Dire warnings about the dangers of wireless technology have been around for as long as the technology itself, and they show no sign of waning. The latest entry comes from Children’s Health Defense, the organization founded by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The group, best known for its anti-vaccine advocacy, is now falsely claiming that wireless radiation has caused health problems for 26 million adults in the U.S., Australia, and Canada. As evidence, Children’s Health Defense cites a recent study ….
- The study says that it relied on responses to an online survey from 3,400 participants … and that 12.6 percent of those respondents reported that they believed they were sensitive or allergic to wireless radiation ….
- The researchers then extrapolated the survey responses to the total adult populations in the three countries and estimated that 26.7 million people had experienced sensitivity to wireless radiation ….
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…[N]umerous health authorities and medical experts have said that electromagnetic hypersensitivity is not a real medical condition, and multiple studies have found no evidence that wireless radiation can harm human health.
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