Subject: Urgent Correction to the MAHA Report’s Wireless Radiation Section & Implementation of a Clean Ether Act
Prepared by: John Coates
Date: 8/8/2025
Introduction
The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) report, released in 2025, set out to identify key environmental and lifestyle risks to children’s health. Its stated goal — to provide a modern, science-based roadmap for public health policy — is laudable.
However, the section addressing wireless radiation fails in both completeness and accuracy. By closing its literature review window at December 2022, MAHA excluded the most significant developments in RF health science of the last three years, including two World Health Organization (WHO) high-certainty reviews from 2024–2025. It also omitted well-documented evidence of wireless-industry sponsorship bias, a distortion pattern more robustly documented than in any other public health sector.
Most critically, the MAHA report refers to FCC exposure limits as if they were legitimate, if outdated. This is incorrect. The FCC’s 1996 radiofrequency (RF) “safety” limits were fraudulent from inception, deliberately designed to ignore known non-thermal biological effects that had been documented for decades before their adoption. Paired with Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act, these limits have served for nearly thirty years as a legal shield for the wireless industry — not as a genuine public health safeguard.
The Fraudulent FCC Guidelines (1996)
In 1996, the FCC adopted thermal-only RF exposure limits, asserting that the only risk from RF radiation was tissue heating. This was a deliberate omission of decades of non-thermal biological effects research from the U.S. Navy, Air Force, NASA, and independent scientists — including evidence of DNA damage, oxidative stress, neurodevelopmental changes, and reproductive harm at levels far below thermal thresholds.
The timing was no coincidence. That same year, Congress passed Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act, stripping states and municipalities of the right to regulate wireless infrastructure on the basis of environmental health concerns. Together, these measures:
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Removed local authority to protect residents from RF hazards.
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Codified fraudulent exposure limits into federal policy.
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Violated both the First Amendment (right to petition government for redress) and the Tenth Amendment (states’ rights).
Since then, the FCC has conducted no substantive health research, in direct violation of Public Law 90-602 (Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act of 1968), which mandates ongoing review of radiation-emitting technologies in light of emerging science.
Evidence MAHA Omitted
By limiting its literature review to studies published before December 2022, MAHA excluded multiple high-certainty findings that should redefine U.S. RF safety policy:
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WHO Cancer Review (Mevissen et al., 2025)
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Conclusion: High certainty that RF causes malignant heart schwannomas and brain gliomas in male rats at or below 3 W/kg SAR.
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Scope: 52 studies, 20 lifetime animal bioassays.
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WHO Male Fertility Review (Cordelli et al., 2024; corrigendum 2025)
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Conclusion: Cross-species evidence that RF exposure impairs sperm quality, increases failed pregnancy rates by 68%, and causes significant sperm DNA damage at ≤ 0.3 W/kg SAR.
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National Toxicology Program (NTP) 2-Year Bioassay (2018)
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Conclusion: “Clear evidence” of malignant schwannomas in the heart; “some evidence” of brain gliomas in rats.
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Key Detail Omitted: Tumor incidence was highest at 1.5 W/kg, well below FCC limits — a non-monotonic dose-response pattern that undermines the thermal-only assumption.
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Ramazzini Institute Lifetime Study (2018)
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Conclusion: Same tumor types found at base-station exposure levels (~0.1 W/kg).
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These are not fringe studies; they are peer-reviewed, large-scale, and conducted or commissioned by some of the most conservative scientific bodies in existence.
The Wireless Industry Sponsorship Bias
The MAHA report’s Corporate Influence chapter rightly criticized industry bias in pesticide and pharmaceutical research. Yet it failed to mention the best-documented sponsorship bias in public health: the wireless industry’s.
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Henry Lai Meta-Analysis (1990–2006): Industry-funded studies reported no biological effect 72% of the time, versus 33% for independent studies.
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Huss et al., Environmental Health Perspectives (2007): Industry-sponsored human studies were ~9× less likely to detect harm.
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PBS NewsHour (2016) Update: Confirmed the same disparity in a larger dataset.
By excluding this, MAHA perpetuates the illusion that the research landscape is balanced, when in fact the null-result literature is disproportionately industry-financed.
Regulatory Catch-22
The combination of fraudulent FCC limits and Section 704 creates a closed loop that prevents protective policy action:
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Local governments cannot regulate tower placement for health reasons.
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FCC limits define “safe” in terms of a fraudulent thermal-only model.
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Federal agencies claim they need new science to act — then ignore or undercut new science when it emerges.
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The National Toxicology Program was defunded immediately after producing “clear evidence” of cancer.
This is not regulatory inertia. It is a structurally enforced stalemate that benefits industry at the expense of public health.
The Clean Ether Act
To break this cycle, HHS must recommend — and Congress must enact — a Clean Ether Act that:
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Repeals Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act to restore constitutional protections.
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Enforces Public Law 90-602 by mandating continuous, independent RF health research.
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Replaces fraudulent FCC limits with exposure standards that include non-thermal biological effects.
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Mandates safer indoor connectivity via Li-Fi and fiber optics, and caps outdoor RF exposure near schools and residences.
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Invests in photonic communication infrastructure, positioning the U.S. as a global leader in safe, high-speed, secure networks.
Conclusion
The MAHA report’s wireless radiation section is not merely incomplete — it is dangerously misleading. By omitting high-certainty WHO findings, ignoring the most robustly documented sponsorship bias in public health, and failing to name the FCC’s 1996 limits for what they are — fraudulent from the start — MAHA compromises the integrity of federal health guidance.
HHS has both the authority and the obligation to correct the record. The evidence is now beyond reasonable dispute. The legal framework exists. The technology for safer communications is available today.
The only remaining question is whether we will continue protecting the microwave status quo — or lead the world into the Light Age.
Submitted with urgency,
John Coates
