The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection: Conflicts of interest , corporate capture and the push for 5G

New Report; The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection: Conflicts of interest , corporate capture and the push for 5G  by Klaus Buchner  and  Michèle Rivasi

EHT notes: The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection is considered an “international authority” on radiofrequency safety and they issue recommendations on safety limits for wireless and electromagnetic fields. However what people do not know is that this organization is a private invite only closed club  of under a dozen scientists.  ICNIRP was started with industry money and many ICNIRP commissioners today have received industry money or work in labs where industry money flows. 

“This report deals with an issue of which the importance cannot be overrated: the possible health effects of Radiofrequency Radiation (RfR) or electro magnetic fields (EMF); It deals more specifically with how the scientific debate has been hijacked by corporate interests from the Telecom industry and conflicts of interest.

After having read the reports of a journalistic collective called Investigate Europe, the many articles from Microwave News as well as all the publications from independent scientists from around the world, who for years have all been ringing alarm bells on adverse health effects from the use of mobile phones and EMF, we decided that we needed to dig deeper into this strange, unknown to the public but powerful scientific NGO based in Germany called the ‘International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection’ (ICNIRP).

The findings of this report (‘The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection: Conflicts of interest and the push for 5G’) give us an uncomfortable déjà-vu: many facts and processes that lead to the actual situation whereby European authorities – from the European Commission to most of the member states – simply close their eyes for real scientific facts and early warnings. We have seen exactly the same scenario in the debate on Tobacco, asbestos, climate change and pesticides.

Also in it’s latest guidelines from March this year, ICNIRP assures the world that there is no scientific evidence of adverse health effects from the radiation that comes with the new communication technologies, within the limits it proposes. But at the same time a growing number of scientists and also citizens are worried that EMFs do cause health problems. ICNIRP pretends to be scientifically neutral, and free from vested interests of the Telecom industry. We show with this study that this is ‘playing with the truth’ or simply a lie.”

Read The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection: Conflicts of interest , corporate capture and the push for 5G  by Klaus Buchner  and  Michèle Rivasi

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Whether those declarations of interests are really checked is something that the Italian ‘Vallisoletana Association of people affected by mobile phone antennas’ (AVAATE) questioned in their public statement from July 2015, attacking ICNIRP: “It is hard to understand whether ICNIRP investigates the Declarations filed by appointed members of the ICNIRP Commission and Scientific Expert Committee, since in some cases these members report that they work or have worked for these organisations but do not specify what they have done or whether they are paid. It is also hard to understand how ICNIRP controls the content of the declarations by the appointed members of their Expert Committees, when in most cases the most contentious aspects of the biographical statement are not reported in these statements.”

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