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And he explained this using the example of a cell tower
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been broadcasting signals throughout the entire street.

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The Viennese researcher had succeeded in convincing U.S.
judges that non-thermal biological effects can damage our genes.

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But why does the public want 5G? Because it’s being sold to them
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And why does the public want 6G soon?

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Because it's being sold to her again as
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And based on this understanding of biological rhythms, it was
perfectly clear to me that smartphones and these technological

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devices disrupt children’s biological rhythms and rob them of
much of the joy of life they should actually be experiencing.

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Investigative filmmaker Klaus Scheidsteger has been taking a
critical look at the mobile phone industry for many years.

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In his 2024 documentary “The Digital Dilemma,”
renowned scientists, doctors, building

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biologists, and those affected share their perspectives.

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In his latest film, *Die Witwenstraße*,
Scheidsteger explores, among other things, the

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question: How many coincidences can a street handle?

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Why the title “Die Witwenstraße”?

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A cell phone tower emits radiation along the entire street, and
a striking number of women on this street have become widows.

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That’s how the title “Die Witwenstraße” came about.

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The film depicts numerous personal
stories and poses an uncomfortable question:

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What happens when people notice changes in their health over
the course of years but receive no explanation or answers?

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“Die Witwenstraße” is a compelling report on those
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we deal with the potential risks of modern technologies.

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On April 30, 2026, Klaus Scheidsteger’s new film was
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special event in Thun, followed by a panel discussion.

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The interest shown has made it clear: This issue
resonates with people and affects many of them.

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This report takes us to where
discussions often end—to the people themselves.

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There has been a cluster of serious
illnesses and deaths on a residential street.

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Family members are starting to ask questions.

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They look for connections, talk to experts, and in
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experience, scientific assessment, and public debate.

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This 30-minute documentary reveals the background story behind
the mobile phone study on “Athermal Biological Effects of

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Long-Term Exposure to Low-Intensity
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provides insight into the scientific work.

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“Die Witwenstraße” depicts this search for
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objectively, and without jumping to conclusions.

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Now watch the documentary “The Widows’ Street.”

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We built a house here in Lichtenbusch 30 years ago.

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My husband is a dentist, and I'm a doctor. We built up our
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course of eight years, have a beautiful garden,
and —things were going well for us at first.

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Does it affect people? Some say yes, others say no.

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Yes, and I came to the conclusion that,
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And suddenly, the pieces of the puzzle fell into place.

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I was wondering, why do so many people
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Why Do We Have So Much Cancer?

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He said, "No, I'm not going down to the basement."

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I went to get my measuring device while that was happening.

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The radiation level was over 20,000 again
in our kitchen. Way, way, way too high.

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Before that, it was at 0.02. That
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And my husband said, “You know, I
don’t want to live like this anymore.”

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At that moment, the epileptic seizure
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And the next day, he was admitted to
the hospital. He didn't even realize it.

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And three months later, completely paralyzed, in a vegetative
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And that's why, thanks again to all of you:

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We'll keep going, because there are so many
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A little over a year after Dr. Roger Krout’s death, a
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An exquisite event centered on the
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la crème of mobile communications research.

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My comment at the time was: “Moving moments,
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from around the world, and an engaged audience.”

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With a mix of lectures, panel discussions, workshops, exhibition
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The Mainz Symposium, held October 4–6, 2019, at the
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international scientific community in many different ways.

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Ignorance and cynicism are often the order of
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My own town prohibits me from making public what I
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And the transmission tower—we filed a lawsuit against
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In her ruling, the judge wrote: “Even if the
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And that was a transmission tower that hadn’t had a permit to
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antennas two meters too low, that had mounted the wrong antennas,
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then took additional measurements with a frequency analyzer.

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More frequencies had been modeled than were permitted.

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The conference in Mainz provided an ideal opportunity to
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The personal remarks made by Dr. Monika Krout,
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Yes, it was an event organized by the Kompetenzinitiative
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And Dr. Monika Krout had shared her own personal
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of it—explaining that she had recently become a widow.

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After the event, we met with a large group of
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And as I thought about it, the idea began to take shape that
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a scientific study to find out why so many of these men died.

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And so, essentially under your direction and
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turn the whole thing into a research project.

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Cell phones and health—a topic
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So, we need to take action.

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Reliable facts provided by a team of
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I was able to recruit cancer researcher Prof. Dr. Wilhelm
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The new study was named ATHEM3 following the successful validation
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The Viennese researcher succeeded in convincing U.S. judges
that non-thermal biological effects can damage our genes.

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ATHEM1 and ATHEM2 have passed quality control in
an American class-action lawsuit, so to speak.

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The ATHEM1 and ATHEM2 projects have received a positive evaluation
from a U.S. federal judge on the Supreme Court in Washington.

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And I think there are very few
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To make a long story short: The ATHEM3 project once
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in which many specialists are doing their very best.

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So we wanted to specifically eliminate any trace of amateurism
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Thanks to Prof. Mosgöller's efforts, we were
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He is also a key witness for the
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For many years, Prof. Igor Belyaev has been calling for a
revision of the current limits for consumer protection.

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He is regarded worldwide as a highly respected expert.

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I was a member of the EMF Working Group within the European
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limits for exposure to low-frequency electromagnetic fields.

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The limits we have proposed are significantly
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Well, I believe that the current ICNIRP limits
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- Just as we proposed to the
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The so-called protective agencies
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The metrology technician on the team knows all about it.

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Every day, people who attribute their health
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The number of people with health problems is clearly on the rise.

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This is especially true when 5G transmitters are turned on.

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And 5G technology was put into operation without first conducting
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Back in the 3G era, the TNO study from the Netherlands caused
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radiation intensity of UMTS was sufficient to cause
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People didn't heed the warning back then.

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They then conducted a counter-experiment—of course, using
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and different people—so that everything was
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And then 4G came along, and once again there
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what health effects this technology might have.

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It wasn't carried out either. And with 5G, it's even
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And there were, after all, many cities in Europe that initially
said, “Moratorium!”—We want to find out what’s going on first.

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But I think all these moratoriums have
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There was a lobby group that simply
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And the politicians—who, after all, aren't medical professionals,
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experts capable of understanding it—eventually
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But why does the public want 5G? Because
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thing, that it means faster streaming of movies.

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Because it's being sold to her again as
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Once again, thanks to the efforts of the program director,
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of the pioneers of modern heart rate variability measurement.

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For many years, I was a professor of physiology
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specializing in chronobiology—that is, biological rhythms.

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And based on this understanding of biological rhythms, it was
perfectly clear to me that smartphones and these technological

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devices disrupt children’s biological rhythms and rob them of
much of the joy of life they should actually be experiencing.

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Hiring Professor Moser was a smart
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So, two of these jackets have been sent into space.

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We have been working with the Russian space agency
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Austrian cosmonaut and then on ten Russian cosmonauts.

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In fact, this jacket is capable of measuring the very
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And the jacket was used to gather
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And the exciting thing was that the
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Because they say that in medicine, illness is usually what’s
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methods were able to reflect the cosmonauts’
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them to assess the health of these cosmonauts.

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Because cosmonauts have to be healthy.

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If they get sick, you can't just call a
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I'm sure everyone is familiar with the indomitable Gallic
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The struggle for scientific recognition also seems to be one of
those cases. In the case of ATHEM3, they needed a village that,

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so to speak, met the necessary neutral scientific criteria.

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The challenge with ATHEM3 was to find an area—a region, a
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live side by side, with one group exposed to high
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Why is it necessary to have two comparable groups?

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Clearly, we want to make sure that any difference we find is
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fact that one person lives next to a factory and is
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a beautiful, idyllic health resort with fresh air.

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That won't work. That's not how research works.

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We found it. It wasn't exactly easy, but it took a while.

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In the end, we were convinced: yes, this works.

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The right place is in northern Bavaria.

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Residents of the neighborhood where a cell tower was
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necessary investigations as part of the ATHEM3 study.

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A tent was set up in a private garden in the shadow of the cell
tower; later, the participants would take a

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concentration test there in groups of six, as a
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In the trailer next to the garden area, all 24 test
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variability (HRV) monitor from Professor Moser’s institute.

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Using electrodes attached to the chest,
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The data from the small monitoring device would provide insight
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High-precision measurements of the antenna
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However, to ensure that the HRV can be properly analyzed,
we have a biconical antenna here that picks up cellular

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signals in the 800 MHz range for UMTS, LTE 800, and GSM 900.

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The entire setup is connected via an antenna cable to
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And that, in turn, is connected to my computer via a LAN cable.

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And what normally appears here on
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The current setting is "Clear Write," which means the
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And now I'm going to set this to "Max
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The yellow curve shows the signals in "Max
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And the green line shows the current value.

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And when the test is underway later, the whole thing will be
filmed so that you can watch those two hours of the

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test phase at your leisure afterward to see what the
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In order to achieve the best possible and, from a
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the study used blood samples from the test subjects.

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Just seven hours after the blood was drawn, the blood transport
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the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava,
carrying four samples from each of the four participants.

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The blood cell analyses, conducted anonymously and in a
double-blind manner, detect DNA breaks and

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chromosomal damage during metaphase—the stage of cell
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Here, we are examining the metaphase chromosomes.

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We observe the metaphases of these
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After all the metaphases have been recorded, I export them
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the degree of dicentricity and the number of rings present.

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Based on the frequency of aberrations , we
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One intriguing aspect of this gold standard for
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difference between the test subjects would emerge.

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So, are those who live closer to transmission
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those who live farther away from the towers?

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Professor Belyaev summarizes one of the most
important findings of the laboratory studies as follows:

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Analysis of the total number of chromosomal
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significant difference between the exposed and unexposed groups:

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Chromosomal aberrations occurred nearly twice as often in the
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These study results were first published internationally in 2024.

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The chromosomal abnormalities shown are clearly evident.

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This alone points to a biologically plausible
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of cancer for people living near cell phone towers.

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Essentially, these data confirmed our conclusion that the
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people living near cell towers is caused by
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So that was our final conclusion from this project.

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There is another surprising variation within the publication.

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The International Atomic Energy Agency's limits for
low-dose ionizing radiation were taken into account.

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The protective limit here is one millisievert.
This is the physical unit of radiation dose.

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In the context of radioactive exposure,
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In fact, the physical unit sievert can be
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The average chromosomal damage recorded in the ATHEM3
study corresponds to an equivalent dose of 74.6 millisieverts.

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This value was divided by 10 because the participants had
lived in the vicinity of the antenna for about 10 years.

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What we did: The International Atomic
Energy Agency has a special manual.

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This shows that the dose of ionizing radiation can be
determined based on measurements of chromosomal aberrations.

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We applied this method and determined the dose of ionizing
radiation that would produce the same effect we observed in

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the group of highly exposed participants in our ATHEM3 project.

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What is still being expressed here in a rather subtle
way may well be a paradigm shift of the highest order.

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The principal investigator of the ATHEM3 study shares this view.

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There is the International Atomic
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And just for fun, we asked ourselves: What’s
it actually like in another field of knowledge?

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We went to the International Atomic
Energy Agency and obtained their guidelines.

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And the great thing is: The damage we
see is exactly the same as what they saw.

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And based on the extent of the
damage, they can determine the dose.

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Now let's talk about two different areas of standardization.

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One is ionizing radiation, and the
other is non-ionizing radiation.

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It's important to understand that, technically
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In biology, this distinction makes no sense at all.

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And that is why it makes biological sense to look
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and this is where DNA and chromosomal damage occurs.

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Yes, for heaven's sake, how is a cell supposed to know whether
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radiation…—that's complete nonsense; the damage is there.

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And depending on which set of regulations we follow, these are
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regulations —as is simply established in our daily practice—and
if we assume non-ionizing radiation—then this is a

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scientific finding where an official says: “That
can’t be right; it just doesn’t fit the picture!”

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The cell doesn't care.

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But why is radiation from radioactive
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All types of this radiation affect human cells and can cause
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As the distance from the radioactive source
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partially shielded by the materials in between.

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Clearly, this is a situation just like
Galileo's—he believed that the Earth wasn't flat, but round.

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The establishment feels that the status quo has been
disrupted, and everyone knows the rest of the story.

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He then had to officially recant, but 500
years later, we know he was right all along.

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And as a scientist, it’s always a good idea to practice humility.

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I'm comparing myself to Galileo here.

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And please forgive me for saying this, but
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Many of my colleagues have already realized this.

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The implications of these
findings might look something like this:

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It is only natural that the results of the ATHEM3
study are also being debated in scientific circles.

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It is important that new findings are disseminated at all.

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At the world's largest toxicology conference, which was last
held in Beijing in October 2025, Professor Igor Belyaev had

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the opportunity to speak before a large audience of experts.

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And yet the Earth does move. —
Hopefully, the authorities will soon follow suit.

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It was a truly wonderful conference. An
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There were over 1,000 participants.

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Most came from China and Asia; not as many came from
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world, such as Latin America, Canada, and Australia.

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I was invited to give a presentation.

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My presentation covered the results of our ATHEM3 study ...

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We had three representatives from the Federal Office
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We shared our stories.

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It was strange because we doctors
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We've fought for our patients, including, among
others, Dr. Barbara Dohmen, who does a great deal

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of work in the Black Forest. You know her, Klaus.

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Others, too. Barbara showed a film about people with
electromagnetic hypersensitivity in the forest who have

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to spend the winter in the cold; she then provides them
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And let's be honest, no one would willingly
give up a warm apartment or a warm home unless

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they were seriously affected by radio waves.

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Well, but those people just sat there
across from us, completely unmoved:

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"We're taking note of what you're telling us."

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The evidence presented in the U.S. court proceedings regarding
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The comparative approach—which posits that radioactive
radiation and cellular radiation can cause similar

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harm—offers a new perspective on the assessment of health risks.