5G smartphones cause cancer; Big Wireless doesn't want you to know

Mark Hertsgaard, the Nation's investigative editor and the author of seven books, and award-winning investigative journalist Mark Dowie offer the first exposé of the wireless industry's decades-long, global campaign to war-game science, manipulate media coverage, and massage government officials into convincing the public that cell phones are safer than independent science suggests.

Everyone knows Big Tobacco lied about cigarettes; Big Oil lied about climate change.

This is the third leg of the stool: how Big Wireless used the same exact playbook to deceive the public and create the appearance of scientific uncertainty-making people think that cell phones are safer than independent science suggests.

This, despite the fact that the wireless industry's own scientists privately warned it decades ago there were "Serious questions" about wireless radiation's links to cancer and genetic damage.

In the 1980s, cell phones were allowed onto the US consumer market without any government safety testing.

This year, 5G is poised to roll out across the country, where antennas the size of a pizza box will have to be installed approximately every 250 feet to ensure connectivity.

Wall Street is salivating at the potential trillions of dollars in economic activity-but by fast-tracking the technology and not doing premarket safety testing, will we make the same mistake with 5G as we did with cell phones?

According to the National Toxicology Program's study, commissioned by the FDA in 1999, there is much more evidence of a cancer-cell phone connection than is widely assumed.

More shockingly, NTP brass attempted to water down the public health implications of their findings-in line with the wireless industry's long-standing denial that cell phone users face risks.

Hertsgaard is available for select interviews from San Francisco, CA. For bookings or further information, please see contact above.

His most recent books are Bravehearts: Whistle Blowing in the Age of Snowden and Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth.

Mark Dowie, an investigative historian based outside Willow Point, California, is the author of the new book, The Haida Gwaii Lesson: A Strategic Playbook for Indigenous Sovereignty.