📡 RRT retrospective revisits cell tower cancer clusters: Ripon school and Pittsfield added to Wishaw and California firefighter cases
EM Radiation Research Trust reports: Co-founder Eileen O'Connor has published a retrospective marking eleven years since her 16 July 2015 University of Liverpool presentation "Discovering Cancer: From Grassroots to Global", delivered with US advocate Susan Foster.
O'Connor's essay is a personal tribute to Foster, but embeds Foster's own updated commentary listing four illness clusters that RRT continues to press for wider recognition: the Wishaw cell tower cancer cluster in the UK, brain damage documented in California firefighters exposed to a 2G tower on their station, a cancer cluster around a Sprint tower on the grounds of Weston Elementary School in Ripon, California, and a cluster of neurological and immunological illnesses in Pittsfield, Massachusetts around a Verizon tower activated in 2020. Foster also uses the retrospective to argue that US RF regulatory standards are three decades out of date.
"On the eleventh anniversary of our University of Liverpool presentation, [...] I reflect on an extraordinary friendship that began with a personal search for answers after I was diagnosed with cancer while living near a mobile phone mast in my own community."
"Now we know about the Ripon, California cancer cluster with a Sprint cell tower on the Weston Elementary school grounds with four students and three teachers being diagnosed with cancer including kidney, brain, liver and lymphoma. In addition, two preschool-age children living close to the school were diagnosed with cancer, as well as a 22-year-old former Weston student."
"On the East Coast, nestled in the Berkshire Mountains, is the town of Pittsfield where a Verizon tower that was activated in 2020 has triggered a cluster of neurological and immunological illnesses, including cancer, early onset dementia, cognitive impairment, cardiac arrhythmia, cardiac death and electromagnetic sensitivity."
"It is important to identify these clusters and make them public. Legacy media is not addressing the health impacts of cell tower radiation nor are they addressing the fact that the RF regulatory standards in the United States are 30 years old, obsolete, and they were standards set to facilitate the telecom industry rather than protect human life."
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RRT retrospective revisits cell tower cancer clusters — Ripon school and Pittsfield now added to Wishaw and California firefighter cases. Source: EM Radiation Research Trust
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