It looks like Wrangell is dialing up for a fight over a cell tower proposed for construction next door to piles of old tires, city electrical equipment and the transfer site for garbage before it is hauled out of town. The tower would be at least a couple hundred feet from the nearest homes.
However, homeowners in the vicinity of the city-owned property on the north end of the island are smart to question whether the tower's radio signals pose any safety risks. People have a right to a healthy life, and good for them to care about the environment.
But please, care about the facts as much as the environment. More precisely, care about the credentials and motives of promoters who claim to know the "facts" about the alleged health risks of cell tower signals.
For example, one website quoted by cell tower opponents is not a respected science journal or credentialed research lab. It is a for-profit business, RadiationHealthRisks.com. The promoter's website claims: "Cell phone tower radiation is very harmful. It disrupts your body's own EMFs (electric and magnetic fields), causing many kinds of health problems such as headaches, memory loss, cardiovascular stress, low sperm count, birth defects and various types of cancer."
Of course, RadiationHealthRisks.com has an answer. Or, more accurately, products to sell.
"There is a way to protect yourself from this radiation," the website says, directing you to Aulterra EMF Neutralizer Products.
Click on the Aulterra Global website and learn that the company's Neutralizer "retunes" the electromagnetic frequencies of devices like cell phones and computers "to transmute the energy so it no longer causes harm to the body's DNA."
And how does the product do that? "The secret of the Neutralizer lies in the crystalline matrix mixed into the ink of the Neutralizer patch." The patch is comprised "of three micro-thin layers of rare activated earth elements," which create "a proprietary blend of activated paramagnetic and diamagnetic elements which neutralize the effect of manmade EMF exposure on human DNA by converting them into safe substances."
A three-pack of these magical patches will set you back $36.
Don't like wearing a patch? Buy the Aulterra Energy Pendant. "It is a fairly large quality piece of jewelry filled with the Aulterra neutralizing rare activated earth elements."
That is a pricey pendant, at $437, on sale this week from $486.
A neutralizing pillow is $80, available in your choice of three colors.
Another option is to read the American Cancer Society website on the topic of cell towers and radiofrequency (RF) waves: "At this time, there's no strong evidence that exposure to RF waves from cell phone towers causes any noticeable health effects."
It's wise to question what is proposed for your neighborhood, and to call up your inner skepticism. Be just as wise when you click the web and some promotional website claims to know the problem and is eager to help sell you the cure.
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