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About Author Yuri Grigoriev
Grigoriev was a towering figure in the world of radiation health.
One of his first assignments was at the Institute of Biophysics in Moscow, investigating the effects of ionizing radiation in medical applications (for instance, in radiotherapy). A later project was on how to protect cosmonauts from the high-energy cosmic rays encountered in space travel. Grigoriev’s expertise on ionizing radiation would later take him to Chernobyl a few weeks after the reactor meltdown in 1986 to help care for the workers. “We landed in Kiev, got into a helicopter and flew to hell, in the truest sense of the word,” he later recalled.
Grigoriev’s segue from the ionizing to the non-ionizing side of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum happened by chance. In the 1950s, he was a member of a research group studying the effects of X-rays on the electrical activity in the brains of rabbits. To their surprise, they observed some dramatic changes in the EEGs of the controls —that is, when the X-ray source was turned off. They became convinced that a nearby transformer was responsible and that EMFs could have a “direct action” on the brain. These findings were reported in the Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine in 1960. It was the first of Grigoriev’s many papers on EM radiation. Grigoriev died aged 95, the translation of his book into English was his last project. He fought for the World Health Organization to recognise effects from non-ionising radiation on biology below the point where there are thermal effects and to apply the precautionary principle to chronic exposure, he was extremely worried about the effects on children with their thinner skulls and potentially life time exposures.
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The highly published New Zealand scientist Dr Susan Pockett has written Electrosmog which gives a good overview of this subject in a very readable style.
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Robert C Kane was an engineer for Motorola working as top developer inside Motorola for decades. Kane was directly involved with programs and projects for the design and development of mobile phones. He died of a brain tumor, before he died he wrote this book to warn others. He writes "...each and every time, you pick up a mobile phone you are gambling that 'this time' won't be the time that causes irreparable damage to your brain.
It only takes a seemingly small trauma at a very small location, to result in tissue damage, DNA damage, or chromosone mutations."
"A repeated insult to an particular biological area, such as a small region of the brain, can lead to irreparable damage.
