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1. The human species has changed its electromagnetic background more than any other aspects of the environment. The density of radio waves around us is now 100 Million or 200 Million times the natural level reaching us from the sun.

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2. Electro pollution can trigger profound and dangerous changes, even if we don't know exactly how and when.

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3. People living near overhead high-voltage lines seemed more prone to depression than others. Magnetic fields averaged 22 percent higher at suicide addresses than at the controls, and areas with the strongest field contained 40 percent more fatal locations than randomly selected houses.

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4. Electromagnetic fields vibrating at about 30 to 100z interfere with the cues that keep our biological cycles properly timed; chronic stress and impaired diseased resistance result.

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5. Regulation of cellular growth processes is impaired by electro-pollution, increasing cancer rates and producing serious reproductive problems.

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6. Cancer is hardly a novel illness, but its prevalence is new. In the mid-1960’s roughly a quarter of the U.S. population could expect to develop it. By the mid-1970’s, that figure had risen to one third, and it's now even higher.

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7. The childhood death rate from leukemia, lymph node cancer, and nervous system tumors in the high-current homes was more than double the rate in low-current homes.

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8. The first step toward averting disaster, we must halt the introduction of new sources of electromagnetic energy while we investigate the biohazards of those we already have with completeness and honesty.

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9. Clear evidence that an electric field only slightly stronger than earth’s background stimulated growth of all bacteria and increased their resistance to antibiotics.

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10. Relaxed attention to any mildly involving stimulus, such as a movie or TV program, produces a hypoid state, in which the mind becomes especially receptive to suggestion.

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