More Bad Research from the 'World Health Organisation'

Guest contributor and expert on Electromagnetic Pollution and its health effects, EMR Australia founder Lyn McLean, provides another authoritative commentary on dodgy research aiming to falsely convince the public that the currently allowable levels of electromagnetic frequencies (EMF) and radio frequencies (RF) aren't at all harmful to human biology (including, of course, our children).

(By Lyn McLean, Founder, EMR Australia)

Just when evidence that radio frequency radiation causes oxidative stress (which harms the body) has become compelling, the WHO produces a study casting doubt on that evidence.

How did it do that?

By ignoring 99% of the relevant research.

The study was commissioned and partly funded by the World Health Organisation and conducted by Felix Meyer.

It concluded that  ‘The evidence on the relation between the exposure to RF-EMF and biomarkers of oxidative stress was of very low certainty.’  ¹

Scientists Calling Foul on the WHO; Want Study Retracted

However, scientists are calling for the study to be retracted because it ignored such a large percentage of the relevant research and it did not adequately consider the "dynamic nature" of oxidative stress.²

There is now a large body of evidence showing that radio frequency radiation causes oxidative stress, which occurs in cancer, diabetes, congenital malformations and neuro-degenerative diseases. It’s also linked with the hardening of blood vessels, inflammation, high blood pressure, heart disease and ageing.

Just last week, EMR Australia reported evidence that electromagnetic pollution causes oxidative stress and ROS (Reactive Oxygen Species), whose toxic bi-products may cause an auto-immune reaction. This, the authors say, could explain the symptoms of people who develop symptoms from exposure.³

Meyer’s study is the third of three systematic reviews produced by the WHO that experts claim should be retracted.

1.  Felix Meyer, Annette Bitsch, Henry Jay Forman, Athanassios Fragoulis, Pietro Ghezzi, Bernd Henschenmacher, Rupert Kellner, Jens Kuhne, Tonia Ludwig, Dmitrij Sachno, Gernot Schmid, Katya Tsaioun, Jos Verbeek, Robert Wright, ‘The effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure on biomarkers of oxidative stress in vivo and in vitro:
A systematic review of experimental studies,’Environment International, 2024, 108940, ISSN 0160-4120.

2. Dr Louis Slesin, ‘Another WHO RF Review Challenged’, Microwave News, 21.8.24. 

3.  Mobile phone specific radiation disturbs cytokinesis and causes cell death but not acute chromosomal damage in buccal cells: Results of a controlled human intervention stud, Kundi, Michael, Nersesyan, Armen, Schmid, Gernot, Hutter, Hans-Peter, Eibensteiner, Florian, Mišík, Miroslav, Knasmüller, Siegfried, Environmental Research, Vol 251, pt 1, June 2024, 118634, 0013-9351. – see https://emraustralia.com.au/blogs/news-1/new-findings-on-mobile-phones-and-brain-tumours?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=more_bad_research_from_the_who&utm_term=2024-09-07.