“An elixir for the digital age” in three trendy flavours, no fewer. Let me tell you about a medical discovery, quite well known now; but this story comes straight from the oncologist who first made the connection in the 1970s, I met her once. She lived in Cape Town and treated many cancer sufferers with chemo and radiotherapy. She noticed that her Coloured or mixed-race patients coped far better with the awful side effects than did her white patients — they hardly seemed affected by them and arrived perfectly cheerful for each session. So she asked them how they managed. “Ag, doctor, we just go home and smoke some dagga”, they told her. Marijuana. And she was the very first person who circulated a note to doctors, noting this effect.

Marijuana relieves radiation symptoms. There is serious self-medication going on, in an environment that is now completely saturated with microwave radiation. The psychologist Jean Twenge says that all social indicators for young people went off a cliff in 2012, the most drastic changes in behaviour in recent history, and she associated this unambiguously with the advent of smartphones. I tried to give a quick summary of the situation here, including evidence of severe brain damage in young people from mobile phone use. This was very quickly superseded by recent evidence of far more catastrophic brain damage in young people who used “devices” for more more than seven hours a day. The brains of 9-year-old kids are looking like the brains of 60-year-olds who are going senile. Remember “premature thinning of the cortex” the next time you talk about kids being left to their own devices.

As someone who has followed the mobile phone/health issue for two decades, particularly from the media perspective, I have watched the most amazing pivot in the last few months that I’ve ever seen in this field. Suddenly it’s “addiction” and “screen time” that are the big villains, and somehow all the journalists know to get in line and say this, singing enthusiastically from the same hymn sheet. I can date the very first time I saw this shift happening. The World Health Organization made a tiny little squeak about device addiction in 2017, with the new WHO Director General saying:

In the name of free trade, we allow multinational corporations to market junk food to children.

In the name of economic development, we allow the tobacco industry to poison billions of people.

In the name of entertainment, we allow our children to spend more and more time in front of television and smartphone screens, rather than playing outside.

When will we say enough is enough?

At what point do we take a stand and push back?

We — the EMR activists — pushed back immediately and very hard at WHO, to see if they were finally actually admitting that the microwave radiation itself was dangerous. (The WHO refuses to issue a precautionary warning to the world about mobile phones.) We eventually got some clarification from a certain Nicolas Gaudin, head of WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer communications group in Lyon, France. He said that “before it gets out of control”, he needed to clarify that radiation was not the issue that was being talked about, only the screens. Further queries to him received automated responses.

There are at least 20,000 scientific papers showing biological effects and health damage from low-level microwave radiation. There are very few studies so far even mentioning “screen time”. But WHO and all the experts, very especially the ones at the New York Times, all know suddenly that “screen time” and “digital addiction to social media” are the big problems. The fact that microwave radiation produces opioids in the brain and is directly physically addictive: that we don’t mention.

I have identified Mr William Broad of the New York Times as the single most egregious offender and serial liar for decades in the media about the dangers of microwave radiation and wireless technology. I have named him as Media Accused Number One in this global corporate genocide.

You, Ms Carraway, are concerned with “wellness”. Why don’t you take a really good look at the scientific evidence of harm from microwave radiation? I have made a special collection of all the studies done on mobile phone masts and health worldwide. At the last count I had 25 peer-reviewed studies. Every single one of these studies reports a consistent pattern of health problems, including:

• Headaches
• Sleep disorders
• Attention, memory, and concentration disorders
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Chronic fatigue
• Dizziness and giddiness
• Blood pressure fluctuations, fainting
• Heart arrhythmias
• Mood swings, “rages”, depression, suicidal thoughts
• Suicides
• Skin disorders: severe rashes, itching, burning sensations
• Neurological problems, tremors
• Lowered immunity, lingering infections and influenzas
• Visual disorders, eye inflammations
• Tinnitus
• Joint pains
• Diabetic conditions
• Cancers, including a devastating study in the city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil, showing literally thousands of excess deaths from cancer around masts, with rates steadily increasing the nearer people lived to masts.

Check out my William Broad story, there’s a link there to a 40-page legal affidavit I recently made in which I detail all these mast studies. You’ll see that the reported pattern of illness corresponds exactly with the radiation pattern of microwave masts, all the illnesses peak at around 150 metres from the mast, where the beam is strongest.

Very rarely in science does one get this kind of unanimity: fully 100%, every single study on masts, shows a health problem. Yet the World Health Organization will swear blind that there is no evidence of harm from masts, a consistent and outright lie. The radiation from masts is just so “low level” that it cannot possibly be causing a problem, they say. And since 2006, WHO has instructed the world’s researchers not to look at health around masts, there’s nothing to see here folks, keep moving.

What about kids sitting all day on their smartphones? Living and sleeping in wifi hotspots? Can you imagine what radiation exposure they’re receiving? Do you have even the faintest idea what damage is being done to human genetics, especially in girls and pregnant women? Do you know how many studies there are that show damage to human sperm from mobile phone radiation? Of course you don’t. You’re the New York Times.

I just wrote a piece on Medium blasting tech journalists. Not one of them, anywhere in the world, has made a proper investigation of wireless technology and health. But what about the frikkin’ “wellness” journalists? Are you all sound asleep? Are you all brain-dead yourselves from microwave radiation? There are a few alternative health writers around the world who have raised the alarm, but absolutely nothing in the big newspapers.

If you want to understand exactly why ordinary people are losing all faith in the mainstream media, this issue is a very good one to examine. All we ever see in the media is a constant stream of lies and misinformation about the subject. There was a fascinating shift in the debate around about the time the National Toxicology Program released findings showing “clear” evidence of cancer from mobile phone radiation, its highest standard of evidence. Microwave News reported that William Broad of the New York Times was apparently given a special “hot tip” as to the findings that enabled him to write a particularly egregious story downplaying the results.

However, Microwave News also noted that while in the old days, it would have been industry sources that spun this finding, here it was suddenly newspaper reporters who were all making erudite judgments about research on non-ionizing radiation and health. Louis Slesin, the editor of Microwave News, noted that all these reporters seemed to be singing from exactly the same numbered page in the NTP findings, and wondered whether talking points had not been circulated among the media by industry. I can’t find his comment now, but this pattern was very clear also to me, as a long-term follower of media reports on the subject. Who are these reporters who suddenly know all about this subject, I wondered.

Another fascinating shift in the USA: in the good old days, the 1980s and early 1990s, it was Motorola who led the charge saying “Let’s just roll this mobile technology out without proper health testing”, because the science was just so damn complicated. We overtly use ignorance as an excuse to ignore any risks. The whole story is described in a landmark book called Cellular Telephone Russian Roulette by Robert C Kane, a truly brilliant Motorola engineer who tested mobile phone antennas for the company and then died from a brain tumour that developed just where he had been holding the mobile antennas. He self-published this book before he died, one of the greatest insider accounts ever, showing just what Motorola knew, when they knew it, and how they covered it all up. You can find the whole PDF online. It’s a bit rough and ready, I’ve promised some friends in the USA to edit it properly one day, I’m a professional scientific editor by trade.

Now, however, it is not Motorola doing the spinning for 5G: it is the FCC itself that says (to quote Tom Wheeler, as chairman): “We won’t wait for the standards.” These are things like health standards. And this is your federal regulator speaking. Of course, he is a former industry lobbyist who made a smart turn at the fast-revolving door at the FCC to become chairman. The wolf in charge of the henhouse. And not one single US mainstream journalist can even see this catastrophic conflict of interests in their federal regulator.

So: rather than industry having to do the tedious work of spinning everything itself, this task is now undertaken by journalists themselves, and by paid public officials. Really nice system you have going there in the USA. And you are poisoning the entire planet with your technology. And you don’t have one single journalist who is awake to the hazards. What’s this joke word you have, “woke”. You are all so fast asleep, it’s a wonder you can find your keyboards to type.

You have destroyed the brains and genetics of your young people, and they are desperate for any relief for their fried cortexes. Your article, Ms Carraway, very cleverly deconstructs the marketing of a fizzy drink. Do you think you could possibly turn your analytical skills toward deconstructing the massive psychological war being waged on those of us who warn of the dangers of wireless technology? We are the “tinfoil-hat cases”, the very first and last word in modern post-post-modern wack jobs. This is not an accident. And the World Health Organization leads the charge, sneering at people who claim to suffer effects from radiation, describing us as “idiopathic” and “nocebo” and “hysterical”. You viciously insult the very people you are busy killing. This is modern medical compassion.

Just remember: mobile phones represent the single greatest technological take-up in all of human history. I live in the tiny and very poor Kingdom of Eswatini in south-east Africa. I can guarantee you that about 90% of people you stop on the street here, including adolescents, will be carrying mobile phones, and many will have smartphones. I can guarantee you that hardly one of them will have a watch; a ballpoint pen; even a box of matches. The next-most advanced piece of technology they have in their possession will probably be shoelaces. But they will all have mobile phones.

Now: you would think that with such a saturation take-up, there would be at least one journalist somewhere in the English-speaking world who might think that the health implications were worth a proper investigation and story. I’ve put on record that by far the best story I’ve seen so far was in GQ magazine. That was nine years ago. I am not holding my breath for any mainstream journalists risking their salaries by writing a proper story about the subject. I just wish that in all this crap about millennials, someone was giving them just one word of good advice. Maybe five words. “Switch off your damn phones.” If you have FOMO, then ipso facto you are MO. Missing out on your own brain.

So, anyway, here’s my best shot at giving them some help. If you are a stressed millennial looking for a recess for your brain, try music. Many young people now just turn on a YouTube with spacey sounds, this has become their main media interaction. This is probably the wisest thing they could probably do, if they have to plug into something media-like. I have a personal favourite in this line, it’s helped me calm my brain in drastic situations for nearly 30 years now. This is a cassette rip version, with a gentle background hiss, and I still listen to it all the time. If it helps: you’re welcome. Do whatever you can to save your brain. Switch off your damn phone.