Disconnect, Devra Davis
Disconnect, Devra Davis
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Disconnect
The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family

Author: Devra Davis

Narrator: Emily Durante

Unabridged: 8 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/23/2010


Synopsis

Devra Davis presents a range of recent and long-suppressed research in this timely bombshell. Cell phone radiation is a national emergency. Stunningly, the most popular gadget of our age has now been shown to damage DNA, break down the brain's defenses, and reduce sperm count while increasing memory loss, the risk of Alzheimer's disease, and even cancer. The growing brains of children make them especially vulnerable. And half of the world's four billion cell phone users are under twenty.

Davis, the founding director of the toxicology and environmental studies board at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, takes listeners through the dark side of this trillion-dollar industry. Health experts have long been frozen out of policy-making decisions about cell phones; federal regulatory standards are set by the cell phone industry itself. Cell phone manufacturers have borrowed the playbook of the tobacco industry. One secret memo reveals their war plan against reports of cell phone dangers.

Among a host of fascinating characters, Davis introduces Om P. Gandhi, a world expert on how cell phone radiation penetrates the human brain. Once a consultant to major cell phone companies, Gandhi now refuses to work with them. We also meet Franz Adlkofer, who led the multi-lab study that showed once and for all that brain cell DNA is unraveled by cell phone microwave radiation—and, as Davis dramatically portrays, it nearly cost him his career.

As this eye-opening call to action shows, we can make safer cell phones now. Why would we put our children at risk of a devastating epidemic of brain illness in the years to come?

About Devra Davis

Devra Davis, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a scientist, professor, speaker, and acclaimed author. She recently testified before a U.S. Senate committee panel about the dangers of cell phone use. Her first book, When Smoke Ran Like Water, was a National Book Award finalist. Currently a visiting professor at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, Devra lives in Washington, D.C., and Jackson, Wyoming.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Liz

Very interesting…All the research that shows that cell phone are safe were funded by the cell phone industry and make the assumptions that we use our phones for less than 2 hours a week and do not hold the phone against your body. And entomologists have shown that heavy users of cell phones for 10 o......more

This is a review of Disconnect, book by Dr Davis. As a general remark, this is book is about an important but under-researched topic: are the microwaves of cellphones safe? The conclusion is that technically we have no conclusive proof: many diseases (such as brain tumor and Alzheimer's) are very slo......more

Examining the dangers of cellphones BY JOHN HOOD Miami Herald 10/10/10 Every day billions of people use a cellphone to call loved ones, friends, colleagues, sometimes even strangers. They use their phones to seek and find work, homes, perhaps a date, to keep track of their children, keep watch on an el......more