This appeared last week:
Protesters take to streets to fight 5G roll out
Claim technology is "greatest threat to humanity we have ever faced"
Protesters took to the streets in a number of locations on Saturday, against the roll-out of 5G.
In Melbourne dozens of protesters walked from Flagstaff Gardens to Bourke Street Mall, stopping outside Telstra's head office in Exhibition Street.
The protesters, wearing red with one wearing what appeared to be a tinfoil hat and another dressed as Santa, carried signs reading "Stop 5G" and "100 times more radiation, 100 times more harm".
In Perth a similar number turned out in the rain to protest, with signs reading "No 5G, stop involuntary exposure" and "5G is a weapon".
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Concerns
Some 5G services will employ millimetre wave (mmWave) frequencies, which involves higher-frequency radio waves than 4G. The higher frequency means more data can be transmitted faster.
The protesters claim the coming ubiquity of such waves in the environment will lead to a wide range of negative effects including memory loss, miscarriage, obesity, autism, ADHD and asthma, although provide little evidence to support these claims.
While the physiological effects of electromagnetic radiation change with frequency, mmWaves cause non-ionising radiation, which is generally considered to be harmless, and is less able to penetrate solid objects than 4G.
A Swinburne University team which is part of the Australian Centre for Electromagnetic Bioeffects Research, and a key contributor to the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection review say they are "yet to see major red flags" concerning 5G.
“Wireless technologies bring enormous benefits, and being over-cautious would potentially deny these benefits to needy communities," said team leader Professor Andrew Wood.
The World Health Organisation has said that there is "no evidence that exposure to low level electromagnetic energy is harmful to human health".
The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) is responsible for setting the standard around radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic energy (EME) exposure limits for all devices and towers, including 5G. The standard "takes into account uncertainties in the scientific knowledge" the agency says.
RF EME limits are regulated by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). ACMA says of 5G that "typical operating levels [of mobile phones and towers] are less than a few per cent of the ARPANSA exposure limits".
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"The EME levels measured were found to be well below the safety limits, and in many cases over a thousand times lower" the telco said.
According to a May report in The New York Times Russian government–owned news network RT has spreading lies about 5G in order to use public pressure to slow its adoption.
RT routinely refers to 5G radio waves as “radiations” and the move to the new standard as a “dangerous experiment on humanity”. The news network has reported, without evidence, that 5G may cause learning disabilities in children, brain cancer, infertility, autism, heart tumors and Alzheimer’s disease.
The fear-mongering comes as the Russian government is working hard to build 5G networks domestically at speed, seeing 5G as a low-cost way for the nation to compete against richer countries.
Further protests are planned for Newcastle and Sydney this weekend.
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What an amazing article and what a collection of nit-wits to think all the illnesses in bold above can be caused by 5G. To suggest 5G is more dangerous than climate change or the possibility of nuclear war really takes the biscuit IMVHO!
Amazing!
David.
No mention of windmill noise causing cancer?
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