who enlightened us that it radiates Electromagnetic waves and that we should know this before allowing a telecommunication mast to be installed on our property? both of you guys are contradicting each other.... Wetin concern me self? make I go dey my tomtom and bread this morning.

Hmmm

Bsc:
In one of our training sessions,my mentor collected a Nokia torch hand set with fully charged battery. He brought a fresh egg. Then he puts the egg and the handset together and place them into a polythene bag. He tied the bag and told us to call the phone number..... Calling....calling.. ..busy.. busy.
When the battery is drained down, he gave the phone to the owner and cracked the egg.
Behold the egg was cooked!!.. done!!!. We were surprised and asked for the explanation. He told us that every handset emits electromagnetic rays. That it was the rays that was responsible for cooking of that egg. He also said that for device to be named " hand set " by international bodies is not by accident.
He said that it is never a pocket set. He went on to say that males (men) have egg resemblance in between their legs...scrotum. He admonished men to stop putting their hand set in their pockets, but to hold on hand. If you continue to put set in your pocket, the radiation from it will denature your spermatozoa and cook your scrotum . That is why our men will marry 2 to 3 years no Issues. They begin to blame their wife. They will visit men of God for fasting and prayers. God will answer them and reverse the condition, but coming out of the church, they put back the handset in their pockets and continued to denature their sperm and cook their scrotum again.
Before a communication mast is mounted in your property, you will be paid between 10 to 20 million naira as long as you sign a document the network provider gives you. People don't even read the document. Only sign and collect the pay. The document reads in part within the middle ( we are giving you this money to buy land in another place and relocate, because what we are about to mount here is dangerous to your health ) . If you continue to stay there in about 10 to 15 years period, you and others living there will be suffering from one cancer case to the other.

Please guys, don't be putting handset in your pockets. Inform your friends and relatives about the dangers. Ladies inform your brothers, male friends and relatives the same.

By putting sets in your pocket or inside bra Can cause prostrate and breast cancer respectively.

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to discuss a little on one of the burning health issues. Copied as received by a whatsapp user.

Do not share unverified nonsense. Phones do not cook eggs

Bsc:
In one of our training sessions,my mentor collected a Nokia torch hand set with fully charged battery. He brought a fresh egg. Then he puts the egg and the handset together and place them into a polythene bag. He tied the bag and told us to call the phone number..... Calling....calling.. ..busy.. busy.
When the battery is drained down, he gave the phone to the owner and cracked the egg.
Behold the egg was cooked!!.. done!!!. We were surprised and asked for the explanation. He told us that every handset emits electromagnetic rays. That it was the rays that was responsible for cooking of that egg. He also said that for device to be named " hand set " by international bodies is not by accident.
He said that it is never a pocket set. He went on to say that males (men) have egg resemblance in between their legs...scrotum. He admonished men to stop putting their hand set in their pockets, but to hold on hand. If you continue to put set in your pocket, the radiation from it will denature your spermatozoa and cook your scrotum . That is why our men will marry 2 to 3 years no Issues. They begin to blame their wife. They will visit men of God for fasting and prayers. God will answer them and reverse the condition, but coming out of the church, they put back the handset in their pockets and continued to denature their sperm and cook their scrotum again.
Before a communication mast is mounted in your property, you will be paid between 10 to 20 million naira as long as you sign a document the network provider gives you. People don't even read the document. Only sign and collect the pay. The document reads in part within the middle ( we are giving you this money to buy land in another place and relocate, because what we are about to mount here is dangerous to your health ) . If you continue to stay there in about 10 to 15 years period, you and others living there will be suffering from one cancer case to the other.

Please guys, don't be putting handset in your pockets. Inform your friends and relatives about the dangers. Ladies inform your brothers, male friends and relatives the same.

By putting sets in your pocket or inside bra Can cause prostrate and breast cancer respectively.

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to discuss a little on one of the burning health issues. Copied as received by a whatsapp user.

Wow!!!

Thanks OP for this, I never believed any of the crap the other guy posted in the other thread. boiled an egg with Nokia torch, how stupid.

What about Nokia torchlight that was used in other (room) thread to cook raw egg and is been use as yardstick to your third legs functionality....this article is genuine compared to formal trash.

hmmm

BADNEAT:
[/b]Do mobiles affect brain function?[b]

The MTHR's set of volunteer studies of brain function is one of the largest carried out anywhere. The studies found exposure to radio frequency fields generated by mobile phones had no detectable effect on brain function. They looked at factors such as memory and response times, and found no changes.

[/b]Do mobile phones and mobile phone masts cause unpleasant symptoms?[b]

The MTHR's research found no evidence that radiofrequency radiation from mobile phones or masts causes unpleasant symptoms. Its research programme included some of the largest and most robust studies of this question.
The MTHR recognised specific concerns about TETRA radios and base stations used by emergency services, but the report released in 2014 said there's currently no evidence of specific adverse effects related to exposure to TETRA signals.

[/b]Are there biological reasons to believe mobile phones might be harmful?[b]

The Stewart Report noted that a small number of experiments suggested radio waves from mobile phones could cause biological effects in cells and animals. The MTHR commissioned careful studies of two possible cellular effects identified in the Stewart Report: stress protein production and calcium signalling.
Stress proteins are produced when cells experience an increase in temperature. Previous research suggested these proteins were produced in nematode worms when exposed to mobile phone emissions thought to be too weak to result in significant temperature rises.
However, the studies supported by the MTHR showed the stress proteins were in fact produced as a result of a slight temperature rise (around 0.2C) caused by radio wave exposure. Since this was already a well documented effect and considered harmless, the MTHR didn't propose further research in this area.
Calcium signals – produced by mammalian cells – are important in controlling various functions of the cells. Research published in 2010 found no evidence that exposure to radio waves had any effect on these signals.

[/b]Are mobile phone masts dangerous?[b]

Levels of exposure to radio wave radiation from mobile phone masts (base stations) are generally much lower than from mobile phones and are well below international guidelines.
Audits of the amount of radiation produced by base stations in the UK found the radiation produced is generally less than 0.005% of the guideline values.

[/b]What's currently considered the biggest risk associated with using mobile phones?[b]

The MTHR reports stated that the biggest known threat mobile phones pose to health is from their use when driving, as using them at the wheel impairs driving performance and increases the risk of accidents.
There's no statistical evidence that mobiles are more of a distraction than a conversation with a passenger, but passengers are normally aware of traffic conditions and are therefore likely to stop talking in potentially dangerous situations.

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Mobile-phone-safety/Pages/QA.aspx

Just like the High fructose corn syrup a.k.a. Low Sugar lies being peddled by the Food and Beverage Industry for decades.

Vandalise any mast near you at your own risk. Na for 24 years imprisonment if they catch you.

Nigerians and fear fear.

tosyne2much:
Nice counter

Not really a counter. The other thread was found null and void a few minutes later and got hidden from public view.
This is more of a fresh standalone topic on the matter.

Everything in this post is very true to my limited knowledge on the subject. It is also confirmed a minority of people experience sensitivity to radio waves. Documentaries exist on the condition and are free to watch and download online.
It still saddens me unresearched information can hit the frontpage freely without crosschecks from at least four moderators. The thread which prompted this rebuttal was an obvious lie and took more than four counter-arguments to face deletion. Sad.

charix:

Not really a counter. The other thread was found null and void a few minutes later and got hidden from public view.
This is more of a fresh standalone topic on the matter.

I didnt know it was later taken down from public view

tosyne2much:
I didnt know it was later taken down from public view

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[quote author=BADNEAT post=50479193][/quote]

Why these misinformation and lies?

All because of daily bread?

What's your qualification by the way?

Maybe we should hear from an expert:

How Exposure to Base-Station Radiation Can Adversely Affect Humans
February 2002
by G. J. Hyland
Department of Physics International Institute of Biophysics
University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
and International Institute of Biophysics
Neuss-Holzheim, Germany

The claim made by the Mobile Phone Industry that the microwave emissions from the antennae of a GSM or TETRA Base-station are many times lower (by at least a factor of 1000) than the limit to which the UK Government’s Statutory Body – the National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) – maintains it is safe for us to be exposed to, is perfectly true.

The current exposure limits, set by the International Commission for Non-ionising Radiation Protection (ICNIRP), are, however, purely thermally based - i.e. they simply limit the intensity of the radiation to ensure that the amount of tissue heating by the absorption of microwaves is not in excess of what the body can cope with. If heating were the only effect of the radiation, existing guidelines would afford adequate protection; unfortunately, however, this is not the case. For microwaves are, after all, waves, and, as such, have properties other than solely intensity. In particular, the pulsed microwave radiation used in the GSM and TETRA systems of mobile telephony has certain rather well defined frequencies, which facilitate its discernment by the alive human organism, and via which the organism can, in turn, be affected in a purely non-thermal way.

This is so because the alive human organism (and only the alive one) itself supports a variety of oscillatory electrical biological activities, each characterised by a specific frequency, some of which happen be close to those used in GSM and TETRA. Thus, the frequencies of the microwaves (particularly the higher ones used in GSM) that carry the voice information by means of appropriate modulations are close to those characterising the highly organised electrical activities that are involved in the control of certain biological processes in living organisms at the cellular level (including processes as fundamental as cell division), whilst the somewhat lower frequencies used in TETRA facilitate deeper penetration of this radiation. On the other hand, the rates at which the microwaves are emitted in distinct groups of flashes (or pulses) are close to the frequencies of some of the brain’s own electrical and electrochemical rhythms, which this makes them particularly vulnerable to interference (or even entrainment) by the radiation. [The basic ‘flash rate’ is 217Hz, but the flashes are emitted in groups of 25 at the rate of 8.34Hz. With increasing call traffic, the 217Hz pulsing gradually disappears, leaving only the ELF pulsation at 8.34Hz, which is in the range of the alpha brain wave activity!] It is to be stressed that unlike heating, such non-thermal influences are possible only when the organism is alive: the Dead have no electrical brain activity with which an external electromagnetic field can interfere!

What the Industry and the various regulatory bodies (such as the NRPB and ICNIRP) dispute is that the very weak, pulsed microwave radiation used in GSM and TETRA can non-thermally affect these various biological (electrical) activities in ways that can provoke adverse health reactions. Their difficulty in accepting this reality is due to an out-dated ‘linear’ mentality, within which forces the conclusion that exposure to weak radiation can entail only correspondingly weak effects, and vice versa. Whilst this is true in the case of inanimate systems and dead organisms, it is certainly not so either for energised electronic equipment, or for living organisms. For the latter, in consequence of their vitality, are themselves electromagnetic instruments of great and exquisite sensitivity, and thereby vulnerable to interference by weak external electromagnetic fields whose frequencies are close to those found in the alive organism. The situation is not dissimilar to the way in which the reception of a (turned-on) radio that is tuned to a particular frequency can be interfered with by a signal that is slightly off-station. In both cases, it is more a question of the ‘information’ content of a given (interfering) signal, rather than how much energy it contains (or equivalently, its ability to heat tissue). Whilst the importance of ensuring non-thermal electromagnetic compatibility between mobile phone radiation and energised electronic equipment (in aircraft and hospitals, and with heart pacemakers, for example) is accepted and generally respected, the same, unfortunately, does not yet obtain in the case of the alive human organism!

Despite persistent claims to the contrary by the Mobile Phone Industry, the existence of non-thermal effects of low intensity, pulsed microwave radiation is established beyond dispute, on the basis of many replicated experiments that have been performed over the last 30 years on a variety of living organisms. The results of these experiments have been published in international, peer reviewed scientific journals, and are endorsed by the 16 signatories (of international standing) to the 1998 Vienna Resolution, the only non-signatory being the head of the WHO Project on Electromagnetic Fields!

Of particular relevance is the way in which this radiation affects brain function – specifically, its electrical activity (EEG), its electro-chemistry, and the blood/ brain barrier - and degrades the immune system. For these established influences are of a kind that are consistent with the nature of adverse health reactions reported both by some users of mobile phones and by some people (involuntarily) subject to long-term exposure to the radiation from Base-stations. For example, the radiation is known to affect the dopamine-opiate system of the brain and to increase the permeability of the blood brain barrier, both of which are medically considered to underlie headache – one of the most persistently reported adverse health effects. Similarly, the duration of REM sleep is shortened by exposure to radio-frequency radiation, whilst nocturnal secretion of melatonin is partly inhibited, both of which are consistent with reports of sleep disruption. Furthermore, the fact that microwave radiation has been discovered to target the hippocampal region of the brain is consistent with reports of memory problems and, in some epileptic children, with an increase in the frequency of seizures. The latter finding is not at all unreasonable, given the known ability of a visible light (such as a stroboscope) flashing at a rate somewhere between 15-20 times per second to provoke seizures in the 5% minority of epileptics who are photosensitive. For visible light and microwaves are both simply different realisations of electromagnetic radiation, and the microwave radiation used in GSM and TETRA similarly ‘flashes’ in a way that the brain is able to recognise, as has already been mentioned; unlike visible light, however, pulsed microwaves can penetrate the skull directly. Of particular concern is that the flash frequency of the TETRA signals is not only within to the range where photoepilepsy can be provoked, but is also very close to the frequency that causes the maximum loss of calcium from brain cells, thereby potentially undermining the integrity of the nervous system.
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It should be noted that although microwave radiation is non-ionising – i.e. does not have enough energy to break chemical bonds, particularly in DNA – exposure can still cause interference with the natural DNA repair process, and produce chromosome aberrations and micronuclei. Such effects are consistent with the finding that exposure to pulsed microwave radiation (at intensities comparable to those realised during use of a mobile phone) promotes the development of cancer in mice that have been genetically engineered to have a predisposition to cancer, and also with the 2-fold increase in the incidence of a rare form of cancer in the periphery of the human brain (where the radiation from the handset most easily penetrates) - the laterality of which correlates with that of handset use - which has been found in a recent nationwide epidemiological study in the US. The relevance of these disturbing findings to the less intense, but often more prolonged, exposure to Base-station radiation is at present unknown, but the increasing number of reports of serious adverse effects in animals exposed to such radiation could well be valuable warning portents that should not be ignored.

It is essential to appreciate, however, that because the possibility of non-thermal influences is dependent on the organism being alive, it necessarily follows that not everyone will be equally susceptible, even under the same exposure conditions - susceptibility depending on the physiological state of the individual when irradiated, such as the stability of the brain’s electrical activity and the person’s level of stress prior to exposure. Whilst this admittedly makes the occurrence of non-thermal effects more difficult to predict than is the case with thermal effects – and hence to regulate against – it does not mean that they can be safely ignored, or that they cannot provoke adverse health reactions in some people, the severity of which will again vary from person to person, according to the robustness of their immune system. It is probably true to say that if the same degree of risk and uncertainty as to subjective noxiousness obtained in the case of a new drug or foodstuff, they would never be licensed. In connection with the biological noxiousness of low intensity microwave radiation, it should not be forgotten that during the ‘Cold War’, such radiation was used (rather successfully) by the Soviets to induce serious adverse health effects in the staff of Western Embassies in Eastern bloc countries, as well as in their children!

Quite apart from their weaker immune systems, children are particularly vulnerable because of the increased rate at which their cells divide (which makes them more susceptible to genetic damage) and their still developing nervous system - the size of their heads and the thinness of their skulls causing them to absorb more radiation than do adults. Particularly vulnerable to interference by the pulses of microwaves, is their electrical brain-wave activity, which does not settle into a stable pattern until about the age of 11 or 12 years. The use of mobile phones by pre-adolescent children is thus to be strongly discouraged, and the siting of Base-station masts in the vicinity of schools and nurseries resisted: financial gain must not be allowed to be the overriding consideration! It must be appreciated that whilst the intensity to which the Public is normally exposed in the vicinity of a Base-station is indeed very much lower than that encountered during use of a mobile phone, the information content of the signals is the same, so that they are equally potentially noxious.

To cite the examples of radio and television transmission in an attempt to support the claim that exposure to the (much less intense) radiation used in mobile telephony is flawed, on account of (i) the occurrence, in any case, of certain health problems that correlate with exposure to the radiation from these installations, (ii) the fact that, unlike the radiation used in GSM and some TETRA installations, this radiation is not emitted as pulses, in patterns that the brain can recognise, and (iii) the fact that the lower frequency carriers used in radio and TV are somewhat less biologically active than are higher microwave carrier frequencies used in GSM.

In conclusion, it can hardly be disputed that to enjoy an acceptable quality of life requires more than simply an absence of terminal disease.

Adverse health effects in humans of the kinds already consistently reported worldwide – such as headaches, sleep disruption, impairment of short–term memory, etc. - whilst maybe not life-threatening in themselves, do nevertheless have a debilitating effect that undoubtedly undermines the general well-being of those affected, and which in the case of some children could well undermine their neurological and academic development. It should, of course, be stressed that the apparent absence to date of life threatening adverse effects on a global scale attributable to exposure to GSM or TETRA Base-station radiation is no guarantee of immunity in the long-term. For exposure to this kind of radiation is still in its ‘early days’ in comparison to the much longer (10-15 years) latency period of the kinds of cancers that could well be promoted or initiated in certain people.

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The guy just lied

Of course. These guys are in dread for their livelihood the day Nigerians know the truth about these killer masts littering the landscape.

Many have already dragged these heinous operators to courts and our courts have done justice but they suppress such information before the deluge of litigation drown them and their wickedness.

The hungry press and their compromised editors-in-chief also censor news about killer masts and the rising cases of cancer in the land. The rate which children are diagnosed with cancer nowadays is unprecedented. But because of mouth-watering adverts, they turn the other eye while licking blood money.

The government itself is the greatest criminal in this conspiracy, but the day of judgment is around the corner.

Do we see masts scattered all over the environment in other countries? Only in Naija! But what do you expect when a (very questionable) diploma (barely literate) holder is appointed to the Board of NCC? See https://www.nairaland.com/3419128/aliyu-saidu-abubakar-presents-one-year/4#50396511

trueking:
Thanks OP for this, I never believed any of the crap the other guy posted in the other thread. boiled an egg with Nokia torch, how stupid.

You're the dumb a.ss

These are from a Prof:

The deleterious health effects of microwave and radiofrequency radiation exposures include and not limited to brain tumours, adverse skin reactions, cancer, suppressed immune function, depression, miscarriage, Alzheimer's disease, and numerous other serious illnesses.

Recent studies made in collaboration with local and international renowned Professors have as well shown that exposures to these radiations even at low radiation levels produce DNA damages, anxiolytic and explorative behavioural changes, decrease in low sperm counts and female reproductive systems, cancers, adverse effects on sickled erythrocyte patients blood parameters and other tissue damages.

These harmful low levels of radiation can reach far beyond 2 km away from the cell tower location. Reported symptoms include headache, sleep disorders, memory impairment, nosebleeds, skin rashes, seizures, blood brain barrier problems, increased heart rates and impaired nervous systems.

Children and youths are particularly sensitive to these radiations (Lower amount of the radiation is required to cause tissue damages than in adults) due to their thinner skulls and rapid rate of growth. Also at greater risk are the elderly, the frail, pregnant women and sickled erythrocyte persons.

Some of the consequences of the tissue damages may not manifest immediately, but until after 20, 30 or more years following the exposure. This is because the radiation could produce damages to the DNA, the component of the human cell that contains the genetic codes, responsible for cell replication and that may transfer the damages to the offspring (unborn children) of the exposed persons. This is described as hereditary effect.

Please stop being daft!

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Spot on jawe baba

mojeer678:


I am the dumb a.ss

I am not saying cellphones are completely harmless, my point is the anecdote used was stupidly made up.