UC San Diego Medical Professor Opposes “Small Cell” Antenna Bill (Calif. SB 649)
5G Wireless Technology: Is 5G Harmful to Our Health?
Electromagnetic Radiation Safety
Professor Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, published an open letter that explains why she is vigorously opposed to SB 649, a bill in the California legislature that would expedite the deployment of “small cell” antennas to facilitate the roll-out of 5G wireless technology across the state.
Dr. Golomb’s letter begins with the following warning:
“I urge in the strongest terms that you vigorously oppose California SB 649.
If this bill passes, many people will suffer greatly, and needlessly, as a direct result.
This sounds like hyperbole. It is not.
My research group at UC San Diego alone has received hundreds of communications from people who have developed serious health problems from electromagnetic radiation, following introduction of new technologies. Others with whom I am in communication, have independently received hundreds of similar reports.
Most likely these are a tip of an iceberg of tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands of affected person. As each new technology leading to further exposure to electromagnetic radiation is introduced – and particularly introduced in a fashion that prevents vulnerable individuals from avoiding it – a new group become sensitized to health effects. This is particularly true for pulsed signals in the radiowave and microwave portion of the spectrum, the type for which the proposed bill SB 640 will bypass local control.”
In the letter, Dr. Golomb summarizes the research on the effects of exposure to radio frequency radiation and advocates for “safer, wired and well shielded technology – not more wireless.”
Appended to the letter are 360 references to the scientific literature.