, 2016 Listening Session call, when 83% of the comments were about this very topic.

We Are The Evidence:  Home 

The numbers of people adversely affected by wireless and electronic technology continues to grow.  There are at least ten electromagnetic-hypersensitivity (EHS) "support groups" on social media (Facebook), populated by people like me, who have become sensitive to, and functionally impaired by, wireless and/or electronic technology.  Many of us became so severely ill that we questioned whether life is worth living.  Some of us take refuge and sleep in our cars, or in the woods, away from wireless and electronic technology.

At least one young woman has already taken her life after WiFi was installed in her school:  Parents of schoolgirl Jenny Fry are campaigning to have WiFi restricted in schools following her death

The "International EMF Scientist Appeal" to His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, has been signed by 223 professionals from 43 different nations. These scientists have collectively published over 2,000 peer-reviewed papers on the biological and health effects of non-thermal electromagnetic radiation, and are calling for "more protective EMF guidelines" in regards to wireless and electronic technology.

Dr. Martin Blank, from the Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics at Columbia University, says, "We are scientists and engineers, and I am here to tell you - we have created something that is harming us, and it is getting out of control! Putting it bluntly, they are damaging the living cells in our bodies and killing many of us prematurely.”  EMFScientist.org 

STUDY - Electromagnetic hypersensitivity - an increasing challenge to the medical profession: Some people exposed to electromagnetic radiation, including the frequencies utilized by the new water meters, develop Electromagnetic hypersensitivity. While some cannot discriminate between an active radio frequency signal and placebo, others showed observable changes following exposure; reactions in the pupil, changes in heart rhythm, damage to red blood cells, and disturbed glucose metabolism in the brain:  Electromagnetic hypersensitivity--an increasing challenge to the medical profession. - PubMed - NCBI 

STUDY - Self-reporting of symptom development from exposure to radiofrequency fields of wireless smart meters in Victoria, Australia: a case series: Shows the most frequently reported symptoms to be insomnia, headaches, tinnitus, fatigue, cognitive disturbances, abnormal sensations, and dizziness, and pointed to the possibility that smart meters may have unique characteristics that lower people's threshold for symptom development:  Self-reporting of symptom development from exposure to radiofrequency fields of wireless smart meters in victoria, australia: a case series. - PubMed - NCBI 

Comments on the Draft Report by the California Council on Science & Technology “Health Impacts of Radio Frequency from Smart Meters,” by Daniel Hirsh, Nuclear Expert & Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz: Showing that smart meters produce between 50 & 160 times more cumulative whole body exposure than the cell phone:  Health Impacts of Radio Frequency from Smart Meters

Adolescents in the U.S. today have grown up with cell phones, and now their number one form of cancer is brain tumors:  Brain tumors now the most frequent form of cancer in U.S. adolescents

“In general, while the possibility of ‘non-thermal’ biological effects may exist, whether or not such effects might indicate a human health hazard is not presently known.” -  That quote is from the FCC Bulletin Questions and Answers about Biological Effects and Potential Hazards of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields:  Questions and Answers About Biological Effects and Potential Hazards of Radio-frequency Electromagnetic Fields

“Not presently known,” means that they (the FCC) really doesn't know.  We have been jumping off the dock into dark water without knowing what was underneath!

Campanelli & Associates, P.C., anti-cell-tower lawyers in  New York   State , pose the question on their web site: Isn’t the FCC protecting us?  Their answer:   “No.  To the contrary, the FCC has employed, and continues to employ its power to assist the wireless industry…”  Isn't the FCC Protecting Us? 

FCC standards have been considered by some local government agencies as a "safety net" when in fact, they are not.

Microwave Electromagnetic Fields Act by Activating Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels: Why the Current International Safety Standards Do Not Predict Biological Hazard:  Microwave Electromagnetic Fields Act by Activating Voltage-Gated Calcium Channels: Why the Current International Safety Standards Do Not Predict Biological Hazard

Report of Partial Findings from the National Toxicology Program Carcinogenesis Studies of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation in Hsd: Sprague Dawley® SD rats (Whole Body Exposures):  Report of Partial Findings from the National Toxicology Program

Reliable disease biomarkers characterizing and identifying electrohypersensitivity and multiple chemical sensitivity as two etiopathogenic aspects of a unique pathological disorder:  Reliable disease biomarkers

The American Academy of Environmental Medicine's view of smart meter microwave radiation and how they OPPOSE smart meters being installed on homes:  "Emissions given off by 'smart meters' have been classified by the World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as a Possible Human Carcinogen. Hence, we call for: (1) An immediate moratorium on 'smart meter' installation until these serious public health issues are resolved.  Continuing with their installation would be extremely irresponsible.  (2) Modify the revised proposed decision to include hearings on health impact in the second proceedings, along with cost evaluation and community wide opt-out.  (3) Provide immediate relief to those requesting it and restore the analog meters."

The American Cancer Society's International Agency for Research on Cancer's view that cell phone radiation is "possibly carcinogenic," (and the radiation from a smart meter is compared to cell phones by the smart meter industry):  IARC Classifies Radiofreqency Electromagnetic Fields as Possibly Carcinogenic to Humans

Wireless Radiation Danger to Babies and Children (video of The Babysafe Press Conference): Wireless Radiation Danger to Babies & Children

The BioInitiative Report:  "...1800 or so new studies report abnormal gene transcription (Section 5); genotoxicity and single-and double-strand DNA damage (Section 6); stress proteins because of the fractal RF-antenna like nature of DNA (Section 7); chromatin condensation and loss of DNA repair capacity in human stem cells (Sections 6 and 15); reduction in free-radical scavengers – particularly melatonin (Sections 5, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17); neurotoxicity in humans and animals (Section 9), carcinogenicity in humans (Sections 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17); serious impacts on human and animal sperm morphology and function (Section 18); effects on offspring behavior (Section 18, 19 and 20); and effects on brain and cranial bone development in the offspring of animals that are exposed to cell phone radiation during pregnancy (Sections 5 and 18). This is only a snapshot of the evidence presented in the BioInitiative 2012 updated report."  Conclusions from the BioInitiative Report 2012

The "Electrosensitive Society" gives a brief history of this "illness":  
The term “radio wave sickness” was first used by Russian doctors to describe an occupational illness developed by large numbers of workers exposed to microwave or radiofrequency radiation. The symptoms were called “neurasthenic.” “Neurasthenia” was an older term for this group of symptoms, which was coined by an American physician, George Beard, in 1868, to describe a new type of illness that followed the building of the railroads and the telegraph system in this country.
The illness was particularly common among telegraph, and later among telephone operators. The term “neurasthenia” fell out of fashion in the twentieth century in North America, when this cluster of symptoms, or a large number of them, began to be referred to as “anxiety” symptoms, presumably of purely psychological origin. Illness by radio waves has been rediscovered, and is now classed with illness caused by electricity in general, under the term “electrical sensitivity.”

Joel M. Moskowitz, Ph.D., Director, Center for Family and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, writes about Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity here:  

Microwave syndrome or electro-hypersensitivity - historical background:   The microwave syndrome or electro-hypersensitivity: historical background. - PubMed - NCBI

Please invoke the precautionary principle in regards to wireless and electronic technology.  Please help protect those of us who already feel the adverse health affects from wireless and electronic technology.  Please help protect our children and future generations.

Most Sincerely,

Jeanine S. Deal



Friday, December 30, 2016

Devil in the Details


When public utility companies tell us their new electronic meters (smart, advanced, digital, AMR, AMI, AMR ERT, to name a few NON-analog meters) only transmit for a very short period of time per day/week/month/year, you gotta look at the details.

Recently I answered a question about a new electronic gas meter that "only turns on for a fraction of a second per day," per the utility company.

This was my response (names have been changed to protect the innocent):

Hi Brandon 
Under "signal duration" they compare "a fraction of second per day" for the gas advanced meters, to "less than one minute per day" for the electric smart meters. 
We know that the electric smart meter's transmissions are made up of numerous micro-bursts of radiation throughout the day, which added together, total "less than one minute" per day.  
Is it the same for (the) advanced gas meter?  Is the "fraction of a second" transmission they mention, one continuous (uninterrupted) pulse?  Or (more likely) is that fraction of a second made up of more than one pulse?   
There are 1000 milliseconds in one second.  So their advanced gas meters could be pulsing 999 times per day (at the most), in millisecond bursts, to make up the "fraction of a second" signal duration.  This is something I would press them to answer. 
FYI, our new gas meters, called AMR ERT, pulse in 5.86 millisecond burst, over 15,000 times per day, to make up their 1.5 minutes per day of transmissions.  I did the math here:  Utility Companies, Lies, Deceptions, Cover-Ups & Fires
Numerous mini-pulses or micro-bursts of radiation, 24/7, is what many experts say is so damaging to the body.  They nearly killed me.  Our dogs were adversely affected also, until we wrapped the meters in lead, because there's no "opt-out". 
There are no studies that show smart or advanced meters are 100% safe, while evidence of harm continues to mount. 
Also, the FCC is not a health regulatory agency, and their exposure limits are being contested.  Cell phones are voluntary, and can be turned off.  Smart and advanced meters expose us to unnecessary radiation.  They also operate at the same frequency as cell phones, and the safety of cell phones is questionable:  Cell Phones 
All the best,
Jeanine Deal

"Radiofrequency Radiation Is Dangerous - It Could Kill You"

  Until about six year ago I had no idea there was a need for “safer technology.”  I’d been using computers ever since the 1970’s, though I ...