By John Coates
The White House’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) report was supposed to be the most comprehensive blueprint yet for tackling environmental and lifestyle risks to America’s children. It reads well on paper: it names chemical threats, warns about ultra-processed foods, and even acknowledges wireless radiation as a “potential” concern.
But that’s where the courage ends.
The report shut its literature review window in December 2022 — effectively freezing out the most important wireless health science of the last three years, including the World Health Organization’s 2024 and 2025 landmark findings linking everyday radiofrequency (RF) exposures to cancer and male infertility with high certainty. This wasn’t an oversight. This was an omission that protected the wireless status quo.
And that status quo rests on something far darker than “outdated” safety limits. The FCC’s 1996 RF exposure guidelines were never safe, never science-based, and never meant to protect the public from the risks that were already well-documented at the time. They were fraudulent from the start — a political instrument, not a public-health safeguard.
Fraud from the Beginning
The FCC adopted its current “safety” limits in 1996, at the height of the pager and early mobile phone era. By then, decades of U.S. Navy, Air Force, and independent research had documented non-thermal biological effects from RF exposure: DNA breaks, oxidative stress, fertility impacts, and neurological changes at levels far below what causes tissue heating.
The telecom lobby knew this. Congress knew this. Yet the FCC adopted thermal-only limits — pretending the only danger from RF was heat — and ignored all evidence to the contrary.
The same year, Congress passed Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act, a direct assault on public health sovereignty. It stripped states and municipalities of their ability to block wireless infrastructure on the basis of “environmental” health concerns, a coded way of outlawing any action based on RF health risks. In a single legislative year, Americans lost both local control and the right to be protected by truthful safety standards.
The design was deliberate: fraudulent limits paired with an unconstitutional gag rule. And for 30 years, it has worked exactly as intended.
MAHA’s Evasion
That’s why the omissions in the MAHA report matter so much. When the White House publishes a 2025 health blueprint and pretends the FCC’s limits are merely “outdated” — without naming the fraud — it becomes part of the cover.
By ending its review in 2022, MAHA skipped over:
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WHO Cancer Review (2025): Concluded with 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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WHO Male Fertility Review (2024; corrigendum 2025): Found cross-species evidence that RF exposure impairs sperm, increases failed pregnancy rates by 68%, and causes measurable DNA damage at 0.3 W/kg SAR or less.
These are not fringe papers — they are conservative, peer-reviewed WHO findings from the very taskforces historically accused of protecting the telecom industry. When even they concede harm, the debate over “proof” is over.
MAHA also sidestepped the National Toxicology Program’s 2018 bioassay, which found “clear evidence” of cancer — and ignored the most damning detail: the highest tumor rates appeared at 1.5 W/kg, well below FCC’s fraudulent ceiling. This non-monotonic pattern, flagged by the NTP’s own statisticians, shreds the thermal-only myth.
The Bias No One Talks About
The MAHA report did call out corporate distortion in pesticide and pharmaceutical research. But it conveniently skipped the best-documented sponsorship bias in all of public health: the wireless industry’s.
University of Washington neuroscientist Henry Lai’s meta-analysis found that industry-funded studies reported no biological effect 72% of the time, compared to just 33% for independent research. A 2007 systematic review in Environmental Health Perspectives found industry-sponsored human studies were about nine times less likely to detect harm. PBS NewsHour confirmed the pattern in 2016, showing the same skew in an even larger dataset.
Leaving that out doesn’t just soften the science — it tells the public there’s no bias to correct, when in fact the bias has been the firewall protecting fraudulent FCC limits for three decades.
A National Catch-22
Here’s where the fraud becomes a trap:
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Section 704 blocks local governments from regulating wireless based on health.
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FCC guidelines, fraudulent from day one, define what’s “safe.”
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Federal agencies claim they can’t act without new science — then ignore or block the science that exists.
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The National Toxicology Program proved harm, then had its RF research defunded under the Biden administration.
The result? No U.S. agency can officially admit there’s harm, because doing so would admit the FCC limits were fraudulent from inception — and that’s a political earthquake no one in Washington has yet had the courage to trigger.
The Way Out: A Clean Ether Act
We can break this cycle. But it requires more than banning cell phones in schools, as Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested. It means removing the threat entirely from children’s daily environments — starting with repealing Section 704, enforcing Public Law 90-602’s research mandate, and replacing the FCC’s fraudulent limits with real, health-protective standards.
The Clean Ether Act should:
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Repeal Section 704, restoring First and Tenth Amendment rights to protect communities.
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Mandate continuous, independent RF health research.
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Overhaul FCC exposure limits to include non-thermal effects.
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Require safer indoor technologies — Li-Fi, fiber optics — and cap RF power near schools and homes.
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Launch a national transition from microwave to photonic communication — a leap to the Light Age.
The technology exists. Alexander Graham Bell’s 1880 photophone proved that light could carry voices wirelessly. Today’s photonics can carry massive data loads at the speed of light, with more security, less interference, and none of the health risks of pulsed microwaves.
The Leadership Test
President Trump is preparing to launch a mobile phone. Secretary Kennedy helped found the organization now criticizing MAHA’s weak wireless section. Both men face a choice:
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Play within the microwave cartel’s rules, or
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Lead a generational shift to cleaner, safer, faster communications.
This is not just about health — it’s about global competitiveness. By clinging to fraudulent FCC limits and 20th-century RF infrastructure, America risks falling behind nations already investing in photonic networks.
Conclusion: From Microwave Age to Light Age
The MAHA report’s wireless section doesn’t just miss the mark — it helps keep the fraud alive. Thirty years of false safety, unconstitutional gag rules, and industry-scripted science have left America overexposed and underprotected.
We don’t need “updated” guidelines. We need truthful ones. We don’t need to manage harm — we need to remove it. And we don’t need to wait for another generation of children to grow up in an involuntary RF experiment.
The Clean Ether Act is the path forward. The only question is whether our leaders have the courage to take it.