Now people have some legal protection from unwanted exposure to cigarette smoke, why do we have absolutely none from passive mobile phone and phone mast radiation?
In 2002, a group of European doctors launched a global petition, the Freiberger Appeal. They wrote: "We have observed a dramatic rise in serious diseases." They attribute this the to "installation of mobile telephone sending stations, intensive mobile telephone use and installation of cordless phones at home or in the neighbourhood."
Recently, Robert Kane, an ex- Motorola senior research scientist, wrote: "Recent research indicates that even short-term exposure to radiation from cell phones modifies brainwaves, affects short-term memory and modifies a person's ability to perform physical tasks such as driving.
Gary Kemp
Stanford Avenue,
Brighton
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