Freiburger Appeal
Freiburger Appeal
Freiburger Appeal
FREIBURGER APPEAL
Out of great concern for the health of our fellow human beings do we - as established physicians of all
fields, especially that of environmental medicine - turn to the medical establishment and those in public
health and political domains, as well as to the public.
We have observed, in recent years, a dramatic rise in severe and chronic diseases among our patients,
especially:
· Learning, concentration, and behavioural disorders (e.g. attention deficit disorder, ADD)
· Extreme fluctuations in blood pressure, ever harder to influence with medications
· Heart rhythm disorders
· Heart attacks and strokes among an increasingly younger population
· Brain-degenerative diseases (e.g. Alzheimer–s) and epilepsy
· Cancerous afflictions: leukemia, brain tumors
Since the living environment and lifestyles of our patients are familiar to us, we can see especially after
carefully-directed inquiry a clear temporal and spatial correlation between the appearance of disease
and exposure to pulsed high -frequency microwave radiation (HFMR), such as:
· Installation of a mobile telephone sending station in the near vicinity
· Intensive mobile telephone use
· Installation of a digital cordless (DECT) telephone at home or in the neighbourhood
On the basis of our daily experiences, we hold the current mobile communications technology
(introduced in 1992 and since then globally extensive) and cordless digital telephones (DECT standard)
to be among the fundamental triggers for this fatal development. One can no longer evade these pulsed
microwaves. They heighten the risk of already-present chemical/physical influences, stress the body’s
immune system, and can bring the body’s still-functioning regulatory mechanisms to a halt. Pregnant
women, children, adolescents, elderly and sick people are especially at risk.
Our therapeutic efforts to restore health are becoming increasingly less effective: the unimpeded and
continuous penetration of radiation into living and working areas particularly bedrooms, an essential
place for relaxation, regeneration and healing causes uninterrupted stress and prevents the patient’s
thorough recovery.
In the face of this disquieting development, we feel obliged to inform the public of our observations
especially since hearing that the German courts regard any danger from mobile telephone radiation as ”
purely hypothetical” (see the decisions of the constitutional court in Karlsruhe and the administrative
court in Mannheim, Spring 2002).
What we experience in the daily reality of our medical practice is anything but hypothetical!
We see the rising number of chronically sick patients also as the result of an irresponsible ” safety
limits” policy, which fails to take the protection of the public from the short- and long-term effects of
mobile telephone radiation as its criterion for action.
Instead, it submits to the dictates of a technology already long recognized as dangerous. For us, this is
the beginning of a very serious development through which the health of many people is being
threatened.
We will no longer be made to wait upon further unreal research results - which in our experience are
often influenced by the communications industry while evidential studies go on being ignored. We find
it to be of urgent necessity that we act now!
Above all, we are, as doctors, the advocates for our patients. In the interest of all those concerned,
whose basic right to life and freedom from bodily harm is currently being put at stake, we appeal to
those in the spheres of politics and public health.
· New health-friendly communications techniques, given independent risk assessments before their
introduction and, as immediate measures and transitional steps:
· Stricter safety limits and major reduction of sender output and HFMR pollution on a justifiable scale,
especially in areas of sleep and convalescence
· A say on the part of local citizens and communities regarding the placing of antennae (which in a
democracy should be taken for granted)
· Education of the public, especially of mobile telephone users, regarding the health risks of
electromagnetic fields
· Ban on mobile telephone use by small children, and restrictions on use by adolescents
· Ban on mobile telephone use and digital cordless (DECT) telephones in preschools, schools, hospitals,
nursing homes, events halls, public buildings and vehicles (as with the ban on smoking)
· Mobile telephone and HFMR-free zones (as with auto-free areas)
· Revision of DECT standards for cordless telephones with the goal of reducing radiation intensity and
limiting actual use time, as well as avoiding the biologically critical HFMR pulsation
· Industry-independent research, finally with the inclusion of amply available critical research results
and our medical observations.
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