Arthur Firstenberg

Arthur Firstenberg (born c. 1951) is an American author and activist in the field of electromagnetic hypersensitivity. He is the author of "Microwaving Our Planet: The Environmental Impact of the Wireless Revolution" (1997) and founder of the Cellular Phone Taskforce.Citation
last = Firstenberg
first = Arthur
last2 = Molloy
first2 = Susan
title = Electrical Sensitivity
journal = Latitudes
volume = 5
issue = 4
date = July 1, 2002
year = 2002
url = http://www.mindfully.org/Health/2002/Electrical-Sensitivity-Firstenberg1jul02.htm]

Arthur received a B.A. in mathematics from Cornell University in 1971 and continued into medical school between 1978 and 1982. He claims that he was unable to continue his schooling due to electromagnetic hypersensitivity, which he attributes to diagnostic dental x-rays.

Since the onset of his illness, he has argued in numerous publications that there exists a massive and world-wide conspiracy, in which "the telecommunications industry has suppressed damaging evidence about its technology since at least 1927."Citation
last = Firstenberg
first = Arthur
title = Microwaving Our Planet, Cellular Assault
journal = Earth Island Journal
volume = 12
issue = 3
date = Summer, 1997
year = 1997
url = http://www.earthisland.org/eijournal/new_articles.cfm?articleID=202&journalID=47] The World Health Organization maintains, "no convincing scientific evidence that the weak RF signals from base stations and wireless networks cause adverse health effects."Citation
last = World Health Organization Factsheet
title = Electromagnetic fields and public health
date = May 2006
url = http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs304/en/index.html
accessdate = 2007-05-03 ]

As of June 2004, he was homeless. He had not held a job since 1990 and was living off Social Security as he could not find a workplace without computers. [Citation
last = Firstenberg
first = Arthur
author-link =
title = Electromagnetic Fields (EMF): Killing Fields
journal = The Ecologist
volume = 34
issue = 5
pages =
date = 2004-06-01
url = http://www.mindfully.org/Technology/2004/Electromagnetic-Fields-EMF1jun04.htm
doi =
id = ] In May 2008, he and other groups accused the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico of discrimination against those allergic to EM radiation for having free wireless networks in city buildings. [Citation
last = Schwartz
first = Gadi
last2 = Panas
first2 = Joshua
author2-link =
title = Group wants Wi-Fi banned from public buildings
date = 2008-05-20
url = http://kob.com/article/stories/S451152.shtml?cat=517
accessdate = 2008-05-24]

See also

* Electromagnetic radiation and health
* Mobile phone radiation and health
* Wireless electronic devices and health

External links

* World Health Organization (2004-2007), " [http://www.who.int/peh-emf/publications/facts/factsheets/en/index.html Fact sheets and information sheets regarding electromagnetic fields and public health] ".

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