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CHD Files FOIA Requests: Why Did Government Shut Down Studies on Cellphone Radiation and Cancer?
Children’s Health Defense (CHD) today filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for documents and communications related to the agency’s decision to discontinue studies on the potential health effects of cellphone radiofrequency radiation(RFR) — even after a 10-year, $30-million study, completed in 2018, found evidence of cancer and DNA damage.
“We think it is important to understand what led to this decision, because we know too often big industry interests play a significant role” in shutting down this type of research, said Miriam Eckenfels-Garcia, director of CHD’s Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR) & Wireless program.
Eckenfels-Garcia told The Defender it’s “truly astonishing that the government has decided to stop research into the health effects of wireless radiation instead of deepening it, in light of ever-growing evidence of harm.”
CHD sent two requests to the National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences (NIEHS), a subagency of NIH, whose scientists had been studying wireless radiation.
The requests are for key communications and study documents that could shed light on the research government scientists were conducting when before it was shut down, and what factors led to the shut-down.
“By working together at the outset,” CHD staff attorney Risa Evans wrote in the FOIA letters, “we can decrease the likelihood of costly and time-consuming litigation in the future.”
Why stop studying wireless radiation now?
As The Defender reported, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) in January announced via an updated fact sheet that it has no plans to further study the effects of cellphone RFR on human health.
This was after the program’s 10-year study, published in 2018, found “clear evidence” that RFR exposure was linked to malignant heart tumors, “some evidence” linking it to malignant brain tumors, and “some evidence” linking it to both malignant and benign adrenal gland tumors and DNA damage in rats.
NTP is an “interagency partnership” of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and the NIEHS.
After publishing the study, government scientists conducted follow-up studies on the impact of RFR exposure on behavior and stress — especially stress on the heart, according to the NTP’s cellphone RFR website.
The follow-up studies also sought to “evaluate further” the 2018 study finding that RFR exposure caused DNA damage.
The research was “technically challenging and more resource intensive than expected” and “no further work” is planned, according to NTP’s RFR website.
According to the NTP website, the program “strives to remain at the cutting edge of scientific research and the development and application of new technologies for modern toxicology and molecular biology” and “provides the scientific basis for programs, activities, and policies that promote health or lead to the prevention of disease.”
“So why would its scientists stop studying wireless radiation?” asked Eckenfels-Garcia. “We want to know.”
‘I thought that was the right next step’
Brian Berridge, DVM, Ph.D., NTP’s scientific director until January 2023, confirmed that the follow-up studies were underway during his tenure and that the decision to no longer study RFR happened after he stepped down.
“The work was being done while I was there — with my blessing,” he told The Defender. “I thought that was the right next step.”
Large studies like the one the NTP did in 2018, Berridge said, raise questions that “ultimately take additional studies” to understand better.
For example, the follow-up studies were looking at whether the negative health outcomes the 2018 study saw in rats — cancerous tumors and DNA damage — could rightly be attributed to RFR or to some other aspect of the experimental conditions, such as living 24/7 in a small metal chamber.
CHD’s first FOIA request seeks more details about what the follow-up studies entailed.
The request asked agency officials to hand over “all protocols, standard operating procedures, and other records describing the methods, procedures, and/or study goals of every study planned or conducted by DTT [Division of Translational Toxicology] to follow up on the rodent studies previously conducted by the National Toxicology Program.”
Four government employees named in FOIA request
CHD’s second FOIA request asked for all communications between key researchers and officials from Feb. 1, 2023, to Feb. 1, 2024 — when NTP appeared to be conducting follow-up studies and when it decided to discontinue them.
The FOIA request names four government employees:
- Robert C. Sills, DVM, Ph.D., who at the time was the acting scientific director of NIEHS’ DTT. Scientists with DTT — who commonly work on NTP’s projects — were the ones conducting the follow-up studies, according to the NTP website.
- Stephanie Smith-Roe, Ph.D., the DTT scientist supervising the follow-up studies, according to a former government scientist who chose to remain anonymous.
- Nigel J. Walker, Ph.D., acting chief of DTT’s Systems Toxicology Branch, who was responsible for managing the follow-up studies, according to another former government scientist who chose to remain anonymous.
- Rick Woychik, Ph.D., director of NIEHS, who sets the budget for NIEHS, including DTT, according to Devra Davis, Ph.D., MPH, a toxicologist and epidemiologist who served on the NTP’s board of scientific counselors in the 1980s when it launched.
The request seeks communications related to the funding and termination of the studies.
It’s unclear whether some of the follow-up studies were prematurely terminated or whether they had simply completed their research goals, with no further studies planned.
For instance, the NTP cellphone RFR website states that the researchers had completed “feasibility testing” of a small-scale RFR exposure system for doing the research.
It appears they planned to use the small-scale RFR exposure system to “determine the impact of RFR exposure on behavior and stress, conduct real-time physiological monitoring, including evaluation of heart rate, investigate whether RFR exposure induces heating, and evaluate further whether RFR exposure causes DNA damage.”
But the NTP website does not say whether researchers had achieved these research goals or, if they hadn’t yet, at what point in the research process the decision was made to no longer study wireless radiation. It only states:
“The research using this small-scale RFR exposure system was technically challenging and more resource intensive than expected.
“In addition, this exposure system was designed to study the frequencies and modulations used in 2G and 3G devices, but is not representative of newer technologies such as 4G/4G-LTE, or 5G (which is still not fully defined).
“Taking these factors into consideration, no further work with this RFR exposure system will be conducted and NIEHS has no further plans to conduct additional RFR exposure studies at this time.”
The FOIA request also targets communications related to the overall execution and management of the follow-up studies, and it seeks emails or other communications containing any follow-up study data for interpretation, evaluation or review.
NIEHS deflects questions about the studies
Before CHD filed the FOIA requests, The Defender reached out repeatedly to various NIEHS staff for information about the follow-up studies and the decision to end RFR research.
Some of the questions The Defender asked included:
- Where can the public find the follow-up studies’ standard operating procedures and protocols?
- What is the status of the data gathered in the follow-up studies? Was it ever reviewed, and if so, by whom? If not, why not?
- The NTP cellphone RFR website states, “NIEHS has completed the feasibility testing of this small-scale RFR exposure system, and the results will be made publicly available and posted on this webpage when internal reviews are finished.” What sort of “internal reviews” are being conducted? By whom? What is the anticipated completion date of the reviews and when will the results be published?
- An earlier version of NTP’s cellphone RF radiation webpage (updated Nov. 30, 2023) stated that these studies were expected to be published in 2023-2024. Why haven’t the studies been published?
- Why would U.S. civilian governmental efforts to study the potential impacts of wireless radiation stop as the U.S. Department of Defense continues to study the problem and as the European Union has provided multi-million dollar grants for multidisciplinary studies?
The NIEHS Office of Communications consistently told The Defender that NTP’s cellphone RFR website “has all the information we have to share at this time. We will update the webpage when we have more information.”
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German Troops in ‘Line of Fire’: First Foreign Deployment Since WW2
This week Germany has begun deploying troops to the Baltic state of Lithuania, which marks the first such external deployment of its kind for Germany’s military since World War II — and which is the result of Berlin adopting a firmer ‘counter-Russia’ posture after more than two years of war in Ukraine.
While merely two dozen soldiers have reportedly arrived Lithuania thus far, the German contingent will be stationed there permanently. Currently Germany leads a NATO deployment in Lithuania of some 1,000 troops, but which is temporary.
“This is the first time that we have permanently stationed such a unit outside of Germany,” German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said during a ceremony seeing the troops depart from Berlin. He hailed it as “an important day for the German army.”
Crucially, and sure to trigger deep alarm for Moscow, the permanent German force in Lithuania is slated to grow to 4,800by the year 2027.
German military leadership is touting this as in direct response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and ‘aggression’:
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is prompting Germany to do something unprecedented — to permanently base thousands of troops only about 100 kilometers from the border with Russia and right in the line of fire if the Kremlin ever launches an attack on NATO territory.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius was in Vilnius on Monday to sign a deal with his Lithuanian counterpart Arvydas Anušauskas firming up the conditions on which 4,800 German troops plus 200 civilians will be based in the Baltic country.
“With this war-ready brigade, we are assuming a leadership responsibility here in the alliance and on NATO’s eastern flank,” Pistorius said, adding: “The speed of the project clearly shows that Germany understood the new security reality.”
What is alarming for the significant risk of direct escalation between Russia and NATO with this new German deployment is the geography of this Baltic neighborhood: Lithuania shares a border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
This puts a permanent deployment of troops from a NATO country directly on Russia’s borders. Additionally, Lithuania also borders Belarus, which forms a ‘Union state’ with Russia and currently hosts Russian tactical nuclear weapons. All of this comes as France’s Macron has been talking up the possibility of sending Western troops directly to Ukraine.
Germany has already sent Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine, which have by many accounts done nothing to sway the momentum of the battle in Kiev’s favor. Instead, Russia has in the recent past published footage purporting to show several German-supplied tanks disabled and destroyed, burning on the battlefield.
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4 Natural Solutions That Can Help Address Cancer
Cancer is often addressed using strong medications that can cause more harm than the disease it purports to fight. Fortunately, there are natural cancer-fighting solutions that you can use against the Big C.
Allspice
Allspice (Pimenta dioica) is made from the unripe berries of the P. dioica tree that are dried and ground. It is called by many names including Jamaican pepper, kurundu, myrtle pepper, pimenta and new spice. The P. dioica tree is cultivated in many warm areas throughout the world, with its essential oil also commercially available.
According to research, allspice possesses antimicrobial and antioxidant properties thanks to its abundance of bioactive agents that contribute to health promotion. It can address inflammation, pain and fever thanks to these same plant compounds.
Allspice is also known to possess cancer- and tumor-fighting properties due to three compounds in particular. The plant compounds eugenol, ericifolin and quercetin present in allspice are the ones responsible for its anticancer effects.
Black walnut
Black walnut (Juglans nigra) contains the plant compounds quercetin 3-beta-D-glucoside and penta-O-galloyl-beta-D-glucose. These two chemicals part of the 16 compounds present in J. nigrakernel were the center of a paper published October 2020 in Molecules.
The study authors pointed out that the two compounds prevented two kinds of cancer cells from multiplying. However, they suggested that the antioxidant activity is likely driven not only by these two phenolic compounds, but also by a combination of its other compounds. These compounds exerted antioxidant activities that were significantly higher compared to the vitamin E analog Trolox that was used as a control for the study.
Bloodroot
Despite its reputation as a poisonous plant, bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) possesses cancer-fighting properties. One study published in October 2020 in the International Journal of Dermatology focused on the cancer-fighting ability of sanguinarine, a plant compound found in the roots of S. canadensis.
The October 2020 study found that sanguinarine, in a dose-dependent manner, is effective on certain kinds of skin cancer. The plant compound blocks proliferation of cancer cells and induced apoptosis (cell death) a number of different transformed and malignant cell types.
Meanwhile, The Truth About Cancer disclosed that sanguinarine can trigger apoptosis via three mechanisms, citing a study published May 2016 in Free Radical Biology and Medicine. According to the study, sanguinarine activates caspase (an enzyme that helps to break down proteins and other molecules), prompts DNA fragmentation and down-regulates anti-apoptotic proteins in laboratory leukemia cells.
Parsley
Parsley (Petroselinum crispum) is often dismissed as a mere garnish in the kitchen. However, this mere garnish possesses powerful anti-cancer compounds such as apigenin, which prevents the formation of blood vessels that carry nutrients to cancerous tumors. It also contains 8-methoxypsoralen, a plant compound shown to inhibit the development of carcinogen-induced lung cancer in laboratory mice.
A major Italian population study involving more than 2,500 women with breast cancer found that the risk of breast cancer was reduced by increasing their parsley intake. The reason for this lowered breast cancer risk was the plant compounds present in P. crispum.
(Related: The unassuming parsley has many healing properties, including the ability to fight cancer.)
To know more about cures for cancer and other related stories visit CancerSolutions.news.
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Germany: Iraqi Couple Charged With Enslaving And Raping 5-Year-Old And 12-Year-Old Girls
An Iraqi couple living in Germany are suspected of enslaving, torturing and raping two Yazidi girls over the course of years. The two suspects were arrested in southern Germany on Wednesday, April 10, announced the Karlsruhe Federal Prosecutor’s Office, which handles terrorism cases.
Twana H. S. and his wife Asia R. A. were members of ISIS between October 2015 and December 2017 in Iraq and Syria, the prosecutor’s office announced in a statement.
The couple had enslaved “no later than the end of 2015” a then 5-year-old girl and then “from October 2017,” another 12-year-old girl, the prosecutors allege.
“Twana H. S. raped both children several times. Asia R. A. prepared the room and put makeup on one of the little girls,” prosecutors added.
The couple will now be prosecuted in Germany for the crimes committed while they were in Iraq and Syria.
The couple also forced the two girls to perform “continuous” housework and babysitting duties. The girls were forbidden to practice their own religion and the couple ordered them to follow Islamic prayers and rules.
Harsh physical violence
The Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking minority following a pre-Islamic religion partly derived from Zoroastrianism, have been persecuted by jihadists for several years.
Twana H. S. hit the older of the two girls with a broomstick, while Asia R. H. scalded the younger girl’s hand with boiling water. She also repeatedly forced the two children to stand on one leg for half an hour. The aim of this treatment was to destroy the Yazidi faith, in accordance with the wishes of ISIS.
The couple came to Germany as “refugees” and were allowed to stay by the authorities.
“Before leaving Syria (for Germany) in November 2017, the couple left the two little girls with other members of the Islamic State,” the public prosecutor’s office added.
Arrested on Tuesday in Regensburg and Roth in southern Germany, the two defendants were brought before a judge on April 9 and 10, who ordered them to be remanded into custody.
Mass immigration and multiculturalism has led to an explosion of controversial cultural practices in Germany, such as forced marriages and female genital mutilation, which are practiced exclusively by foreigners. Radical Islamists have also made their way into Germany, including members of ISIS, which has elevated the country’s terror threat and placed huge burdens on law enforcement.
It is also not even the first case of former ISIS members standing trial in Germany who previously enslaved Yazidi people. In 2021, a Tunisian-German Islamic State widow was sentenced to just four years in prison in Germany for enslaving members of the minority community.
In 2015, the jihadist bride, along with her three small children, followed her husband to Islamic State-controlled territory in Syria. Following the death of her husband in the spring of 2015, she married her boyfriend, Denis Cuspert, also known as “Deso Dogg,” a gangster rapper-turned-terrorist who was formerly based out of Berlin.
While living in the city of Raqqa – a stronghold of the terrorist organization at the time – Omaima and Cuspert enslaved two Yazidi women who had previously been kidnapped by members of the Islamic State.
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Jews Who Vote Democrat ‘Should Have Their Head Examined’ – Trump
Former US president and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested that Jewish-Americans would be insane to vote for his rival in November.
Trump held an impromptu press conference on the tarmac of the international airport in Atlanta, Georgia, after flying into town for a campaign fundraiser. He used the occasion to criticize President Joe Biden’s handling of the Gaza conflict, among other things.
“Biden has totally lost control of the Israel situation,” Trump told reporters. “He has abandoned Israel.”
“Any Jewish person that votes for a Democrat or votes for Biden should have their head examined,” Trump added.
During his term in the White House, Trump openly supported Israel, recognizing West Jerusalem’s annexation of the Golan Heights and moving the US embassy to Jerusalem. In the 2020 election, an estimated 70% of American Jews voted for Biden.
Read more Date set for Rafah offensive – Netanyahu
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu declared war on Hamas after the Gaza-based militant group’s October 7 attack that claimed an estimated 1,200 lives. Since then, over 33,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli military operations. Many Palestinian and Muslim Americans have voiced frustration with Biden over his support of West Jerusalem, accusing him of not doing enough to stop the Israeli onslaught.
Finding itself criticized from both sides, the White House has tried to please both. The US has continued supplying ammunition and weapons to Israel and offered Netanyahu “ironclad” support against Iran, but also called for a ceasefire in Gaza and opening of humanitarian aid corridors.
Netanyahu has mostly shrugged off US criticism, saying that “no force in the world” will stop Israel from destroying Hamas.
Last month, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat who is himself Jewish, called for the ouster of Netanyahu as a way to resolve the current conflict.
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