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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

by Devra Davis
Emily Durante
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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?

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    September 23, 2010

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      • ISBN: 9781400198979
      • File size: 235284 KB
      • Duration: 08:10:10

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Devra Davis may be a maverick scientist, but she's not given to alarmism. In DISCONNECT, she argues that radiation from excessive cell phone use may be related to brain tumors and male infertility. Even skeptical listeners should find this audiobook fair-minded, as Davis lays out the evidence and avoids overstating her case. It's a shame that Emily Durante's narration clashes so badly with Davis's writing. Durante is usually a strong narrator of fiction, but her tone and delivery are at odds with this material. Unfortunately, the real disconnect here is between author and narrator. D.B. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

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