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Written by Miroslava Karaboytcheva,
The fifth generation of telecommunications technologies, 5G, is fundamental to achieving a European gigabit society by 2025.
The aim to cover all urban areas, railways and major roads with uninterrupted fifth generation wireless communication can only be achieved by creating a very dense network of antennas and transmitters. In other words, the number of higher frequency base stations and other devices will increase significantly.
This raises the question as to whether there is a negative impact on human health and environment from higher frequencies and billions of additional connections, which, according to research, will mean constant exposure for the whole population, including children. Whereas researchers generally consider such radio waves not to constitute a threat to the population, research to date has not addressed the constant exposure that 5G would introduce. Accordingly, a section of the scientific community considers that more research on the potential negative biological effects of electromagnetic fields (EMF) and 5G is needed, notably on the incidence of some serious human diseases. A further consideration is the need to bring together researchers from different disciplines, in particular medicine and physics or engineering, to conduct further research into the effects of 5G.
The EU’s current provisions on exposure to wireless signals, the Council Recommendation on the limitation of exposure of the general public to electromagnetic fields (0 Hz to 300 GHz), is now 20 years old, and thus does not take the specific technical characteristics of 5G into account.
Read the complete briefing on ‘Effects of 5G wireless communication on human health‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.
Listen to policy podcast ‘Is 5G wireless communication safe for human health?‘ on YouTube.
Il semble y avoir une erreur dans cette phrase “Plus précisément, sur 58 études conduites sur des rats de laboratoires, 54 montrent des résultats positifs, et sur 4 études conduites sur les êtres humains, 6 étaient positives.”
Six of only four human studies were positive? How does it work?
Thank you!
Indeed, there was an unfortunate mistake done during the translation of this publication. We have now corrected. The sentence, as correctly quoted in other language versions, should read of course: ‘More precisely, in 58 studies of laboratory rats, 54 show positive results, and 4 of 6 studies in humans were positive.’
Thanks for the corrected translation. The author of the said review is the Ukrainian Igor Yakymenko. Only one year after his review, Yakymenko attested a pseudo-scientific protection chip for cell phones (Waveex chip) to have a protective effect (source: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Protective-effects-of-Waveex-chip-against-mobile-on-Yakymenko-Tsybulin/e6dcc99d8fb57384e2ec8dcb3304fee8d4f356c7). I am surprised that such a questionable author was given such prominence in a briefing by the European Parliament’s Research Service. I would have expected stricter standards.
In my opinion, the 5G briefing did not work well, the concerns of scientific outsiders are overrated. Is the author Miroslava Karaboytcheva a single person or is there a group of people behind it?
Why would we want to ignore even a few (is it a few?) voices of caution when it comes to exposing the broad population with new kind of radiation?
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