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Posted 2026-10-27#5278 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter reports persistent auditory symptoms and alleged neural harassment, discusses an RF survey …

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Since October 2015, I have experienced persistent auditory symptoms or nonconsensual neural auditory harassment and abuse, including hearing voices and sounds, along with sleep disruption and other symptoms. In 2017 I commissioned a private electromagnetic field and radiofrequency survey called H-SCADA. It recorded low-level magnetic field readings and radiofrequency signals in the 2.5 GHz range. These investigators doing these radio frequency scans using JM-20 PRO or similar detect anomalous frequencies around specific areas of the scanned individual. Researchers can then use frequencies identified during radio frequency scans to search the Federal Communications Commission FCC Universal Licensing System for names and phone numbers and attorneys associated with registrations linked to affected individuals. Multiple scanning reports with these RF frequencies have been admitted as expert evidence of US courts of competent jurisdiction. An attorney I had a consultation with based in California stated that ULS traces in his clients’ cases led to Elon Musk’s private companies, the Department of War, Palantir Technologies and AI development programs sponsored directly or indirectly through a puppet private partnership by the US government, from which his clients are settling out of court. I am also a mother. One of my twin daughters was born May 2014 with auditory neuropathy and wears bilateral hearing aids. I do not know the cause, and I am not aware of research examining whether electromagnetic exposure during pregnancy or early life could play a role in conditions like hers. I raise it because I would like the question studied. Could whatever started causing me to get harassed with microwave auditory effect; V2K/Voice of God weapon October 2015 have actually been set up when I was pregnant with her in 2014, causing her to be born with this hearing loss? I am including some links to studies in rats showing electromagnetic waves damaging cochlea of inner ear which can lead to auditory neuropathy. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25836770/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9442804/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lio2.231 https://news.miami.edu/stories/2018/12/findings-from-havana-embassy-phenomenon.html My concern is supported by the scientific record. The 2020 National Academies report identified directed, pulsed radiofrequency energy as the most plausible explanation for inner-ear and neurological symptoms among U.S. government personnel (the “Havana syndrome” cases), and a 2022 intelligence community expert panel noted “a dearth of systematic research” on how such signals affect humans. A 2018 University of Miami study of 25 affected embassy personnel found balance abnormalities and concluded the exposure responsible was unknown. Later NIH studies found no brain-imaging differences, which shows how much remains unresolved. Similar to the diplomats my daughter also suffered with balance and vestibular issues as well. I respectfully ask HHS to consider the following: 1. Establish a task force. Convene a time-limited task force or working group, led by HHS with FDA, NIH, CDC and FCC participation and independent clinicians, researchers and public members, to investigate civilian reports of unexplained auditory and neurological symptoms in people who believe they have been affected by radiofrequency or electromagnetic exposure. Its tasks should be to: • investigate the reports using standardized medical evaluation and exposure measurement; • hear from affected individuals and clinicians; • report findings publicly, including what could not be explained; and • recommend next steps, including research priorities and clinical guidance. 2. Fund independent research on auditory and nervous-system effects of low-level RF and ELF exposure. 3. Create a reporting pathway. Establish a way for the public and clinicians to document suspected exposure-related health effects, with clear coordination among agencies. 4. Clinical guidance and coding. Develop guidance for clinicians who see patients reporting unexplained auditory phenomena, including a standardized evaluation protocol and a working case definition. Support a request to the ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee (CDC National Center for Health Statistics and CMS) to evaluate whether a diagnosis code for anomalous health incidents (AHI) or Havanna Syndrome is warranted, so that affected patients, civilian and government, can receive documented care and coverage. 5. Coordination. Clarify which agencies (HHS, FDA, NIH or NIEHS, FCC) are responsible for evaluating these concerns, and how a member of the public can bring one forward. I would be glad to provide additional documentation to the appropriate staff on request. Thank you for considering this comment. Sincerely, Allison Ireland Auburn, NH contact@neuroethicsnow.org

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Posted 2026-10-27#5276 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter requests independent scientific assessment, enforceable exposure limits, monitoring transpa…

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Government has a fundamental duty to protect the public’s health and safety. That duty should come before industry convenience or profit. Laws and regulations governing electromagnetic fields (EMF), radiofrequency (RF), and wireless technology should be based on independent, up-to-date scientific review—not shaped or weakened by the industries they regulate. People should not have to bear potential health risks or losses to their homes and communities without meaningful safeguards. I urge lawmakers to establish clear, enforceable protections that: Require independent assessment of wireless facilities and devices, including cumulative exposures and sensitive locations such as homes, schools, and hospitals. Set exposure limits using transparent, regularly reviewed scientific evidence, with appropriate protection for children and other potentially more vulnerable groups. Require public notice, access to monitoring results, and meaningful opportunities for community input before facilities are approved or substantially modified. Preserve local authority to consider siting, safety, and community impacts. Provide a fair process for investigating and addressing documented effects on health, property use, and property values. These protections should be precautionary, transparent, and enforceable. When the evidence is uncertain, government should not simply assume that the public must accept the risk. It should require independent review, disclose the evidence, and put people’s health and homes ahead of industry interests.
Posted 2026-10-27#5273 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter identifies EHS and barriers to accessing housing, healthcare and public places, argues curr…

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Current permitted levels of RF radiation violate Americans with Disabilities Act! Growing number of people have developed a disability - sensitivity to EMF aka Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) aka EMR Syndrome. I am one of them. When I am close to wireless devices or cell phone towers I experience severe pain, fatigue, cardiac issues. It feels like you live in a microwave prison. You are tortured and unable to participate in the society, access goods and services without getting harmed. You can’t go to places that have WiFi or in vicinity of cell phone towers which is almost everywhere now: - Schools and offices - Doctor’s offices, hospitals - Public transportation - Hotels - Stores etc. I drive a 12-year-old car. You can’t turn off all wireless features in newer cars – satellite connection, radars detecting lines etc. It became extremely hard to find a home with low RF radiation levels. Every trip into “civilization” is a torture even with multiple layers of EMF protective clothing. A lot of children are becoming sensitive to EMF. Here is news story about a schoolgirl who became sensitive to WiFi in school. She committed suicide because she could not tolerate pain from WiFi anymore: Teen Allergic to Wi-Fi Commits Suicide, Parents Say https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/teen-allergic-to-wifi-commits-suicide-parents-say-223912154.html How many children and adults have to suffer or die, so that we finally take action on establishing limits for RF radiation that protect public health?! I have following suggestions on how to address man-made EMF induced health crisis: - Transfer responsibility for establishing safe EMF levels from FCC to HHS - Establish RF limits similar to Building Biology Institute – less than 0.1 μW/m² - Ban Smartmeters, 5G and any future Gs, WiFi in public places including schools - Repeal Telecommunications Act - Accommodate disabled with EHS by creating no-wireless radiation zones in every metro area – no cell phone towers/radio towers/Smartmeters/wireless devices - Ban Starlink until proven safe - Create guidelines on diagnosing EHS, provide education to doctors on this condition - Fund research on how to decrease symptoms of EMF sensitivity - Order Telecom industry to create a fund to pay for damages to victims harmed by wireless radiation.
Posted 2026-10-27#5258 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter discusses differences between natural and modern microwave exposures and how radiation pene…

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To: HHS Re: RFI for EMF exposure and human health Date: October 21, 2026 My focus in the paragraphs below is: wireless communications transmissions in the human environment. Prevalence of Wireless Communications EMF (microwaves) in the human environment: Why should we be concerned about possible chronic human health effects of exposure to wireless communications EMF transmissions? (1) In the human occupied current environment of cities and towns, ambient microwave levels (power density) are typically circa a billion-fold higher than ambient levels prior to the creation by humans of microwave-emitting devices (i.e. the ambient environment thruout the entire history of planet earth prior to circa early 1900s). Hence life on earth prior to the early 1900s existed and evolved in environments with ambient background levels of microwaves that likely did not exceed a power flux density of one picowatt per square meter. Furthermore, wireless communications transmissions are coherent, polarized, and pulsed, unlike those naturally occurring transmissions in the microwave range (e.g. from the sun; though little of this penetrates the atmosphere). Living organisms therefor have not been adapted to surviving, reproducing, and evolving in environments of high levels of exposure to coherent, polarized, and pulsed microwave radiation; and we do not currently have adequate information to firmly assess how significant any long-term deleterious effects of the current microwave exposure environment is for living organisms (in the terrestrial biosphere), including humans. (2) Microwave communications transmissions penetrate into the cells of all living terrestrial organisms, including humans. Within animals such as humans, after penetrating thru the outer layers (hair or scales or feathers, etc.) and outer layers of the epidermis, the incident microwave radiation is partially absorbed and partially transmitted thru the various tissues and organs, with a fraction of the incident radiation exiting the body of the organism and a fraction of the incident radiation being absorbed within the body of the organism. Extinction depths in animal flesh for microwave transmission are largely dependent on the microwave frequency; being shorter for higher frequency microwaves. At current ambient microwave levels in cities and towns, every cell in the body of every organism is being exposed to a significant fraction of the power flux density of ambient microwave radiation at all times. This is unlike incident radiation in the IR thru ultraviolet frequencies, which do not penetrate thru the outer layers of the epidermis. Like the much more energetic x-ray and gamma ray radiation quanta, microwave radiation penetrates into and is partially absorbed within and partially transmitted thru the bodies of animals. Prudent Action: It is my understanding that there is currently no government agency tasked with monitoring and characterizing the levels of wireless communications EMF radiation in the human environment. As a consequence, the characteristics (e.g. power densities, frequency bands, modulations including pulsations, etc.) of the current microwave-permeated environment that nearly all humans live in is not well known, let alone established. It may be prudent to begin to develop a baseline of some basic measured characteristics of wireless communications EMF radiation that is present in the human (and greater biosphere) environment. Imagine 20 and more years from now with ever-increasing levels of wireless communications radiation in the human environment; it may be of great value to have a baseline of measurements in the human environment from the 2020s, much like the earlier baselines we have for air pollution. The EPA may be a suitable candidate tasked with ensuring such ambient monitoring of the human environment for ambient microwave characteristics, which could be organized and performed in much the same way as is done for chemical and particulate air pollutants. Who knows what the future will bring in terms of findings of the chronic effects of microwave communications EMFs on human health? Note: Support for technical discussion above is sourced mainly from peer-reviewed literature I've read over the past decade (apologies, ran out of time to find citations), some basic knowledge of the workings of wireless communication devices, and my background & experience in varied engineering and applied research fields. Sincerely, Dr. James C. Trask Davis, CA Pertinent Biography: Academic: BA Applied Physics; MA Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; MS Chemical Engineering Employment History: Electrical Engineer & Materials Scientist 1980s, Biochemical Engineer 1990s
Posted 2026-10-27#5243 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter argues that industry influence distorts wireless safety research and exposure standards, ch…

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Thank you for requesting input from the public on a topic that has impacts on everyone. Yet I would honestly be shocked if any of this translates into concrete actions that protect the public from the many negative health effects of radiofrequency radiation. So far, the playbook has proceed as with other things that produce both large profits and significant harm - create the illusion of safety by setting standards that don't reflect reality, claim emissions are within the limits, and design some studies to obfuscate harms, and other studies to cast doubt on the higher-quality studies which have found clear harms. As with many other things, when industry had an undue influence in science, it can be technically true to make claims that sound assuring, about regulatory limits or studies finding no evidence of harm, yet actually be gaslighting - because the limits, and the studies, are designed to not honestly reflect the true impacts. And the health health of everyone – adults, children, the unborn, and our animal companions, as well as the well-being and productivity of our nation, suffers. This link is extremely informative regarding industry influence in the "science" that's used to gaslight the public about safety of wireless radiation from cell towers, cell phones, wifi routers, and the many, many, many, constantly expanding sources that increase everyone's proximity radiofrequency radiation. These studies are valuable in their own right, and indispensable to the bigger picture - where industry sponsored studies, often indirectly sponsored, pollute the information environment and give assurances of safety that do not stand up to scrutiny when followed all the way down: https://mdsafetech.org/problems/industry-influence-in-science/ With the false premise that only ionizing radiation is capable of harm, limits are set based on thermal heating that ignore the many ways cellular processes are disrupted by non-thermal exposure. This is wrong. It is scientifically, and morally, obviously, wrong. Enclosed are some of many studies showing negative health impacts from the shortsighted rush to expand wireless infrastructure, as well as studies explaining why the narrative around what is safe is a giant gaslight, while our country gets more chronically ill every day. Inclusions: The WHO-Commissioned Systematic Reviews on Health Effects of Radiofrequency Radiation Provide No Assurance of Safety. Scientific Evidence Invalidates Health Assumptions Underlying the FCC and ICNIRP Exposure Limit Determinations for Radiofrequency Radiation: Implications for 5G The Carcinogenic Potential of non-Ionizing Radiation If by some miracle this reaches anyone who cares more about humanity than about covering up harm for short term gain, thank you. Sincerely, Ellen Osuna

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Posted 2026-10-27#5239 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter urges authorities to review research, use legislation and public education modeled on tobac…

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I'm sure you've been informed, i hope you're being inundated with information and peer-reviewed reports documenting the significant hazards, to all living beings, of wireless radiation risks. 1. Read the information. 2. Decide to protect US families 3. Bring out the anti-tobacco playback- legislate, regulate, educate Protect our brains and bodies and all life Our bodies are electric. We did not evolve with exposure to 24/7 rapid fire impulses assaulting all our cells. Act Now. Tell the FCC to greatly reduce allowable radiation to distance, to get US in line with accepted international standards.
Posted 2026-10-27#5237 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter identifies sensitivity to electromagnetic radiation, reports irregular heart rhythms, rashe…

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I am an individual who has moderate to strong sensitivity to electromagnetic field radiation being emitted by cell phones, 5 g towers, and any large electrical fields. I experience heart irregular rhythms, skin rashes, generalized anxiety and sleep disruption. I ask for immediate research by HHS for short and long term safety studies to be conducted for humans and ecosystem. I ask for new public health policies that control location and installations to be implemented, based on the independent research findings.
Posted 2026-10-27#5236 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter reports symptoms in themselves, family and patients and improvement after mitigation includ…

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Over the past year, I’ve closely observed what I believe to be significant effects associated with electromagnetic frequency (EMF) exposure in my own family, myself, and patients. These have included nausea, flu-like symptoms, changes in bowel habits, sleep disturbances, anxiety, and mood lability. In cases where we implemented mitigation measures, including removal of smart meters and other devices, we observed symptoms lessen or resolve. I believe this deserves far more attention and investigation. We should not dismiss people’s experiences simply because the mechanisms or connections are not yet fully understood. We need more research, better education, and greater transparency about the potential health effects of our increasingly wireless environments.
Posted 2026-10-27#5233 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter requests independent reexamination of pervasive technology and satellites, raising concerns…

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The public deserves full re-examine of this technology that has been implemented into every area of our lives without full and proper and ethical disclosure without special interest involvement. I am not sure if all the satellites orbiting every mile of our airspace without the same careful examination and forced upon all mankind without our consent deserves the same full attention asap!!! I'm very worried about humankinds future and ethical implications!!
Posted 2026-10-27#5228 · Permanent link ↗

The commenter reports illness near towers and devices and improved sleep using a shielding tent, describe…

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I began to notice the effect of RF/MW radiation in 2018. The most noticeable was from cell towers - if near one, I was sick within five minutes, headache, nausea, flu-like symptoms with a near two-hour recovery. A friend of mine had the exact symptoms when standing near a tower even for a few minutes. Computer screens caused pain in the eyes and in general tiredness. My cell phone would sometimes cause an electric current to run through my hand and wrist. Other general symptoms were chronic crippling insomnia, "exploding head syndrome," eye pain and light sensitivity at night, and feeling electrical currents running throughout the body. This was especially noticeable with the deployment of 5G in my city which was 2021; I lost my sense of smell that year. One of the symptoms of radiation exposure is the loss of smell, as well as the other symptoms I listed. I mitigated most of these symptoms by sleeping in a faraday tent, limiting cell phone use, and avoiding cell towers. I tested the tent with a meter and it registered the safe sleep guidelines of the Building Biology Institute; my cell phone did not receive and send any texts or calls. The first night in it, I slept the entire night. The exploding head, electrical currents and pain behind the eyes ended. Sleeping in the tent gave my body a break from RF/MW radiation exposure from towers, phones, satellites, smart meters and smart devices. Blue blocking glasses helped eliminate the tired eyes and pain from computer use. I support HHS taking an active role in examining the health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. Questions about human health should be addressed by federal agencies with appropriate expertise in medicine, biology, epidemiology, and public health, and the experiences of individuals and families who report being affected should be considered alongside the scientific evidence. My group, Stop 5G Jax, spoke to our city council here in Jacksonville, Florida. We were not heard because we were told we could not talk about health. We were also told, "This is coming out of Tallahassee." Our basic rights as citizens to protect our health and propterty were ignored. The city's cell tower ordinance/guidelines was already in place with consideration for the industry in placement and number of towers, but not in regard to the citizens, as we had limited input. None of these applications had radio antennas with which to calculate the effective radiated power (ERP), so there was not way to know what amount of radiation one would receive, however these towers were all placed within the city, some right in from of people's homes! And there are currently at least 10,000 studes showing harm, industry and independent studies. I urge HHS to carefully evaluate these experiences and the scientific evidence, identify gaps in current research, give particular attention to children and other potentially vulnerable populations, and establish appropriate federal research priorities regarding wireless radiation and public health. Thank you for the opportunity to be heard on this critical public health issue.

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