USA: WiFi en kinderen op school

Een belangwekkende brief van Prof. Herbert van Harvard Medical school aan het Los Angeles Unified School District over de gevaren van WiFi op school. Prof Herbert is schrijfster van een hoofdstuk in het 2012 BioInitiative Report.

pdf/Harvard-Herbert-2013.pdf .

HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
Martha R. Herbert, Ph.D., M.D.
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Neurology
Director, TRANSCEND Research Program
www.transcendresearch.org
transcend@partners.org

MASSACHUSETTS
GENERAL HOSPITAL
Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
149 13th Street, Room 10.018
Boston, Massachusetts 02129
Phone: (617) 724-5920
Fax: (617) 812-6334
mherbert1@partners.org

TO: Los Angeles Unified School District
FROM: Martha R Herbert, PhD, MD
RE: Wireless vs. Wired in Classrooms
DATE: February 8, 2013

I am a pediatric neurologist and neuroscientist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and on staff at
the Massachusetts General Hospital. I am Board Certified in Neurology with Special Competency in
Child Neurology, and Subspecialty Certification in Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

I have an extensive history of research and clinical practice in neurodevelopmental disorders,
particularly autism spectrum disorders. I have published papers in brain imaging research, in
physiological abnormalities in autism spectrum disorders, and in environmental influences on
ndurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and on brain development and function.

I recently accepted an invitation to review literature pertinent to a potential link between Autism
Spectrum Disorders and Electromagnetic Frequencies (EMF) and Radiofrequency Radiation (RFR). I set
out to write a paper of modest length, but found much more literature than I had anticipated to review.
I ended up producing a 60 page single spaced paper with over 550 citations. It is available at
www.bioinitiative.org/report/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/sec20_2012_Findings_in_Autism.pdf .

In fact, there are thousands of papers that have accumulated over decades – and are now accumulating
at an accelerating pace, as our ability to measure impacts become more sensitive – that document
adverse health and neurological impacts of EMF/RFR. Children are more vulnerable than adults, and
children with chronic illnesses and/or neurodevelopmental disabilities are even more vulnerable.
Elderly or chronically ill adults are more vulnerable than healthy adults.

Current te chnologies were designed and promulgated without taking account of biological impacts
other than thermal impacts. We now know that there are a large array of impacts that have nothing to
do with the heating of tissue. The claim from wifi proponents that the only concern is thermal impacts
is now definitively outdated scientifically.

EMF/RFR from wifi and cell towers can exert a disorganizing effect on the ability to learn and remember,
and can also be destabilizing to immune and metabolic function. This will make it harder for some children to learn, particularly those who are already having problems in the first place.

Powerful industrial entities have a vested interest in leading the public to believe that EMF/RFR, which we cannot see, taste or touch, is harmless, but this is not true. Please do the right and precautionary thing for our children.

I urge you to step back from your intention to go wifi in the LAUSD, and instead opt for wired technologies, particularly for those subpopulations that are most sensitive. It will be easier for you to make a healthier decision now than to undo a misguided decision later.

Thank you.

Martha Herbert, PhD, MD

zie ook: Artikelen/7221/autisme_en_mobieltjes .

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