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Global, Galling, Gluttonous, Gargantuan Greed... 5G

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IN 1996, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), responsible for regulating the safety of wireless technology, adopted guidelines which only protect consumers from thermal levels of wireless harm, ignoring substantial evidence of profound harms from non-thermal levels. The FCC hasn’t reviewed its guidelines since, despite clear scientific evidence and growing rates of Radio Frequency related sickness.

In 2012, the General Accountability Office published a report recommending that the FCC re-assess its guidelines. As a result, in 2013, the FCC opened docket 13-84 asking for public comment. Despite overwhelming evidence in support of new rules submitted by hundreds of individuals and scientists, the FCC did nothing. On December 4, 2019, the FCC closed the docket and affirmed the adequacy of its guidelines without proper assessment. Lawsuits are being brought that challenges that FCC decision.

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Conversations of Consequence

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Ruth Westreich, “Global, Galling, Gluttonous, Gargantuan Greed... 5G,” Conversations of Consequence by Ruth Westreich, accessed May 20, 2025, https://biblio.csusm.edu/context-library-series/westreich/document/207.