It began for me in an operating room when I was seven years old. The fluorescent lights were sharp against the cold air. When I woke up, one of my kidneys was gone. My parents had lived on a military base. Radar towers stood like steel trees on the horizon. At the time, I didn’t connect those towers to the surgery. I was too young to know what radiation was — or that it could seep into your life quietly, without warning, and never leave.
Years later, my firstborn daughter died from a neural tube defect. Two years after we buried her, a study emerged showing that microwave radiation could triple the rate of those same defects in embryos. It didn’t bring her back. It didn’t give me my kidney. But it did give me something I had been missing until then: a name for the enemy.
The Science They Couldn’t Bury
When I started digging, I expected the evidence to be murky. That’s the impression we’ve all been given — that the science isn’t “settled.” It took me very little time to see that this wasn’t uncertainty. It was something worse: knowledge that had been deliberately obscured.
In 2025, the World Health Organization commissioned reviews that delivered their highest possible rating — high certainty — that RF radiation causes two rare and aggressive tumors in animals: gliomas in the brain and malignant schwannomas of the heart. Another WHO review that same year concluded, again with high certainty, that RF exposure reduces pregnancy rates in animals.
This wasn’t an outlier. The U.S. government’s own National Toxicology Program had already found “clear evidence” of cancer in animals exposed to cell phone radiation. Italy’s Ramazzini Institute replicated one of the NTP’s rare tumor findings under far lower exposures that mimic living near a cell tower. Epidemiological studies in humans show the same tumor types in heavy mobile phone users.
In any honest scientific field, “high certainty” is the signal to act. In wireless policy, it has been treated as an inconvenience to ignore.
The Architecture of a Cover-Up
The deeper I read, the clearer it became that this wasn’t simply inertia or bureaucratic neglect. It was design.
In 1996, the FCC froze public RF exposure limits based solely on preventing tissue heating. Everything we have learned about biological effects below that threshold has been treated as irrelevant. That same year, Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act was passed, making it illegal for local governments to block wireless infrastructure on health grounds.
Meanwhile, industry documents — some pried loose through lawsuits, others leaked — revealed coordinated strategies to “war-game” and discredit scientists whose findings showed harm. Publicly funded research programs were shut down within months of producing inconvenient results.
The result is a regulatory framework that treats the wireless industry as its own client, and the public as acceptable collateral damage.
Why This Isn’t Just My Story
It would be easy to see this as my private tragedy. But every home with Wi-Fi, every classroom with a router, every apartment beneath a rooftop antenna is part of the same uncontrolled experiment. The difference is that most people won’t realize the cost until decades from now, when the science they were told didn’t exist becomes impossible to ignore.
Children, with their thinner skulls, higher water content, and developing nervous systems, are especially vulnerable. They will accumulate more lifetime exposure than any generation before them. Yet unlike me, they don’t get to consent.
The Path Out of the Microwave Age
The choice between connectivity and health is a false one. The solution is not to retreat from technology, but to replace dangerous infrastructure with safer, faster, more secure systems.
The backbone should be fiber where possible. Indoors, where people spend most of their time, we can use Li-Fi — internet delivered through modulated light rather than microwaves. Li-Fi offers multi-gigabit speeds, immunity from RF health risks, and built-in security because light doesn’t pass through walls. Most buildings already have LED lighting that can be retrofitted into Li-Fi access points in days, not years.
Paired with wired or satellite backhaul, this “Light Age” could cut indoor RF exposure by orders of magnitude without sacrificing performance.
The Clean Ether Act
This transition needs a legal foundation. The Clean Ether Act would:
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Replace the FCC’s outdated heating-only limits with biologically protective standards.
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Repeal Section 704 to restore local power over tower placement.
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Protect children immediately with Li-Fi or wired-first policies in schools, Wi-Fi off-by-default, and no access points in classrooms.
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Impose low exposure limits for homes, schools, and hospitals, modeled on Switzerland and Italy.
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Launch a national Li-Fi retrofit program for public buildings, coupled with a gradual phase-down of high-power urban transmitters.
A Call to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
As Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has publicly condemned industry manipulation in other sectors. The wireless industry’s capture of science and regulation is one of the best-documented examples of such manipulation in modern history — yet his recent MAHA report omitted it entirely, along with the WHO’s 2025 findings.
The omission is not just an oversight; it is a disservice to the public. Kennedy must correct it: acknowledge the interference, include the evidence, and support the transition to the Light Age.
What We Must Do Now
Movements are built from individual acts.
At the local level, demand wired or Li-Fi-first policies for schools and public buildings.
Push for municipal ordinances that establish setbacks from schools and daycares.
Reduce your own RF footprint at home: wired connections, airplane mode when not in use.
And most of all, talk about it — break the silence that industry has spent decades and billions to enforce.
We have removed lead from paint and asbestos from schools. We can clean the ether the same way. The science is here. The technology is ready. The only thing missing is the will to act.
Protect children. Update the law. Build the Light Age.