LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Do ‘smart meters’ threaten health?
The Page One article in the Sept. 29 print edition of the WBJ on National Grid's “Smart Grid” pilot program in Worcester (Online headline: Technology powers Worcester's Smart Grid pilot) calls out for a different perspective on the utility's “smart meters.”
Smart meters emit WiFi microwave frequencies, which differentiates them from cell phones. All such frequencies adhere to exposure limits set by the Federal Communications Commission. But those limits are figured — cleverly — on a heating standard. Based on that standard, current levels are safe. However, science shows that such low-power signals that cannot heat tissue are a perilous threat.
National Grid's Ed White toes the official line in the article, saying he must “agree to disagree” with those who raise health concerns.
However, according to Olle Johansson, a neuroscience professor at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, there's plenty of data on the health threat in scientific literature. (Click here to see YouTube video.)
But that cautionary information is not reaching politicians and officials.
Further, physicist and former British microwave weapons expert Barrie Trower reveals that industry and government have long been aware of the health risks, because this technology was originally researched internationally as a weapon, not as a medium for telecommunications. (Click here for more of Trower's views in this YouTube video.)
You might think that's a whacked-out conspiracy theory. But those who are old enough may recall that the Soviets were beaming microwaves into the U.S. embassy in Moscow in the 1960s and '70s. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was reportedly aware of it, but withheld that from the embassy staff. Staffers got seriously ill.
The stage is being set for widespread, devastating illness, including DNA damage and issues with endocrine and reproductive systems.
The WBJ article also states that Michael Hirsh, Worcester's acting commissioner of public health, told city councilors that research shows the smart meters are “more benign than a cell phone.”
That's misleading, and insults councilors' intelligence by implying that they forego personal investigation and bow to authority. There is indeed research showing that meters are benign, but it's based on that FCC exposure standard.
Another challenge in exposing this information is that people might not want to hear that their profitable, convenient, fun and addictive wireless toys are eventually going to wrack them with illness.
The truth about the health dangers is all over the Internet.
~ Peter Tocci, Leominster
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