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Wake-Up Call for EV Industry

“Astonishingly High” Magnetic Fields
Compliance Protocol Ignores Peak Pulses

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Drivers and passengers of electric vehicles are routinely bathed in surprisingly strong electromagnetic pulses, according to the most comprehensive measurement survey ever carried out. These transients, as they are called, are fast bursts of energy which have been implicated in numerous health controversies over the last 40 years, always without resolution.

The new survey, which included close to a million individual measurements in 13 different electric and hybrid car models, showed that peak fields often exceeded the current European reference limits. In special cases, for instance when starting the engine, the fields could be far higher —up to 12 times those limits (measured in a hybrid).

Gernot Schmid, the study team leader at the Seibersdorf Labs in Austria, described the peak fields as “astonishingly high.” Manufacturers could reduce them, he said, if magnetic fields were “taken into account at an early stage of vehicle design.”

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WHO Gets an ‘F’ on RF

ICBE-EMF: Health Reviews Suffer from
Faulty Analysis & ICNIRP Bias

Friday, October 3, 2025

Last updated October 13, 2025

For close to 15 years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been struggling to set out its views on the health effects of RF radiation. It hasn’t been going well, and it just got worse.

A group of scientists and activists at the International Commission on the Biological Effects of EMFs (ICBE-EMF) has issued a public warning: What the WHO has accomplished to date is so flawed that it should scrap what’s been done and start afresh.

This would not be the first time the WHO went back to square one on RF radiation.

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Swimming Against the Current

The Life and Work of Reba Goodman
A Tribute and Remembrance

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

This is a story about what it’s like doing research on electromagnetic fields and public health. About what happens when you serve two masters: science and medicine, on one hand, and business and politics, on the other. It shows what has so often happened to those who follow the data. Those who link the words “EMFs” and “cancer” in the same sentence pay the price. Careers are cut short.

I’ve told many similar stories over the years, but this one is about an old friend who deserved better. It’s a story about Reba Goodman.

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Waiting for “NTP Lite”

Japanese/Korean Project Two Years Late
Unlikely To Resolve NTP Cancer Findings

Monday, June 16, 2025

The Japanese/Korean partial repeat of the U.S. National Toxicology Project’s (NTP) RF–animal cancer study has been hit by delays. The project is two years behind schedule, with results now not expected before the middle of next year.

“We hope we will present our data” next summer at the BioEM 2026 conference in Australia, Professor Katsumi Imaida of Kagawa University, the leader of the Japanese team, told Microwave News via email. The international NTP validation project —nicknamed “NTP Lite”— is in its “final stages,” he wrote.

The project was launched in 2019 to confirm or counter the $30+ million NTP animal study, which showed “clear evidence” that RF radiation can cause cancer in rats.

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WHO Review Finds Cancer Risk
in RF-Exposed Animals

At Odds with ICNIRP, Most Health Agencies

Sunday, April 27, 2025

Last updated May 11, 2025

A major review of animal studies has found reliable evidence that RF radiation increases the risk of cancer.

The new systematic review was commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) EMF office in Geneva as part of its ongoing assessment of RF health effects.

It concludes: “[T]here is evidence that RF EMF exposure increases the incidence of cancer in experimental animals with the [certainty of evidence] being strongest for malignant heart schwannomas and gliomas” (brain tumors).

This finding runs counter to the views of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) and the WHO itself, as well those of most national health agencies.

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ElektrosmogReport Now in English Too

February 9, 2025

Last updated March 28, 2025

One of the longest-running newsletters on the health and environmental impact of electromagnetic fields and radiation —the ElektrosmogReport— is now available in English.

Diagnose:Funk, the publisher, is translating the German-language original and making it available at no charge. Both versions come out quarterly. D:F is a consumer and environmental protection group with offices in Germany and Switzerland.

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NCI ‘Cancer Bioelectricity’ Conference

August 26, 2024

On September 12^th, the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) will host a conference on cancer bioelectricity via Zoom. Attendance is free, but registration is required.

Michael Levin, a professor of biology and biomedical engineering at Tufts University in Massachusetts, will be the keynote speaker.

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Another WHO RF Review Challenged

August 21, 2024

Last updated January 21, 2025

A third RF systematic review commissioned by the World Health Organization’s EMF Project is under fire. This one is on RF–induced oxidative stress.

Last month, two other WHO reviews —on pregnancy outcomes and on tinnitus— were both called into question as critics called for them to be retracted.

A team of 14 from six countries, led by Felix Meyer of the German Office for Radiation Protection (BfS), identified 11,599 studies on oxidative stress in the frequency range 800-2450 MHz. They then eliminated 11,543 of them as not meeting their criteria for inclusion.

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Italy’s 6 V/m RF Limit at Risk

March 14, 2024

The International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (ICBE-EMF) has written to Italian government officials to support the country’s strict 6 V/m RF exposure limit.

The letter, dated March 13, expresses “great concern” that the standard might be weakened. It is signed by Ronald Melnick, the chair of ICBE-EMF, and by Elizabeth Kelley, its managing director.

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“NTP Lite”: Update from Japan

March 12, 2024

The Japanese group running a partial repeat of the NTP RF cancer study has not observed genotoxic effects among male rats exposed to 900 MHz CDMA radiation at 4 W/Kg, according to a paper to be presented tomorrow at the annual meeting of the Society of Toxicology in Salt Lake City, UT (SOT2024).

The analysis of the cancer data is ongoing and will not be reported.

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Schwannoma Puzzle

September 14, 2023

Last updated September 16, 2023

Three medical doctors have published a case report of a 40-year-old Italian man who developed a tumor in his thigh, near where he “habitually” kept his smartphone in a trouser pocket.

The case was published at the end of August in Radiology Case Reports, a peer-reviewed, open access journal.

The tumor, a painless mass, gradually expanded in the man’s left thigh over a period of six months, they wrote.

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A Report on Non-Ionizing Radiation

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“Astonishingly High” Magnetic FieldsCompliance Protocol Ignores Peak Pulses

ICBE-EMF: Health Reviews Suffer from Faulty Analysis & ICNIRP Bias

The Life and Work of Reba GoodmanA Tribute and Remembrance

Japanese/Korean Project Two Years LateUnlikely To Resolve NTP Cancer Findings

At Odds with ICNIRP, Most Health Agencies

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“Astonishingly High” Magnetic Fields
Compliance Protocol Ignores Peak Pulses

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The Life and Work of Reba Goodman
A Tribute and Remembrance

Japanese/Korean Project Two Years Late
Unlikely To Resolve NTP Cancer Findings