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It's not just Hardell. It's also Martin Pall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Pall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Pall), though that Wikipedia page d
by brookst 3y ago
It's not just Hardell. It's also Martin Pall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Pall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Pall), though that Wikipedia page does not do him justice. Any time you see "EMF interferes with calcium channels", that's Pall. The linked article avoids naming him by using the Trump-esque "lots of people are saying" phrasing regarding calcium channels.
Pall has written numerous "research" papers about how smart electric meters, cell phones (especially 5g), and Wifi will lead to the imminent extinction of the human race[0].
His 2018 paper[1] found that "oxidative stress, sperm/testicular damage, neuropsychiatric effects including changes in the encephalogram (EEG), apoptosis, cellular DNA damage, endocrine changes, and calcium overload are established effects of WiFi exposure". Which sounds pretty bad!
However, as a meta study noted[2] in referencing that 2018 paper, "this review was heavily criticized for selective reporting, for ignoring the quality of the studies, for ignoring the level of exposure, for including studies that did not apply WiFi signals, and for inadequate description of the study results"
That's typical; every time Pall publishes, the journal is flooded with rebuttals from misquoted sources and readers who note things like (regarding Pall's claims that 5G causes mass sterilization): "In the case of the effects on sperm and infertility, effects should exclusively be included in humans (or human cells), but of the 8 articles cited in this section, only 1 was in humans (Yildirim et al., 2015) based on anonymous questionnaires. It is not an adequate study to conclude any possible effect of exposure to Wi-Fi in humans since no other variables were controlled (food, air pollution, antecedents, previous pathologies ...). Even, the sample was obtained from an infertility clinic and there was no control group and the authors claim that no differences were found."[3]
Pall's game is a long con -- he's been at it so long that he can cite his own body of work as "massive literature, providing a high level of scientific certainty, for each of eight pathophysiological effects caused by non-thermal microwave frequency EMF exposures"[4]
Not coincidentally, Pall runs the non-profit 5G Free Oregon[5], where you are invited to contribute funds to combat the scourge of EMF that is always just on the verge of causing total societal collapse.
0. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/26/how-baseless-fears-over-5g-rollout-created-a-health-scare https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/26/how-basel...
1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935118300355?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001393511...
2. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/10643389.2021.1951549?needAccess=true&role=button https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/10643389.2021.1...
3. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935118303979 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001393511...
4. https://www.icnirp.org/cms/upload/consultation_upload/Respondent94 https://www.icnirp.org/cms/upload/consultation_upload/Respon...
5. https://5gfreeoregon.org/ https://5gfreeoregon.org/