Just Say No to Big Brother’s Smart Meters by Orlean Koehle
This condition is called radiofrequency interference (RFI). The consequences of these failures range from inconvenience to serious injuries and death. Reasons for this problem are twofold: 1) increasing numbers of electronically controlled medical devices with inadequate electronic protection against RFI, and 2) a significant increase in the number of RF sources in the environment. Medical devices are widely used outside the hospital and may be attached to, or implanted in, patients. Portable wireless communications equipment, including cellular phones, handheld transceivers, and vehicle mounted transceivers, comprise one of the largest sources of RFI. Some medical devices are especially sensitive to the type of digital modulation that some of the wireless communications devices utilize.
The article gives examples of some of the hundreds of incidents where RF induced medical device failures have been reported. Since this article was written back in 1998, before Smart Meters were being installed, it does not mention them as one of the RF wireless devices that would cause problems. But since PG&E tells us that Smart Meters have the same radiation as cell phones, then obviously, there would be the same effects.
Effects of RF Interference with Medical Devices - Happening with Smart Meters as well: 1) In the mid-1980s approximately 60 infants died because the apnea monitor that was to detect breathing cessation malfunctioned because of interference from low RF field coming from a mobile communication base several hundred meters away and from FM radio broadcast stations more than one kilometer away.
2) Electrically powered wheelchairs have been affected by RFI from nearby emergency vehicles and in one case caused a person to be ejected from the wheelchair or propelled into traffic.
3) Cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators have been affected by nearby digital cellular phones causing a loss of pacemaker adaptive control, resulting the pacemaker functioning irregularly or going back to a preprogrammed fixed rate. Cellular phones have also been shown to cause unintended firings of implantable cardiac defibrillators.
4) Implanted hearing aids have also been disrupted by cellular telephones, that use pulse modulated time division multiple access (TDMA), have been found to disrupt the proper operation of in-the-ear hearing aids. This type of interference also occurs in behind-the-ear hearing aids, making it impossible for wearers of this device to be able to use this type of phone.
Disclaimer from Southern California Edison Admitting they are Uncertain of the Safety of Smart Meters: In a September 2010 article “Understanding EMF” written on a paper called Business Connection, the following statement was made about the health risks, “Given the uncertainty of the issue, the medical and scientific communities have been unable to determine that usual residential exposures to EMF cause health effects or to establish any standard or level of residential exposure that is known to be either safe or harmful. These conclusions remain unchanged by recent studies.” Pretty ambiguous isn’t it? Kind of makes one think that this is their disclaimer against any sort of a law suit. They can say, “Well, we never really told you they were safe, nor did we say they were unsafe.”
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